Partials
Record details
- ISBN: 0062071068 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780062071064 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (470 p.)
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electronic resource - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Balzer + Bray, c2012.
Content descriptions
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. Science fiction. Young adult fiction. |
Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
Training to become a medic in a world decimated by an engineered race that has reduced humanity to near extinction, 16-year-old Kira struggles with pregnancy laws and an imminent civil war before discovering important links between humans and their conquerors. By the acclaimed author ofI Am Not a Serial Killer . 200,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
"In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training"-- - Health Communications, Inc.
For fans of The Hunger Games, Battlestar Galactica, and Blade Runner comes the first book in the Partials Sequence, a fast-paced, action-packed, and riveting sci-fi teen series, by acclaimed author Dan Wells.
Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partialsâengineered organic beings identical to humansâhas decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. But sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution. As she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers that that the survival of both humans and Partials rests in her attempts to answer questions about the war's origin that she never knew to ask.
Playing on our curiosity of and fascination with the complete collapse of civilization, Partials is, at its heart, a story of survival, one that explores the individual narratives and complex relationships of those left behind, both humans and Partials alikeâand of the way in which the concept of what is right and wrong in this world is greatly dependent on one's own point of view.
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