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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... a res- idence. As Ong watched, uniformed park attendants began method- ically spearing newspapers and shoving them into clean self-propelled receptacles. Ong picked up the phone to call the chairman of beggars in spain 7.
... watched him study his wife's 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 ...
... watched indulgently. Ong did not wait to see Camden emerge from the nursery or to hear Susan Melling say to him whatever she was going to say. Ong went to have the OB paged. Melling's report was not, under the circumstances, to be ...
... watched from the front window . Few roofs had more than one Y - energy cell . The trees , huge old sugar maples , were beautiful . " Come in , " Richard Keller said . He was no taller than she , stocky , with a bad case of acne ...
... watched Tony. Within a minute he lay on the rough ground; within two, his eyes closed in sleep. It wasn't like seeing parents sleep, siblings, friends. It was Tony. They looked away, avoided each other's eyes. Leisha felt the warmth ...