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Little Brother

by Cory Doctorow

Praise for Little Brother

"A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane."
– Scott Westerfeld, author of Uglies and Extras

"I can talk about Little Brother in terms of its bravura political speculation or its brilliant uses of technology -- each of which make this book a must-read -- but, at the end of it all, I'm haunted by the universality of Marcus's rite-of-passage and struggle, an experience any teen today is going to grasp: the moment when you choose what your life will mean and how to achieve it."
– Steven C Gould, author of Jumper and Reflex

"I'd recommend Little Brother over pretty much any book I've read this year, and I'd want to get it into the hands of as many smart 13 year olds, male and female, as I can. Because I think it'll change lives. Because some kids, maybe just a few, won't be the same after they've read it. Maybe they'll change politically, maybe technologically. Maybe it'll just be the first book they loved or that spoke to their inner geek. Maybe they'll want to argue about it and disagree with it. Maybe they'll want to open their computer and see what's in there. I don't know. It made me want to be 13 again right now and reading it for the first time, and then go out and make the world better or stranger or odder. It's a wonderful, important book, in a way that renders its flaws pretty much meaningless."
– Neil Gaiman, author of Anansi Boys

"Little Brother is a scarily realistic adventure about how homeland security technology could be abused to wrongfully imprison innocent Americans. A teenage hacker-turned-hero pits himself against the government to fight for his basic freedoms. This book is action-packed with tales of courage, technology, and demonstrations of digital disobedience as the technophile's civil protest."
– Bunnie Huang, author of Hacking the Xbox

"Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future."
– Jane McGonical, Designer, I Love Bees

"The right book at the right time from the right author -- and, not entirely coincidentally, Cory Doctorow's best novel yet."
– John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War

"It's about growing up in the near future where things have kept going on the way they've been going, and it's about hacking as a habit of mind, but mostly it's about growing up and changing and looking at the world and asking what you can do about that. The teenage voice is pitch-perfect. I couldn't put it down, and I loved it."
– Jo Walton, author of Farthing

"A worthy younger sibling to Orwell's 1984, Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is lively, precocious, and most importantly, a little scary."
– Brian K Vaughn, author of Y: The Last Man

"Little Brother sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it -- and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit."
– Dan Gillmor, author of We the Media

Extended Copyright Information

This work, Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow, is distributed under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0

Originally published by Tor Books.

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Evelina

by Frances Burney

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Clarissa Volume I

by Samuel Richardson

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The Billionaire's Captive Bride

by Emma Darcy

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Ruthless miniseries, part of Harlequin Presents (a Harlequin series)

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HE WANTS HIS BABY, SO HE'LL MAKE HER HIS BRIDE!

To teacher Erin Lavelle, handsome billionaire Peter Ramsey was like a fairy-tale prince. But after two amazing days their affair was over. Peter had thought Erin was different until he discovered her secret.

Then seven months later he finds her pregnant. Now there's only one way to ensure his unborn child's security...marriage. Erin's knight in shining armor has returned, this time demanding she be his bride!

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Previously published by Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.

All characters, places and incidents in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, events or locations is entirely coincidental.

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Fieldwork

by Mischa Berlinski

Description

A National Book Awards finalist and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great Writers Winter 2007 Selection

Vivid, passionate, funny, deeply researched, and page-turningly plotted, Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski is about fascination and taboo—scientific, religious, and sexual. It introduces an assured and captivating new voice in American fiction.

How does Mischa Berlinski end up in Thailand in the middle of a clash between an anthropologist and missionaries? The Internet start-up he works for goes bust in San Francisco. He's bored, with no job in sight, until his girlfriend gets a job as a schoolteacher in northern Thailand. Mischa goes along and finds work with an English-language newspaper. One evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story. A charismatic American anthropologist, Martiya van der Leun, has been found dead—a suicide—in the Thai prison where she was serving a fifty-year sentence for murder.

Motivated first by simple curiosity, then by deeper and more mysterious feelings, Mischa searches relentlessly to discover the details of Martiya's crime. His search leads him to the origins of modern anthropology—and into the family history of Martiya's victim, a brilliant young missionary whose grandparents left Oklahoma to preach the Word in the 1920s and never went back. Finally, Mischa's obsession takes him into the world of the Thai hill tribes, whose way of life becomes a battleground for two competing, and utterly American, ways of looking at the world.

Praise for Fieldwork

"A great story. It has an exotic locale, mystery, and a narrative voice full of humor and sadness...You can't stop reading until midnight...and you don't hate yourself in the morning...A story that cooks."
—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

"A really, really good story...An intricate whodunit, both disturbing and entertaining...An intoxicating journey."
—Terry Hong, The Washington Post

"An impressive feat of literary acrobatics...An inspired and courageous book."
—Kevin Smokler, San Francisco Chronicle

"Fieldwork, is that rare thing—an entertainingly readable novel of ideas."
—Tim Rutten, Los AngelesTimes

"Berlinski's methodical account of the factors that led a rational intellectual to commit such a heinous crime is air-tight and intensely gripping. But equally notable is his ability to conjure such an elaborate portrait of the fictional Dyalo, and his treatment of both religious missionary and anthropological fieldwork is subtle and insightful...Impeccable research and a juicy, intricate plot pay off in this perfectly executed debut."
—Kirkus Reviews starred review

"Mischa Berlinski brings a wealth of vivid detail to his narrative, and writes with real authority. Fieldwork is as fascinating as an ethnographer's private journal, as entertaining as a finely plotted thriller."
—John Wray, author of Canaan's Tongue

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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

by Cory Doctorow

Extended Copyright Information

This work, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, by Cory Doctorow, is distributed under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 License.

Previously published by Tor Books.

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Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

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Anne Shirley, the heroine of L.M. Montgomery's 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables, is a girl like no other. Growing up in an orphanage, Anne quickly learns the value of a powerful imagination. It comes in handy when the hardships and loneliness of being alone in the world—not to mention the freckles and red hair that earn a proud young girl the unfortunate label of "homely"—become too much to bear. Anne feels some of her most cherished dreams may be coming true on the day she is to meet her adoptive family. Everyone involved is in for a shock, however, when dreamy, spirited Anne meets stern, old-fashioned Marilla Cuthbert and her quiet but kind brother Matthew. Not only were Matthew and Marilla expecting a boy to help at their farm, but the talkative and strong-willed Anne appears to be too much of a handful for the unsuspecting Cuthberts. Will Anne finally find the home and kindred spirits she so desperately longs for with Matthew and Marilla in Avonlea? A favorite for generations, Montgomery's beautiful story of a unique heroine and her quest for a place to call home will delight and inspire readers from eight to eighty.

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Jack and Jill

by Louisa May Alcott

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The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

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In Mark Twain's 1885 classic The Prince and the Pauper, Tom Canty is a street urchin in sixteenth century England. A kindly priest has taught him to read and write, but Tom can only dream of the day when poverty and hunger will no longer make life so difficult. While roaming the city one day, Tom catches a glimpse of the young Prince Edward behind the palace gates. The king's guards threaten to punish Tom if he continues to loiter by the royal property, but by chance, Prince Edward sees the boy and takes pity on him, inviting him to come into the palace. The two boys become instant friends, not troubled in the least by their differences. In fact, it is their astonishing similarity of appearance that leads the two to hatch a dangerous plot. Before they have time to consider the consequences, Tom and Edward decide to trade places, exchanging identities and lives in a daring experiment. Edward slips through the palace gates, unnoticed by the guards in Tom's borrowed clothes. Tom, on the other hand, is left to take Edward's lofty place, bewildered by the lavish surroundings and powerful position upon which he has stumbled. Little does Tom know that his secret might be in danger: Edward has hidden a very important document, something that no real prince would ever misplace. Edward is in for his own fair share of trouble when he comes face to face with Tom's abusive father. As prince and pauper contend with each other's challenges, confusion reigns supreme.

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Little Men

by Louisa May Alcott

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Little Brother

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Evelina

Clarissa Volume I

The Billionaire's Captive Bride

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Fieldwork

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