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A young journalist named Jamal Lawson heads to Baltimore to document a rally protesting police brutality after another Black man's death at the hands of police, but things take a turn when the city implements a new safety protocol: the Dome. The Dome turns Baltimore into a highly militarized zone under martial law where no one is allowed in or out. Jamal soon meets a hacker named Marco and Catherine, an AWOL basic training graduate whose parents helped...
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"Ever since his dad left, David Cray has had anger issues. So after he beats up school bully Jake Bragg, his mom grounds him in their creepy new house. Bored, David discovers a secret room with an old-fashioned desk, a chest, and a carving of a raven. Suddenly he's having strange dreams about the room and the house, and violence seems to follow him wherever he goes"--Provided by publisher.
5) Dread nation
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"Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania--derailingthe War Between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of afew, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities--and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained...