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Ys, city of wealth and wonder, has a history of dark secrets. Queen
Malgven used magic to raise the great walls that keep Ys safe from
the tumultuous sea. But after the queen's inexplicable death, her
daughters drift apart. Rozenn, the heir to the throne, spends her
time on the moors communing with wild animals, while Dahut, the
youngest, enjoys the splendors of royal life and is eager to take
part in palace intrigue. When Rozenn and Dahut's bond is
irrevocably changed, the fate of Ys is sealed, exposing the
monsters that lurk in plain view. M. T. Anderson and Jo Rioux
reimagine this classic Breton folktale of love, loss, and rebirth,
revealing the secrets that lie beneath the surface.
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Feed (Paperback)
M.T Anderson
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R302
R261
Discovery Miles 2 610
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Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a
futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds
implanted in their brains.
For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to
the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some
stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the
crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to
the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for
days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy
teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent
ability to categorize human thoughts and desires. Following in the
footsteps of George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,
M. T. Anderson has created a not-so-brave new world -- and a smart,
savage satire that has captivated readers with its view of an
imagined future that veers unnervingly close to the here and now.
Now in paperback, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past
as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.
Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers
known only by numbers -- but it is only after he opens a forbidden
door that learns the hideous nature of their experiments, and his
own chilling role them. Set in Revolutionary Boston, M. T.
Anderson's mesmerizing novel takes place at a time when Patriots
battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk
their lives for a freedom they would never claim. The first of two
parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines past as an eerie
place that has startling resonance for readers today.
"Anderson's imaginative and highly intelligent exploration of . . .
the ambiguous history of America's origins will leave readers
impatient for the sequel." -- THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Subverting convention, award-winning creators M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin pair up for an anarchic, outlandish, and deeply political saga of warring elf and goblin kingdoms.
Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom ― from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain’s host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double crosses, blunders, and cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling scholars into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death for them ― and war for their nations.
Witty mixed media illustrations show Brangwain’s furtive missives back to the elf kingdom, while Werfel’s determinedly unbiased narrative tells an entirely different story. A hilarious and biting social commentary that could only come from the likes of National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson and Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin, this tale is rife with thrilling action and visual humor ... and a comic disparity that suggests the ultimate victor in a war is perhaps not who won the battles, but who gets to write the history.
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Thirsty (Paperback)
M.T Anderson
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R326
R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
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An award-winning collection of fifteen beastly tales with new stories
from bestselling authors:
CASSANDRA CLARE
PATRICK NESS
HOLLY BLACK
Welcome to a world where humans live side by side with monsters. Where
a demonic band breathes fire and scales; predatory kraken sing to their
prey and harpies take on a strange attraction. Fifteen top voices in
fiction explore the intersection of fear and love, of monsters and men,
and our fatal attraction to what hides in the shadows. Featuring
stories from bestselling authors Cassandra Clare, Patrick Ness and
Holly Black, this award-winning collection will make you laugh, cry and
keep you wide-awake at night...
Winner of a World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
"Luminous ... wonderful stories." - New York Times Book Review
"Some of these tales are moving, others terrifying... Long after the
last page is turned, these tales will linger in readers brains, in
their closets, under their beds, and in the shadows." - School Library
Journal (starred review)
"An engrossing, morally complex anthology." Publisher's Weekly (starred
review)
"An anthology of riches." Kirkus Reviews
A droll biography reveals the high notes--and the low notes--in the
life of the world's foremost composer of Baroque music.
This is not your usual picture book biography. Nor was George
Frideric Handel your everyday eighteenth-century composer. This
witty and yet rigorously researched and accessible biography
captures Handel's essential spirit--from a child who smuggled a
clavichord into the attic to play music against his father's orders
to a young man who imported forty-five pounds of mountain snow to
chill wine for a gala--as well as his remarkable, enduring musical
triumphs. But M. T. Anderson also shows Handel's struggles and
chronicles the illness, ill fortune, and despair that led to his
greatest achievement, the Messiah. With impeccable detail and a
wink at the reader, Kevin Hawkes illustrates the singular story of
Handel and the music through which he lives on.
From internationally acclaimed YA author M. T. Anderson comes the true story of a city under siege, thrillingly told and impeccably researched. In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history. After three years of bombardment and starvation, culminating in the bitterly cold winter of 1943-44, more than a million citizens lost their lives. In order to survive, many residents burned books, furniture and floorboards to keep warm; they ate family pets and, eventually, each other. In the midst of this bloodshed, Dimitri Shostakovich composed the Leningrad Symphony, a piece that both rallied and eulogized his fellow citizens ... and which would come to play a surprising part in the Allies' eventual victory.
In a brilliant performance worthy of the composer, M. T. Anderson and Petra Mathers present a picture-book biography of the singular Erik Satie.
Throughout his life, Erik Satie wanted to make a new kind of music, a kind of music both very young and very old, very bold and very shy, that followed no rules but its own.
At first glance, Erik Satie looked as normal as anyone else in Paris one hundred years ago. Beyond his shy smile, however, was a mind like no other. When Satie sat down at the piano to compose or play music, his tunes were strange and dreamlike, his melodies topsy-turvy and discordant. Many people hated his music. Few understood it. But to Erik Satie there was sense in nonsense, and the vibrant, surreal compositions of this eccentric man-child would go on to influence many artists.
Looking for a blueprint to success?
This book is as close at it gets. Any successful person will tell
you there are handful of things you must do to succeed. This book
covers the 10 most important factors that determine whether or not
people are successful.
Buy "10 Steps to Success" today and learn to win
When the SHTF (Stuff Hits the Fan), will you be prepared for it?
If you don't have a bug out bag ready, you're going to waste
valuable time gathering resources when you should be on the road.
Having a bug out bag ready will allow you to get on the road ahead
of the sweaty masses and avoid traffic jams that could put your
life at risk.
This book lays out everything you need to have in your bug out bag
to ensure survival. Even if you have a bag ready, you may be
woefully unprepared for the worst the world has to offer.
Buy this book now and start preparing for the worst. It may never
come, but if it does, you'll be ready
Award-winning author M. T. Anderson explores themes of art, truth and colonization in this sharply wrought satire of a future Earth.
From the author of dystopian tour de force Feed comes a soon-to-be literary classic that will resonate with young adults and adults alike.
When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth ― but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really be called an invasion when the vuvv generously offered free advanced technology and cures for every illness imaginable? As it turns out, yes. With his parents’ jobs replaced by alien tech and no money for food, clean water, or the vuvv’s miraculous medicine, Adam and his girlfriend, Chloe, have to get creative to survive. And since the vuvv crave anything they deem "classic" Earth culture, recording 1950s-style dates for them to watch in a pay-per-minute format seems like a brilliant idea. But it’s hard for Adam and Chloe to sell true love when they hate each other more with every passing episode. Soon enough, Adam must decide how far he’s willing to go ― and what he’s willing to sacrifice ― to give the vuvv what they want.
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