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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Rebecca F Sinclair
Seven. The Wonders of the World have long been based around this number. Shrouded in mystery and hidden from the world, anything more has been deemed a mere myth. When M.C. agreed to accompany her friends in search of an Eighth such Wonder, she never believed it might actually exist. After having just graduated from one of New York City's most prestigious prep schools, she had been looking for a fun adventure with her best friends before moving on to college and apart from each other. However, despite her expectations, she finds herself on a journey across the continents, full of adventure, mystery, and magic. From the moment their plane mysteriously lands in the wrong country entirely, they knew this was no ordinary trip. Instead, they find themselves on a journey of discovery - not only about the mythical EighthWonder and all it entails, but about themselves and each other as well. Nonetheless, there are forces that seem to be working against them, creating obstacles every step of the way.
Seven. The Wonders of the World have long been based around this number. Shrouded in mystery and hidden from the world, anything more has been deemed a mere myth. When M.C. agreed to accompany her friends in search of an Eighth such Wonder, she never believed it might actually exist. After having just graduated from one of New York City's most prestigious prep schools, she had been looking for a fun adventure with her best friends before moving on to college and apart from each other. However, despite her expectations, she finds herself on a journey across the continents, full of adventure, mystery, and magic. From the moment their plane mysteriously lands in the wrong country entirely, they knew this was no ordinary trip. Instead, they find themselves on a journey of discovery - not only about the mythical EighthWonder and all it entails, but about themselves and each other as well. Nonetheless, there are forces that seem to be working against them, creating obstacles every step of the way.
Lake Effect: a love story...
Rebecca F. Sloan
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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The poems in Rebecca Black's first volume, Cottonlandia, move through myth and landscape, beginning in the deep South's ""shimmer and tar"" and ending in the ""soot and orange dolor"" of the California desert. Cottonlandia conjures a proto-continent where fashionable golems pose for antique photographs and nineteenth-century naturalists wander into the melee of the civil rights struggle in the South. By turns haunting and comic, Black's poems describe the archaeology of the apocalypse. Countesses leave behind poisonous snapshots, lovers examine their shapes in the mirror, and Seminoles return for skeletons arranged illegally in exhibits, even as floods force antebellum coffins to rise. In the title poem, reproduced on this page, the lines of a spiritual splinter and circle through a loose narrative, evoking the delirium of class and race in the author's Georgia hometown. Throughout the volume, poems quarrel with primal forces, threading the needle of historical oblivion with a dark, intelligent, and incantatory voice.
London, 1926: Henry Twist's heavily pregnant wife leaves home to meet a friend. On the way, she is hit by a bus and killed, though miraculously the baby survives. Henry is left with nothing but his new daughter - a single father in a world without single fathers. He hurries the baby home, terrified that she'll be taken from him. Racked with guilt and fear, he stays away from prying eyes, walking her through the streets at night, under cover of darkness. But one evening, a strange man steps out of the shadows and addresses Henry by name. The man says that he has lost his memory, but that his name is Jack. Henry is both afraid of and drawn to Jack, and the more time they spend together, the more Henry sees that this man has echoes of his dead wife. His mannerisms, some things he says ... And so Henry wonders, has his wife returned to him? Has he conjured Jack himself from thin air? Or is he in the grip of a sophisticated con man? Who really sent him? Set in a postwar London where the Bright Young Things dance into dawn at garden parties hosted by generous old Monty, The Haunting of Henry Twist is a novel about the limits and potential of love and of grief. It is about the lengths we will go to hold on to what is precious to us, what we will forgive of those we love, and what we will sacrifice for the sake of our own happiness.
Winner of the PEN International/New Voices Award 2015 Shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2015 Onstage again, you stare down at your feet, imagining you see the bright, painted curves of a pair of clown's shoes...It helps to pretend you are a clown, hidden inside baggy trousers, your true face invisible behind splashes of red lipstick and pale powder...A dazzling, ambitious debut collection from a young talent (shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and longlisted for the PEN International/New Voices Award), these critically acclaimed stories dip into the shadows and spotlights of life. From the pale waking hours to the darkling places, Clown's Shoes introduces a cast of lost characters trying to find their way, and asking whether everyone really does come salting home in the end? Since the Devil visited the glove maker, she has found herself in the asylum counting out days instead of stitches. At the dog track, hidden amongst the rowdy punters, a woman bets on underdogs, life, and love. Onstage, a desperate mother performs a nightly striptease, whilst, in a small Welsh town, a young Korean immigrant tells her secrets to the sway of the sea.The people who populate the exciting and intriguing world of Clown's Shoes have stories that enthrall the imagination.
One year on from the day the shadows shifted – showing people their truest selves rather than just their shapes – best friends Teddy, Betsy and Effie plan to risk all and watch the winter sun rise over Copperwell, in defiance of the Shadow Order. But from their hidden vantage point the three shocked friends witness a mysterious woman shouting a dire warning, before she is arrested, beaten, and dragged away in handcuffs. The event leads them on an extraordinary series of dangerous adventures to save their city as they begin to learn the truth about the Shadow Order, the world surrounding Copperwell, and themselves.
After saving her nation of Nikan, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead. But Rin hasn’t given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much — the people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany, the village that is her home. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges — and unexpected opportunities.
I Babel: An Arcane History är språk magi—och makt. Robin Swift, en begåvad lingvist, tas till Oxford’s legendariska översättningsinstitut, där silverarbete driver det brittiska imperiet. Men när han avslöjar det mörka priset för denna kraft, står han inför ett omöjligt val: tjäna systemet som räddade honom eller bekämpa imperiet byggt på stulna ord. En fängslande berättelse om språk, motstånd och revolution.
Athena Liu er en litterær begavelse og yndling. June Hayward har gitt ut en bok for flere år siden, men siden den gang er det full stopp. Hun føler seg fullstendig mislykket sammenlignet med Athena.Da Athena dør i en fryktelig uheldig hendelse, stjeler June hennes upubliserte manus og sender det til sin egen forlegger.Etter hvert som flere og flere begynner å tvile på om det faktisk er June som står bak dette manuset, oppdager hun selv hvor langt hun er villig til å gå for å oppnå det hun mener hun fortjener.Alt som skjer siden, er alle andres feil.
Athena Liu er en litterær begavelse og yndling. June Hayward har gitt ut en bok for flere år siden, men siden den gang er det full stopp. Hun føler seg fullstendig mislykket sammenlignet med Athena.Da Athena dør i en fryktelig uheldig hendelse, stjeler June hennes upubliserte manus og sender det til sin egen forlegger.Etter hvert som flere og flere begynner å tvile på om det faktisk er June som står bak dette manuset, oppdager hun selv hvor langt hun er villig til å gå for å oppnå det hun mener hun fortjener.Alt som skjer siden, er alle andres feil.
June Hayward on parikymppinen opiskelija, jonka haaveet kirjailijan urasta eivät tahdo lähteä lentoon. Kun hänen ihailemansa - ja samalla inhoamansa - lahjakas opiskelutoveri Athena Liu menehtyy kesken illanvieton, June ei voi vastustaa kiusausta: hän varastaa kiinalais-amerikkalaisen toverinsa käsikirjoituksen ja tarjoaa sitä julkaistavaksi omissa nimissään. Hän saa valtavan ennakkomaksun, paljon huomiota ja vaikeita kysymyksiä ratkottavaksi. Kuka saa kirjoittaa kenestä, kuinka suhtautua kyyniseen kustannusmaailmaan, miten pystyy peittämään jälkensä - ja miksi hän on näkevinään Athenan edelleen hengissä?