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Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 1
Language
English
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Read It While You Can
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Paperback Trade Fiction
Read It While You Can
Description
In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child. Stripped of her most basic freedoms, (work, property, her own name), Offred remembers a different time, not so long ago, when she was valuable for more than her viable ovaries, when she was mother to a daughter she could keep, and when she and her husband lived and loved as equals. Darkly prescient, scathingly...
2) Wool
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In a future toxic landscape, a community that lives in an underground silo is rocked by the desire of Sheriff Holston, who has upheld the group's rules for years, to go outside, setting in motion events that kindle the fire of revolution.
3) 1984
Author
Language
English
Description
Portrays a terrifying vision of life in the future when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities, becoming more powerful as time goes by.
5) Enclave
Author
Series
Razorland volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future, Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the ways of the elders may be wrong.
6) Dust
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Newly divorced, Iris Prince moves to a new neighborhood where she, a proud second-generation Mexican American, is plunged into a climate of fear and hate-fueled violence after the launch of a mandatory identification wristband, forcing her to confront how far she’ll go to protect what matters to her most when second-generation immigrants become second-class citizens.
10) Bird box
Author
Series
Bird Box novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In a world where no one can go outside for fear of something terrifying that when seen drives people to deadly violence, single mother Malorie and her two children must attempt a terrifying twenty-mile trip downriver while blindfolded.
11) Vinyl
Author
Publisher
Calida Lux Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Gritty steampunk dystopian fiction recounting the life of Ronja, a young steam train driver struggling to support her family under the oppressive rule of The Conductor.
13) Shift
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
SEASON 2 OF THE ACCLAIMED SILO SERIES — BASED ON BOOK 1, WOOL — NOW ON APPLE TV+
In this second volume in the New York Times best-selling Silo series, Hugh Howey describes the catastrophic events that led to the creation of the silo— and the beginning of the end
In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow
...14) Genesis
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Set on a remote island in a post-apocalyptic, plague-ridden world, this bold and ingenious thriller questions what it means to be human as philosophical questions collide with technology.
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived, while the outside world is overcome by gene-spliced life forms.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
After one moment of poor judgment involving her daughter Harriet, Frida Liu falls victim to a host of government officials who will determine if she is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother’s devotion.
17) Boy kills world
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Boy" is a mayhem machine with a hilarious inner voice who's been trained from childhood by his mentor to assassinate the bloodthirsty Hilda Van Der Koy and avenge his family's murder. Guided by his little sister's mischievous spirit, Boy uncovers one stunning revelation after another as he barrels toward Hilda, leading to a shocking, carnage-crazed finale.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Burying the ashes of loved ones and resolving to start over in a near-future world that is succumbing to an ice age, Dylan unexpectedly transforms the lives of a survivalist and her 12-year-old daughter, who prepare for a record-breaking winter in a freezing caravan park.
19) The aftermath
Author
Series
Aftermath novels volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world overrun by cannibals and pollution, Claudia endures daily physical and psychological tests in order to survive, while gradually discovering that she has become a pawn in faraway manipulator's game.
20) Morning star
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Darrow emerges from years of hiding among the Golds and declares an open revolution against the overlords who oppress his people and caused the loss of his wife.
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