Alexandra Bracken
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The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)
94 editions
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2012
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Never Fade (The Darkest Minds, #2)
76 editions
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published
2013
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Lore
71 editions
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published
2021
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In the Afterlight (The Darkest Minds, #3)
29 editions
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published
2014
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Passenger (Passenger, #1)
55 editions
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published
2016
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Wayfarer (Passenger, #2)
40 editions
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published
2017
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The Darkest Legacy (The Darkest Minds, #4)
29 editions
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2018
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In Time (The Darkest Minds, #1.5)
8 editions
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2013
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Through the Dark (The Darkest Minds, #1.5, #2.5, #3.5)
17 editions
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2015
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Brightly Woven
10 editions
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2010
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Alexandra’s Recent Updates
Alexandra Bracken
voted for
Silver in the Bone (Silver in the Bone, #1)
as
Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction
in the
Opening Round
of the
2023 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Make Room! Make Room!byHarry Harrison
1966, 240 pages, 3.72 stars
Kindle $7.99, cheap print, at library
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1966, 240 pages, 3.72 stars
Kindle $7.99, cheap print, at library
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"Make Room! Make Room! is set in the year 1999 and the world has become a grim and terribly overpopulated place, bleak and foreboding. This sets the premise for Harrison's novel, and fans of his earlier more comic works may be surprised at the seriousness of this novel. Although Harrison's fears did not become a reality for the inhabitants of New York or the rest of the United States, the novel remains nonetheless a gripping, thought-provoking work about privacy, deprivation, and desperation.
A teeming New York City and a detective's pursuit of a killer and nefarious racketeer comprise this novel. While the novel contains elements of classic detective fiction--the hard-boiled protagonist, the seductive mistress, the portraits of corruption and perfidy--Harrison's true concern is less the story itself and more the opportunity the story offers to give the reader a glance at a dismal and broken world. The state of overpopulation has altered life in innumerable ways, and Harrison is keenly interested in documenting the catastrophic effects of this burden on all human relationships. "
5 votes,
35.7%
Moon of the Crusted SnowbyWaubgeshig Rice
2018, 218 pages, 3.97 stars
Kindle $4.99, used paper $7.68 and up, probably at library
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2018, 218 pages, 3.97 stars
Kindle $4.99, used paper $7.68 and up, probably at library
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"With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow.
The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision.
Blending action and allegory, 'Moon of the Crusted Snow' upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn. "
4 votes,
28.6%
The Darkest MindsbyAlexandra Bracken
2012, 488 pages, 4.20 stars
Kindle $7.99, cheap used paper, probably at library
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2012, 488 pages, 4.20 stars
Kindle $7.99, cheap used paper, probably at library
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"When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.
Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.
When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she’s on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents.
When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living "
2 votes,
14.3%
AnnihilationbyJeff VanderMeer
2014, 195 pages, 3.68 stars
Kindle $9.94, cheap used paper, at library
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2014, 195 pages, 3.68 stars
Kindle $9.94, cheap used paper, at library
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"Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.
The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything. "
2 votes,
14.3%
InfectionbyM.P. McDonald
2016, 276 pages, 4.38 stars
Kindle $3.99, used paper $8.82 and up, probably not at library
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2016, 276 pages, 4.38 stars
Kindle $3.99, used paper $8.82 and up, probably not at library
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"The world has never seen a virus like this. Not only is it deadly, but it changes victims' behavior in order to spread the disease before they die.
When Cole Evans first heard about the flu outbreak at a military base on a remote island, he felt a little uneasy. He had worked at that base as an epidemiologist while serving in the Navy and knew the kind of diseases they studied there.If this was the disease he thought it was, the entire world could be facing a global pandemic like nothing it had seen before.
Cole must find a way to protect his family from a disease that could wipe mankind from the face of the earth... "
1 vote,
7.1%
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“Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
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“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps... perhaps... love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”
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I can't explain how much it ment to me. Darkest Minds is my favorite book and...I just can't wait until in the afterlight comes out!!!!!! You're awesome.
i have lots of questions, but I'll only ask you one.
HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF "DARKEST MINDS" AS A FILM???
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MY BEST WISHES, YOUR FAN NUMBER ONE <3
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My best wishes for the next book, I can't hardly wait
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Please visit my websitehttp://www.peteradarkenedfairytale.co.uk
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Expected release date Feb.
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Thanks for accepting my friend request.
Please take a moment to check out my profile page to see some of my current projects.
Thanks again and I put your book "Brightly Woven" on my TBR list.:)
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I really enjoyed Brightly Woven- it was so different from a lot of what I've read recently! I read mostly young adult, and often fantasy, but I was really impressed with how original the story was.I had to say hello because I also went to WM (tribe pride!) and was so excited when I discovered you went there too.
Looking forward to more great books from you in the future...keep making the 'burg proud!
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I can't wait till March! Brightly Woven looks like a wonderful book:) "
Thank you for adding me:) And I'm so excited for you to read it!
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Thanks, Tom! I can't wait to hear what you think--I think you might be the first guy reader!