resistance to government

Near-future London. It has become popular for folks to have a small implant that allows one access to a more robust social media experience-- Panopticon-- directly as an augmented reality. Moremi has the implant, and she can see inside the minds and dreams of others. When the British government plans to make the connection procedure compulsory, they promise Panopticon will end human suffering and usher in a perfect world. Orpheus, raised by a neo-Luddite father, questions everything. Orpheus and Moremi uncover the nefarious effects of the technology, but find themselves unable to agree on whether it should be destroyed or continued. -- adapted from back cover.

Flood City is the only habitable place left on the drowned Earth, but it is also a battleground between the Star Guard who have controlled the city for decades and the Chemical Barons in their spaceships who once ruled the planet, want it back, and are now preparing to destroy it. The future will depend on Max, his sister Yala of Flood City, and Ato, a young Chemical Baron who just wants to keep his twin brother alive and not hurt anyone--and somehow these natural enemies will have to work together to save Earth.

As the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world escalates, Mare, who has the red blood of the common folk but also the silver ability to control lightning, must fight against the darkrness that has grown in her soul.

"Set in reimagined American monarchy, twelve-year-old Claire Emerson fights for her own freedom while also setting out to change the government from within, or burn it all down"--OCLC.

Determined to finish her mother's mission, Lan seeks to destroy the legendary four Demon Gods, while Zen, who made a perilous pact with one of these demons, seeks to use their power to save his kingdom and the girl he loves.

Separated for the first time and in full command of their respective forces, the time has finally come for Gal and Ettian to confront what they owe their empires, their friends, and each other if they are ever to forge a universe where the two of them can be together.

When Gal is captured by the rebellion and facing execution, his handsome roommate Ettian is forced to reveal he is the secret heir to the Archon Empire and therefore leader of the rebellion, and now Gal's enemy. Gal devises a plot to escape and get back to the Umber Empire, no matter the cost, even if it means destroying Ettian.

Scattered across the galaxy, the seven devils learn the Oracle has gone rogue in a ruthless search of Eris, the heir to the Empire. Eris and the devils unite to enact a dangerous plan to infiltrate the Empire in the hopes of stopping the Oracle and destroying the Empire from within.

Eris faked her death in order to leave behind her life as heir to the ruthless galactic Empire, but now the Novantae resistance has recruited her to fight the Tholosian Empire's expansion and she is back in the thick of things. Her newest mission pits her and hotshot pilot Cloelia, who still holds a grudge against her, together in a race against time to stop the Tholosian's new heir's plans to disrupt a peace summit and create a window for new imperial expansion.

"In July 1944, as the Red Army drives the Nazis out of Poland, sixteen-year-old Maria Kami?ska must work with a captured Ukrainian nationalist to find her brother, who is a special operations agent and leader of a Polish Resistance squad, when he disappears while on a mission"--OCLC.