A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to...
Totalitarianism
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Author:Patterson, JamesSummary: -
Author:Chappell-Pollack, Nancy, Nelson, ColleenSummary:Following the events of Pulse Point, 12-year old Ama and the other Underlanders living in a world of darkness dig for brine, the City's real energy source. Underland is a dangerous place: cave-ins, starvation and illness are...
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Author:Brody, JenniferSummary:Captain Aero Wright leads a group insurgents from the Second Continuum to overthrow his rival, Supreme General Vinick, and unite his space colony's military forces while Seeker takes on a secret mission back to her home colony to...
- Author:Raymond, Emily, Patterson, JamesSummary:
Whit and Wisty Allgood have fought and defeated their world's most pernicious threats: the evil dictator, The One Who Is The One, as well as his wicked father and son. But as the heroes settle into their new roles in governance, a...
- Author:Dembowski, Jill, Patterson, JamesSummary:
Whit and Wisty Allgood have finally triumphed over the evil that has long overshadowed their world with their defeat of The One Who Is The One. Now they move on to their next mission: becoming members of a governing council that will...
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Author:Brody, JenniferSummary:One thousand years after a cataclysmic event leaves humanity on the brink of extinction, the descendants of the chosen survivors take refuge in thirteen contingency shelters buried deep underground, at the bottom of the ocean, and in...
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Author:Gupta, AshisSummary:Esta sátira de la Revolución Rusa y el triunfo del estalinismo, escrita en 1945, se ha convertido por derecho propio en un hito de la cultura contemporánea y en uno de los libros más mordaces de todos los tiempos. Ante el auge de los...
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Author:Krossing, KarenSummary:With the potential for cloning already a reality, we all have to face some major ethical questions. Who has a right to determine a person's genetic makeup? And how will we treat our genetic underclass? In Pure, fifteen-year-old Lenni is...
- Author:Holmes, JuliaSummary:
Ben has just returned from a war waged against a nameless enemy. To avoid being nabbed by police and forced to work in a factory, he'll need to find a wife. But to do that, he must wear a bachelor's suit--and the tailor won't make one...
- Author:Harris, RobertSummary:
Detective novel. Portrays Germany as it might have looked twenty years after winning World War II. When an old man's body is discovered drowned, a Berlin policeman begins a routine investigation which rapidly becomes anything but...
- Author:Bradbury, RaySummary:
Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of 20th-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future, narrated here by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world,...
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Author:Koestler, ArthurSummary:Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes...
- Author:Huxley, AldousSummary:
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an...
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
A communist revolution followed by a dictatorship is enacted when the animals of an English farm drive out the human owner and take over. Amply broad, cleverly conceived and delightfully written.
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Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:In this political fable, the animals of Manor Farm revolt against their human rulers to establish the democratic Animal Farm. But as the society evolves, leaders become rulers and totalitarianism is re-established.
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Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this dramatically popular book. George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police, a world in which news...
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
"De tous les carrefours importants, le visage à la moustache noire vous fixait du regard. BIG BROTHER VOUS REGARDE, répétait la légende, tandis que le regard des yeux noirs pénétrait les yeux de Winston ... Au loin, un...
