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"Imprisoned by the totalitarian government, Dr. Benito Espinoza practices for his weekly interrogations by recounting his story to his thirteen-year-old daughter. He tells her about turning his back on his ability to shift his gender from male to female--to Alejandra--to become a scholar in the Grand Library. Most academics are Residents who inherited their seats and believe Descendants like Ben don't have the intellectual ability to be a person of...
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"Ceda was an elite warrior in service to the kings of Sharakhai. She has been an assassin in dark places. A weapon poised to strike from the shadows. A voice from the darkness, striving to free her people. No longer. Now she's going to lead. The age of the Kings is coming to an end . . ."--FantasticFiction.com.
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"In an alternative contemporary reality, Nick Wong is a product of the Children's Centres-- government-run residential schools designed to prevent all forms of patriarchy and help usher in an unprecedented age of world peace. While girls are groomed for leadership, boys are taught subservience. As is the case with most male graduates, Nick's emotions are stunted and he feels little connection to others. Nevertheless, his innate curiostiy and his desire...
72) Ruin's wake
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"A moving and powerful science fiction novel with themes of love, revenge, and identity. A story about humanity, and the universal search to find salvation in the face of insurmountable odds. An old soldier in exile embarks on a desperate journey to find his dying son. A young woman trapped in an abusive marriage with a government official finds hope in an illicit love. A female scientist uncovers a mysterious technology that reveals that her world...
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Marsco saga volume 1
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After a cataclysmic world war, 2092 finds a megacorporation controlling the planet. Anti-technology Luddites are rising up, and military officers are plotting a revolution.
74) Captives
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New Directions paperbook volume 1297
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The survivors of World War II in Romania endure the humiliatons of daily life under a totalitarian regime.
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An account of the bold struggle that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm - a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs, Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball, emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that bears an insidious familiarity. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is re-established with the...
77) Truancy origins
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Relates how Truancy, an underground movement determined to bring down the Mayor's goal of control through education, began with the birth of twin boys who grew up to take divergent paths after being adopted by the Mayor.
79) Truth
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Like all sixteen-year-old girls, Nina is forced to have a Governing Council-ordered tattoo of XVI on her wrist, announcing to the world that she is easy prey for predators. So when she joins up with a small force withing the Resistance, she knows that they will have to put an end to one of the most terrifying secret programs the GC has ever created.
80) 2084
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"Welcome to the year 2084 when the Arab world is now comprised of three major warring states. This dystopian, Orwellian tale is the "1984" of the Middle East"--
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