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    "annotation": "<p>Lee Cuddy is seventeen years old and on the run, alone on the streets of Philadelphia. A fugitive with no money, no home and nowhere to go, Lee finds refuge in a deserted building known as the Crystal Castle. But the Castle conceals a sinister agenda, one master-minded by a society of fanatical men set on decoding a series of powerful secrets hidden in plain sight. And they believe Lee holds the key to it all. Aided by Tomi, a mysterious young hacker, Lee escapes into the unmapped corners of the city. But the deeper she goes underground, the more tightly she finds herself bound in the strange web of the men she's trying to elude. Aware that the lives of those she cares for are in increasing danger, it is only when Lee steps from the shadows to confront who is chasing her that she discovers what they're really after, and why. Part literary detective novel, part art history, part conspiracy thriller, The Readymade Thief introduces a singular, indomitable heroine and the arrival of a spellbinding and original new talent in fiction.</p>",
    "description": "<p><strong>&ldquo;A debut novel that&rsquo;s unexpected, uncategorizable, unputdownable.&rdquo; &ndash;Robin Sloan, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Mr. Penumbra&rsquo;s 24-Hour Bookstore</em><br /><strong>An addictive literary puzzle that introduces an unforgettable young heroine plunged into the twisted world of a secret society with a dark agenda.<em>&nbsp;</em><br /></strong><br /></strong>Lee Cuddy is&nbsp;seventeen&nbsp;years old and on the run, alone on the streets of Philadelphia.<br />After taking the fall for a rich friend, Lee reluctantly accepts refuge in the Crystal Castle&mdash;a cooperative of homeless kids squatting in an austere, derelict building. But homeless kids are disappearing from the streets in suspicious numbers, and Lee quickly discovers that the secret&nbsp;society&rsquo;s&nbsp;charitable fa&ccedil;ade is too good to be true. She finds an unexpected ally in Tomi, a young artist and hacker whose knowledge of the&nbsp;Internet&rsquo;s&nbsp;black market is rivaled only by his ability to break into and out of buildings. From abandoned aquariums to highly patrolled museums to the homes of vacationing Philadelphians, Tomi and Lee can always chart a way to the next, perfect hide-out.<br />But the harder Lee tries to escape into the unmapped corners of the city, the closer she unwittingly gets to uncovering the disturbing agenda of the very men who pull the strings of the secret society&nbsp;she&rsquo;s&nbsp;hoped to elude, a group of fanatics obsessed with the secrets encoded in the work of early-twentieth-century artist Marcel Duchamp. What these men want is more twisted than anything Lee&nbsp;could&rsquo;ve&nbsp;imagined, and they believe Lee holds the key to it all.<br /><em>The Readymade Thief</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;heralds the arrival of an astoundingly imaginative and propulsive new voice in fiction for fans of Marisha Pessl and Ernest Cline.<br /><strong> <strong><br /></strong><br /></strong></p>",
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