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1) 1984
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Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved...
2) Chosen ones
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English
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Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice--catastrophic events known as Drains--leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. On the tenth anniversary of the Dark One's defeat, something unthinkable happens:...
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Series
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the...
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English
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At first, the far future looks like an enchanting place to the Time Traveller. The graceful Eloi appear to embody contentment, beauty and peace, and the Eden they live in seems to be free of suffering. But he soon comes to understand that the Eloi are fragile creatures, desperately afraid of the dark, and with good reason. For the Morlocks live in the dark, and the Morlocks are to be feared. And the Time Traveller must venture in to their subterranean...
5) Followers
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Language
English
Description
Orla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets Floss--a striving, wannabe A-lister--who comes up with a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they dream about. So what if Orla and Floss's methods are a little shady--and sometimes people get hurt? Their legions of followers can't be wrong. Thirty-five years later, in a closed California...
6) America city
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Language
English
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America, one century on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of people. Droughts, floods and hurricanes force entire populations to simply abandon their homes. Tensions are mounting between north and south, and some northern states are threatening to close their borders against homeless fellow-Americans from the south. Against this backdrop, an ambitious young British-born publicist, Holly Peacock, meets a new client, the charismatic Senator...
10) Americatown #3
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Arroyo begins interrogating the undocumented Americans who were captured in a raid.
11) Americatown #1
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
What's to Love: Part social commentary, part family drama, Americatown asks: What if the American Dream gave way to the American Nightmare? In their inaugural comic series, screenwriters Bradford Winters (Oz, Boss, The Americans) and Larry Cohen (Netflix's Borgia), give us a story great for fans of Transmetropolitan, Children of Men, and the TV show Black Mirror.What It Is: After an economic collapse and other disasters in the near future, Americans...
12) Americatown #4
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Owen and Tonto mobilize towards Derek, but Agent Arroyo is looking for him, too.
13) Americatown #6
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Digital Exclusive! When Arroyo's partner slips into a coma, his quest becomes personal.
14) Americatown #2
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
As Owen struggles to survive in his new home, all he can think about is where his son might be.
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Language
English
Description
A recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America - "Wainscotia, Wisconsin" - that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of "rehabilitation" - but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results...
17) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Lexile measure
GN 760L
Language
English
Description
Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Every year, publishers and movie studios churn out piles of new zombie yarns, but none have rivaled the originality of this tale about a reanimated priest from an ancient cult and the zombie outbreak he creates in order to sacrifice mankind to his dark gods. Dark horror and high adventure mingle as a team of heroes race against an unstoppable evil bent on the end of mankind. * Written by Hellboy and B.P.R.D. creator Mike Mignola! * Collecting...
Publisher
Europe Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
1943: as winter gives way to spring in a small town in America, the Japanese-American god Rising Sun takes flight for Germany. There Marshal Goering awaits, with two secrets that will open Rising Sun's eyes to the truth, and perhaps change the course of the entire war.
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