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SHE ONLY STEPPED OUTSIDE FOR A NIGHT to finally become the singer she always wanted to be. But a night was all it took to turn Sofia's world upside down - a minute she'd regret for the rest of her life. Because when she returned, she found her sister killed. Her parents blame Sofia. The killer's still out there, watching her, and he doesn't seem to be mortal.

Now, something's changing. Powers rise within Sofia, and as she's set to uncover the truth about her sister's death with the help of a striking demon, she stumbles upon a terrible secret...

A past she has forgotten. A past she'd rather keep buried forever. A nightmare from which she cannot wake up.

Full length fiction.

Kurzbeschreibung

SHE ONLY STEPPED OUTSIDE FOR A NIGHT to finally become the singer she always wanted to be. But a night was all it took to turn Sofia's world upside down - a minute she'd regret for the rest of her life. Because when she returned, she found her sister killed. Her parents blame Sofia. The killer's still out there, watching her, and he doesn't seem to be mortal.

Now, something's changing. Powers rise within Sofia, and as she's set to uncover the truth about her sister's death with the help of a striking demon, she stumbles upon a terrible secret...

A past she has forgotten. A past she'd rather keep buried forever. A nightmare from which she cannot wake up.

Full length fiction.

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Amina works as an executive in a state-of-the-art IT company. She joined that company right after getting her degree and progressively climbed up through the ranks. Greater responsibilities also imply greater pressure. Amina spares no effort working overtime. And it?s not unusual for her to leave the office around midnight. But strange events will occur on a stormy night?

A complete story, as a tribute to josei manga.
?Lady? Collection, comic book, 32 pages.
Translated from French.

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17-year-old Kate has lived her whole life in abject poverty, with an alcoholic father and drug-addicted mother, who severely abuses Kate. At school, her second-hand clothing marks her as a target. Her refusal to stand up for herself makes her the recipient of her classmates taunts and bullying. That is, until Henry returns.

Henry Jamison moved away six years earlier, just as he and Kate had begun to develop feelings for one another. He returns to find the bright, funny, outgoing girl he had known now timidly hiding in corners, barely speaking to anyone around her, suspicious of even him.

Kate can't figure out what game Henry is playing with her - for surely it is a game. What else would the gorgeous, popular boy from her past want with her?

Kate finally decides to trust Henry's intentions, opening her heart to him. Just when it seems he might be genuine in his friendship, tragedy strikes, threatening everything Kate has worked so hard to gain. Can Henry help her to overcome this new devastation, or will it tear them apart forever?

Kurzbeschreibung

17-year-old Kate has lived her whole life in abject poverty, with an alcoholic father and drug-addicted mother, who severely abuses Kate. At school, her second-hand clothing marks her as a target. Her refusal to stand up for herself makes her the recipient of her classmates taunts and bullying. That is, until Henry returns.

Henry Jamison moved away six years earlier, just as he and Kate had begun to develop feelings for one another. He returns to find the bright, funny, outgoing girl he had known now timidly hiding in corners, barely speaking to anyone around her, suspicious of even him.

Kate can't figure out what game Henry is playing with her - for surely it is a game. What else would the gorgeous, popular boy from her past want with her?

Kate finally decides to trust Henry's intentions, opening her heart to him. Just when it seems he might be genuine in his friendship, tragedy strikes, threatening everything Kate has worked so hard to gain. Can Henry help her to overcome this new devastation, or will it tear them apart forever?

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Playing on every teen?s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The "New Pretties" are then free to play and party, while the younger "Uglies" look on enviously and spend the time before their own transformations in plotting mischievous tricks against their elders. Tally Youngblood is one of the most daring of the Uglies, and her imaginative tricks have gotten her in trouble with the menacing department of Special Circumstances. She has yearned to be pretty, but since her best friend Shay ran away to the rumored rebel settlement of recalcitrant Uglies called The Smoke, Tally has been troubled. The authorities give her an impossible choice: either she follows Shay?s cryptic directions to The Smoke with the purpose of betraying the rebels, or she will never be allowed to become pretty. Hoping to rescue Shay, Tally sets off on the dangerous journey as a spy. But after finally reaching The Smoke she has a change of heart when her new lover David reveals to her the sinister secret behind becoming pretty. The fast-moving story is enlivened by many action sequences in the style of videogames, using intriguing inventions like hoverboards that use the rider?s skateboard skills to skim through the air, and bungee jackets that make wild downward plunges survivable -- and fun. Behind all the commotion is the disturbing vision of our own society -- the Rusties -- visible only in rusting ruins after a virus destroyed all petroleum. Teens will be entranced, and the cliffhanger ending will leave them gasping for the sequel. (Ages 12 and up) --Patty Campbell