Anne Bishop
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Entdecke eine Welt, die von den Anderen bevölkert wird - unheimliche Wesen, die diese Welt beherrschen und für die Menschen Beute sind. Meg Corbyn ist eine Cassandra Sangue - eine Blutprophetin - und kann in die Zukunft sehen, wenn ihre Haut geritzt wird. Eine Gabe, die sich eher wie ein Fluch anfühlt. Meg wird von ihrem Aufseher wie eine Sklavin gehalten, damit er unbegrenzten Zugang zu ihren Visionen hat. Doch als sie entkommt, ist der einzig...
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"There are people who break open and make a new, bigger, self. But some of us are ... brittle."
When stress causes an old trauma to surface, Lucy, a longtime community organizer, teacher and anti-poverty activist, loses control of her life. On probation and living on the streets of Halifax's North End, all she has left is friends. Faithful friends like Judith, her lawyer, who is helping her take back her life.
Lucy begins to regularly sneak into...
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2024.
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"A master of bringing fantasy worlds to life, this collection showcases Anne Bishop's impressive range, from rarities of her earliest writing to the Realms of the Blood, from darker fairytale retellings to the Landscapes of Ephemera, and from standalone stories of space exploration and fantastical creatures to the contemporary fantasy terrain of the World of the Others. Includes previously published and unpublished tales, as well as two brand-new...
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From E.B. White's motherly Charlotte to J.R.R. Tolkien's monstrous Shelob, spiders both lovable and loathsome have crept their way into human literature. Here is a collection of tales about these fearsome, yet fascinating creatures. A golden spider learns how to spin webs of dreams and visions…A modern London barrister is chosen to be the vessel for an ancient African god…A scientist discovers some legends are all too true…An outlawed demigod...