dystopia

When a tough sixteen-year-old boxing champ sentenced to an isolated boot camp discovers it is actually a mercenary training facility turning "throwaway children" into scientifically enhanced killers, he risks everything to save his friends and stop a madman bent on global destruction.

An outcast destined to live in squalor and a royal future Minister are united by a catastrophic event that makes them question everything they believe about their strictly controlled, spectrum-based world.

Having grown up in a civilization deep below the Earth's surface, sixteen-year-old Jansin is thrilled when her parents surprise her with a trip above ground, but disaster strikes when raiders attack her camp and take Jasin prisoner.

In the final novel in the Safe Lands series by Jill Williamson, Mason and Omar find themselves trapped in Liberation, while Levi must find a way to lead the rebellion on his own. At the same time, Jemma has become a pawn in the Safe Lands' game.

The remnant from Glenrock is now living as rebels within the Safe Lands, looking for a way to find purpose in their lives. When a young rebel is murdered and his death points to a rebel leader, it's hard to know who to trust.

Out on the frozen frontier of a failed state, a plane crashes at the edge of an abandoned city. The city's last citizen, Sheriff Makepeace, resolves to go in search of the planes origins. What he finds in a post-apocalyptic world is violent stockade villages, irradiated cities, and work camps laboring to harness the technologies of a vanished civilization.

After a virus claimed 95 percent of the global population, the world changed. The United States splintered into fifty walled cities where the surviving citizens clustered to start over. The Company, which ended the plague by bringing a life-saving vaccine back from the future, controls everything. Brilliant, but autistic, sixteen-year-old Clover Donovan has always dreamed of studying at the Waverly-Stead Academy. Her brother and caretaker, West, has done everything in his power to make her dream a reality. But Clover's refusal to part with her beloved service dog denies her entry into the school. Instead, she is drafted into the Time Mariners, a team of Company operatives who travel through time to gather news about the future. When one of Clover's missions reveals that West's life is in danger, the Donovans are shattered. To change West's fate, they'll have to take on the mysterious Company.

This book looks at the ethics (the concept of right and wrong) of different political systems and discusses why governments succeed or fall and how they can be changed.

Set in the year 2061, two children support themselves in a city dump and are pressed into the service of the criminal underworld until their unique talents foster their escape.

Set in the year 2061, two children support themselves in a city dump and are pressed into the service of the criminal underworld until their unique talents foster their escape.