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.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself.

Bethesda trust fund baby Danica Millers has everything anyone could possibly want; she's rich, she's gorgeous, she's popular, she's smart, she's athletic, she's got the best of friends and she is the most elite of the elite. And then her best friend is shot in the head in the middle of a gang war while running errands in downtown DC. Armed with a blend of acrobatics, street-fighting and boxing, a mind like a steel trap, resources to match, an instinct for danger, a love for the chase, a love for the thrill, and a cold-hearted determination to see this to the end, Danica is prepared to take down every aspect of the DC underground crime network and untangle every mess the wretched city has gotten into. All in the name of justice and retribution which Danica has traded her soul for. Balancing society parties with snobby rich kids in her private school, fighting crime into the wee hours of the morning, dealing with completely oblivious parents, training herself to be the most effective and lethal crime fighter she can possibly be, fighting off an absolute slew of suitors, studying her brains out for AP Chinese midterms, desperately trying not to feel guilty about lying to her only real friend left, and dragging her bruised and aching body out of bed every morning, Danica Millers isn't giving up. Who says sophomore year has to be boring?

The world has been reborn. Enter Veritas, a world of magic and myth. Emmaline Longshadow has lived her life in hiding. She and her adoptive father were chased for much of her early years, before seeking sanctuary in an ancient monastery known only as the Temple of Stone. Years later, her pursuers finally catch up to her, and she must make a choice: run and hide once more, or stand and fight. The world ended with the old Gods, murdered by the Nine, Champions of the Realms. And when the world began again, these Nine became the new gods. But in the night, a storm is brewing... and as the stories go, darkness never dies.

Every faery is born with a gift. Every gift is used for the good of fae existence, but when a troublesome faery is blessed with the greatest of abilities, the outcome doesn't look so promising. Nahtaia is a mischievous faery with one of the greatest of gifts; distortion. After accidentally turning a human boy into faery size, her powers are immediately seized by the Jaydürian Voices (deities) and banishment is a likely punishment. Luckily, the Minister of Fae Assignment is unaware of her mistake. With the help of a pine faery named Oren, Nahtaia must find a way to change the human back to his natural state and regain her abilities, all while keeping hidden from the keen eyes of the Ministers of the faery realm lest she be stripped of her wings and doomed to a life without the one thing she loves most; magic.

A sweeping epic fantasy series full of mystery and adventure, rare jewels and mythical creatures. Ancient legends don't come back to life. Until they do... The vast, winged draykoni once ruled the skies of the Seven Realms, uncontested and unstoppable - so the stories say. But they are only tales. Aren't they? A shy young woman is about to learn that sometimes, even the most far-fetched story might prove to be the plain, simple truth. In book one, Draykon: When Llandry Sanfaer discovers a new type of jewel, her life changes forever. Wonderful and terrible, the gem exerts a strange influence over those who behold it. Soon people are dying for it - and Llandry herself becomes a target. This is only the beginning. In book two, Lokant: the long-vanished draykoni race have returned, but with them comes another mystery. Who are the enigmatic, white-haired sorcerers stalking the draykoni across the Worlds? And what do they want with Llandry? As war builds between humankind and draykoni, Lady Evastany must uncover the truth about her own unique heritage - before it's too late. In book three, Orlind: War has broken out between the humans of the Seven Realms and the long-lost draykoni race. As Llandry fights to defend her home, Eva begins a desperate quest into the heart of the mystical Lokant Libraries - a quest that will lead her deep into the mysteries of the long-lost Seventh Realm.

In the darkest corners of lower Manhattan, a battle like no other rages. The city is home to a hidden group of survivors of the nanite plague, and a brother and sister born to defend their race. With a touch that can destroy nanites, Lanni, sister of Alex, is their last chance. Can she save her brother? Can she protect mankind's only hope? Or will she be responsible for the destruction of the last humans on earth? It's going to be another long day....... Killing Tiffany Hudson was just the beginning, but there is so much more to the story surrounding Diane and Crane's meeting in post-apocalyptic Manhattan. Children of the Plague tells the story of the survivors in the city, including Diane and some new characters you'll want to meet.

In Book I of the trilogy, Tamras, our hero, arrives in Merin’s house to begin her apprenticeship as a warrior, but her small stature causes many, including Tamras herself, to doubt that she will ever become a competent swordswoman. To make matters worse, the Lady Merin assigns her the position of companion, little more than a personal servant, to a woman who came to Merin’s house, seemingly out of nowhere, the previous winter, and this stranger wants nothing to do with Tamras. Tamras’s journey begins with the smallest of steps. She sets aside her disappointment and performs as well as she can the humble tasks given her, and eventually she succeeds in winning the trust and then the friendship of the cantankerous warrior to whom she has been assigned. In the first year of her journey, Tamras will make a series of choices that often seem insignificant, but they will flow from her character and from her good intentions, and they will determine her destiny.

Morgan Black thought she was just an normal girl who went to school, had best friends, had a mom and a dad... But when someone mysteriously takes her shift at the book store that sher works, her life goes upside dopwn and she's pulled into the world of Cren, the place where "Dragons" as they are called and "warriors" live. When she learns about sewcrets kept hidden from her, well, lets just say things go from bad to worse. With an end that will keep you guessing and craving the next book, Dragon Flame is the frist book in a new Fantasy Trilogy.

Princess Rose carries a dangerous curse. Everyone loves her. When she turns away each of the princes des­perate to marry her, one takes mat­ters into his own hands. He steals her away through a magic mir­ror to his own dis­tant kingdom. But noth­ing in the Crystal Cas­tle is quite what it seems: not the hand­some prince, not the mad king she never sees, not even the silent page who becomes her only friend. When Rose finally unrav­els the maze of secrets and discov­ers what the prince really wants, she knows she must escape or lose more than her life. Fans of dark fairy­tales like Cora­line and Clock­works will thrill to the mys­tery and sus­pense of Princess Rose and the Crys­tal Castle.