Higuera, Donna Barba
Summary: "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 Leandro and his sister Gabi do what they can to forge a life in Pocatel. The city does not take kindly to Cascabel like them --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIGHowey, Hugh
Summary: "In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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Summary: En un mundo donde la guerra es la paz, la libertad es la esclavitud y la ignorancia es la fuerza, el Hermano Mayor tiene ojos por todas partes. Las vidas de los ciudadanos están vigiladas y cada decisión se analiza al milímetro. Winston Smith, encargado de reescribir la historia para el gobierno, no puede escapar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH ORWDashner, James
Summary: "Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie all learned about the unkind history of the Gladers from The Book of Newt and tall tales from Old Man Frypan, but when a rusty old boat shows up one day with a woman bearing dark news of the mainland--everything changes. The group and their islander friends are forced to embark back to civilization where they find Cranks have evolved into a more violent, intelligent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Media Enterprises 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DASHaddix, Margaret Peterson
Summary: Twelve-year-old Zola, who has a surprising connection to Jessie, discovers that she is stuck in a fake utopian future, and that those around her are counting on her to help them escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HADBereznai, Steven
Summary: Mad genius Doctor BetterThan is out to finish what the Genetic Wars started-- destroy the world. With his unique time-looping abilities, he has all the do-overs he needs to thrash pesky superheroes-- mere gnats as far as he's concerned-- intent on thwarting him. But on the cusp of victory, she comes along-- fellow mad genius Merry Lynn Monroe. Sparks fly as she and her cybernetic ladymatoms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jambor 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERRoth, Veronica.
Summary: What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation--like a single choice--changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? The explosive conclusion to the Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD YA FIC ROTAhmed, Samira
Summary: Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into a camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the camp's Director and his guards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: YA PA FIC AHMBeauman, Ned
Summary: "It's the near future, and tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. The loss is not total, though: the DNA sequences of many species are being digitized and uploaded to a global network of "biobanks," together with brain and body scans, recordings of behavior in the wild, microbiota profiles, and so forth, in the hope that the extinct victims of humanity's destructiveness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEABeck, Glenn.
Summary: When the government comes for her mother, Emmeline embarks on a plan to save her family and expose the truth behind the objectives of the United Nations' agenda 21.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECBereznai, Steven
Summary: The Genetic Wars that turned most of the planet into a wasteland are over. The so-called "dregs" (DNA regulars) and superpowered Supergenics now live separately from each other--the Supergenics in the shiny towers of Jupitar City; the dregs across the river in the squat concrete buildings of the boroughs. But some dreg parents continue to bear Supergenic children; under repressive laws, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jambor 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BERBrown, Pierce
Summary: "Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom. As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies. Darrow's kind have been betrayed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROIrvine, Alexander (Alexander C.)
Summary: "In the future United States, our own history has faded into myth and traveling across the country means navigating wastelands and ever-changing landscapes. The country teems with monsters and artificial intelligences try to unpack their own becoming by recreating myths and legends of their human creators. Prospector Ed, an emergent AI who wants to understand the people who made him, assembles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Tor.com Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IRVKing, Reed
Summary: It is 2085, and Truckee Wallace, a factory worker in Crunchtown 407 (formerly Little Rock, Arkansas, before the secessions), has no grand ambitions besides maybe, possibly, losing his virginity someday. But when Truckee is thrust unexpectedly into the spotlight he is tapped by the President for a sensitive political mission: to deliver a talking goat across the continent. The fate of the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINLai, Larissa
Summary: "In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAICastle, Jacqui
Summary: "While on a routine assignment scouting the country's dwindling natural resources, Patricia 'Patch' and her best friend, Rexx, discover a cache of dangerous contraband--printed books from before The Seclusion. These texts spark an unquenchable thirst for the truth that leads to the arrest of Patch's father by the totalitarian Board, which runs the entire coutnry. Evading their own arrest, Patch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CASDoucette, Gene
Summary: The whateverpocalypse. That's what Toure, a twenty-something Cambridge coder, calls it after waking up one morning to find himself seemingly the only person left in the city. Once he finds Robbie and Carol, two equally disoriented Harvard freshmen, he realizes he isn't alone, but the name sticks: Whateverpocalypse. But it doesn't explain where everyone went. It doesn't explain how the city...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOUDragoon, Leigh
Summary: Teens June, a military prodigy born into wealth, and Day, a criminal from the slums, are brought together and face plague, war, and a powerful, common enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam' s Sons 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEGElison, Meg
Summary: Philip K. Dick Award Winner for Distinguished Science Fiction When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population--killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant--the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELIRobertson, Peter
Summary: "Colin Tugdale has only one year left to live. He has no complaints. He took the government money, and he lived for twenty years in perfect health, never growing one day older, never getting sick. But his time is almost over, and his beloved wife, Ruby, is already gone. Colin needs something to occupy himself. He meets a woman who should be dead. He sees a man who is dead. Is it possible that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gibson House Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBSchrefer, Eliot
Summary: Earth's population is divided between only two existing countries which cannot manage to cooperate in any way, until a distress signal arrives from Titan's first settler and neither can afford to rescue her on their own if they act separately. Ambrose wakes up on board with successfully reaching his sister the primary thought in his mind until he notices several strange circumstances: he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SCHBeukes, Lauren
Summary: "Three years after a plague has wiped out the male population, twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence, and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie - all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books / Little Brown & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEUHowey, Hugh
Summary: Armed with secret knowledge, Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18 and her crew set out to rescue a world she hates but now understands better -- the world of the Silos with its rigid rules and terrible consequences for disobedience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hugh Howey 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWYuknavitch, Lidia
Summary: "In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet's now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head: the surviving humans have become sexless, hairless, pale-white creatures floating in isolation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins 2017