Part The Hazel Wood, part Stranger Things, this spine-tingling, genre-bending novel from Elizabeth Byrne will leave readers breathless as they follow a group of teens who face catastrophic consequences after their friend gets bitten by the town's most feared creature.Anna Kellogg has always felt different. Growing up in Hartwood, New Jersey--where frequent disappearances are attributed to an urban-legend-like beast that dwells in the walled-in swamp at the center of town--can have that effect on people. But for Anna, it's more than that. Since she was a child, she's been plagued by episodes where she sees things others can't see. Feeling different is one thing, but actually being different is another. If it weren't for her best friend, Olivia, Anna's not sure where she'd fit in.But any hopes of having a normal senior year come to a halt when Olivia is attacked in the woods, bitten, and left for dead by a whirling cyclone of claws, fur, and teeth. Though Olivia survives, a sinister enti
後疫情時代的愛情小說留美鋼琴王子的奇遇故事衝擊傳統價值觀的愛情故事，疫情後的重生傳奇活在百分百不確定的時代裡我們需要全新的情愛探索和勇氣祕密俱樂部的紅牌舞男，獨具風格的女性菁英男伴，留美鋼琴王子，茱莉亞音樂學院鋼琴高材生，在疫情後時代成為了Covid Gigolo新冠舞男！一部顛覆傳統道德觀的跨國愛情小說Covid-19 是所有人痛恨的名詞，如果說《正常人Normal People》是千禧世代的青春愛情樣貌，《Covid Gigolo新冠舞男》就是疫情後時代的情愛苦楚和希望虛實融合的跨國情愛故事和場景。故事和人物跨越紐約和台灣，另類的疫情後紐約真實生活體驗，作者以國際共鳴感和電影畫面節奏創作這個注定被爭議的故事疫情後紐約的第一手珍貴攝影作品和生活場景這是一個關於旅居紐約的台灣鋼琴家於疫情後時代和異鄉眾女人們之間的情愛糾葛故事，作者以虛入實融合紐約和台灣的生活場景，透過恐懼和寂寞的鏡頭，凝視他與她們在無望和失望漩渦裡，對未來充滿茫然，在愛情裡執著糾葛，但在性愛的甦醒和陪伴的意義裡，帶著新希望繼續活下去。不管男人或女人，只要翻閱了《Covid Gigolo新冠舞男》這本書，相信在每個人心中總會有某樣東西甦醒，愛情的意義、性愛的意義、相伴的意義以及人生的意義。The novel is fabulous. I am enjoying "Covid Gigolo" very much.（這本小說精彩極了！我非常享受閱讀《新冠舞男》。）── Daniel Teitler│鋼琴家&專業翻譯行到水窮處，生命只是暫時轉個彎，待一切重新整頓完成，終將回到正軌。──李欣嘉│天馬行空電影公司媒體公關本書作者鮮活的筆觸，敘述了在紐約市的近身觀察，當音樂家失去了舞台，在殘酷的現實生活中不知所措，追求完美的他不願輕易認輸，在理想與現實之間不斷拉扯，歷經了心靈上的巨大磨難，在生活面前他屈服了！──何康國│國立師範大學教授不管是紐約或台北，愛情的驚心與離奇，都動人，也都對生命有傷感的啟示。這是一部如音樂的小說，節拍抑揚，曲終了，故事卻作在你心頭，不會散去。──馬家輝│文化評論學者其實我們每個人都有自己的「疫情」需要走出、需要經過「疫情」後的重生。──張己任│前東吳大學音樂系主任一種真實卻又疏離感強烈的奇異氛圍，這是後疫情年代之凋零又重生的愛情新風華……強烈推薦！──張欽全│台北教育大
Hey, Kiddo (圖文書) 獲2018年美國國家圖書獎青年文學類獎項。是作者Jarrett Krosoczka自身的故事，因為母親吸毒成癮進出勒戒所、父親失蹤甚至連名字他都不知道，還好還有祖父母扶養他長大。在幼兒園，Jarrett Krosoczka 的老師讓他畫出他的家人，有媽媽和爸爸。但他的家庭比這複雜得多。他和祖父母住在一起，兩個非常吵鬧、非常有愛心、非常固執的人。他試圖讓他童年的非正常生活盡可能正常，發現透過繪畫來表達自己，即使他對一切所知不多。直到十幾歲的時候，他才能開始拼湊家庭的種種。作者透過圖像記述了自己的不一樣的成長過程，他找到讓自己克服難題的方法，希望也能對成長中的青少年帶來啟發。In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along.Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible, finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's g
A bullied 12-year-old boy must find a new normal after his mother has a stroke and his life is turned upside down.William Wyatt Orser, a socially awkward middle schooler, is a wordsmith who, much to his annoyance, acquired the ironically ungrammatical nickname of "Worser so long ago that few people at school know to call him anything else.Worser grew up with his mom, a professor of rhetoric and an introvert just like him, in a comfortable routine that involved reading aloud in the evenings, criticizing the grammar of others, ignoring the shabby mess of their house, and suffering the bare minimum of social interactions with others. But recently all that has changed. His mom had a stroke that left her nonverbal, and his Aunt Iris has moved in with her cats, art projects, loud music, and even louder clothes. Home for Worser is no longer a refuge from the unsympathetic world at school that it has been all his life.Feeling lost, lonely, and overwhelmed, Worser searches for a new sanctuary a
千禧時代的代言人──莎莉‧魯尼最新作品《美麗的世界，你在哪裡》原文書。四名即將踏入三十歲的年輕人的命運故事…我們要在哪裡生活，要過哪一種生活？今天人們還能相信存在一個美麗的世界嗎？A new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with FriendsAlice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young―but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
千禧時代的代言人──莎莉‧魯尼最新作品《美麗的世界，你在哪裡》原文書。四名即將踏入三十歲的年輕人的命運故事…我們要在哪裡生活，要過哪一種生活？今天人們還能相信存在一個美麗的世界嗎？A new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with FriendsAlice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
Companion edition to the major film written by Rachel Joyce, award-winning author of the internationally bestselling book, directed by Hettie Macdonald (Normal People) and starring Oscar-winner Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton*Contains exclusive new behind-the-scenes insights and colour photographsHarold is an ordinary man who has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day...and just keeps walking.This edition includes stills from the film; also exclusive material about adapting novel to book by Rachel Joyce; Rachel Joyce in conversation with the producers; and insights from the producer about the challenges of making the movie.'The odyssey of a simple man, original, subtle and touching.' Claire Tomalin'From the moment I met Harold Fry, I didn't want to leave him. Impossible to put down.' Erica Wagner, The Times
A compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood, exploring the conflicting emotions that tie us to our children.Edition to tie-in with Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut (a film starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Paul Mescal of Normal People)
Activist-academic Meg John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. A kaleidoscope of characters from the diverse worlds of pop-culture, film, activism and academia guide us on a journey through the ideas, people and events that have shaped queer theory’.From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged.Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what’s normal’, such as Alfred Kinsey’s view of sexuality as a spectrum between heterosexuality and homosexuality, Judith Butler’s view of gendered behavior as a performance, the playWicked, which reinterprets characters from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, or
A Netflix Original series!The second book in the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling series, with over 7 million copies in print!"Terrifyingly fun! Delivers big thrills and even bigger laughs."--Jeff Kinney, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Diary of a Wimpy KidThe zombies are disappearing. This might seem like a good thing, since zombies eat your brains, but normal human kid Jack Sullivan is suspicious. He keeps hearing an eerie shrieking noise that seems to be almost summoning the zombies―but to where, and for what (probably) foul purpose?Jack, his three best friends (maybe the only people left on Earth), and their pet monster Rover need to get to the bottom of this. Along the way they encounter a lot more than they bargained for, including a giant Wormungulous, a pizza parlor monster hangout, an ancient evil who destroys worlds, and a stereo system that is totally the bomb. Can Jack figure out why the zombies are vanishing . . . before he and his
Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connec
