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1) Utopia
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Language
English
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Utopia (1516) is a work of political satire by Thomas More. Published in Latin while More was serving as Privy Counsellor under King Henry VIII, the text is stylized as a true account of a new civilization discovered in the New World by traveler Raphael Hythlodaeus. While there have been varying interpretations of Utopia over the centuries, it is most consistently regarded as a work of political philosophy in the tradition of Plato's Republic that...
2) Republic
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Language
English
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Description
Republic, by Plato, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary historical,...
3) Messenger
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
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Series
Ready player novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his grim, poverty-stricken real life. Along with millions of...
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Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia-where the truth isn't what it seems. Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant...
6) Anthem
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
AYN RAND'S CLASSIC WORK!
Hailed as one of Russian-American writer Ayn Rand's greatest works, Anthem, a dystopian fiction novella, was a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In it she examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. All decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all traces of individualism have been wiped out.
A...
7) Perfect ruin
Author
Series
Internment chronicles volume 1
Publisher
SSBFYR
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Morgan Stockhour lives in Internment, a floating city utopia. But when a murder occurs, everything she knows starts to unravel"--Provided by publisher.
8) Seed
Author
Publisher
RP Teens
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Pearl has grown up in a cult community, all under the watchful eye of Papa S.
Seed is an isolated community under the watchful eye of Papa S. At fifteen, Pearl is finally old enough to be chosen as Papa S.'s companion. The arrival of a new family into the Seed community-- particularly the teenage son, Ellis-- only complicates the life and lifestyle that Pearl has depended upon as safe and constant. Ellis he seems to have a lot of...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
On an island in whose strict society only useful objects are named and the unnamed are ignored or forbidden, thirteen-year-old Medford encounters an unusual and powerful creature, half-man, half-goat, and together they attempt to bring some changes to the community.
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 7
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Description
The Dialogues of Plato, written between 427 and 347 b.c., rank among the most important and influential works in Western thought. Most famous are the first four, in which Plato casts his teacher Socrates as the central disputant in colloquies that brilliantly probe a vast spectrum of philosophical ideas and issues. Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education....
Author
Series
Ready player novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"--
Days after winning control of OASIS, the immersive virtual reality environment in which most of humanity chooses to live, Wade Watts discovers a world-changing technological advancement and draws the attention of a merciless...
12) Fruitlands
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fictional diary entries recount the true-life efforts of Louisa May Alcott's family to establish a utopian community known as Fruitlands in Massachusetts in 1843.
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Series
Publisher
Oliver Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discusses efforts to create perfect societies by such individuals as: Ann Lee and Joseph Meacham and the Shakers, Christian Metz and the Amana Colonies, George Rapp and the Harmony Society, Robert Owen and New Harmony, George Ripley and Brook Farm, John Humphrey Noyes and Oneida, and Katherine Tingley and the Point Loma community.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed. because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place in this dazzling, idealistic world, and that's before...
18) Astray
Author
Series
Gated volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Lyla thought she was free from the survivalist Community, but it is hard to break the hold their leader Pioneer has even though he is in jail--and he is planning to use his powerful influence to get his revenge on Lyla and the town.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Told in a series of essays that balance memoir with fieldwork, [this book] is an idiosyncratic study of American utopian experiments--from the Shakers to the radical faerie communes of Short Mountain to the Bronx rebuilding movement--through the lens of one woman's quest to create a more communal life in a time of unending economic and social precarity."--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
Hainish series volume 1
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the utopian mother planet, Urras, to challenge the comlex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change.
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