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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. 
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
