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Handpicked by Dorothy June 2019 |
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The only thing I like as much as reading is recommending books to others for them to read! Come in and let's talk about books!
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DYSTOPIAN FICTION A genre of fictional writing used to explore social and political structures in a 'dark, nightmare world. |
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The Mandibles : a family, 2029-2047
by Lionel Shriver
A near-future family saga spanning 18 tumultuous years that redefine the nature of the United States explores the aftershocks of an economically devastating sovereign debt and their impact on a once-prosperous American family.
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The farm : a novel
by Joanne Ramos
Ensconced within a Hudson Valley luxury retreat where expectant birth mothers are given luxurious accommodations and lucrative rewards to produce perfect babies, a Filipino immigrant is forced to choose between a life-changing payment and the outside world.
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Vox
by Christina Dalcher
Marginalized in a near-future America where the government limits women to no more than 100 spoken words daily before outlawing women's education and employment altogether, a former doctor resolves to be heard for the sake of her daughter.
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Bird box
by Josh Malerman
In a world where no one can go outside for fear of something terrifying that, when seen, drives people to deadly violence, single mother Malorie and her two children must attempt a terrifying twenty-mile trip downriver while blindfolded
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Hazards of time travel
by Joyce Carol Oates
The National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys presents the story of a recklessly idealistic girl who tests the limits of her oppressively controlled, dystopian world only to fall fatefully in love. 50,000 first printing
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We cast a shadow : a novel
by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
"In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates. In a society plagued by racism, segregation, and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method--by turning people white. Like any father, our unnamed narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. But in order to afford Nigel's whiteness operation, our narrator must make partner as one of the few black associates at his law firm, jumping through a series of increasingly absurd hoops--from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups--in a tragicomic quest to protect his son. This electrifying, suspenseful novel is, at once, a razor-sharp satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. In the tradition ofRalph Ellison's Invisible Man, We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love"
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The dreamers : a novel
by Karen Thompson Walker
The best-selling author of The Age of Miracles presents the story of a student at an isolated Southern California college town who witnesses a strange sleeping illness that subjects patients to life-altering, heightened dreams
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The line between
by Tosca Moon Lee
A woman who recently escaped a doomsday cult finds the world on the brink of the promised apocalypse after the re-emergence of an extinct disease from melting Alaskan permafrost begins to spread.
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