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"Hundreds of years before the Illum ruled supreme, humanity risked everything to rebuild after a devastating war in this explosive dystopian romance and prequel to Conform. Twenty-three-year-old Sasha Cadell knows time is running out in the underground city, filled with survivors of the nuclear fallout six years ago. She works in the Expansion Sector, trying to escape the memories of those she lost. Her bleak existence is upended when Tristian Hayes,...

Twelve-year-old Zuzu befriends a guardian robot with a limited battery life that was given to her father as severance after being laid off from the mega corporation that controls everything.

From New York Times bestselling author Donna Barba Higuera, Firesnake delivers a triumphant finale to the story that began with the Newbery Medal-winning The Last Cuentista and continued in the Pura Belpre Honor-winning Alebrijes. Itzel has never known a life on Earth. Growing up on Sagan, the granddaughter of the Cuentista, her years have been spent among the dactyls, griblets, and billow seeds of their new planet. But when a mysterious message arrives...

"Fin grew up near an observatory, learning about telescopes and planets, inspired by the passions of her mother and father, then leaders in their fields of astrophotography and astronomy. Those days are long over. Now Fin, her mother Dianella, and a band of outliers live deep off the grid, always on alert and ready to run. In the outside world, things are not good: extinctions and a loss of diversity threaten what's left of the environment. With a...

"Follows a trans teen who survives a near-apocalypse, only to be hunted by a mysterious monster whose very existence is entwined with their own"-- Provided by publisher.

In a ruined, rain-soaked world after an unnamed disaster, Breton--a mentally unstable man confined to a decaying psychiatric compound--is forced to spy on the outside world. Tasked by a shadowy political force, he must identify a group of mysterious paramilitary women known as the Monroe girls. As Breton's fractured mind navigates surveillance, memory, and strange visions, the story unfolds as a haunting, surreal exploration of power, identity, and...

"When your entire family is caught up in a world war with flesh-eating fog and robotic monstrosities, the only question that matters is: what are you willing to do to survive? Siblings Kris, Albany, and Millie each inhabit a different part of the war - special ops and cannon-fodder at the front and codeworks behind the line - which transforms and transmutes how they think of themselves and their allegiances. They dump everything they know - confessions...

"It's been twenty years since the monstrous war that almost tore New World apart, and there's a new generation on the planet. Todd and Viola's sons Ben and Max have known only peace growing up on the family farm outside a bustling human settlement. They dream of the usual things, like school and adventure, until the nightmares begin ... A sudden sickness has infected the young people of New World with Noise in the form of their worst thoughts about...

Zada has just turned eighteen and been assigned her soulmate, but she feels nothing for him. When her estranged friend Daphne convinces her to investigate the algorithm that runs their city, New Ionia, they uncover the shocking truth of their society.

It's 2065 in Southern California. A post-Orwellian, pre-Matrix dystopia on the verge of collapse. When a mysterious hacker disrupts transmissions, four quirky misfits discover that the streaming infotainments of their customized MyndScreen brain implants have noxious side effects, not to mention the addictive free extruded soyalgent food that everyone's eating. A satirical near-future science fiction novel exploring corporate commercialism, technology...