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1) Tier 2
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They're mourning the loss of each other. But reuniting could have fatal consequences.
Kate can't shake this uneasy feeling. Despite memories of her previous partner dying, her dreams are filled with vivid images of him alive and well. And plagued by sudden debilitating headaches, she can't help but wonder if her body knows something she doesn't.
Eric wants to be the dad his son deserves. So though he suffers constant reminders of his wife's death,...
2) Tier 1
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What if your genetics held the keys to saving the human race?
But every stride forward has a cost…
A virus nearly wiped out the human race. In order to survive, people are segregated into three tiers. Those with the best genetic viability get the most resources, and Kate and Eric are lucky enough to end up in Tier 1.
Pairs are matched based on their genetic markers, but what if the data gets it wrong? What if Kate's perfect life is built on research...
3) Tier 3
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The truth set them free. But if they don't return, their society is doomed to repeat its past corruption.
Kate and Eric are elated with their reunion. But exiled in Tier 3, they barely have enough for themselves and their children to survive. And when they discover a heartbreaking group of abandoned kids, they realize they must restore justice to all three Tiers.
Enduring an arduous journey across the wilds, the couple risks everything to inform...
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Dept. of Speculation meets Black Mirror in this lyrical, speculative debut about a queer mother raising her daughter in an unjust surveillance state
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form of law enforcement: rather than incarceration, wrongdoers are given a second (and sometimes, third, fourth, and fifth) shadow as a reminder of their crime—and a warning to those they encounter.
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Seventy-three years after the events of THE DEATH CURE, when Thomas and other immunes were sent to an island to survive the Flare-triggered apocalypse, their descendants have thrived. 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...
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In this apocalyptic adventure, war and disease decimate the globe, and two orphaned siblings must decide: Stay and die, or run and survive.
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Hell of a Book, A Read eith Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own since they were orphaned at the age of five. Twelve years later, the world begins to collapse around them as a deadly contagion steadily wipes...
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Books of Ember volume 3
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Nickie is from Yonwood, where one of their citizens is having a prophecy of complete devastation.
9) Census
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NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY
TheNew York Times•TheChicago Reader • Nylon • The Boston Globe • TheHuffington Post • The Rumpus •The AV Club •Southern Living •The Millions • Buzzfeed • Esquire • Publishers Weekly
A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns
When a widower receives notice...
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Books of Ember volume 2
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After emerging from the underground city of Ember, Lina and Doon are followed by the city's other inhabitants. Several days of wandering bring the Emberites to a town whose resources are limited, but nevertheless, they are welcomed, fed, and given shelter. Resentment quickly begins to grow and anonymous acts of vandalism push them toward violence, leading Lina and Doon to find a way to avoid war.
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This science fiction classic by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author is "a rare and powerful synthesis of poetry and science, reason and emotion" (The New York Times).
In a near-future world beset by war, climate change, and overpopulation, Portland resident George Orr discovers that his dreams have the power to alter reality. Upon waking, the world he knew has become a strange, barely recognizable place, where only...
In a near-future world beset by war, climate change, and overpopulation, Portland resident George Orr discovers that his dreams have the power to alter reality. Upon waking, the world he knew has become a strange, barely recognizable place, where only...
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We set the dark on fire volume 2
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Publisher Annotation: In this nail-biting sequel to Tehlor Kay Mejia?s critically acclaimed fantasy novel We Set the Dark on Fire, La Voz operative Carmen is forced to choose between the girl she loves and the success of the rebellion she?s devoted her life to. Perfect for fans of The Handmaid?s Tale and Anna-Marie McLemore.
13) Athena's choice
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What if a viral pandemic put women in charge of the planet?
Athena Vosh lives just like any other teenager from the year 2099. She watches reality shows with her friends, eats well, and occasionally wonders to herself: what would life be like if men were still alive?
It has been almost 50 years since an experimental virus accidentally killed all the men on earth. However, a controversial project is currently underway to bring men back. There's just...
14) Anyone: a novel
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Soon to be adapted for television by Carnival, creators of Downton Abbey
An Indie Next Pick • A Science Fiction Book Club Pick
Bestselling author of The Oracle Year, Charles Soule brings his signature knowledge-and wariness-of technology to his new novel set in a realistic future about a brilliant female scientist who creates a technology that allows for the transfer of human consciousness between bodies, and the transformations this process...
15) Arch-conspirator
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"From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. "A gut punch of a story. Roth takes everything fragile about love, everything powerful about certain doom, and blooms with it. You'll be holding your breath until the very last word."-Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling...
16) Hunting by stars
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Marrow thieves novels volume 2
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French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just...
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We set the dark on fire volume 1
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2020 Rise: A Feminist Book Project Top Ten
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Celebrate PRIDE Month! (Teen Edition)
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"Dani must question everything she's worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government"--
18) Divergent
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Divergent trilogy volume 1
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In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue -- Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family...
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* "A zany, wildly gripping, dark futuristic fantasy." —Vogue, Most Anticipated Books of the Year * "Fascinating...a propulsive ride...through a well-built world." —The Christian Science Monitor *
From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 and creator of the FX series Class of '09 comes a "cinematic" (The Washington Post), "captivating...[and] "brilliantly conceived postapocalyptic...
From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 and creator of the FX series Class of '09 comes a "cinematic" (The Washington Post), "captivating...[and] "brilliantly conceived postapocalyptic...
20) After death
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Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue 24 hours following an event in which everyone perished, including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he, or anyone else, has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby...
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