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Thirst by mgbldr
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In the year 2045, climate change is killing people. Fifteen-year old Lily Star must use her power over water to save her family and thousands of refugees from dying of thirst in the parched American West. Even though Lily's a powerful Diviner, and can call water from Everspring, the family's only source, they must ration every drop to stay alive. The U.S. has split into two unfriendly factions, the United Western Republic and the Eastern Alliance. When the Republic's Minister of Water, Tanner Voles, discovers that Lily has the power that he's been seeking, he pressures her to use it for his own political gain and the benefit of the water-hungry Capitol. But Lily and her family refuse, suspecting that Voles will exploit her to get the water for the Republic and then kill her so nobody else can use her power. To gain control over her, he forces the family to Floater Camp 65, a broiling wasteland filled with thousands of Floaters, the homeless refugees of rising oceans and forest fires. There Lily befriends Nate Arnett and 1Planet, an underground resistance group of kids who fight the government and give their generation hope for the future.
Tell It Slant by Slushpile81
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A young girl's body is found laying face down in a creek; her murder serves as a catalyst to incite change in the lives of the people she touched. The death shakes the protagonists: Karen, Sun, and Julie to their core. Forcing each to reflect on the way they live their lives, and ushers the three women towards what they fear most, towards changes that are painful but necessary. The individual stories weave together to create a larger narrative about choices. Each of the women is trapped, and they are unable to see the truth about what confines them; because what confines them is the simple choice they make not to change things. Sometimes life is about the choices we make and not simply circumstances that happen to us.
Interim by jmhillmanbooks
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"If you're afraid of heights, don't die." When Lia Geist dies in a car accident, she finds herself in a rift between life and death called the Interim, where she must search her soul for the key to moving on. For Lia, the Interim is a second chance at love. Still picking up the pieces of her unfinished life, Lia ignites a romance with Luke, the football quarterback who died at her side. Lia believes Luke may be her final lesson before passing on. But when the pair discovers a halfway house for the dead, they learn that twelve afterlives await them on the other side and they may not be headed for the same one. Lia must dig up memories long buried and make amends with her past...even if it means letting go of the ones she loves. Only then will she rest in peace. "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" meets "Before I Fall" in this breathtaking adventure beyond the veil.
The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home by NaomiAlderman
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Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad. Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toronto's a lot further away than it used to be. Clio suggests that Okie transport Sumatra across the border, because family is family. But coaching Okie by cellphone isn't easy, and Clio has some zombies of her own to contend with. Luckily she has some garden tools. Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood team up for this unusual two-hander. Encompassing love, death, sex, and the meaning of family, The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home will surprise, delight, and convince you of the vital importance of keeping ready supplies of rhubarb and mini-wieners in your freezer at all times. The story unfolds beginning October 24.