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Playground by Richard Powers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFour lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home...Categorized as:
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![The High House by Jessie Greengrass]()
The High House by Jessie Greengrass
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make a home in the midst of environmental disaster.Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies...Categorized as:
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Green Rising by Lauren James
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in a near-future world on the brink of ecological catastrophe, Lauren James’ novel is a gripping, witty and romantic call to arms.Gabrielle is a climate-change activist who shoots to fame when she becomes the first teenager to display a supernatural ability to grow plants from her skin. Hester is the millionaire daughter of an oil tycoon and the face of the family business... -
![Only a Little While Here: A Novel by María Ospina Pizano]()
Only a Little While Here: A Novel by María Ospina Pizano
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis prizewinning debut novel weaves together four meticulously observed animal odysseys in a poignant meditation on migration, displacement, and the inextricability of the human and the natural worlds.In Only a Little While Here, an award-winning author evokes a sensation birders and naturalists know well—the deep gratification that comes through close, compassionate observation of fauna... -
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![The Weight of Snow by Christian Guay-Poliquin, Erich Wittenberg]()
The Weight of Snow by Christian Guay-Poliquin, Erich Wittenberg
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA badly injured man. A nationwide power failure. A village buried in snow. A desperate struggle for survival. These are the ingredients of The Weight of Snow, Christian Guay-Poliquin’s riveting new novel. After surviving a major accident, the book’s protagonist is entrusted to Matthias, a taciturn old man who agrees to heal his wounds in exchange for supplies and a chance of escape... -
![Low Flying Aircraft And Other Stories by J.G. Ballard]()
Low Flying Aircraft And Other Stories by J.G. Ballard
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:The Ultimate CityLow-Flying AircraftThe Dead AstronautMy Dream of Flying to Wake IslandThe Life and Death of GodThe Greatest Television Show on EarthA Place and a Time to DieThe Comsat AngelsThe Beach... -
![Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach]()
Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFiction. This prequel to ECOTOPIA is a multi-stranded novel that dramatizes the rise and triumph of a powerful American movement to preserve the earth as a safe, habitable environment. Its heroine is a brash and brilliant high school student who invents a better photovoltaic cell. People who also appear in ECOTOPIA first join the story in this epic vision of the birth of a new nation... -
![Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba by Basma Ghalayini, Mazen Maarouf]()
Palestine +100: Stories from a Century after the Nakba by Basma Ghalayini, Mazen Maarouf
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPalestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event – which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes – reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the...Categorized as:
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![Som pesten by Hanne-Vibeke Holst]()
Som pesten by Hanne-Vibeke Holst
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLäkaren Karoline Branner flyttar med sin familj till Genève för att arbeta med pandemibekämpning för WHO. Men på kontoret möter hon oväntat motstånd i den politiska organisationen, och hemma blir hennes man allt mer rastlös. Och så kommer signaler om en ny influensapandemi."Som pesten" är en bladvändare med både emotionellt djup och politisk udd... -
![Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman]()
Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident.The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt...Categorized as:
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![La Maison by Yves Grevet]()
La Maison by Yves Grevet
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSoixante-quatre enfants vivent coupés du monde, dans une grande maison à l'organisation très stricte. Chacun d'eux sait qu'il devra en partir lorsqu'il aura trop grandi. Mais qu' y-a-t-il après la Maison?... Le premier tome d'une trilogie époustouflante d'Yves Grevet... -
![A Fire So Wild by Sarah Ruiz Grossman]()
A Fire So Wild by Sarah Ruiz Grossman
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the emotional echoes of Little Fires Everywhere and the lush atmosphere of Disappearing Earth , a riveting debut novel in which a wildfire creeps toward Berkeley, California, igniting tensions as characters from all walks of life confront the injustices lying beneath the city’s surface...Categorized as:
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Landscapes by Christine Lai
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught with ecological collapse and geopolitical upheaval, Landscapes explores memory, empathy, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal...Categorized as:
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![Beneath the World, a Sea by Chris Beckett]()
Beneath the World, a Sea by Chris Beckett
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSouth America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of a local species called the Duendes. They are silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - that have a strange psychic effect on people, exposing them to their suppressed thoughts and fears... -
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![The Water Thief by Nicholas Lamar Soutter]()
The Water Thief by Nicholas Lamar Soutter
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"There is no difference between the saint who gives food to starving children and the worker who operates the gas chamber that kills them, except that one is making money and the other is losing it."CHARLES THATCHER is a private citizen, which is to say that he's the private property of the Ackerman Brothers Securities Corporation... -
![Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan]()
Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBEFORE: In Bristol's center lies the Croft, a digital no-man's-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, it's become a center of creative counterculture. But it's fraying at the edges, radicalizing from inside... -
![The Disappeared by Amy Lord]()
The Disappeared by Amy Lord
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWinner of a Northern Writers’ Award Longlisted for The Bath Novel Award * What if reading the wrong book could get you arrested?In a decaying city controlled by the First General and his army, expressing the wrong opinion can have terrible consequences. Clara Winter knows this better than anyone... -
![Two Tribes by Chris Beckett]()
Two Tribes by Chris Beckett
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the 23rd century, Zoe, a historian, discovers the diaries that a middle-class architect, Harry Roberts, wrote in 2016 and decides to recreate his life.Harry, an ardent remainer, meets Michelle by chance. Like most people she knows, Michelle voted leave. The two are drawn to each other despite their differences and begin a relationship...Categorized as:
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Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA visionary technothriller about climate change.Neal Stephenson’s sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics...Categorized as:
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![Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers]()
Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2019 In Edmundsbury, a small town in eastern England, fear and loathing are on the rise. Brexit has happened and the ramifications are real. Grass-roots, right-wing political party 'England Always' is fomenting hatred... -
![Die Welle - Der Roman zum Film by Kerstin Winter, Peter Thorwarth]()
Die Welle - Der Roman zum Film by Kerstin Winter, Peter Thorwarth
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Ihr meint also, eine Diktatur wäre bei uns heute nicht mehr möglich?" Als es im Geschichtsunterricht um Nationalsozialismus und Rechtsextremismus geht, beschließt der Lehrer Rainer Wenger, ein ungewöhnliches Experiment durchzuführen. Er will seinen Schülern das Gegenteil beweisen und sie zu willenlosen Befehlsempfängern machen. Das Experiment gerät außer Kontrolle ..Categorized as:
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![The Lamentations of Zeno by Ilija Trojanow]()
The Lamentations of Zeno by Ilija Trojanow
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA literary fiction about climate disaster and a scientist imploding on a journey to the AntarcticZeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide on an Antarctic cruise ship, encouraging the wealthy to marvel at the least explored continent and to open their eyes to its rapid degradation. It is a troubling turn in the life of an idealistic glaciologist... -
![Ultimatum by Matthew Glass]()
Ultimatum by Matthew Glass
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNovember 2032. Joe Benton has just been elected the forty-eighth president of the United States. Only days after winning, Benton learns from his predecessor that previous estimates regarding the effect of global warming on rising sea levels have been grossly underestimated... -
![Lawful Interception by Cory Doctorow]()
Lawful Interception by Cory Doctorow
Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAn all-new tale of Marcus Yallow, the hero of the bestselling novels Little Brother and Homeland -- as he deals with the aftermath of a devastating Oakland earthquake, with the help of friends, hacker allies, and some very clever crowdsourced drones... -
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![I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek]()
I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn New York in the middle of the twentieth century, comic book companies figured out how to make millions from comics without paying their creators anything. In San Francisco at the start of the twenty-first century, tech companies figured out how to make millions from online abuse without paying its creators anything... -
![Hel³ by Jarosław Grzędowicz]()
Hel³ by Jarosław Grzędowicz
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWyobraź sobie, że jest pierwiastek, który stanowi niewyczerpane źródło energii.Dwa tiry tego surowca starczą, by zapewnić energię elektryczną dla USA na cały rok.Jest tylko jeden problem… Złoża znajdują się na Księżycu.Rok 2058. Zdehumanizowany świat, gdzie omnifony zastąpiły więzi społeczne, filmiki z MegaNetu wyparły media i kulturę, a iwenciarze stali się bogami informacji... -
![Fluturi by Irina Binder]()
Fluturi by Irina Binder
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCitind Fluturi, publicata la editura For You, te bucuri de un univers plin de emotii si te regasesti in fiecare zbucium. La finalul lecturii, te bucuri ca Fluturi nu este doar o poveste, vei regasi parti din sufletul tau ascunse intre pagini. Cartea Irinei Binder te ajuta sa descoperi magia fluturilor, care intr-o singura zi se nasc, iubesc si mor... -
![Klifi by Adriaan van Dis]()
Klifi by Adriaan van Dis
Rated: 3.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDe aasgieren zweven boven de republiek Nederland. Na een verpletterend warme zomer wordt het land voor het eerst in zijn geschiedenis getroffen door een orkaan. De gepensioneerde bibliothecaris Jákob Hemmelbahn is getuige van een lokale ramp waarbij tientallen mensen omkomen. Jákob wil de verhalen van de overlevenden optekenen, maar wordt daarbij gehinderd door een dreigende censor...Categorized as:
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![Overthrow by Caleb Crain]()
Overthrow by Caleb Crain
Rated: 2.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA deeply humane novel that explores the fate of candor, good will, and the utopian spirit in a world where technology and surveillance are weaponizing human relationships One autumn night, as a grad student named Matthew is walking home from the subway, a handsome skateboarder catches his eye... -
![The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd]()
The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
Rated: 3.35 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTold in short diary entries filled with scrapbook clippings, this riveting ecothriller is one girl's attempt to stay grounded in a world where disaster has become the norm. It's the year 2015, a time when global warming has begun to ravage the environment. In response, the United Kingdom becomes the first country to mandate carbon rationing--a well-intentioned plan that goes tragically awry... -
![Idiopathy by Sam Byers]()
Idiopathy by Sam Byers
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA debut novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattleIdiopathy (?d?'?p??i): a disease or condition which arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown...Categorized as:
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