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“A.S. King is one of the best Y.A. writers working today.” --New York Times Book Review “Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters.” --Los Angeles Times
Paolo Bacigalupi is the author of the hits The Windup Girl (one of TIME Magazine’s best novels of 2009, and a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards), Ship Breaker (a Printz Award Winner and National Book Award Finalist), and The Drowned Cities (a Kirkus Reviews Best of YA Book and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist). In his new page-turning contemporary thriller, The Doubt Factory, Bacigalupi explores the timely issue of how public information is distorted for monetary gain, and how those who exploit it must be stopped. Everything Alix knows about her life is a lie. At least that's what a mysterious young man who's "stalking" her keeps saying. But then she begins investigating the disturbing claims he makes against her father. When a radical band of teen activists claim that Alix's powerful father covers up wrongdoing by corporations that knowingly allow innocent victims to die in order to make enormous profits from unsafe products, she must decide if she will blow the whistle on his misdeeds. Alix has to make a choice, and time is running out, but can she truly risk everything and expose the truth about the man who loves her and raised her?
A. S. King is the author of the highly acclaimed novels Ask the Passengers, Everybody Sees the Ants, and the Edgar Award nominated, Michael L. Printz Honor book Please Ignore Vera Dietz. She is also the author of The Dust of 100 Dogs, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Her new novel is a masterpiece about freedom, feminism, and destiny—the epic story of a girl coping with devastating loss at long last—a girl who has no idea that the future needs her, and that the present needs her even more. Graduating from high school is a time of limitless possibilities—but not for Glory, who has no plan for what's next. Her mother committed suicide when Glory was only four years old, and she’s never stopped wondering if she will eventually go the same way...until a transformative night when she begins to experience an astonishing new power to see a person’s infinite past and future. From ancient ancestors to many generations forward, Glory is bombarded with visions—and what she sees ahead of her is terrifying. A tyrannical new leader raises an army. Women’s rights disappear. A violent second civil war breaks out. And young girls vanish daily, sold off or interned in camps. Glory makes it her mission to record everything she sees, hoping her notes will somehow make a difference. She may not see a future for herself, but she’ll do everything in her power to make sure this one doesn’t come to pass. “A novel full of provocative ideas and sharply observed thoughts about the pressures society places on teenagers, especially girls.” --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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