==== Empire ====
| Title: | Empire |
| Rating: | 5 |
| Author: | Orson Scott Card |
| ISBN: | 978-0-765-31611-0 |
| Pages: | 351 |
| Format: | hardcover |
| Started: | 2012-01-09 |
| Finished: | 2012-01-10 |

Frighteningly realistic!  A good lesson in political moderation.