Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Hampshire

The development of robot technology to a state of perfection by future civilizations is explored in nine science fiction stories.

I, Robot

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Colorado

The Beast Rules the World

The Mark

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#hardcover #Education #AmericanCulture #DumbingDown #PoliticalScience #Children #future box 40

Texas

Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture

With vigor, wit, learning, common sense, and urgency, twenty-three essayist?ncluding John Simon, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, George F. Kennan, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Epstein, and Brad Leithauser?xamine aspects of our pan-cultural "dumbing down" and offer both diagnoses of and possible cures for this wasting disease.

Dumbing Down

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#hardcover #fiction #domenicaruta #fantasyfiction #future #humanity #novel #sci-fi 

California

A Novel

"The fates of a cast of seemingly unconnected people converge during the celebration of an ancient holiday in a thought-provoking debut that brings to mind such novels as Station Eleven and The Age of Miracles. In Domenica Ruta's profoundly original debut novel, the end of the world comes every year. Or at least it's supposed to. On May 3, humanity comes together to anticipate the planet's demise--and to celebrate as if the day were truly their last. Sarah is a bookish teenager infatuated with Kurt, a tattoo artist, whom she met at her parents' Last Day celebration a year earlier. Kurt is still haunted with guilt over his role in the death of his young love and wants to make holiday amends to her family. Karen is a misfit with a dysfunctional background who works at the local YMCA, where she keeps getting into trouble--especially when she sets off to find a long-lost adoptive brother. Her friend Rosette has left the Jehovah's Witnesses to follow a new pastor at the Kingdom of God, where she brings Karen on this fateful Last Day. Meanwhile, in space, a group of international astronauts--an American, a Russian, and a billionaire Japanese space tourist--observe Last Day from afar. With sparkling wit, dazzling vividness, and wild imagination, Last Day is an exciting introduction of a literary talent--and by the end a haunting meditation on the fate of humanity and our planet"--

Last Day

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#hardcover #nonfiction #onenation #bencarson #america #future #history #government 

Kansas

What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

The acclaimed brain surgeon who made headlines with his keynote at the National Prayer Breakfast in February 2013 presents a sequel to the best-selling America the Beautiful that outlines recommendations for correcting what he believes to be the country's economic and moral shortcomings.

One Nation

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#botm #hardcover #fiction #dystopia #future 

Nevada

-Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place---

American War

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#paperback #ya #teen #fantasy #future #technology #dystopia #summerprince #teenfantasy #brazil 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

In a Brazil of the distant future, June Costa falls in love with Enki, a fellow artist and rebel against the strict limits of the government, knowing that, like all Summer Kings before him, Enki is destined to die.

The Summer Prince

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Idaho

Nine Stories of an Imminent World

The place is the United States. The time, the near-future, 2020-2040. Here, justice is blind and the ranks of the disenfranchised have swollen to a toxic level. High-tech rules the day while human nature, for better or worse, remains constant. In nine interwoven tales, Mosley paints a keen if fictional portrait of what the future could hold if our own political climate continues. From Ptolemy Bent, the child genius whose act of mercy lands him in the world's first privatized prison, to Fera Jones, a heavy-weight champ who gives up the ring for a political career, characters appear and reappear in different storylines as everyone tries to survive a fast and furious "Futureland".

Futureland

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Florida

From one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a “sibling novel” to her Pulitzer Prize- and NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad—an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories and identities are no longer private. The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. It’s 2010. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—that allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. In spellbinding interlocking narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also extraordinarily moving, a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy and redemption. In the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles—from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter and a chapter of tweets. If Goon Squad was organized like a concept album, The Candy House incorporates Electronic Dance Music’s more disjunctive approach. The parts are titled: Build, Break, Drop. With an emphasis on gaming, portals, and alternate worlds, its structure also suggests the experience of moving among dimensions in a role-playing game. The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. Egan takes to stunning new heights her “deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technology-driven, image-saturated culture” (Vogue). The Candy House delivers an absolutely extraordinary combination of fierce, exhilarating intelligence and heart.

The Candy House

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New York

Georgia

and summaries of Bible history, customs, and beliefs.

Understanding Bible Prophecy for Yourself

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New Jersey

Stories from the Future

Bestselling Divergent and Carve the Mark author Veronica Roth delivers a stunning collection of novella-length stories set in the future, illustrated with startling black-and-white artwork. No world is like the other. Within this masterful collection, each setting is more strange and wonderful than the last, brimming with new technologies and beings. And yet, for all the advances in these futuristic lands, the people still must confront deeply human problems. In these six stories, Veronica Roth reaches into the unknown and draws forth something startlingly familiar and profoundly beautiful. With tales of friendship and revenge, plus two new stories from the Carve the Mark universe, this collection has something for new and old fans alike. Each story begins with a hope for a better end, but always end with a better understanding of the beginning. With beautifully intricate black-and-white interior illustrations and a uniquely designed package, this is the perfect gift for book lovers.

The End and Other Beginnings

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#hardcover #fiction #childhooddreams #future #wonder

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal a parent's musings about what a child will become, knowing that the child's kindness, cleverness, and boldness will shine through no matter what, as will the love they share.

The Wonderful Things You Will Be

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For folks who love the mysticism and foresight of Nostradamus, this ￼hardcover interprets his prophecies of tomorrow, including a third world war, nuclear destruction of New York, the sudden death of a pope and the rise of an antichrist. Translated and edited by Erica Cheetam￼. #Hardcover #Nostradamus #Mysticism #Prophecy #Future

Pennsylvania

1985 and Beyond

The Further Prophecies of Nostradamus

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Kentucky

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Michigan

From the Nebula Award-winning author of "Timescape" and "Foundation's Fear" comes a hard-science thriller about the race to Mars that will tie into NASA's upcoming landing on the planet.

The Martian Race

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Charting a Course for the Next Generation

In America today, the gap between the rich and the poor is the greatest ever recorded--larger than any other industrialized nation. It has become far too easy to ignore the hardships of millions of children plagued by poverty, poor health, illiteracy, violence, adult hypocrisy, and injustice. As founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman knows all too well the suffering of so many of our nation's children, who live every day with adversity most of us can barely imagine. In The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small, Edelman asks difficult questions about what we truly value, and looks hard at what we can--and must--do to build a nation fit for all children. With the passion and conviction that have made her our leading child advocate, she calls us all to stand up for the future of America. What have we done and what have we left undone? What lessons can we learn from our past and our present to realize a just and peaceful national and world vision for our children and grandchildren? Marian Wright Edelman challenges all of us--our leaders, our teachers, the faith community, parents, grandparents, and future generations--to end the epidemic physical and spiritual poverty afflicting millions of our children. We can leave our children with a better, safer, and fairer world if we care enough. And we can--and must--do it now.

The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small

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The Cosmic Battle of the Ages

All armies of the world, including the Tribulation Force, head for the Middle East to engage in one massive battle, as the world becomes even more dangerous to live in with death, mistrust, and treachery all around.

Armageddon

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Minnesota

A debut coming-of-age novel set in the far future on a world where scientific technology seems like magic, and books are the center of an ages-old dispute between two societies.

Libyrinth

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Tennessee

Defeated in the Persian Gulf and wallowing in the depths of a depression, the U.S. is torn apart by a war between the repressive People's Movement and the freedom-loving Constitutionalists.

When the Almond Tree Blossoms

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Novel of the Earth's Last Days

After millions of people around the world vanish in one moment, in what many claim to be the Rapture, Rayford Steele begins a search for the truth amidst global chaos

Left Behind -see description 

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#hardcover #class #greatread #fantasyfiction #sci-fi #socioeconomic #future #society #fiction

In a society where a person's size is directly proportional to his or her wealth, littlepoor Warner, thirteen, and Prayer, fifteen, struggle to improve their lot in a world built against them.

Munmun

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Isaac Asimov

I, Robot

Tim Lahaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

The Mark

Katharine Washburn; John Thornton (Editor); John Simon (Introduction by)

Dumbing Down

Domenica Ruta

Last Day

Ben Carson; Candy Carson

One Nation

Omar El Akkad

American War

Omar El Akkad

American War

Alaya Dawn Johnson

The Summer Prince

Walter Mosley

Futureland

Jennifer Egan

The Candy House

Tim Lahaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

The Mark

Tim Lahaye

Understanding Bible Prophecy for Yourself

Veronica Roth

The End and Other Beginnings

Emily Winfield Martin

The Wonderful Things You Will Be

Erika Cheetham

The Further Prophecies of Nostradamus

Tim Lahaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

The Mark

Gregory Benford

The Martian Race

Marian Wright Edelman

The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small

Tim Lahaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

Armageddon

Pearl North

Libyrinth

David Aikman

When the Almond Tree Blossoms

Tim Lahaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

Left Behind -see description

Jesse Andrews

Munmun

Tim Lahaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

The Mark