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3) Specials
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home. "Special Circumstances": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly...
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[1961]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
510 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of fifteen Chinese citizens and twenty-five Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chinese government. Robert Lifton constructs these case histories through personal interviews and outlines a thematic pattern of death and rebirth, accompanied by feelings of guilt, that characterizes the...
5) Mindbend
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When his wife learns that she is pregnant, Adam Schonberg quits medical school to go to work for Arolen Pharmaceuticals and discovers the nightmarish business that they are involved in-a business that threatens his own wife!
7) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Language
English
Description
Tally's transformation to perfect and popular including her totally hot boyfriend is everything she always wanted. But beneath the fun and freedom something is wrong and now Tally has to fight for her life because what she knows has put her in danger with the authorities.
8) Daddy Love
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robbie Whitcomb is five years old when he's taken from his mother in a mall parking lot. In her attempt to chase the kidnapper, she's left badly injured and permanently disfigured. Such are the methods of the man who calls himself Daddy Love-a man known to the rest of the world as charismatic preacher Chester Cash. For the next six years, Robbie is to be Daddy's son. That means doing whatever Daddy says-and giving him whatever he wants. Soon Robbie...
Author
Series
Raven files volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jocelyn Steely was kidnapped as a child and trained as a North Korean spy, but the tables turn when she becomes a double agent for the very American spy organization she has been sent to destroy.
11) Brave new world
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless societý⁰₄and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs...
Author
Series
Unknown assassin volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
421 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Teen assassin Boy Nobody is sent on a mission to assassinate the head of a domestic terrorism cell, but his mission turns up more questions about his job than answers"--
Author
Series
Adventures of Captain Underpants volume 12
Language
English
Description
George and Harold, and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have a good thing going. Two of them go to school, while the other two hide in the tree house and play video games all day-then they switch! But when their malicious gym teacher, Mr Meaner, creates a method of mind control that turns their fellow students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, the future of all humanity will be in their hands!
14) THX 1138
Edition
Widescreen George Lucas director's cut.
Language
English
Description
"Like all other drones in the sprawling subterranean technocracy, he has a designation: THX 1138. He's the product of a number-crunching, soul-numbing society. But there's a flaw: He's human and wants out."--Container.
15) Memory hackers
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Discover how researchers on the cutting edge of mind-control can implant, change, and even erase memories. On this thought-provoking journey into the mind, NOVA investigates the mysterious nature of how we remember.
Author
Series
Witherwood Reform School volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Siblings Charlotte and Tobias are trapped within a creepy reform school--and entangled in its dark secrets"--
17) 1984: a novel
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret...
Author
Language
English
Description
As compelling and disturbing as when it was first published in the midst of the Cold War, The Manchurian Candidate continues to enthrall readers with its electrifying action and shocking climax. Sgt. Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order. He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of his entire outfit, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, the stepson of an influential senator, and the perfect assassin. Brainwashed during his time as...
19) Mappa mundi
Author
Publisher
Pyr
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
523 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The map of everything you know ... everything you are ... everything you ever will be ... just got rewritten.
20) The Program
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend.
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