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"In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends' intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, 'A Clockwork Orange' is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial...
2) Cult classic
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling author and Thurber Prize finalist Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic is a twisted mystery on the metaphysics of modern love, memory, and mind control in the city"--
One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite...
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The classic thriller about a hostile foreign power infiltrating American politics: “Brilliant . . . wild and exhilarating.” —The New Yorker
A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed...
A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed...
4) Specials
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Uglies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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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.
5) Pretties
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Uglies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
7) Candor
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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For a fee, "model teen" Oscar Banks has been secretly--and selectively-- sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a rebellious new girl threatens to expose his subterfuge.
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Everyman's library volume no. 359
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and 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 and...
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Captain Underpants volume 12
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Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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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!
11) Murderous trance
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MVD Visual
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Based on the extraordinary true story, the film follows detective Anders Olsen as he investigates a case in which a bank robber shoots two bank clerks before fleeing with the money. With the help of a hypnotist, Olsen discovers a sinister mystery involving mind control and the charismatic criminal Bjr̲n Schow Nielsen who secretly befriends the investigator's young wife, bringing the menace ever closer to the investigator while putting their lives...
12) The messengers
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Greystone secrets volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Told from separate viewpoints, as evil forces from the parallel world invade their home, the Greystones, their doubles, and friends must return to the alternate dimension to save both worlds.
13) MK Ultra
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Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Based on the infamous CIA experiments from the early 1960s, the psychological thriller follows a brilliant doctor who unknowingly becomes entangled with a dangerous government entity fixated on mind control. When his research is hijacked by the agency, the psychiatrist is recruited to run a subsect of the program in a rural Mississippi mental hospital.
14) The night window
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English
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings Jane Hawk's one-woman war to an explosive climax as the rogue FBI agent wages her final battle against a terrifying conspiracy--for vengeance, for justice, and for humanity's freedom. "Jane Hawk is arguably the best character Koontz has created. Simply put, wow."--Associated Press Groundbreaking, wholly involving, eerily prescient and terrifyingly topical, Dean Koontz's Jane Hawk series sets...
15) The Program
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Series
The Program. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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.
16) Daddy love
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English
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Kidnapping a latest victim in a string of young boys he tortures and rapes, a self-styled preacher confines the child in a small box and gradually brainwashes him over subsequent years into believing that they are father and son; while the boy's mother, who was savagely injured during the abduction, clings to hope that her son is alive.
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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In this heartbreaking and shocking expose, one of Dynasty's biggest stars lays bare a secretive organization that is holding her daughter hostage and details her mission to save her in this powerful depiction of a mother's love and determination. "I am a mother whose child is being abused and exploited. And I am not alone." In 2011, Catherine joined her daughter, India, at a leadership seminar for a new organization called NXIVM. Her twenty-year-old...
18) Bluebird
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
19) Game over
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Series
Daniel X volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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In Tokyo, fifteen-year-old Daniel X faces two of the most dangerous aliens on the planet, who are plotting to use video games to control children and turn them into an army of doom.
20) Branded
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In a future world where large corporations rule the world, a man learns of a conspiracy to control people's minds.