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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... face changed , to an expression Ong wouldn't have believed possible on those particular features : wistfulness . " Doctor , do you know how much more I could have accomplished if I hadn't had to sleep all my life ? " Elizabeth Camden ...
... Camden's eyes were very blue in his blunt - featured face ; he wasn't what she had expected . Mrs. Camden , who apparently lacked both a first name and a lawyer , since Jaworski had been introduced as her husband's but not 8 ПАПСУ KRESS.
... " I did . " Camden shot her a fierce look that Susan couldn't read . He took out the cigarette again , and lit it . His face was in profile to Susan , and he was thinking intently ; she doubted he knew the BEGGARS IN SPAIN 13.
... face . When he spoke , it was to her . " All right , Elizabeth . All right . " He left the room . For a long moment the two women sat in silence . Susan was aware of disappointment ; this was not the Camden she had expected to see . She ...
... face, and faded back into her station. Around a corner was the viewing glass to the nursery. To Ong's annoyance, Susan Melling stood pressed against the glass. To his further annoyance, she was crying. Ong realized that he had never ...