Dystopian fiction

  • Upright women wanted

    Creator

    Gailey, Sarah

    Abstract

    Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her-a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    A Tom Doherty Associates Book

    Not specified
  • Trashlands

    Creator

    Stine, Alison

    Abstract

    A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a "plucker," pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She's stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless loop of strangers and the club's violent owner rules as unofficial mayor.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [Toronto, Ont.]

    Harlequin Audio

    Not specified
  • The transfer : a Divergent story

    Creator

    Roth, Veronica

    Abstract

    The first of four new short stories told from the perspective of everyone's favorite Divergent love interest! More Four! Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by The Transfer, the first of four new short stories told from Four's perspective. Each brief story explores the world of the Divergent series through the eyes of the mysterious but charismatic Tobias Eaton, revealing previously unknown facets of his personality, backstory, and relationships.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Harper Audio

    Not specified
  • The traitor : a Divergent story

    Creator

    Roth, Veronica

    Abstract

    Complete your Divergent library with the Four stories! Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be excited by Four: The Traitor, the fourth of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and told from Tobias's point of view. The Traitor takes place two years after The Son and runs parallel with the early events in Divergent ...

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Harper Audio

    Not specified
  • The son : a Divergent story

    Creator

    Roth, Veronica

    Abstract

    More Four! Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by The Son, the third of four new short stories told from Four's perspective. Each brief story explores the world of the Divergent series through the eyes of the mysterious but charismatic Tobias Eaton, revealing previously unknown facets of his personality, backstory, and relationships.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Harper Audio

    Not specified
  • The rest of us just live here

    Creator

    Ness, Patrick

    Abstract

    What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    HarperCollins

    Not specified
  • The power

    Creator

    Alderman, Naomi

    Abstract

    Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? In The Power, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Hachette Audio

    Not specified
  • The memory police

    Creator

    Ogawa, Yōko

    Abstract

    A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses--until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York, NY]

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • The initiate : a Divergent story

    Creator

    Roth, Veronica

    Abstract

    More Four! Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by The Initiate, the second of four new short stories told from Four's perspective. Each brief story explores the world of the Divergent series through the eyes of the mysterious but charismatic Tobias Eaton, revealing previously unknown facets of his personality, backstory, and relationships.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York]

    Harper Audio

    Not specified
  • The high house

    Creator

    Greengrass, Jessie

    Abstract

    Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies. Caro, Pauly, Sally, and Grandy are safe, so far, from the rising water that threatens to destroy the town and that has, perhaps, already destroyed everything else. But for how long? Caro and her younger half-brother, Pauly, arrive at the High House after her father and stepmother fall victim to a faraway climate disaster, but not before they call and urge Caro to leave London.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Simon & Schuster Audio

    Not specified