dystopias

Lexi Hamilton has been branded as a sinner and consigned to the Hole, a hellish place characterized by brutal conditions and patrolled by guards ready to kill anyone who disobeys them. Her suffering has only strengthened Lexi's resolve to escape her captivity and destroy the man who created the Hole.

In a future where America has been in a long-decline, self-contained labor settlements replace abandoned urban neighborhoods, containing contented workers who devote their lives to the cultivation of pristine produce and seafood for the wealthy residents of distant elite walled villages. Fan, a Chinese descendant, fish-tank diver, and resident of the B-Mor labor settlement, shocks her community by leaving the safety of the walls to search for the man she loves after he disappears.

While being forced by the Blackcoats to impersonate Lila Hart, the Prime Minister's niece, Kitty Doe finds herself imprisoned in Elsewhere, an inescapable detention area for criminals.

When two brothers, Sherwood and Orson, went into a strange cave, a door was opened between our reality and another, darker one, from which came the evil Shadowsmen, who became Earth's oppressors. Now, only a gang of ruthless and poweful children called the Wrenchies can hope to stand against the Shadowsmen and restore the past and recover the future.

Humankind is on the brink of collapse when a global drought devastates the Earth, and when two rival scientists discover a lost glacier high in the Andes everyone wants to claim and control the planet's last known source of fresh water.

Nineteen-year-old Piri, who lives above the clouds in a technological metropolis, finds his world is about to change when an accident drops him out of the city. As he tries to survive life on the surface, which is an atrocious reality of gruesome creatures known as Scavs, he starts to understand his own feelings for Niko, the boy who rescued him.

"After escaping the walls of Maxfield Academy, Benson Fisher finds himself trapped in a town that is also under the school's control -- where he discovers that Maxfield's plans are deadlier than anything he imagined."--provided by publisher.

The year is 2095. Gifted teens known as Remnants have been chosen and trained to act as humanity's last hope to rectify the horrors that are now part of everyday life. But the Sons of Sheol are determined to stop them.

In a dystopian colony of the United States where everyone is born with powers of the elements, water, wind, earth, and fire, sixteen-year-old Thomas, the first and only child born without an element seems powerless.

"Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Ill?ea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Ill?ea's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her"--.