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1) 1984
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Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2018] | MackinVIA | Unabridged. | [Blackstone Audio] | 1 online resource (1 audio file (approximately 11 hr., 30 min.)) : digital | English | Available Online
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Description
An allegory exploring the dangers of life in a strictly totalitarian society governed by Big Brother and the Thought Police. As an employee at the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith is constantly confronted with lies invented by the government to perpetuate its own power. Smith joins a rebel group called the Brotherhood dedicated to destroying the Party and freeing everyone under its control.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 150
On Shelf
Antioch High - Teen Fiction 1 available
F ORW
Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Fiction 1 available
F ORW
Donelson Middle - Teen Fiction 1 available
F ORW
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Availability | |
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1993 | Distributed by Random House | xl, 113 pages ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Fiction 1 available F ORW Maplewood High - Teen Fiction 1 available LIT F ORW McGavock High - Teen Fiction 1 available F ORW | ||
[1996] | Signet Classic | 140 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
East Nashville Magnet Middle - Teen Fiction 1 available F ORW | ||
[1954] | Harcourt, Brace | 155 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Donelson Middle - Teen Fiction 1 available F ORW Two Rivers Middle - Teen Fiction 1 available F ORW | ||
[2000?] | Holt, Rinehard and Winston | xiv, 153 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
McGavock High - Teen Fiction 1 available F ORW Pearl-Cohn High - Teen Fiction 1 available Classics F ORW | ||
©1946 | Harcourt Brace | xxii, 101 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Hillsboro High - Teen Fiction 2 available F Orw | ||
1946 | Harcourt | 118 p. 19 cm. | On Shelf
Pearl-Cohn High - Teen Fiction 1 available Classics F ORW | ||
2018. | General Press | 128 pages ; 23 cm | On Shelf
Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Fiction 1 available F ORW | ||
1998 | Transaction Publishers | 113 p. (large print) ; 24 cm. | On Shelf
Antioch High - Teen Fiction 1 available F ORW | ||
c1995 | 1st ed. | Harcourt Brace | 179 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. | Available at another branch
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[1996] | 50th anniversary ed. | Signet Classic | 140 p. ; 18 cm. |
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2003, c1946 | Centennial ed. | Harcourt Brace | xxix, 97 p. ; 21 cm. |
Checked Out
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1996, c1946 | 50th anniversary ed. | Plume | xxii, 101 p. ; 21 cm. |
Checked Out
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Availability | |
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p2004 | Blackstone Audiobooks | 3 sound discs (ca. 3 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
McGavock High - Teen Audiobook 1 available CD F ORW | ||
p1987 | Recorded Books | 3 sound discs (ca. 3 hrs., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | On Shelf
McGavock High - Teen Audiobook 1 available CD F ORW | ||
p2002 | Library ed. | Books on Tape | 3 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available at another branch
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Checked Out
6 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2007 | OverDrive | Blackstone Publishing | Checked Out
4 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2013 | OverDrive | BBC Audio | Checked Out
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2021 | OverDrive | Recorded Books, Inc | Checked Out
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Checked Out
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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2009 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Checked Out
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2009 | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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On Shelf
Cora Howe School - Teen Audiobook 1 available
PLAF ORW
East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Audiobook 1 available
PLA F ORW
Hillwood High - Teen Audiobook 1 available
PLA F ORW
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Availability | |
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[released 2008], c2008 | Unabridged. | [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC | 1 sound media player (ca. 3 hr.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | On Shelf
Cora Howe School - Teen Audiobook 1 available PLAF ORW East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Audiobook 1 available PLA F ORW Hillwood High - Teen Audiobook 1 available PLA F ORW | |
p1987 | Recorded Books | 1 sound media player (3 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 cm. | Available at another branch
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Description
The animals on Farmer Jones's farm revolt in a move led by the pigs, and drive out the humans. A totalitarian state slowly evolves in which 'all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.'
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Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2014] | MackinVIA | Harper Perennial Modern Classics | 1 online resource (322 pages) | English | Available Online
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Description
Bernard Marx feels empty despite living in a world where everyone is provided for, babies are genetically engineered to be perfect, and there is no violence.
Author
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[2020] | MackinVIA | W.W. Norton & Company | 1 online resource (xxiii, 246 pages) : illustrations | English | Available Online
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Description
Presents the fiftieth anniversary edition of Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange," with an introduction explaining Burgess' vision for the work and his invented lexicon.
5) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Source | Physical Description | Availability | |
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MackinVIA | 1 online resource (487 pages, 72 pages) | Available Online
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MackinVIA | 1 online resource (487 pages) | Available Online
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Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Author
Formats:
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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c2010 | 1a ed. | Vintage Español | 174 p. ; 21 cm. | Español | On Shelf
Maplewood High - Teen Fiction 1 available ESP F BRA |
Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España | Español | Available Online
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Description
A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners, Guy Montag, suddenly realizes their merit.
7) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Formats:
Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2014] | MackinVIA | Unabridged. | [Listening Library] | 1 online resource (1 audio file (5 hr.)) : digital | English | Available Online
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Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Physical Description | Availability | |
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[1993] | MackinVIA | Houghton Mifflin | 1 online resource (180 pages) | Available Online
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2011. | MackinVIA | Houghton Mifflin Books for Children | 1 online resource (viii, 197 pages) | Available Online
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Description
Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 1
On Shelf
Glencliff High - Teen Comic/Graphic 1 available
741.59 Atw
Maplewood High - Teen Comic/Graphic 1 available
GRA 741.5 ATW
Nashville School of the Arts - Teen Comic/Graphic 1 available
741.5 ATW
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2019] | First edition. | Nan A. Talese, Doubleday | 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Glencliff High - Teen Comic/Graphic 1 available 741.59 Atw Maplewood High - Teen Comic/Graphic 1 available GRA 741.5 ATW Nashville School of the Arts - Teen Comic/Graphic 1 available 741.5 ATW |
Description
"Margaret Atwood's best-loved novel has taken the world by storm again. Riding high on bestseller lists for months and the basis for Hulu's Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning smash hit series, The Handmaid's Tale is everywhere--and it's primed for a stunning new graphic novel adaptation. The story is iconic: In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child....
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Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2014] | MackinVIA | Perigee | 1 online resource (xii, 315 pages) : illustrations | English | Available Online
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Description
A fable of ship-wrecked children turning to primitive savagery which portrays the collapse of social order into chaos.
Author
Formats:
Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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2010 | OverDrive | RosettaBooks | English | Available Online
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2010 | RosettaBooks | English | Available Online
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Description
A detective hunts down a killer in a dystopian, overpopulated NYC in this classic science fiction novel that inspired the film Soylent Green.
Originally published in 1966, Make Room! Make Room! imagines a world at the end of the twentieth century where Earth is so overwhelmed by rampant population growth that it teeters on the edge of self-destruction. In New York City alone, thirty-five million people are squeezed...
Originally published in 1966, Make Room! Make Room! imagines a world at the end of the twentieth century where Earth is so overwhelmed by rampant population growth that it teeters on the edge of self-destruction. In New York City alone, thirty-five million people are squeezed...
11) The time machine
Author
Series
Publication Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2021] | MackinVIA | Unabridged. | [Author's Republic] | 1 online resource (1 audio file (3 hr., 8 min.)) : digital | English | Available Online
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eBook
Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Physical Description | Availability | |
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2015. | MackinVIA | Xist Publishing | 1 online resource (115 pages). | Available Online
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c2012 | MackinVIA | Mackin Educational Resources | 1 online resource (133 p.). | Available Online
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Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2004 | Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation | 1 online resource : multiple file formats. | English | Available Online
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Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2005 | Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation | 1 online resource : digital, multiple file formats. | English | Available Online
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Description
An evening of dinner and light conversation turned into a discussion of math and science. Soon, our host was showing us his latest contraption--a machine to travel in time. He promised to return the following week with a story of his adventures. Will his machine work and will he return at all? Find out in this stunning graphic novel adaptation of H.G. Well's classic by Joe Dunn. Creator biographies and a glossary help reluctant readers take the first...