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Apr 08, 2020 it was subsequently sold to the open text corporation of waterloo, ontario in the year of 2003. This may sound like an insult, but i mean it in the best possible way. Cory efram doctorow was born in toronto, ontario on 17 july 1971, citation needed to a father who had been born in a refugee camp near baku, azerbaijan. As you read through this free ebook, youll notice that it is dotted, here and there, with. Jan 30, 20 to prepare for homeland, the sequel to cory doctorows wildly successful 2007 ya novel little brother, i decided to give that first book a quick reread. Homeland is a sequel to doctorow s 2008 novel little brother, about a teenage hacker named marcus yallow who gets caught up in the aftermath of a 911scale terrorist attack in san.