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Adolescent Call No: Science fiction FIC SWAIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Orpheus Chanson's world, geniuses and prodigies are no longer born or honed through hard work. Instead, procedures to induce Acquired Savant Abilities (ASAs) are now purchased by the privileged. And Orpheus's father holds the copyright to the ASA procedure. Zimri Robinson, a natural musical prodigy, is a "plebe"-a worker at the enormous warehouse that supplies an on-line marketplace that has supplanted all commerce. Her grueling schedule and her grandmother's illness can't keep her from making music-even if it is illegal. Orpheus and Zimri are not supposed to meet. He is meant for greatness; she is not. But sometimes, rules are meant to be broken.
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2014., Adolescent, Feiwel & Friends Call No: Science fiction FIC SWAIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Thalia's world there is no more food and no need for food, as everyone takes medication to ward off hunger. But when she meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that the meds are not working.
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2014., Adolescent, Feiwel & Friends Call No: DYSTOPIA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Thalia's world there is no more food and no need for food, as everyone takes medication to ward off hunger. But when she meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that the meds are not working.
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2015., Adolescent, Square Fish Call No: Dystopian FIC Swain Edition: First Square Fish edition. Genre: Science fiction, Dystopian Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a future world, there is no food and everyone takes medication to ward off hunger that Thalia's parents helped create, thereby giving Thalia's family elite status. When Thalia meets a boy from the underground that is trying to bring food back, she starts to feel hunger for the first time. The pair sets out on a quest to find real food to quell their hunger.
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Call No: Science fiction FIC SWAIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sol is the month between June and July on the thirteen-month Moon calendar. It's the only time teenagers have to themselves between rigorous scientific training and their ultimate lab assignments in their colony on the Moon. Their families emigrated from Earth to build better lives; but life on the Moon is far from perfect, as Uma learns on the eve of Sol. Uma meets an Earthen girl who becomes a fast friend, and much more. What Uma doesn't know is that the girl is assigned to infect Uma with a plague that a rogue faction of Earthen scientists hope will wipe out Moon soldiers. Will Uma be the cause of a pandemic? Whom can she trust, and moreover, whom does she love?
