Growing up with a silver spoon was only a dream for six-year-old Erik after his parents are thrown into jail for their devilish activities. With his mom murdering her best friend and his dad's itch for becoming the next drug lord, it was all bound to happen one day, but that one day changed young Erik's life forever. Having to basically take care of his little sister, growing up wasn't easy. Now twenty-four and rough around the edges, it's no surprise that Erik has his hand in the game. As always, the fast, easy dirty money is too hard to turn down and with having two hard headed parents, it all comes naturally to him. He's a Natural Born Hustler and the games has just begun.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state. A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus’s hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It’s incendiary stuff—and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him—but he can’t admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. He’s surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. He can’t even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He’s not at all sure that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he’s gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do. Meanwhile, people are beginning to shadow him, people who look like they’re used to inflicting pain until they get the answers they want. Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland is every bit the equal of Little Brother—a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place.

Family will cross you faster than a stranger

James Wilson is just one of eight men at the center of an intricate plot surrounding downtown San Francisco on the night of July 2nd. When the 24-year-old checks into his room at one of the city's swankiest hotels, his life is inexplicably altered. Later that night, a ski masked man crashes through his room with a cocked and loaded gun, but refuses to kill him. This sets off a chain of mysterious events at different locations in San Francisco, all leading to one climax. The difference between James and the other men in the plan? James has no idea what's going on. And somehow, he seems to be the only one that can stop it. Read to find out what happens---all in One Night in San Francisco.