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1) Vox
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Marginalized in a near-future America where the government limits women to no more than 100 spoken words daily before outlawing women's education and employment altogether, a former doctor resolves to be heard for the sake of her daughter.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans, though no one calls them that anymore. Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the 'transition.' Now, eating human meat is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing....
Author
Series
Dark Matters trilogy volume 2
Publisher
128 Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Monique Durand and her companions continue their search for the source of her compelling visions. Are they somehow linked to the secrets of dark matter? Or does the truth reach even deeper--into our Universe's past, and our planet's ultimate future? To find out they'll need to outwit the Consortium, a secretive group of trillionaires who now have what they need to achieve their own, long-awaited end game.
Author
Series
Dark Matters trilogy volume 1
Publisher
128 Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Rudolph "Rudy" Dersch is the newly minted CEO of the world's largest, multi-trillion-dollar corporate conglomerate. But the job comes with an unexpected twist--an invitation to join the Consortium, a small, secretive group of global elites who effectively decide what's best for the rest of humanity. How does Rudy's struggle to reconcile business and family impact the world's future? And who, if anyone, can break the Consortium's iron grip on the status...
Author
Language
English
Description
A ferryman, gently shepherding the people of Prospera through the retirement process when the monitors embedded in their forearms fall below 10 percent, Proctor Bennet, of the Department of Social Contracts, receives a disturbing and cryptic message from his father, while The Support Staff, who keep Prospera running, organize a revolution that causes Proctor to question everything he once believed.
Author
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the Revolutionary Front takes control of Salt Lake City, soldier James Trent finds himself on the front lines, fighting for something he doesn’t even know if he believes in, and goes up against a female sharpshooter fueled by revenge against the government.
Author
Series
Dark Matters trilogy volume 3
Publisher
128 Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Monique and Jonas remain locked away in an Iranian prison; billions watch as the world's leaders continue to debate their fate. Meanwhile, the Hanssen asteroid is fast approaching Earth's orbit. At last, the Consortium's end gam is at hand. Will Rudy uncover the Chairman's unimaginable plan before it's too late? Will Pax find a way to rescue Monique and redeem himself? Or will Monique and Jonas finally unravel the mystery of dark matter - setting...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
When people throughout the world begin losing their shadows and memories while developing dangerous powers, a man desperately searches for his afflicted wife in a world turned upside down by bandits and cultists.
12) The temps
Author
Publisher
Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Desk workers become trapped in an office complex as a global catastrophe unfolds outside. The Temps combines apocalyptic and workplace satire when a small group of survivors bands together in the wreckage of their company to discover the truth behind the event that upended their world.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a society consumed by fear, 12-year-old Bird Gardner, after receiving a mysterious letter, sets out on a quest to find his mother—a Chinese-American poet who left when he was 9 years old—leading him to NYC where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
14) Touched: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When he wakes up with the knowledge that humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence and he is the cure, Martin uses his new physical strengths to violently defend his family—the only Black family in their neighborhood in Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles—against pure evil.
15) Eve of man
Author
Series
Eve of man volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Eve is the first girl born in fifty years. All her life she has been kept away from the opposite sex, protected from the dangers of a ruined world, kept from the truth of her past. But at sixteen it's time for Eve to face her destiny. Three potential males have been selected for her. The future of the world is in her hands. But now she wants control over the life. She wants freedom. She wants Bram. Will she be allowed to choose between love and the...
16) To paradise
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, an unforgettable cast of characters are united by their reckonings with the qualities that make us human--fear, love, shame, need, and loneliness.
17) Burrowed
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, a genetic plague has separated humanity in two - Subterraneans who live in underground burrows to protect their health, and strong surface-dwelling Omniterraneans. Zuzan Cayan, a brilliant Subter girl with "light blindness," is about to leave the safety of her burrow and earn a living. With her low life expectancy, however, her options are slim. That is until she's offered the chance of a lifetime to study the population's broken...
18) The end of men
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The women survivors of a near-future pandemic that has killed most of the world’s men struggle to document victim stories, rebuild society and develop a vaccine.
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