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    <updated_at>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:09:02 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:05:49 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:03:54 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:49:35 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Would you believe I read this book in eighth grade?]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:35:28 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[On this website, or in the library?]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:34:21 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Book three of the Idlewild trilogy. Black Ep has been conquered at last, and humanity has begun to live again, thawed and cured of disease, and siring children once more.  The death of Halloween's son finally convinced him to help with humanity 2.0, and he begins to re-discover his more social side....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52060706">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:23:55 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Book two of the 'Idlewild' trilogy.  The six surviving neo-humans, having &quot;graduated&quot; from their virtual university, set about the business of saving what's left of humanity, most of it in cryogenic freeze.  But nothing is going right, as Black Ep proves far more daunting than anyone expec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52059618">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:14:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[In a future world devastated by the disease known as Black Ep, humanity's last hope comes down to ten brilliant young minds being educated in a virtual-reality school.  If they succeed, they will become humanity's saviors.  But inside their virtual school, something has gone terribly wrong, and one ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52056298">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[Nothing like the movie (thank heaven)!  A young man joins the Terran military for all the wrong reasons, only to find that it was the best decision of his entire life.]]></body>
        
    
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