dystopias

In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong-- and dangerous.

In this continuation of a twist on Edgar Allen Poe's gothic short story, wealthy seventeen-year-old Araby Worth, betrayed and bereft, discovers that she will fight for her city and the people she loves, beginning at the prince's masked ball.

The science of Titanworld. Tokyo University dropout Rikao Yanagita, head of the Sci-Fi / Fantasy Science Research Institute and author of dozens of bestselling books on the science of sci-fi, manga, and anime, finally tackles the mysteries of Attack on Titan! Why do Titans come from the South? Is the maneuvering gear dangerous? How ere the wall built? The unexpectedly scientific answers to these questions will blow your human minds! Read it along-side the Attack on Titan manga for even more fun surprises!.

"In this first of two parts, Wall Maria, humanity's outermost defense, has just been breached, and Titans roam what had once been the interior. Situated along the Wall like the fallen Shiganshina District, the town of Quinta finds itself surrounded on all sides by the monstrosities and severed from the rest of humankind's last bastion. A stand-alone side story to the mega-hit comics franchise, this novel tells of the increasingly harrowing travails of Rita Iglehaut, a Garrison soldier trapped in Quinta, and her well-to-do childhood friend Mathias Kramer, who managed to flee the district in time only to face challenges for which he seems ill-suited." -- back cover.

Ashala Wolf and her friends, who all hold unexplainable powers, have found safety in the Firstwood. But when Ashala learns that Ember has gone missing, she will risk it all to bring Ember back to Firstwood and the Tribe.

Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth in the political entity of Oceania, puts his life on the line when he joins a covert brotherhood in rebelling against the Party that controls all human thought and action.

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

In the future, human society is color coded, with Reds being the lowest on the rung. Darrow is a Red, and works with the other Reds to make the surface of Mars livable. However, one day by chance Darrow discovers that Mars has already been terraformed and colonized, and that he and the Reds are merely slaves. Determined to get out of his class, Darrow infiltrates the Institute and competes with the Gold class to become part of the next generation of human overlords.

"The world is a shell of its former self. Most of the world's population is gone. You're one of the few lucky survivors, but can you trust the people that remain? Or will you face the bleak future on your own? When you choose what to do next, the choices you make could mean the difference between life and death. How long can you survive in a dystopia?"--From the publisher's web site.