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1) Cult classic
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author and Thurber Prize finalist Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic is a twisted mystery on the metaphysics of modern love, memory, and mind control in the city"--
One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is...
Author
Series
Self volume 2
Publisher
R.J. Hamilton
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Self Convictions, let the Hudson family tell you their story as it continues. The twins, Brielle and Bennett, grow and their powers emerge. When Sarah & Brandon eliminated the chapter in Texas, they opened a floodgate. Sensing the development of their gifts, the Society will stop at nothing to get their hands on them. New rivals surface, using their powers against Sarah & Brandon in order to get the twins for themselves. Will the...
4) Enders: #2
Author
Series
Starters volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press, An imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"With the Prime Destinations body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders. But Enders can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn't want to do. Like hurt someone she loves"--
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
In Tokyo, fifteen-year-old Daniel X faces two of the most dangerous aliens on the planet, who are plotting to use video games to control children and turn them into an army of doom.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publising
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Riley Diaz was born to fight back. When she's incarcerated under the authority of a shadowy new defense act, Riley is sent to one of a growing number of American Renewal Centers (ARCs)--institutions modeled after psychiatric facilities--for mandatory reeducation. Forced therapy, involuntary medication, solitary confinement, restricted rations, and more are all in the ARC program's bag of dirty tricks designed to break down dissidents. Give in, and...
7) Unleashed
Author
Series
Jinxed volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Armed with their companioneering and coding skills and accompanied by their loyal bakus, Lacey Chu and her friends attempt a rescue mission deep in the heart of a sinister transnational tech corporation.
Author
Series
Unknown assassin volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Teen assassin Boy Nobody is sent on a mission to assassinate the head of a domestic terrorism cell, but his mission turns up more questions about his job than answers"--
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
66 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A wild scream echoes across Metropolis, and when they investigate Batgirl and Supergirl find that Silver Banshee is planning to broadcast a mind-control curse over the city.
12) The Program: #1
Author
Series
Program volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend.
Author
Series
Spaceheadz volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Language
English
Description
With a mysterious new principal and fifth-grade graduation fast approaching, will Michael K. and his friends be able to find the missing Brainwave before the chief of the Anti-Alien Agency uses it to destroy a planet?
14) Shutter Island
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, "Startlingly original." The Washington Post raves, "Brilliantly conceived and executed." A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic...
15) Councilor
Author
Series
Grand illusion volume 2
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
514 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio, continues his brand new, gaslamp, political fantasy series with Councilor the thrilling sequel to Isolate. Continued poor harvests and steam-powered industrialization displace and impoverish thousands. Protests grow and gather followers. Against this rising tide of social unrest, Steffan Dekkard, newly appointed to the Council of Sixty-Six, is the first Councilor...
Author
Series
Jane Hawk volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Groundbreaking, wholly involving, eerily prescient and terrifyingly topical, Dean Koontz's Jane Hawk series sets a new standard for contemporary thrillers. Since her sensational debut in The Silent Corner, readers have been riveted by Jane Hawk's resolute quest to take down the influential architects of an accelerating operation to control every level of society via an army of mind-altered citizens. At first, only Jane stood against the "Arcadian"...
17) Bluebird
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
Author
Series
Spaceheadz volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
213 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With only one hundred more Spaceheadz to sign up, Michael K.'s friends start planning an Earth-saving party but Michael fears the Brainwave might be used for a much more sinister purpose.
19) Brave new world
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Ranked as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the Modern Library, Brave New World is one of the first truly dystopian novels. The title's fantastic world is derived from Huxley's understanding of history and current events-including the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and World War I-and its depiction of the conflict between progress and the human spirit still resonates today.
20) The messengers
Author
Series
Greystone secrets volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, as evil forces from the parallel world invade their home, the Greystones, their doubles, and friends must return to the alternate dimension to save both worlds.