Dalcher, Christina
Summary: On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her. This is just the beginning. Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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Summary: "A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life-and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe-a role that neither wants. These teens must master the 'art' of taking life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHUKing, Stephen
Summary: In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINRoberts, Nora
Summary: "It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017