Beggars in Spain |
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| Author:
| Kress, Nancy |
| ISBN: | 978-0-380-71877-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1994 |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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| Imprint: | Harper Voyager |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $7.50USD $7.50 |
Book Description:
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Born in 2008, 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 she and "her kind" were considered interesting anomalies. Now they are outcasts -- victims of blind hatred, political repression and shocking mob violence meant to drive the "Sleepless" from human society . . . and, ultimately, from the Earth itself.
But Leisha Camden has chosen to...
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Born in 2008, 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 she and "her kind" were considered interesting anomalies. Now they are outcasts -- victims of blind hatred, political repression and shocking mob violence meant to drive the "Sleepless" from human society . . . and, ultimately, from the 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.