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.

Vampires and werewolves. Demons and angels. Sprites and pixies. Elves and ogres. They aren't just bedtime stories or things for teenage girls to drool over. They're real. They're just hidden. And now there's a place for them to go. *** Chayse is a vampire who just discovered that she's a princess, heir to the throne. No way that could possibly be her...right? Well, when Will--a mysteriously sexy werewolf--comes to screw up everything she thinks she knows, that logic is quickly twisted. Will is a hard-to-come-by werewolf who has more than a few secrets. While everyone is trying to pry him open, he's sealing himself away. Not from them--from himself. Amber is a demon trained in every possible fighting type--jujitsu, judo, karate, and a lot more. She's skeptical and closed off, and no one really bothers with her anymore. Until the delightful elf Finley steps into her life on a complete coincidence, she's never had any thought of anyone. Finley (or Fin, as Amber calls him) is a sweet, hyperactive elf with ADD. He wears his heart on his sleeve and has wits, though no one really sees them. He's quick to a laugh and easily sympathetic. He's a bit of a chicken, but he'll protect his passion before anyone else. Akumu Maki is a quiet dark angel girl who mostly lives within the shadows, hiding from the world. She's never noticed despite her sharp mind and skillful fighting techniques. The only one who seems to notice her is a boy they call Abel. And he just seems to observe her...and that's what attracts her. Abel is an inconclusive--someone who hasn't been assigned a race. He's believed by the others to be borne from a demon man and an angel woman--the highest of crimes within the two communities. The offspring of the two races is reffered to as a phantom. But not even Abel knows what he is...

Seventeen-year-old April Parker wakes up in an underground facility, a shock bracelet on her wrist and a five-day countdown on the clock. Dozens of other teens share her inexplicable fate, but their unseen captors never intervene no matter how brutal conditions become. When the ruthless - and unnervingly magnetic - Marcus seizes control, April's trauma-forged instinct is to lay low. But protecting her friends drives her to bargain with the boy she should fear most - a boy whose reality fractures with every tick. Then the countdown ends, and the real terror begins. Powers ignite. Alliances shatter. And predators are born. And with a saboteur among them determined to keep the doors closed forever, escaping what comes next may be the only way to survive it.