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Dystopian fiction. Dystopias. Fiction. Fictional Work Novels. Romans. Science fiction.Stivers, Carole
Summary: "In this mind-bending debut novel, Carole Stivers explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. It is 2049. When a U.S. attempt at stealth biowarfare goes awry, a team of scientists is engaged to ensure human survival on earth. Their best efforts fail, and they must turn to their last resort: a plan to place genetically engineered children...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STIChan, Jessamine
Summary: "Set in near-future America, The School for Good Mothers introduces readers to a government-run reform program where bad mothers are retrained using robot doll children with artificial intelligence. Protagonist Frida Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese-American single mother in Philadelphia, loses custody of her 18-month-old daughter, Harriet, after she leaves Harriet home alone for two hours on one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ChanCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF CHASchaitkin, Alexis
Summary: "Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2022
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCHMackintosh, Sophie
Summary: Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you're given is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020