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Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Mercury Rhodes and her world were utterly changed when the bombs fell, releasing the green mist. While it proved deadly to all the men who breathed it in, it gave new life to women who did the same. The green mist provided each member of her newfound family an ability: Stella's heightened intuition, Imani's earthly connection, Karen's bond with Spirit, and Gemma's healing ability. Although Mercury now has incredible physical strength--she doesn't...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil."--
Author
Series
Maze cutter volume 2
Publisher
Akashic Media Enterprises
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"In the second book of The Maze Cutter Trilogy ... Sadina and the islanders are up against both man and nature as they navigate their way to Alaska. There, they hope to meet the mysterious Godhead, unsure of what separates myth from truth. But the Godhead, now led by Alexandra, is fractured. Within the cracks of their sacred trinity, secrets are revealed that blur the lines of good and evil forever. One person's God is another person's Devil."
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Trying to maintain her inner light in an increasingly dark world, young Hong Kong-based scientist Lily Barnes, as the human race dwindles due to a "depression plague," comes across something that could lead to happiness and journeys through time and space to find out.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Brando Skyhorse, winner of the PEN Hemingway Award, returns with his highly anticipated second novel, a literary dystopian tale set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands make second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens"--
6) Alebrijes
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
The next stunning novel from Donna Barba Higuera, author of Newbery and Pura Belpré Award-winning The Last Cuentista
This is the story as it was told to me by Leandro the Mighty.
For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel – or go it alone in the wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits and wyrms. They don't last long.
13 year-old pickpocket...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the superrich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"--
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world's troubles....
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In 2003, a parasitic fungal infection ravages the planet, turning humans into violent creatures known as the Infected. Twenty years later, hardened survivor Joel is hired to smuggle fourteen-year-old Ellie out of an oppressive quarantine zone in hopes of delivering her to the rebel Fireflies. But what should be a quick job soon becomes a brutal and heartbreaking journey as they traverse the desolate U.S. while depending on each other's unique skills...
10) Julia: a novel
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In 1984, mechanic Julia Worthing, who works in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth, in one impulsive moment, sets in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story, in this imaginative, feminist and brilliantly relevant to-today journey through Orwell's now-iconic dystopia.
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing...
Author
Series
Running out of time volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"What if Zola’s wrong about everything—even the year? As she struggles to figure out who wrote the note, she discovers a printed book in her Insta-Closet called The Jessie Keyser Story: How One Girl Escaped from Clifton Village. Zola wonders: Who is Jessie Keyser, and why does she look like her . . . and what else do they have in common?
12) Light bringer
Author
Series
Red rising saga volume 6
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
The legendary Reaper, Darrow, to defend Mars from a bloodthirsty would-be conqueror, begins his long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield.
13) Shadow speaker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer.
14) Untouchable
Author
Publisher
[M.C. Pending]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Tessa has lived her entire life in a world where her worth is defined by her rank in society. And her rank just happens to be the lowest- the Unranked- the Untouchables. The people that aren't treated as people. Tessa has her ways of living outside the law, scavenging and robbing anyone who has a face. But after being elected reluctant leader of a band of Untouchable children, Tessa has more than one life to look out for. She has...
15) Untamable
Author
Series
Untouchable trilogy volume 2
Publisher
[M.C. Pending]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Tessa survived. After being thrown into an elaborate death trap, former Untouchable, Tessa of the Sapphire Ward, managed a narrow escape. However, not everyone made it out alive, and now she must learn how to bear the weight of the loss and heal from the Labyrinth. Finding herself in an alliance with a secret society outside of the walls of Radiance, she is finally safe. But safety lies. Tessa forms her own agenda and will do whatever it takes to...
16) Nightbreaker
Author
Series
Nightbreaker volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
Fifteen years ago ...
The Vanishing thrust Manhattan into darkness, forever changing the City That Never Sleeps.
BY DAY, resilient New Yorkers have adapted, clinging to vestiges of their cosmopolitan lives.
BY NIGHT---well, you never go out at night unless you have a death wish.
Or unless you're REI RENOLDS." ...Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
18) Renegados
Author
Series
Publisher
V&R Editoras
Pub. Date
2018
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Description
Anarquistas y Renegados luchan por el poder.
En medio de la batalla surgen los protagonistas que pertenecen a filas opuestas. Por un lado, la anarquista Nova, sobrina del líder Ace, que busca vengar la muerte de su familia y lucha, también, por que los seres humanos logren su autonomía sin depender de los prodigios. Por el otro, Adrian, que desea hacer justicia donde los Renegados no pueden por sus propias reglas, y en el camino intenta descubrir...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Berkeley and her best friend, Garth, live on an old cruise ship, scavenging for supplies from the drowned cities left behind on the ocean floor after the sea swallowed up all the land. They think they've seen every kind of aquatic creature, but they never expected to find sea monsters... After awakening a Hydra, Berkeley and Garth are sent to live on a submarine, where they study and hunt sea monsters. But the Hydra wants revenge on their home ship--and...
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