dystopian fiction

"In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day"--Provided by publisher.

"While on a routine assignment scouting the country's dwindling natural resources, Patricia 'Patch' and her best friend, Rexx, discover a cache of dangerous contraband--printed books from before The Seclusion. These texts spark an unquenchable thirst for the truth that leads to the arrest of Patch's father by the totalitarian Board, which runs the entire country. Evading their own arrest, Patch and Rexx set out across a ruined future United States. Along the way, they learn about how their country came to be this way, but their newfound knowledge may lead to their own demise."--Back cover.

Set in the near future, America has become a puritanical theocracy and Offred tells her story as a Handmaid under the new social order.

"The border's closed . . . No one can get into Scotland, just like no one can cross the Channel . . . This is England and it's no longer a free country. The Government can track anyone, anywhere, from a chip implanted at birth. But Jake has escaped from his Academy orphanage, and he needs to get to Scotland with his dog, Jet. When the Outwalkers gang grabs him, they go off-grid while the Government hunts for them. The closer they get to Scotland, the more dangerous it is. Because now, it's not only their own lives that are at stake . . ."--Provided by publisher.

Sixty years after a virus wiped out nearly all men on earth, fourteen-year-old River finds a sick boy, Mason, and helps restore his health while learning dark truths behind the lies she has been told.

In a world ravaged by pandemic illness and civil war, a generous farmsteader who supports herself with her letter-writing skills struggles to survive and keep the ghosts of her troubled past at bay.

"With their power plant destroyed, the AEtherians send a reconnaissance group down to AEtheria to investigate the disaster. While below, they encounter Aral, a sixteen-year-old Cthonian--the only person left alive after the Cthonians' botched attack on the AEtherian power plant. But when Aral realizes that Rex Himmel is related to an AEtherian asylum-seeker living among the Cthonians, Rex understands that Aral might be the connection he needed to rebuild his broken family"--Provided by publisher.

In a dusty, barren Texas, ruined by pollution, a young cowboy searching for the ocean and a teenage girl on the run, both struggling with loss, unite to take on a violent gang.

"On the day she went silent, Speth never meant for anyone to follow her lead--or to start a rebellion of Silents. But after taking down the tyrant Silas Rog and freeing the city from his grasp, everyone is looking to Speth for answers she doesn't have. All she wants is to find her parents, who are shackled to a lifetime of servitude in exchange for a debt they can never repay. But how can Speth leave her friends to fend for themselves when she's the reason their city is in chaos?"--Dust jacket.

In near-future America, the US-Mexico border is closed, and all Muslims are being sent to internment camps. This environment doesn't bother sixteen-year-old Sarah-Mary who has real problems with her strict aunt and Baptist high school. One day, her younger brother Caleb comes across a Muslim fugitive named Sadaf trying escape to Canada, which prompts a journey where Sarah-Mary is forced to confront her own prejudices and intolerance.