brainwashing

In a world where Thinkers control the population and Rules are not meant to be broken, fifteen-year-old Violet Schoenfeld must make a choice to control or be controlled after learning truths about her "dead" sister and "missing" father.

"Jag, Zenn, Vi, and the rest of the resistance are determined to take down the Thinkers, but there is a traitor among them, who could cost them their cause--and their lives"--Provided by publisher.

When twelve-year-olds Madison and Felix kidnap him, Ethan learns that the Earth has been taken over by aliens and that all the adults in the world are under mind control.

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck Aule begin to fear for their own lives and sanity when their investigation on Shutter Island into how a patient escaped the Ashcliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane yields more questions than answers.

An American serviceman in the Korean War is captured and brainwashed by the Chinese. When he returns to the U.S. as a war hero, he begins to act on the mental programming directing him to assassinate an important political figure.

Fifteen-year-old computer whiz Jake Carson goes undercover as a roadie for the skinhead band Der Akt to try and break the bizarre hold the group's music has on its fans who break out in violent riots whenever the band begins to play.

When twelve-year-olds Madison and Felix kidnap him, Ethan learns that the Earth has been taken over by aliens and that all the adults in the world are under mind control.

When twelve-year-old Ethan, still a trainee, learns that the alien Ch'zar invaders are rapidly increasing in number, he initiates a radical plan to increase the ranks of Resistor pilots and soon finds himself leading battle forces.

"P.G. Wodehouse meets space opera, as Ensign Thomas Innes Loche Kinago, fresh from the Academy, is given his first command. A young crumb from the upper crust, he's eager to uphold the traditions of his family, and in particular, his mother, First Space Lord of the Imperium. Of course, he's aware of the importance of always having plenty of simply smashing tailored uniforms on hand, and keeping his camera ready to record memorable moments for his scrapbook. In the meantime, a charismatic leader has arisen who seems able to control the minds of anyone he meets, and may be on his way to taking over the entire galaxy. Can Kinago's aristocratic bearing and unconscious snobbery stand up to such a challenge? Fortunately, his constant companion, the unflappable Parsons, is on hand to look after the young, impulsive master, and somehow help his charge bumble his way through, perhaps even saving the galaxy in the process."--back cover.