Catalog Search Results
61) Skyhunter
Author
Series
Skyhunter duology volume 1
Appears on these lists
Description
Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for Mara, the only free nation in the world, but when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front to Mara's capital, Talin senses there is more to him than meets the eye.
62) Touched: a novel
Author
Description
Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil.
63) Fuse
Author
Series
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world where those who dwell within the Dome are safe, and those who live outside struggle to survive, Pressia decodes secrets from the past in an effort to set the Wretches free of their fusings forever.
64) Imagine me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 6
Description
Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie? Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong -- between Ella and Juliette -- blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control. The day of reckoning...
66) The last star
Author
Series
5th wave volume 3
Description
"In the epic conclusion to the 5th Wave series, Cassie, Ben, Ringer, and Evan confront the Others' plans for the fate of the human race and the planet"--
The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. Beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Earth's remaining...
Author
Appears on list
Description
"With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take...
Author
Description
"The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world. Jacqueline Millender is a reclusive billionaire/women's...
70) The maze cutter
Author
Series
Maze cutter trilogy volume 1
Description
Seventy-three years after Thomas and other immunes were sent to an island to survive the Flare-triggered apocalypse, their descendants have thrived. But when a rusty old boat shows up one day with a woman bearing dark news of the mainland, everything changes. The group and their islander friends are forced to embark back to civilization where they find Cranks have evolved into a more violent, intelligent version of themselves. The islanders will have...
71) Vox
Author
Description
On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her. This is just the beginning. Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day, but now women have only one hundred to make themselves...
Author
Description
In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet's now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious hovering platform known as CIEL. The changed world has turned evolution on its head: the surviving humans have become sexless, hairless, pale-white creatures floating in isolation, inscribing stories upon their skin. Out of the endless wars rises the charismatic...
73) Steelheart
Author
Series
Appears on list
Description
Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his will. Nobody fights the Epics . . . nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating...
74) Firstlife
Author
Series
Everlife novels volume 1
Description
Tenley "Ten" Lockwood has spent the past thirteen months locked inside an asylum -- because of her refusal to let her parents choose where she'll live after she dies. In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika and Myriad, longtime enemies and deadly rivals. Ten is caught in a wild tug-of-war between the two realms, who will do anything to win the right to her soul. But what if the realm she's drawn to isn't where the boy she's falling for lives?...
Author
Formats
Description
"With echoes of Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, and anti-immigrant hysteria, this remarkably intense, beautifully wrought tale combines the ingenuity of speculative fiction with the difficulties of today's harsh political realities"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Once the red rash appears, it is too late. The victims die within hours, their rapidly decomposing bodies spreading the disease in the dust. Art, science, and learning die with them while the few survivors degenerate into feral clans. This story takes place in 2073, sixty years after the great pandemic of 2013. A former professor of literature--now a dirty old man in goatskin--tells his incredulous and uncomprehending grandsons, "I am the last man...
Author
Description
The daughters of the ten men who colonized an island off the coast of a crumbling nation years ago have a strictly ordained future. At the first sign of puberty, they face their summer of fruition, a ritualistic season that catapults them from adolescence to matrimony. During this summer, little Caitlin Jacob sees something so strange that she must share it with the others, prompting born rebel Janey Solomon to step up and seek the truth. She leads...
79) Ash and quill
Author
Series
Great Library volume 3
Description
Jess Brightwell and his band of exiles have fled London, only to find themselves imprisoned in Philadelphia, a city led by those who would rather burn books than submit. But Jess and his friends have a bargaining chip: the knowledge to build a machine that will break the Library's rule. Their time is running out. To survive, they'll have to choose to live or die as one, to take the fight to their enemies--and to save the very soul of the Great Library....
80) The Fortress
Author
Formats
Description
Jonathon Bridge works for a top-tier law firm. He has a wife, Adalia, a child on the way, and a string of pretty young interns as lovers on the side. His world exists alongside a vast, self-sustaining city-state called The Fortress where the indigenous inhabitants -- the Vaik, a society run and populated exclusively by women -- live in isolation. When Adalia discovers his indiscretions and the ugly sexual violence pervading his firm, she agrees to...
In WorldCat
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Illinois Heartland Library System can be requested from other WorldCat libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.