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Google showcases banned books
There are many attempts each year to remove great books from libraries and schools, and in an effort by Google, Google Book Search will be celebrating Banned Books Week by helping people learn and explore banned books. Google Books is showcasing 42 classics that can be browsed, and purchased. Showcased titles include:
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Lolita
- The Great Gatsby
- 1984
- The Lord of the Flies
- Catcher in the Rye
- Of Mice and Men
- A Clockwork Orange
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- An American Tragedy
If you're a budding author and have never been able to keep track of all of your material well enough to get a real run at writing your novel, the problem could be the tool that you're using. While Microsoft Word and other word processors are great at letting you manipulate text and formatting, none of them really tackle the task of helping you to write a large - really large - document like a novel. 
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
