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1) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
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Buellton Library - Children's Fiction
J FIC LOWRY,L
1 available
J FIC LOWRY,L
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Children's Fiction
FICTION
1 available
FICTION
1 available
Santa Ynez Library - Children's Fiction
FICTION
1 available
FICTION
1 available
Description
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.
2) Legend
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Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 1
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In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day--a famous criminal, and prodigy June--the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
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Series
Walking Dead graphic novels volume 1
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
741.5973 K596 v.01
1 available
741.5973 K596 v.01
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
741.5973 KIRKMAN v.28
1 available
741.5973 KIRKMAN v.28
1 available
Description
"How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us really worked to get something we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really needed something that we wanted? The world we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise...
4) The Lost
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Series
Witch & wizard volume 5
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Buellton Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY PATTERSON,J
1 available
MYSTERY PATTERSON,J
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - Mystery
MYSTERY PATTERSON,J
1 available
MYSTERY PATTERSON,J
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY PATTERSON,J
1 available
MYSTERY PATTERSON,J
1 available
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION PATTERSON,J
1 available
FICTION PATTERSON,J
1 available
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Goleta Valley Library - Large Print
LARGE PRINT PATTERSON,J
1 available
LARGE PRINT PATTERSON,J
1 available
Description
Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task force called "Operation Guardian," it's his mission to...
5) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
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Goleta Valley Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN
1 available
TEEN
1 available
Goleta Valley Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN ROTH,V
1 available
TEEN ROTH,V
1 available
Los Olivos Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN Roth,Vero
1 available
TEEN Roth,Vero
1 available
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Goleta Valley Library - Teen Audio Visual - Book on CD
TEEN FICTION ROTH,V
1 available
TEEN FICTION ROTH,V
1 available
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
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Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 2
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From the Publisher: The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners-a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life-has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women...
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June 12, 2030 started out like any other day--until a massive earthquake devastated Los Angeles, and the government, always teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, was unable to respond. The fallout from the earthquake sets in motion a sweeping novel of ideas that pits national hope for the future against assurances from the past, in this all-too-believable imagining of where today's challenges could lead us tomorrow
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In near-future Beijing, a month is missing from all official records, mass amnesia has wiped it from collective memory, and people are possessed with an unnatural cheerfulness. A small group of friends will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the mystery.
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DOUCETTE,G
1 available
FICTION DOUCETTE,G
1 available
Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION DOUCETTE,G
1 available
FICTION DOUCETTE,G
1 available
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"For fans of The Wanderers by Chuck Wendig comes an apocalypse story like no other. Seven strangers wake to find they are the only humans left alive. But they are not alone"--
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Series
Chromatacia novels volume 1
Description
Welcome to Chromatacia, where for as long as anyone can remember society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. Social hierachy is based upon one's limited color perception. Society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see, and Eddie Russett, a better-than-average red perception wants to move up. Color Control Agency employee and House of Red member Eddie Russett experiences discontent with his limited vision when he meets Gray...
11) Never let me go
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Goleta Valley Library - Audio Visual - Book on CD
FICTION
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FICTION
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants...
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eBook
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In the future, abortion has become a crime as a series of events threatens the existence of the United States. One woman wakes up to discover that her skin color has been changed to red as punishment for having the procedure done. Now she must embark on a dangerous journey in order to find refuge from a hostile and threatening society.
13) cloud atlas
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14) 1Q84
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An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.
15) Immunity index
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Fiction - Science Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BURKE,S
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION BURKE,S
1 available
Solvang Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION BURKE,S
1 available
FICTION BURKE,S
1 available
Description
"Sue Burke, author of Semiosis and Interference, gives readers a new near-future, hard-sf novel. Immunity Index blends Orphan Black with Contagion in a terrifying outbreak scenario. In a US facing growing food shortages, stark inequality, and a growing fascist government, three perfectly normal young women are about to find out that they share a great deal in common. Their creator, the gifted geneticist Peng, made them that way-before such things...
16) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 2
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"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
Author
Series
Witch & Wizard (Manga) volume 3
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Goleta Valley Library - Adult Non-Fiction
741.5973
1 available
741.5973
1 available
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A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books.
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"Nine connected stories set in a not-too-distant dystopian future in a landscape at once utterly fantastic and disturbingly familiar. The stories follow the narrator over three decades as he tries to survive in a world that is becoming increasingly savage as cataclysmic events unfold one after another"--Jacket.
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Handmaid's tale volume 1
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Buellton Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT ATWOOD,M
1 available
LARGE PRINT ATWOOD,M
1 available
Solvang Library - Large Print - Large Print
LARGE PRINT ATWOOD,M
1 available
LARGE PRINT ATWOOD,M
1 available
Description
This look at the near future presents the story of Offred, a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valued only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
In this Orwellian dramatization, religion becomes a tool of repression and social control to force women into the roles of stay-at-home wives, domestic staff, prostitutes, or surrogate mothers. They have...
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Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 1
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments
Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning...
Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning...