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1) Animal farm
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Everyman's library volume 150
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English
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Animal farm is about a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master.
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Shadow children volume 6
Language
English
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In a society that allows families to have only two children, third child Matthias joins the Population Police to infiltrate their system.
3) 1984
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English
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The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One. Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia....
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English
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In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a woman who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.
8) Truancy
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Series
Truancy trilogy volume 1
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English
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In the City, where an iron-fisted Mayor's goal is perfect control through education, fifteen-year-old Tack is torn between a growing sympathy for the Truancy, an underground movement determined to bring down the system at any cost, and the desire to avenge a death caused by a Truant.
9) Rebel Seoul
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[2017]
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English
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In 2199 in the Neo State of Korea, eighteen-year-old Jaewon is partnered with supersoldier Tera, but their evolving love is threatened when Jaewon must choose among conflicting loyalties--to the totalitarian government that promises to end all war, the nationalist rebels his father followed, or the crime syndicate staging a coup.
10) The fire
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2011.
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English
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Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against a totalitarian regime that has banned all forms of creativity and executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the evil dictator, and they must somehow prepare for an imminent showdown.
11) The gift
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English
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After escaping imprisonment by the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood, who possess magical powers, establish themselves as leaders of the Resistance, a hidden community of teenagers like themselves, hunted by the state and determined to defy its ban on the arts, magic, and all other forms of creativity.
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Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Set in a London of the future, Brave New World depicts a world where genetically designed people live drug induced lives of contented bliss as long as they don't question the established social system. Also includes Brave new world revisited: twelve essays in which Huxley compes the modern-day world to the world envisioned in his Brave new world.
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Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
While the totalitarianism that provoked George Orwell into writing 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' seems to be passing into oblivion, his harrowing, cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate, and its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade.
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Series
Jing dian wen xue xin yi volume 02
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Traditional Chinese edition of 1984, the George Orwell classic. This brand new edition is the second in the series of "New Translation of Classic Literature"; the first being "The Great Gatsby". It is a collaboration between Yuanliu Publisher and the prestigious National Taiwan Normal University's Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation.
16) Animal castle: 1
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Animal Castle volume 1
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English
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On the Farm all animals were equal. In the Castle some are more equal than others. Nestled in the heart of a farm forgotten by men, the Animal Castle is ruled with an iron hoof by President Silvio. The bull and its dog militia savor their power, while the other animals are exhausted by work, until the arrival of the mysterious Azelard, a traveling rat who will teach them the secrets of civil disobedience.
17) Julia: a novel
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2023.
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English
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"An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell's 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith's lover, Julia, by critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman. Julia Worthing is a mechanic who works in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Its 1984, and Britain--now called Airstrip One--has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone...
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[2022]
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English
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Originally published in 1932, Brave New World is one of the most revered and profound works of twentieth century literature. Touching on themes of control, humanity, technology, and influence, Aldous Huxley's enduring classic is a reflection and a warning of the age in which it was written, yet remains frighteningly relevant today. With its surreal imagery and otherworldly backdrop, Brave New World adapts beautifully to the graphic novel form. Fred...
19) The kiss
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2013.
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English
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"For the first time in their lives, Wisty and Whit Allgood find themselves at odds as Wisty is drawn to a mysterious and magical stranger named Heath"--Provided by publisher.
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2023.
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English
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"Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society's ills--the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single. But four couples are about to discover just how impossible relationships can be when the government is monitoring every aspect of our personal lives--monitoring every word, every minor disagreement...and will use every tool in its...
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