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2) The giver
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
3) Mindwalker
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"Eighteen-year-old Sil Sarrah is determined to die a legend. But with only twelve months left before the supercomputer grafted to her brain kills her, Sil's time is quickly running out. In the ten years she's been rescuing field agents for the Syntex corporation--by commandeering their minds from afar and leading them to safety--Sil hasn't lost a single life. But when a critical mission goes south, Sil is forced to flee the very company she once called...
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The Giver: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. -- Gathering blue: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians....
6) Dawca
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W świecie Jonasza wszystko jest doskonałe: nie ma bólu, przemocy ani cierpienia, nie trzeba podejmować decyzji ani dokonywać wyborów. Nie ma też barw, muzyki ani uczuć. Obowiązuje tu ścisły regulamin, którego nikt nie waży się łamać. Każdy zna przypisaną mu rolę w społeczeństwie i wykonuje ją perfekcyjnie. Dwunastoletni Jonasz ma właśnie otrzymać swoją i rozpocząć szkolenia. Wtedy dowiaduje się czegoś, co nim wstrząsa...
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"When everything is easily crushable under well-meaning feet, how can a Humongo ever fit in in such a little world? From the creator of "The Night of the Living Dead" and the Zombie movement that permeates our culture today, comes a sarcastic and cynical children's tale of different creatures trying to coexist in a benign, yet power-hungry environment. In line with Antoine de Saint-Exupery's Little Prince, The Little World of Humongo Bongo is a beautiful...
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