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Mare searches for people like herself and tries to gather them against the new king. Alongside rebellion and shifting loyalties, the story follows her reassessing her identity and past relationships.

On a psychiatric ward, McMurphy’s challenges to Nurse Ratched’s rules prompt conflict among patients and staff. Bromden’s first-person narration filters events through vivid metaphors and perceptions that may be unreliable.

A fast-moving space adventure follows a captured outlaw forced into service by the power that destroyed her home. Ia’s escape plans become tangled with new friendships and questions of loyalty.

Paul and his family try to protect Henri and help him reach safety, while Paul takes on responsibilities at home and joins the Resistance. The story follows their choices amid occupation and suspicion.

A lively historical mystery rooted in theatre life, with a resourceful young heroine and a web of uncertain loyalties. Expect adventure alongside glimpses of Georgian social divisions and political ideas.

This is a sweeping fantasy about Zélie’s attempt to restore magic, pursued by the crown and complicated by her feelings for an enemy. Its imagined kingdom also carries themes of racial oppression and resistance.

This is a fantasy adventure built around a search, a resistance and a mystery about stolen powers. Its appeal may lie in the blend of strange technology and magic.

Claire Danvers and her friends are positioned as the people who can stand in Bishop’s way, placing them at the centre of the town’s crisis.

This is an adventure of escape and resistance in an imagined underground world, with a focus on David’s efforts to reunite with Dia and rally human tribes against their rulers.

This fantasy sequel centres on Tania’s return to a devastated Faerie court, where she and Edric must seek help against a powerful enemy.

A wartime story follows Paul’s involvement in resistance work and an escape route, alongside the devastating news he receives after the war about his friend’s family.

This is an invasion-and-resistance story with a young central character caught between human rebels and the alien ruling society she belongs to.

This is an adventure about a young guard whose disguise and fighting skills shape her place in a dangerous struggle for power.

This is a fantasy about loyalty, political resistance and the cost of revenge, centred on the decoy Condesa, whose role as a stand-in draws her into a struggle over power.

This is a wartime secret-agent adventure, combining a sabotage mission with uncertainty about possible double agents. Its focus is action under pressure rather than a broad account of the war.

A dystopian story about survival under corporate control, told through a Runner’s precarious existence and an enforcer’s decision to break from procedure.

The story centres on a child’s strong preference for the familiar and a refusal around washing. Its short account may offer a light starting point for discussing everyday disagreements.

This is a dystopian story about Rhine seeking answers while facing a life-threatening virus, tangled relationships and the consequences of a resistance movement.

This is a school story built around a clash between a new pupil and a strict teacher, with friendship and family relationships also in the mix.

The story combines a search for a cure with resistance to a society that exploits humans. Mel and Carter pursue separate leads as Lily’s condition and Mel’s transformation raise the stakes.

This is a multi-strand fantasy about resisting an expansionist ruler. Evan seeks help for the threatened queendom, while Alyssa may be able to oppose the empress from inside her stronghold.

This is a story about a teenager resisting attachment after repeated moves have disrupted her friendships and sense of belonging. Her attempt to avoid fitting in meets an unexpected complication.

This is a magical-world story about a young woman trying to define herself while facing family rejection, Council turmoil and a relationship she finds difficult to resist.

This is a resistance adventure built around a global threat, a sabotage mission and a betrayal. It continues events from the earlier Earthfall story.

A fantasy adventure blends an alternate history with invention, rebellion, spying and a developing attraction. Verity must navigate life within a powerful family while taking risks for a cause.

This concluding instalment combines speculative fantasy with a struggle against authoritarian control. Its central pair remain committed to resisting Sigmundus, while strange realms and fanciful creatures shape their journey.

A speculative story about waking into an unfamiliar future, with a personal dilemma that connects Tegan’s own choices to questions about challenging injustice.

This is a story of community resistance and hope, seen through Olivia's experience as armed men disrupt her town and her father goes missing.

This instalment centres on two characters caught in separate forms of captivity, with a shared struggle against political control and dangerous technology.

This is an invasion-and-survival story driven by Sam’s resistance to the signal and the mystery of why a wound that should have killed him has not.

This is a fantasy adventure built around a group of young companions confronting a powerful enemy. The plot combines perilous action, legendary Atlantis and explicitly spiritual guidance.

This is a science-fiction adventure built around a teenager’s premonitions, alien experiments with time and a race to preserve reality. Its premise combines personal uncertainty with large-scale danger.

This is a high-stakes resistance story, with Alenna and her allies trying to turn a place of exile into a base for revolution against a totalitarian power.

A fast-moving survival story combines personal loss with a struggle against powerful institutions. Jackson must adapt to a harsh new setting while discovering why his old life has been dismantled.

This is the concluding adventure in a trilogy, centred on Lucy and Ricardo’s efforts to help Telares’s freedom fighters. Expect high-stakes fantasy action, with a glimpse of the characters’ emotional connection.

The book links a granddaughter’s present-day search through clues with a wartime story of resistance in occupied Holland, drawing together family inheritance, secrecy and the consequences of uncovering the past.

A fantasy mystery about an independent-minded Alice, with photography setting the strange events in motion. It may suit readers drawn to a familiar Wonderland revisited through a new predicament.

A historical novel about a teenager who resists Nazi rule by distributing leaflets, told partly through his recollections while imprisoned.

This is a fantasy and science-fiction journey shaped by two competing calls: political alliance-making and a mission to deal with dangerous remnants of the past.

A fantasy adventure centres on a rescue mission amid resistance to Malvel’s rule, with Tom facing capture as well as a powerful creature.

This is an adventure about young people resisting a dystopian authority, protecting friends and trying to persuade others about a religiously significant choice.

A tense dystopian adventure about survival, loyalty and resistance after societal collapse. William’s attempt to find someone who has disappeared places personal devotion alongside questions about Terrafall’s authority and promises.

Expect a tense wartime adventure centred on a boy whose loyalty is unsettled by family revelations and encounters with Nazi brutality. Its main appeal is the combination of suspense, historical setting and moral awakening rather than light-hearted adventure.

A visually rich, unsettling adventure about children resisting monstrous forces, The Wrenchies combines action, loneliness, loyalty and artistic imagination. Its fragmented storytelling leaves some mysteries unresolved rather than explaining every element.

A tense science-fiction quest follows three boys from a free community towards the Tripods’ city, amid remnants of an earlier civilisation, snowbound landscapes and a society shaped by conquest.