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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... turned. “What happened to the twentieth one?” “What?” “The twentieth baby. My husband said nineteen of them are healthy and normal. What happened to the twentieth?” The pressure grew stronger, hotter. Ong knew that he should not answer ...
... turned to speak in a low voice to Camden's lawyer , a thin nervous man with the look of being owned . The owner , Roger Camden , the Indian chief himself , was the happiest - looking person in the room . The lethal little man — what did ...
... turned down . " What about the bloody side effects ? ” Susan turned to Elizabeth Camden . She had forgotten she was there . The younger woman stared at Susan , mouth turned down at the corners . " I'm glad you asked that , Mrs. Camden ...
... turned back toward the house . Susan drove toward the gate , her hands shaky on the wheel until amusement replaced shock : It had been a deliberately distant , respectful kiss , an engineered enigma . And nothing else could have ...
... turned from putting flowers in pots and smiled at her. The whole house was full of light. Light bounded off the lake, streamed across the high white ceilings, puddled on the shining wooden floors. She and Alice moved continually through ...