Orwell, George
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 ORWSummary: Miracle mile: A young man named Harry hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit Los Angeles in less than two hours. Not sure if the whole thing is a dire warning or a harmless prank, Harry races through the city, fighting mobs of terrified people in a desperate search for Julie, a young woman he only met yesterday and the one person with whom he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIROrwell, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lectorum 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 460 FIC ORWSummary: A man and a woman try desperately to escape the totalitarian regime they live in that bans nearly all free-thinking and love itself. Based on the book by George Orwell. This is the version released in 1984.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a totalitarian future, citizens who are labeled as deviants are sentenced to brutal behavior modification camps.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 2026, the rich rule over the poor, who live underground. One man tries to bridge the gap between the two classes. In July 2008 a complete copy of the film was discovered with an additional 25 minutes of lost footage that had not been seen since the film's premiere in 1927. After years of restoration the sci-fi epic was re-released in theaters in 2010 as The Complete Metropolis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI COMBirchall, Mike
Summary: "Perfectly normal couple Sam and Maggie live in a perfectly normal neighborhood, with their perfectly normal dog Winston. All the houses look the same. The people sound and look the same. On the outside, everything is fine. But is it? Winston, their sweet dog, has been dead for some time now, and Sam and Maggie begin to struggle to keep up the facade of their idyllic suburban life. The mystery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Webtoon Unscrolled 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 EVEFordham, Fred
Summary: Originally published in 1932, Brave New World is one of the most revered and profound works of twentieth century literature. Touching on themes of control, humanity, technology, and influence, Aldous Huxley's enduring classic is a reflection and a warning of the age in which it was written, yet remains frighteningly relevant today. With its surreal imagery and otherworldly backdrop, Brave New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art the uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HAMHuxley, Aldous
Summary: Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF HUXPatterson, James
Summary: "For the first time in their lives, Wisty and Whit Allgood find themselves at odds as Wisty is drawn to a mysterious and magical stranger named Heath"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PATBradbury, Ray
Summary: Fireman Guy Montag is a fireman whose job it is to start fires. And he loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Then he meets a seventeen-year old girl who tells him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who tells him of a future where people can think. And Guy Montag knows what he has to do ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1991
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF BRABradbury, Ray
Summary: In Bradbury's futuristic novel, the knowledge gained from books is forbidden, and television replaces deep thought with vapid and menial information. Firefighter Guy Montag is assigned to locate, confiscate, and burn books. He is content with his life and job until he discovers the valuable knowledge found within books. Now, Guy must decide to either continue his stale existence or abscond with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRADonnelly, Lara Elena
Summary: "Welcome to Amberlough City, the illustrious but corrupt cosmopolitan beacon of Gedda. The radical One State Party--nicknamed the Ospies--is gaining popular support to unite Gedda's four municipal governments under an ironclad, socially conservative vision. Not everyone agrees with the Ospies' philosophy, including master spy Cyril DePaul and his lover Aristide Makricosta, smuggler and emcee at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONMassey, Malcom
Summary: The publication of George Orwell's "1984" forever changed our view of the future. With Orwellian events looming above our world like thunderclouds on the horizon, take time to learn one account of what happened in the eventful year preceding this classic dystopian novel, before it's too late.This original prequel to "1984" will shake you to your very core. The events that bridged the chasm from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Independently published] 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASOh, Axie
Summary: In 2199 in the Neo State of Korea, eighteen-year-old Jaewon is partnered with supersoldier Tera, but their evolving love is threatened when Jaewon must choose among conflicting loyalties--to the totalitarian government that promises to end all war, the nationalist rebels his father followed, or the crime syndicate staging a coup.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OHPatterson, James
Summary: After escaping imprisonment by the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood, who possess magical powers, establish themselves as leaders of the Resistance, a hidden community of teenagers like themselves, hunted by the state and determined to defy its ban on the arts, magic, and all other forms of creativity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PATPatterson, James
Summary: "Magical teen siblings Whit and Wisty Allgood struggle against a mounting public opposition to magic and a brutal crime wave led by a powerful wizard intent on ruling the City"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PATBradbury, Ray
Summary: In Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires but start them--to burn books. It's a time when trivial information is valued and true knowledge perceived as dangerous and subversive. Guy Montag is a fireman with a wife who's goading him to work harder so they could afford another television set. When Montag befriends their neighbor Clarisse, whose love for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRAOrwell, George
Summary: "When the animals at Manor Farm revolt against their master, Mr. Jones, their goal is to take over the farm and establish an ideal community based on hard work, honesty, and the equality of all animals. Guided by the memory of Old Major's utopian vision and the seven commandments, Animal Farm, as the animals have renamed it, briefly fulfills the ideal."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ORWOrwell, George
Summary: Orwell's world famous satire on dictatorship told through a story about the happenings of an english country farm and the animal inhabitants who find it their duty to rebel against the sometimes cruel owner and prove themselves every bit mankind's intellectual equal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Orwell 1987Orwell, George.
Summary: A single man's determined battle against Big Brother and the forces of totalitarianism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002
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Summary: Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against a totalitarian regime that has banned all forms of creativity and executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the evil dictator, and they must somehow prepare for an imminent showdown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2011