African literary scholars struggle to reconcile African mysticism with literary labels. Between Dystopias: The Road to Afropantheology encapsulates the essence of African mysticism and dystopia through original stories.

Westerfield's bestselling series has a huge fan base, many of whom write him asking questions about the world of Uglies. This guide to the series peels back the layers of the world, history, people, and places.

"Arcadia’s defense corps is mobilized to defend against what first appears to be a routine assault, one of the many that the community repulses from paramilitary forces every year. But as sensors report a breach in the perimeter wall, even eighty-year-old Rachel Leopold shoulders a weapon and reports for duty. It's a distraction from her urgent research: to save the world from the horrors of climate change. Rachel is in a race against time as she...

A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.

Angry with the oppressive dictates of the Empyrean government, Heartlander and Captain of the Big Sky Scavengers Cael McAvoy discovers a secret, illegal garden and Cael, together with his crew, decides to make his own luck ... a choice that will bring down the wrath of the Empyrean elite and change life in the Heartland forever.

"Amira Valdez's adventures continue in the sequel to The Sentient, as she finds herself in unprecedented danger. The ruthless new leader of the fundamentalist Trinity Compound seeks to understand his strange neurological connection with Amira and unleashan army on an unstable North America. The first human clone has been born, but thanks to the mysterious scientist Tony Barlow, it may unlock the secret to human immortality - or disaster. Together,...

"Seventeen-year-old Claire Harper lives on the fringes of a dystopian society where debt is punishable by law. To pay off her sentence, she'll have to work herself to the bone. The harder she works, the sooner she can move up in the rungs. But between three jobs, insomnia, and court-ordered visits with a psychiatrist, she might not survive probation. Then she meets Darren. After saving her life during a dangerous hallucination, Darren becomes a bright...

La comunidad donde vive Jonas es idílica. Es un mundo sin conflicto, sin desigualdad, sin divorcio, sin desempleo, sin injusticias, sin dolor... pero también sin elección. A los ciudadanos se les asigna una pareja, dos hijos y un trabajo. Nadie hace preguntas. Todo el mundo obedece. Todos son iguales, excepto Jonas. Al cumplir doce años, es seleccionado para desempeñar un trabajo muy especial, y comienza a recibir lecciones de un misterioso...

Since childhood, the main protagonist has been obsessed by reading. As a young child, he would search for words and forage for scraps of paper containing letters and expressions. When he leaves school to begin work, he gets a job as copy editor in the Department of Published Works. However, at work, he is often disturbed and pained when he has to ban a book. It annoys him to have to refuse books which he likes, so he ends up breaking the rules. In...