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Bulgakov Mikhail volume no. 359
Language
English
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Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs and...
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Captain Underpants volume 12
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English
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George and Harold, and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have a good thing going. Two of them go to school, while the other two hide in the tree house and play video games all day-then they switch! But when their malicious gym teacher, Mr Meaner, creates a method of mind control that turns their fellow students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, the future of all humanity will be in their hands!
3) Pretties
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Uglies volume 2
Language
English
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Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
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English
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US Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to find an escaped murderer named Rachel Solando. As a killer hurricane bears down on the island, the investigation deepens and the questions mount. How has a barefoot woman escaped from a locked room? Who is leaving them clues in the form of cryptic codes? And what really goes on in Ward C? The closer Teddy gets to the truth, the more elusive...
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Greystone secrets volume 3
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English
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Told from separate viewpoints, as evil forces from the parallel world invade their home, the Greystones, their doubles, and friends must return to the alternate dimension to save both worlds.
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Series
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English
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"Jane Hawk--rogue FBI agent and the country's #1 fugitive--confronts her worst nightmare when her enemies strike shockingly close to home in the explosive new thriller from Dean Koontz, bestselling author of The Silent Corner. Jane Hawk thinks her precious five-year-old son is hidden safely away, with vigilant, indomitable friends. But the malice and resources of her powerful adversaries are boundless and their hunters are circling ever closer to...
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The Resisters volume 1
Language
English
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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.
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The Resisters volume 2
Language
English
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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.
10) Enders
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"With the Prime Destinations body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders. But Enders can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn't want to do. Like hurt someone she loves"--
11) I am the mission
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Series
Unknown assassin volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Teen assassin Boy Nobody is sent on a mission to assassinate the head of a domestic terrorism cell, but his mission turns up more questions about his job than answers"--
13) Spaceheadz
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Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
With only one hundred more Spaceheadz to sign up, Michael K.'s friends start planning an Earth-saving party but Michael fears the Brainwave might be used for a much more sinister purpose.
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Superpowers are fun topics that are at home in lore and mythology, but there is often an element of reality to them. This book on mind control and telepathy delves into both the legends behind the topics and real-life examples that suggest the possibility of their reality. It also explores how the superpowers could become reality in the future through the development of new technologies. Fast facts, sidebars, and illustrative photographs help readers...
15) The complication
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The Program. Main series volume 4
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Tatum Masterson has no memory of being in The Program, but when she starts experiencing crashbacks she knows something terrible happened last summer, and with help of the boyfriend she lost, Tatum digs into the past and future of The Program and its handlers, and discovers the true cost of a cure.
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The Resisters volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Ethan and his team must infiltrate a heavily guarded Ch'zar industrial complex to stop the aliens from attacking the Resister's new base"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This gripping book traces the evolution of brainwashing from its beginnings in torture and religious conversion into the age of neuroscience and social media. When Pavlov introduced scientific approaches, his research was enthusiastically supported by Lenin and Stalin, setting the stage for major breakthroughs in tools for social, political, and religious control. Tracing these developments through many of the past century's major conflagrations,...
18) Virtual sabotage
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Virtual Sabotage introduces Kenna Ward, an envoy for a virtual reality company whose implants create a thrilling world that allows people to create daring scenarios in a safe environment. Most of the time, that is. When in the rare instance the human brain mistakes the terrifying event as real, it's up to Ward to enter the scenario and pull them back to reality. But when a key envoy goes rogue and people begin responding in odd and dangerous ways,...
19) SPHZ 4 life!
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
With a mysterious new principal and fifth-grade graduation fast approaching, will Michael K. and his friends be able to find the missing Brainwave before the chief of the Anti-Alien Agency uses it to destroy a planet?
20) Unleashed
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Series
Jinxed (McCulloch) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Armed with their companioneering and coding skills and accompanied by their loyal bakus, Lacey Chu and her friends attempt a rescue mission deep in the heart of a sinister transnational tech corporation.
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