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1) Frenemies
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Ronette Bradley hasn't exactly been an ideal student. Certainly she's no overachiever. But she's caught a lucky break. And she's determined not to screw up. Ronette receives a surprise call accepting her to Houseman University. She is psyched, especially because her fave poet in the world is a Houseman professor. Great, right? Oh-so-wrong. Her roommate, Chyna, turns out to be a--well, it's unprintable--but Chyna thinks she's all that because she's...
2) Always human
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In the near-future, people use technology to give the illusion of all kinds of body modifications-but some people have "Egan's Syndrome," a highly sensitive immune system that rejects these "mods" and are unable to use them. Those who are affected maintain a "natural" appearance, reliant on cosmetics and hair dye at most to help them play with their looks. Sunati is attracted to Austen the first time she sees her and is drawn to what she assumes is...
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Of all Jane Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of the Bennet family and of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove 'rather too light and bright, and sparkling', delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who...