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Living in a “perfect” world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby, eBook on Hoopla, and in eAudio on Libby.
In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (‘gleaned’) by professional reapers (‘scythes’). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe–a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn’t.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Hoopla.
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. In just a few weeks she’ll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty. And as a pretty, she’ll be catapulted into a high-tech paradise where her only job is to have fun.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.
A special 75th anniversary edition of the beloved American classic about a young girl’s coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.
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At Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also Black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body. Both students were on track toward valedictorian and bright college futures, but this prank quickly turns into a very dangerous game, and they are at more than one disadvantage as it looks like things could turn deadly.
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In an alternate Tang Dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan, who can resurrect the dead, arrives in the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country and becomes drawn into the dangerous political games of the royal family.
This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Libby and in eAudio on Libby.