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SUMMARY:Lexicon - Max Barry
DESCRIPTION:At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington\, Virgini
 a\, students aren't taught history\, geography\, or mathematics—they are
  taught to persuade. Students learn to use language to manipulate minds\, 
 wielding words as weapons. The very best graduate as “poets\,” and ent
 er a nameless organization of unknown purpose.\n\nWhip-smart runaway Emily
  Ruff is making a living from three-card Monte on the streets of San Franc
 isco when she attracts the attention of the organization’s recruiters. D
 rawn in to their strange world\, which is populated by people named Bront
 ë and Eliot\, she learns their key rule: That every person can be classif
 ied by personality type\, his mind segmented and ultimately unlocked by th
 e skilful application of words. For this reason\, she must never allow ano
 ther person to truly know her\, lest she herself be coerced. Adapting quic
 kly\, Emily becomes the school’s most talented prodigy\, until she makes
  a catastrophic mistake: She falls in love.\n\nMeanwhile\, a seemingly inn
 ocent man named Wil Parke is brutally ambushed by two men in an airport ba
 throom. They claim he is the key to a secret war he knows nothing about\, 
 that he is an “outlier\,” immune to segmentation. Attempting to stay o
 ne step ahead of the organization and its mind-bending poets\, Wil and his
  captors seek salvation in the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill\, A
 ustralia\, which\, if ancient stories are true\, sits above an ancient gly
 ph of frightening power.\n\nJohn W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee (2014)
 \nALA Alex Award (2014)\nAurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (20
 13)\n\n
LOCATION:Mug House\, 1-3 Tooley Street\, London Bridge\, London\, SE1 2PF\,
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