Beggars in SpainHarper Collins, 2009 M05 13 - 451 páginas In a world where the slightest edge can mean the difference between success and failure, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent ... and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep. Once considered interesting anomalies, now Leisha and the other "Sleepless" are outcasts -- victims of blind hatred, political repression, and shocking mob violence meant to drive them from human society ... and, ultimately, from Earth itself. But Leisha Camden has chosen to remain behind in a world that envies and fears her "gift" -- a world marked for destruction in a devastating conspiracy of freedom ... and revenge. |
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... arms. He wanted to know everything about the birth of the child in the other glass-sided crib: baby girl camden #2. 5.1 pounds. The dark-haired baby with the mottled red features, lying scrunched down in her pink blanket, asleep. 2 ...
... arms to stare at him ; the words meant nothing . Daddy reached over and touched a single flower growing on a tall pot- ted tree . The flower had thick white petals like the cream he put in cof- fee , and the center was a light pink ...
... arms around Alice . “ It's all right , Alice . It's all right ! We'll make it all right ! I'll play with you all the time we're not in school so you don't miss Mommy ! " Alice clung to Leisha . Leisha turned her head so she didn't have ...
... arm . Absently she scratched a mosquito bite on her thigh . " Well , then , I'd like to meet Richard Keller . " He lived in Chicago and was the beta - test Sleepless closest to her own age . He was seventeen . " Why ask me ? Why not ...
... arms around his neck , only tightening them when she felt his startled jerk . She started to sob - she , Leisha , who never cried . " Hey , " Richard said . “ Hey . ” “ Brilliant , ” Leisha said , laughing . “ Brilliant remark . ” She ...