Author: Karl Olsberg
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338831852
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
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?
Room
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178682177X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178682177X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.
The White Room
Author: D.C. Charters
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 145026820X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
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.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 145026820X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
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.
Boy, Snow, Bird
Author: Helen Oyeyemi
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1743519591
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn't exactly a welcoming town, but it does have the virtue of being the last stop on the bus route she took from New York. Flax Hill is also the hometown of Arturo Whitman - craftsman, widower, and father of Snow. SNOW is mild-mannered, radiant and deeply cherished - exactly the sort of little girl Boy never was, and Boy is utterly beguiled by her. If Snow displays a certain inscrutability at times, that's simply a characteristic she shares with her father, harmless until Boy gives birth to Snow's sister, Bird. When BIRD is born Boy is forced to re-evaluate the image Arturo's family have presented to her, and Boy, Snow and Bird are broken apart.
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1743519591
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn't exactly a welcoming town, but it does have the virtue of being the last stop on the bus route she took from New York. Flax Hill is also the hometown of Arturo Whitman - craftsman, widower, and father of Snow. SNOW is mild-mannered, radiant and deeply cherished - exactly the sort of little girl Boy never was, and Boy is utterly beguiled by her. If Snow displays a certain inscrutability at times, that's simply a characteristic she shares with her father, harmless until Boy gives birth to Snow's sister, Bird. When BIRD is born Boy is forced to re-evaluate the image Arturo's family have presented to her, and Boy, Snow and Bird are broken apart.
The White Rooms
Author: Tim Bragg
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 141165725X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Adam appears to lead a perfect life but his marriage is in trouble, he's gambled 'credit' away and can't afford 'shots' to protect him from subearth's disease. With his wife pregnant, a beautiful sub-girl called Zee asks for help. Thus begins Adam's terrifying descent into forbidden lands and relationships...
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 141165725X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Adam appears to lead a perfect life but his marriage is in trouble, he's gambled 'credit' away and can't afford 'shots' to protect him from subearth's disease. With his wife pregnant, a beautiful sub-girl called Zee asks for help. Thus begins Adam's terrifying descent into forbidden lands and relationships...
The White Room
Author: Fergus Hume
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The White Room" by Fergus Hume. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The White Room" by Fergus Hume. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The White Room
Author: Martyn Waites
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453237577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
DIVA veteran returns from war to find a city torn apart by poverty and crime/div DIVA year after the end of World War II, Jack Smeaton has returned to Newcastle, a nineteen-year-old with bone-white hair and a memory that cannot be cleansed. After the eye-opening experience of war, he sees his hometown for what it really is: a city so blighted by poverty that it’s hard to believe his was the victorious nation. A visit to a socialist meeting puts Smeaton under the sway of T. Dan Smith, a future city councilman whose dream is to rebuild Newcastle./divDIV /divDIVAs they spend the next decades working to improve the lot of the working man, something sinister bubbles underneath the surface of their new city. In the shadows of the towers Smith builds to house the city’s poor, a psychopath lurks, ready to christen the Newcastle of the future with the blood of the past./div
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453237577
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
DIVA veteran returns from war to find a city torn apart by poverty and crime/div DIVA year after the end of World War II, Jack Smeaton has returned to Newcastle, a nineteen-year-old with bone-white hair and a memory that cannot be cleansed. After the eye-opening experience of war, he sees his hometown for what it really is: a city so blighted by poverty that it’s hard to believe his was the victorious nation. A visit to a socialist meeting puts Smeaton under the sway of T. Dan Smith, a future city councilman whose dream is to rebuild Newcastle./divDIV /divDIVAs they spend the next decades working to improve the lot of the working man, something sinister bubbles underneath the surface of their new city. In the shadows of the towers Smith builds to house the city’s poor, a psychopath lurks, ready to christen the Newcastle of the future with the blood of the past./div
The White Room
Author: Craig Higginson
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250230977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
From celebrated South African novelist and playwright Craig Higginson, an international literary tale of loss and love. South African playwright Hannah Meade arrives in London for the opening night of her new play. She has arranged to meet Pierre, the student she was in love with when she taught English in Paris. During their time together, they lied their way towards truths they were too young and inexperienced to endure. Perhaps this time they will have a second chance. As the reader is drawn from contemporary London back to Paris on the eve of the war in Iraq, the mystery of past events is brought to vivid life in a series of dramatic, intriguing and deeply moving encounters. Written in layered, stark prose, The White Room lays bare many of our assumptions about language, identity, memory, loss and love.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250230977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
From celebrated South African novelist and playwright Craig Higginson, an international literary tale of loss and love. South African playwright Hannah Meade arrives in London for the opening night of her new play. She has arranged to meet Pierre, the student she was in love with when she taught English in Paris. During their time together, they lied their way towards truths they were too young and inexperienced to endure. Perhaps this time they will have a second chance. As the reader is drawn from contemporary London back to Paris on the eve of the war in Iraq, the mystery of past events is brought to vivid life in a series of dramatic, intriguing and deeply moving encounters. Written in layered, stark prose, The White Room lays bare many of our assumptions about language, identity, memory, loss and love.
White Room of My Remembering
Author: Jean Lenox Toddie
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573625732
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573625732
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
"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.
The White Room
Author: Rick Hautala
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The old Harris house has been vacant for years. A summer vacation in Milton, Maine, would he the best thing for Tim Harris, his wife, Polly, and their young son, Brian. Restoring Tim’s childhood home to its original splendor would help Polly restore her own life after a breakdown that left her fragile and afraid. But for Polly, it’s the beginning of new nightmare.… This summer it’s coming to life. Human bones are discovered in a nearby construction site. Brian nearly drowns while playing with a mysterious new playmate. Polly hears whispers no one else can hear. She sees a young girl no one else can see. And Polly’s been warned. Something else lives in the Harris house. It’s long dead but not forgotten. And it’s not forgiving. In the dark at the top of the stairs, it’s waiting, in … the white room.
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The old Harris house has been vacant for years. A summer vacation in Milton, Maine, would he the best thing for Tim Harris, his wife, Polly, and their young son, Brian. Restoring Tim’s childhood home to its original splendor would help Polly restore her own life after a breakdown that left her fragile and afraid. But for Polly, it’s the beginning of new nightmare.… This summer it’s coming to life. Human bones are discovered in a nearby construction site. Brian nearly drowns while playing with a mysterious new playmate. Polly hears whispers no one else can hear. She sees a young girl no one else can see. And Polly’s been warned. Something else lives in the Harris house. It’s long dead but not forgotten. And it’s not forgiving. In the dark at the top of the stairs, it’s waiting, in … the white room.