dystopian fiction

Eighteen-year-old mind breaker Rex lives in a dystopian world where the government hunts down all with psychic abilities--so, he keeps a low profile, until one day he has to use his hypnosis on would-be bank robbers. Now, on the run, Rex and his hypnotist friend Kitty flee to a devastated countryside only for Kitty to be captured. To rescue her, Rex will have to get captured himself and mount a daring escape.

When a level five breaker with godlike powers and evil schemes threatens all, Rex and his friends must join with their former enemies to even have a chance at stopping him.

When Tris and Tobias enact a daring plan to go outside of the fence, they hope for a simpler life but instead encounter new truths and sacrifices that must be made for the good of all.

Darrow and the Rising battle against the remaining Gold loyalist forces in order to abolish the color-coded caste system of the Society for good, but come up against new foes that threaten their success. Darrow takes one last mission in hopes of saving everyone, and finds himself connected to a young Red refugee girl, an ex-soldier, and Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile to the Sovereign.

The Gold overlords have killed Darrow's wife and enslaved his people. But his patient determination for vengeance is about to pay off as he has infiltrated his enemy and is prepared to unleash a revolution from within.

In a post-apocalyptic United States, sixteen-year-old Noam ?lvaro gains the power of a technopath--the ability to control technology--after a viral magic killed his immigrant family and put him in a hospital. Carolina's minister of defense recruits Noam because of his abilities, and seeing a chance to affect change for the undocumented immigrant community, which is subject to brutal treatment under Carolina's government, Noam agrees, secretly hoping to use the minister's technology against them. But when Noam meets the minister's dangerous, impossibly alluring son, Dara, Noam's mission becomes muddled.

When Griz's dog is stolen, he doesn't hesitate to go after the thief and retrieve what's his. In a post-apocalyptic wasteland where Griz has only met a few people in his entire life, his dog is more than a pet, it's part of his family. And he won't stop until their reunited.

Contains a novelization of the film "Alita: Battle Angel." When an advanced artificial intelligence wakes in a dystopic world she doesn't recognize she is taken in by a compassionate doctor and prosthetist, Ido, who treats her as a daughter. She quickly realizes that her knowledge and power allow her to navigate the dangerous streets of Iron City, while also learning about her convoluted past. Alita is thrust into a conspiracy, and with the help of Ido and other select allies, Alita discovers her true purpose and fights against injustice.

In a world ravaged by pandemic illness and civil war, a generous farmsteader who supports herself with her letter-writing skills struggles to survive and keep the ghosts of her troubled past at bay.

In a dusty, barren Texas, ruined by pollution, a young cowboy searching for the ocean and a teenage girl on the run, both struggling with loss, unite to take on a violent gang.