William Gibson

Depending on her veteran brother's benefits in a city where jobs outside the drug trade are rare, Flynne assists her brother's latest beta-test tech assignment only to uncover an elaborate murder scheme. "William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage...

A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D-and the biochip he's perfected-out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties-some of whom aren't remotely human... --from Amazon.

Ten short stories by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Neuromancer deal with a human memory bank, UFOs, sleep machines, interstellar travel, a Soviet space station, and computer crime in such works as "Johnny Mnemonic" and the title tale.

The story of Helen Keller who after a sickness in her infancy loses her sight and hearing plunging her in a world in which she could not communicate leaving her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them to a half-blind yankee schoolgirl named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Her parents really believed that there was little to no hope for Helen, but Annie Sullivan believed differently....