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BKLYN BookMatch Battling "The Man"

Recommendations for a reader looking for eBooks and audiobooks where the main character is fighting a big company or organization. This list was created by a librarian with the Brooklyn Public Library for a reader. Would you like your own personalized list of reading suggestions? Visit Bklyn BookMatch here: www.bklynlibrary.org/bookmatch

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Dune
Frank Herbert.
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Set on the desert planet Arrakis, this is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib, avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family, and bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

The jungle
Upton Sinclair ; foreword by Eric Schlosser ; introduction by Ronald Gottesman ; editor, Jonathan Beecher Field.
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Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant lured by appealing advertisements, comes to Chicago to make money in the stockyards, but the reality is different from what he expects.

The jungle
Upton Sinclair.
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The dead lands
Benjamin Percy.
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A post-apocalyptic reimagining of Lewis and Clark's epic journey is set in a world decimated by a superflu and nuclear fallout, where two explorers investigate rumors of a land with growing crops, plentiful rain, and a dangerous rising army.

The dead lands
Benjamin Percy ; read by Holter Graham.
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A civil action
Jonathan Harr.
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A young Boston trial lawyer is drawn into a case involving two industrial chemical plants and a cluster of childhood leukemia victims that is to encompass nine difficult years and bring him to near bankruptcy.

Brilliance
Marcus Sakey ; èoversatt av John-Henri Holmberg.
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Starting in 1980, about 1% of all children born in the U.S. were gifted with unusual abilities. Thirty-three years later, these "brilliants" (also called "abnormals" or "abs") are leaders in various fields -- including terrorism. Nick Cooper's one of them, though he works for a government agency charged with stopping ab terrorists. To stop them, Nick will have to demolish most of his beliefs about the world he lives in -- and maybe most of that world itself.

The Circle
Dave Eggers.
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Hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful Internet company, Mae Holland begins to questions her luck as life beyond her job grows distant, a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, and her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public.

The circle
Dave Eggers.
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1984
George Orwell.
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Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.