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UnWholly

Shusterman, Neal
"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not only continue, but expand, allowing the unwinding of prisoners and the impoverished. Cam is a teen who does not exist. He is made entirely out of the parts of other unwinds. Cam, a 21st century Frankenstein, struggles with a search for identity and meaning, as well as the concept of his own soul, if indeed a rewound being can have one. When a sadistic bounty hunter who takes "trophies" from the unwinds he captures starts to pursue Connor, Risa and Lev, Cam finds his fate inextricably bound with theirs"--
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers 2012-08-28 402 pages

The Golden Apple A Musical in Two Acts (Classic Reprint)

Jerome Moross
Excerpt from The Golden Apple: A Musical in Two Acts Submitting lyrics to the cold scrutiny of the public eye is a risky business. Without the protective coloration of the music for which they were intended, and without the support of sym pathetic interpretations, Which can cover a multitude of short comings, lyrics have a tendency to seem fiat. They sometimes convey, on the printed page, a banality which does not exist in performance. Reading poetry and lyrics does not involve the same process. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Fb&c Limited 2017-05-17 162 pages