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Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the...
Author
Series
Clementine volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Clementine is back on the road, looking to put her traumatic past behind her and forge a new path all her own. But when she comes across an Amish teenager named Amos with his head in the clouds, the unlikely pair journeys North to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont, where they meet up with a small group of teenagers attempting to build a new, walker-free settlement. As friendship, rivalry, and romance begin to blossom amongst the group, the harsh...
3) ARCA
Author
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) , illustrations ; cm.
Language
English
Description
The world ended, but the wealthiest citizens had a plan…the ARCA.
Aboard a craft headed for a new planet called Eden, earth’s billionaires live a life of luxury, all served by children and teenagers who toil in exchange for a promised life of freedom once ARCA makes landfall.
One of the teenagers—Effie—begins to suspect that not all of this story adds up. And as she pulls at the thread of the ARCA, larger mysteries reveal themselves. And...
Author
Series
Farmhand volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jedidiah Jenkins is a simple farmer. But his cash crop isn't corn or soy. He grows fast-healing, highly customizable human organs. With the Jedidiah Seed leaking into the local ecosystem at an ever-increasing pace, the Jenkins' search for a cure will take them to the very roots of the seed's creation. What they find there will rock Freetown and shatter their family. There is no going back"--Back cover.
5) Black star
Author
Publisher
Abrams Comicarts Megascope
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
163 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Black Star is a debut graphic novel by Eric Anthony Glover, based on his original unproduced screenplay, and illustrated by Arielle Jovellanos. In the future, interstellar travel is past its prime and sending shuttles beyond our solar system -- even for vital scientific research -- is a life-threatening gamble. However, in order to retrieve samples of an alien flower that may hold the key to saving countless lives, Harper North and her crew of scientists...
Author
Series
Farmhand volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jedidiah Jenkins is a simple farmer. But his cash crop isn't corn or soy. He grows fast-healing, highly customizble human organs. For years, Jed's organic transplants have brought healing to many, but deep beneath the soil of the Jenkins Family Farm there is something sinister taking root. Today this dark seed will begin to sprout, and the Jenkins family will be the first to taste its bitter fruit.
7) The Incal
Author
Publisher
Humanoids, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
309 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside down when he discovers an ancient, mystical artifact called "The Incal." Difool’s adventures will bring him into conflict with the galaxy’s greatest warrior, the Metabaron, and will pit him against the awesome powers of the Technopope. These encounters and many more make up a tale of comic and cosmic proportions that has Difool fighting for not only...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
222 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel presentation of Orwell's best-known work of dystopian realism, which warns against totalitarianism. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the "Big Brother" decided that the truth had changed.
Author
Publisher
Humanoids
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
298 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The prequel to ... The Incal, this story cycle recounts the youth of John Difool and the adventures that propelled him into his encounter with the mighty artifact known as the Incal. Includes interview with the author.
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Defred recuerda los años previos a la instauración de Gilead, cuando ella era una mujer independiente con empleo, una familia y un nombre propio. Ahora, sus recuerdos y su voluntad de supervivencia se consideran actos de rebelión" -- Page 4 of cover.
"In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child. Stripped of her most basic freedoms (work, property,...
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