As his peers go through teen crises, T accumulates, and turns himself into a successful businessman. But T's material life begins to change after he adopts a dog, meets a girl, and takes his mother in after she splits up with his father.
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28 kirjaa tekijältä Lydia Millet
Kirkus Reviews: Best of 2011 A Junior Library Guild Selection Selected for the ABC Best Books for Children Catalog "A lush and intelligent opener for a topical eco-fantasy series."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review In the first of the Dissenters series, Cara's mother has disappeared. Her father isn't talking about it. Her big brother Max is hiding behind his iPod, and her genius little brother Jackson is busy studying the creatures he collects from the beach. But when a watery specter begins to haunt the family's Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers realize that their scientist mother may not be who they thought she was--and that the world has much stranger, much older inhabitants than they had imagined. With help from Cara's best friend Hayley, the three embark on a quest that will lead them from the Cape's hidden, ancient places to a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea. They're soon on the front lines of an ancient battle between good and evil, with the terrifying "pouring man" close on their heels. Packed with memorable characters and thrilling imagery, Lydia Millet weaves a page-turning adventure even as she brings the seaside world of Cape Cod to magical life. The first in a series of books about the Sykes children, The Fires Beneath the Sea is a rip-cracking middle-grade novel that will make perfect beach reading--for readers of any age!
Cara's mother is still missing. When her brother Jax texts her from "smart kid's boot camp" in Boston, Cara and her two best friends go to the rescue. But the camp is a front for Cara's mother's organization who are fighting against a force who wants to make the planet over in its own image, which will leave no space for anything else, animal, insect, or human. A Junior Library Guild Selection. Lydia Millet is the author of Love in Infant Monkeys and Ghost Lights. She works at an endangered-species protection group. The Shimmers in the Night is the second book in the Dissenters series.
Millet's latest novel is a black-comic tour de force depicting the second coming of atomic bomb creators Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard. Despite being dead, these scientists are spotted in Santa Fe by a shy librarian, who joins them on a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C.
At the opening of My Happy Life, the unnamed narrator has been abandoned in a locked room of a deserted mental hospital. She hasn't seen the nice man who brings her food in days; so she's eaten the soap, the toothpaste, and even tried to eat the plaster on her walls a dietary adventure that ended none too well. This woman's story, covering decades and spanning continents, is tragic, yet she is curiously at peace, even happy. Despite a lifetime of neglect, physical abuse, and loss, she's incapable of perceiving slight or injury. She has infinite faith in the goodwill of others, loves even her enemies, and finds grace and communion in places most people wouldn't dare to brave. Lauded by both critics and readers, My Happy Life consistently surprises and excites with its original vision of a unique woman whose rich interior life protects her from the horrors of external reality."
Kaksitoista lasta vanhempineen viettää kesälomaa syrjäisessä, ylellisessä kartanossa järven rannalla. Aikuisten lomapäivät menevät nautintojen parissa: ruokaa, alkoholia ja pilveä kuluu. Pikkuvanhat lapset elävät omassa kirkkaassa maailmassaan, aikuisten unohtamina. Aikuisten laiskaa lomatunnelmaa eivät riko edes tiedot vääjäämättä lähestyvästä hirmumyrskystä. Lopulta lapset päättävät varhaisteini-ikäisen Even johdolla paeta tulvaa ja katastrofia ilman aikuisia. Nopeasti kiihtyvät tapahtumat alkavat hämmästyttävästi muistuttaa Even pikkuveljen Jackin löytämän Lasten raamatun tapahtumia.Lasten raamattu on unohdettujen lasten kollektiivisesta näkökulmasta kerrottu kuvaus sukupolvien välisestä kuilusta ja samalla jylhä allegoria ilmastokriisistä ja luontokadosta. Raamatullisia myyttejä uudelleenkirjoittava teos ravistelee, muttei jätä kokonaan toivottomaksi. Viisas romaani kysyy: jos menetämme uskomme, voimmeko pelastua?
July 16, 1945. The world's first atomic mushroom cloud rises above New Mexico desert. At the moment of detonation, the men responsible for the bomb, the physicists Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, suddenly find themselves thrown forward in time to the year 2003. As they adjust to life in the 'future', Ann, a librarian, and her doting husband, Ben, befriend them. How the charismatic, time-travelling scientists affect both modern America and the marriage of these two ordinary people, is the subject of Lydia Millet's heroically mischievous tragicomedy. Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.