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The Rosewater Insurrection

Author : Tade Thompson

Publisher : Orbit

Page : 340 pages

File Size : 19,11 MB

Release : 2019-03-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0316449067

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The Rosewater Insurrection continues the award-winning science fiction trilogy by one of science fiction's most engaging voices. All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. Those who know the truth of the invasion keep the secret. The government agent Aminat, the lover of the retired sensitive Kaaro, is at the forefront of the cold, silent conflict. She must capture a woman who is the key to the survival of the human race. But Aminat is stymied by the machinations of the Mayor of Rosewater and the emergence of an old enemy of Wormwood. Innovative and genre-bending, Tade Thompson's ambitious Afrofuturist series is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. K. Jemisin, and Ann Leckie. Praise for The Wormwood Trilogy: "Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!" —Ann Leckie, award winning-author of Ancillary Justice "Mesmerising. There are echoes of Neuromancer and Arrival in here, but this astonishing debut is beholden to no one." —M. R. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl with All the Gifts "A magnificent tour de force, skillfully written and full of original and disturbing ideas." —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time The Wormwood Trilogy Rosewater The Rosewater Insurrection The Rosewater Redemption



Friday Brown

Author : Vikki Wakefield

Publisher : Text Publishing

Page : 346 pages

File Size : 21,79 MB

Release : 2012-08-22

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1921922702

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Seventeen-year-old Friday Brown is on the run—running to escape memories of her mother and of the family curse. And of a grandfather who’d like her to stay. She’s lost, alone and afraid. Silence, a street kid, finds Friday and she joins him in a gang led by beautiful, charismatic Arden. When Silence is involved in a crime, the gang escapes to a ghost town in the outback. In Murungal Creek, the town of never leaving, Friday must face the ghosts of her past. She will learn that sometimes you have to stay to finish what you started—and often, before you can find out who you are, you have to become someone you were never meant to be. Friday Brown is the breathtaking second novel from the author of the award-winning All I Ever Wanted. Vikki Wakefield is an astonishing talent.



The Kite Rider

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 17,84 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9780192751577

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Up and up the wind drew him. Haoyou looked about him and saw the wholeworld beneath him. And it was his. The Great Miao, master of the Jade Circus, offers Haoyou the amazing chance to escape his family's poverty -- by becoming a kite rider. Strapped onto a beautiful scarlet-and-gold kite, Haoyou is sent into the sky, earning money, freedom, and unexpected fame. Miao even plans for Haoyou to perform before Kublai Khan himself. From Carnegie Medalist Geraldine McCaughrean comes a dazzling story of adventure, betrayal, family, and sacrifice set in the dramatic world of thirteenth-century China.



A Pack of Lies

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean

Publisher : Marshall Cavendish

Page : 180 pages

File Size : 27,8 MB

Release : 1988

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9780761455790

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A mysterious stranger changes the lives of a teenage girl and her mother



Peter Pan in Scarlet

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 33,26 MB

Release : 2010-05-11

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1416958169

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The first-ever authorized sequel to J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan! In August 2004 the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, who hold the copyright in Peter Pan, launched a worldwide search for a writer to create a sequel to J. M. Barrie's timeless masterpiece. Renowned and multi award-winning English author Geraldine McCaughrean won the honor to write this official sequel, Peter Pan in Scarlet. Illustrated by Scott M. Fischer and set in the 1930s, Peter Pan in Scarlet takes readers flying back to Neverland in an adventure filled with tension, danger, and swashbuckling derring-do!



The Death-Defying Pepper Roux

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 46,41 MB

Release : 2010-01-19

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9780061836657

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Pepper's fourteenth birthday is a momentous one. It's the day he's supposed to die. Everyone seems resigned to it—even Pepper, although he would much prefer to live. But can you sidestep Fate? Jump sideways into a different life? NaÏve and trusting, Pepper sets a course through dangerous waters, inviting disaster and mayhem at every turn, one eye on the sky for fear of angels, one on the magnificent possibilities of being alive. New York Times bestselling and Printz Award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean has created a gripping tale filled with dark humor and daring escapades, where the key to a boy's life lies in facing his own death. Join him on the run—if you can keep up.



Microbe Hunters

Author : Paul De Kruif

Publisher :

Page : 390 pages

File Size : 38,28 MB

Release : 1926

Category : Bacteriologia

ISBN :

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First published in 1927.



The Cardturner

Author : Louis Sachar

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 353 pages

File Size : 34,66 MB

Release : 2011-08-09

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 140880851X

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When Alton's ageing, blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him, he agrees. After all, it's better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall, and Alton's mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future. But, like all apparently casual choices in any of Louis Sachar's wonderful books, this choice soon turns out to be a lot more complex than Alton could ever have imagined. As his relationship with his uncle develops, and he meets the very attractive Toni, deeply buried secrets are uncovered and a romance that spans decades is finally brought to conclusion. Alton's mother is in for a surprise!



The White Darkness

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 31,88 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Antarctica

ISBN : 0060890355

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Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.



Where the World Ends

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean

Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd

Page : 235 pages

File Size : 40,11 MB

Release : 2018-02-01

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1474936520

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In the summer of 1727, a group of men and boys from St Kilda are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food. No one returns to collect them. Why? Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they have been abandoned to endure storms, starvation and terror. And how can they survive, imprisoned on every side by the ocean? Inspired by a true event, this is a breathtaking story of nine boys and the courage it takes to survive against the odds, from three-time winner of the Whitbread/Costa Children's Book Award Geraldine McCaughrean.