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Author |
: Frances Hardinge |
Publisher |
: Abrams |
Total Pages |
: 530 |
Release |
: 2017-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781683350781 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1683350782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Face Like Glass by : Frances Hardinge
An amnesiac girl explores an enchanting underground world filled with sinister secrets in this YA fantasy from the award-winning author of The Lie Tree. In the underground city of Caverna, the world’s most skilled craftspeople toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare—wines that remove memories, cheeses that make you hallucinate, and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as he slits your throat. On the surface, the people of Caverna seem ordinary, except for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned, and only the famous Facesmiths can teach a person to express (or fake) joy, despair, or fear—at a steep price. Into this dark and distrustful world comes Neverfell, a girl with no memory of her past and a face so terrifying to those around her that she must always wear a mask. Neverfell’s expressions are as varied and dynamic as those of the most skilled Facesmiths, except hers are entirely genuine. And that makes her very dangerous indeed . . . Praise for A Face Like Glass An ALA/ALSC Notable Children’s Book “Hardinge is at the top of her game with this entrancing and action-packed adventure. Her voluptuous prose is full of sensory details and wildly imaginative descriptions, yet the world-building is controlled and gradually revealed. . . . VERDICT A compelling and triumphant follow-up to The Lie Tree for those who love to become immersed in a good story.” —School Library Journal, starred review “Using beautiful prose, Hardinge builds a richly imagined world that twists as much as the carefully orchestrated plot. Readers will eagerly follow noble Neverfell through its tunnels, marveling at the extraordinary sights and catching their breath at her daring escapades.” ―Booklist, starred review “Hardinge excels at wordplay and worldbuilding; witty but not trite, her utterly original setting and chaotic, fidgety protagonist anchor a cracking good story that raises important ideas surrounding the nature of friendship, the value of honesty, and the danger of too much.” ―Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Author |
: Angie Cruz |
Publisher |
: Flatiron Books |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2022-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250208446 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250208440 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by : Angie Cruz
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK · REVIEWED ON THE FRONT COVER From GMA BOOK CLUB PICK and WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana, an electrifying new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story “Will have you LAUGHING line after line...Cruz AIMS FOR THE HEART, and fires.” —Los Angeles Times "An endearing portrait of a FIERCE, FUNNY woman." —The Washington Post Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight. Structurally inventive and emotionally kaleidoscopic, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water is Angie Cruz’s most ambitious and moving novel yet, and Cara is a heroine for the ages.
Author |
: Marc Simpson |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015077626417 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Like Breath on Glass by : Marc Simpson
Through an innovative manner of handling paint, a group of American artists around 1900 created deceptively simple canvases that convey images of shimmering transcience, visions suggested rather than delineated. Focusing on this singular aesthetic characteristic - softness - this book explores this painterly phenomenon.
Author |
: Jeannette Walls |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2007-01-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781416544661 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1416544666 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Glass Castle by : Jeannette Walls
A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.
Author |
: Jack Mackenzie |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2017-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781365668630 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1365668630 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Time Like Broken Glass by : Jack Mackenzie
In a world of magic one city is the focal point for a desperate struggle that is fought through all of time. Mages harness the powers of different elements - air, fire, ice, metal, even death - and wield that power in their struggle to survive. But one powerful mage can control time itself. Now mages and mortals alike find themselves allied against that power and three heroes, separated by vast gulfs of time, must find a way to save the magic, the great city and existence itself
Author |
: Emily St. John Mandel |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2020-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525521150 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525521151 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Glass Hotel by : Emily St. John Mandel
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. “The perfect novel ... Freshly mysterious.” —The Washington Post Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call. In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives. Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!
Author |
: Lewis Carroll |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 1875 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101075985729 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Through the Looking-glass by : Lewis Carroll
Author |
: Mary Robinette Kowal |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2012-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429987288 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429987286 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Glamour in Glass by : Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary Robinette Kowal stunned readers with her charming first novel Shades of Milk and Honey, a loving tribute to the works of Jane Austen in a world where magic is an everyday occurrence. This magic comes in the form of glamour, which allows talented users to form practically any illusion they can imagine. Shades debuted to great acclaim and left readers eagerly awaiting its sequel. Glamour in Glass continues following the lives of beloved main characters Jane and Vincent, with a much deeper vein of drama and intrigue. In the tumultuous months after Napoleon abdicates his throne, Jane and Vincent go to Belgium for their honeymoon. While there, the deposed emperor escapes his exile in Elba, throwing the continent into turmoil. With no easy way back to England, Jane and Vincent's concerns turn from enjoying their honeymoon...to escaping it. Left with no outward salvation, Jane must persevere over her trying personal circumstances and use her glamour to rescue her husband from prison . . . and hopefully prevent her newly built marriage from getting stranded on the shoals of another country's war. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author |
: Paul Beatty |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2015-03-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374712242 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374712247 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sellout by : Paul Beatty
Winner of the Man Booker Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature New York Times Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Denver Post, BuzzFeed, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly Named a "Must-Read" by Flavorwire and New York Magazine's "Vulture" Blog A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens—on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles—the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fueled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident—the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins—he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.
Author |
: Margaret Peterson Haddix |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 1995-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780689800849 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0689800843 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Running Out of Time by : Margaret Peterson Haddix
When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.