At the turn of the 20th century, a young bride escapes the maddening prison of domestic life by serving the poor as an unlicensed nurse, but she risks the wrath of her lawyer husband, whose employer ruthlessly pursues and prosecutes unlicensed medical practitioners.
A gripping YA sci-fi thriller by German and Spiegel-bestselling author, Karl Olsberg. The Boy in a White Room was nominated for Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2018, Germany’s most prestigious youth fiction award. A fifteen-year-old boy wakes to find himself locked in a white, cube-shaped room. No windows. No doors. Total silence. He has no memories. No clue how he got there. No idea who he is. A computer-generated voice named Alice responds to his questions. Through her, he is able to access the internet. As the boy uncovers snippets of his story -- an attempted abduction, a critial injury, a murder -- it becomes clearer. But when some of the pieces don't fit, how can he tell what's real and what's not? Who can he trust? And who is he really?
Never is forgotten, are the words that people send to me. Sentiments from family, friends and strangers with some memories. Sticks and stones have broken bones but words have done the worse to me. Collected all together to prove to all that Texts Are Poetry. East London poet Eli Oko releases her first anthology of poems based on her text messages to share a deeply honest and personal journey. Embark on this adventure in Volume I from the Works From A White Room Collection.
The White Room is a breathtaking, dizzying magic carpet ride of triumph and tragedy. It is a tapestry woven out of rich, rare and engaging elements; from unique and illuminating perspectives on the world, and even the cosmos (including radical, ground breaking, new takes on astrophysics and the very purpose of life) to stunning insights into the central characters mental illness and manic depression, to the enlightening odyssey of his personal development. It is a razor wire commentary on society, both daring and irreverent, and an action story that will have you on the edge of your seat. Gut wrenching, riveting, lacerating, electrifying, and at times hilarious, this consistently powerful tale, loaded with beautiful and vivid images, moves like a poetry - it will move you - youll never be the same after The White Room.
"This poignant play by the author of Tell Me Another Story, Sing Me a Song, A Little Something for the Ducks; A Scent of Honeysuckle and A Bag of Green Apples is the story of two women, Margaret and Jessie, who have come to Jessie's childhood home to put it up for sale. While Margaret goes to find a real estate agent, Jessie has conversations with herself as a girl and with her dead father and her mother"--Page 4 of cover.
Is the time travel possible? A middle-aged librarian Jim Riley certainly thinks so, after he inherits a mysterious crystal ornament. During his trips into the past, Jim encounters something sinister lurking in the dark cobbled streets of a Victorian town and becomes a witness to horrific events. Things are not what they seem to be and Jim soon loses the track between dreams and reality.
“Save me save me save meI can't face this life aloneSave me save me save meI'm naked and I'm far from home”Leonard Flower Joel saved by Sandra Hardwicke from heroinCalypso Clay (Nee Fortnum-Guinness) saved from whisky.Constantine Ellis saved from his past. He had all the social bullets but they were blanks. Calypso, the most exotic bird imaginable trapped in a gilded cage.Leonard Flower Joel, made to do bad things, things he didn’t want to do before he could do good things.The rolling dice of life brings together three lost souls in the pastoral peace of ‘The Marches’. All hurt, all suffering, all in need.But people change. People fall in love, People fall out of love, Circumstances come, go, ebb and flow. Sometimes there’s an amazing convenient coincidence but mostly not!Constantine has a dragon to slay in Istanbul, Calypso has lost her beautiful son to the inevitable Eton / Oxbridge machine that is demanded by wealth. Learning to lead, Trained to manage in the ruthless smiling world of money. Salvador Clay hurts his multi-gened mother everyday but doesn’t know it. Joel - smart, sensible, makes all the right decisions but life still kicks him down. Maybe he should just make his own world. A world that no one else can touch. A world in a white room with Black curtains.
EVERY KNOT CAN BE UNTIED Beyond the layers, beyond the Long Land, beyond the Omniverse itself, the White Room awaits. Some call it death. Some think of it as purgatory—a waiting room to the afterlife. For Sawyer and his family, it's just one more stop on the journey to battle Aeodymus, and prevent him from unravelling all of reality. As Sawyer and his companions fight their way through dark minions and twisted creatures, they face off against a new threat—the villainous Loom and his army of monsters. For Sawyer, overcoming this new foe will mean leaving is family and friends behind, and facing the dangers of the White Room on his own. This is one tangle that even Sawyer may not be able to unravel. HERE'S WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT KEVIN TUMLINSON'S BOOKS: ★★★★★ "[Sawyer Jackson and the Long Land] was a great read! I love these style of books—magic, science fiction, alternate reality. I couldn't put it down." —S., Independent Reviewer ★★★★★ “[Kevin Tumlinson] is what every writer should be—entertaining and thought-provoking.” — Shana Tehan, Press Secretary, U.S. House of Representatives ★★★★★ “There was something so fascinating about [Citadel] and the cast of characters [Kevin Tumlinson] put together.” — Leah Petersen, Author of Fighting Gravity ★★★★★ "I discovered Kevin Tumlinson from The Creative Penn podcast and immediately got his novel, Evergreen. I read it in like 3 seconds. It's the most fast paced story I've encountered." —R.D. Holland, Independent Reviewer
The ski resorts in Hokkaido receive an amazing average of 14 to 15 metres of dry powder each season. This book is about a group of friends travelling around Hokkaido seeking the adventure of skiing deep powder and the culture experience Japan has to offer. Serious about powder skiing, try Hokkaido.
The celebrated Tommy first comes into view on a dirty London stair, and he was in sexless garments, which were all he had, and he was five, and so though we are looking at him, we must do it sideways, lest he sit down hurriedly to hide them. That inscrutable face, which made the clubmen of his later days uneasy and even puzzled the ladies while he was making love to them, was already his, except when he smiled at one of his pretty thoughts or stopped at an open door to sniff a potful. On his way up and down the stair he often paused to sniff, but he never asked for anything; his mother had warned him against it, and he carried out her injunction with almost unnecessary spirit, declining offers before they were made, as when passing a room, whence came the smell of fried fish, he might call in, "I don't not want none of your fish," or "My mother says I don't not want the littlest bit," or wistfully, "I ain't hungry," or more wistfully still, "My mother says I ain't hungry." His mother heard of this and was angry, crying that he had let the neighbors know something she was anxious to conceal, but what he had revealed to them Tommy could not make out, and when he questioned her artlessly, she took him with sudden passion to her flat breast, and often after that she looked at him long and woefully and wrung her hands.