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2) The giver
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
4) Babbitt
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dissects the character of a middle-class businessman whose search for material wealth and social status leave him spiritually sterile and doomed to destruction in pre-Depression America.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
Czech
Formats
Description
Sedmikrásky: Two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them.
O slavnosti a hostech: A group of happy picnickers are accosted by a group of strangers led by a bullying sadist who has an unbreakable hold over his followers. After he interrogates one of them, a stranger then invites everyone to a nonsensical,...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When the lemmings encounter a bear, they are determined to help him be more "distinguished'--just like they are--but little do they realize this bear could be exactly what they need to save them from themselves.--
12) Se regalan dudas
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Tenemos tantas dudas que te las queremos regalar. Lety Sahagún y Ashley Frangie, las creadoras del podcast más seguido de México y uno de los más escuchados de habla hispana, Se Regalan Dudas, nos comparten sus reflexiones, las de cientos de personas de su auditorio y las de autores que admiran, sobre algunas creencias y temas tabú que tanto nos inquietan en relación con el amor, la sexualidad, las relaciones, el cuerpo, la fe, el miedo, el...
13) Crazy house
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go, an import of Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Explores why it is that we crave conformity, how that affects people who are different, and what they can do about it. Dives into the history of social norms and why some people hew to them more strictly than others, explores the causes behind-and the consequences of-social rejection, reveals the hidden upsides to being "weird," as well as the strategies that people who are different might use in order to achieve success in a society that values normalcy,...
17) Circumstance
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Persian
Description
A provocative coming-of-age story that cracks open the hidden, underground world of Iranian youth culture filled with sex, drugs and defiance. This suspenseful tale of love and defiance unfolds as a wealthy family struggles to contain their teenage daughter's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
18) The replacement
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when he was just an infant, and when a friend's sister disappears he goes against his family's and town's deliberate denial of the problem to confront the beings that dwell under the town, tampering with human lives.
19) The castle
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Michael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's The castle is an ingenious, faithful interpretation evoking Kafka's vision of a dystopian society hobbled by paperwork and bled dry by conformism and convolution.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he was not quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon sales person took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia....
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