Ali Shaw

A mysterious and frightening alchemical metamorphosis has befallen Ida Maclaird - she is slowly turning into glass, from the feet up. She returns to St Hauda's Land, where she believes the glass first took hold, in search of a cure. Midas Crook is a young loner, who has lived on the islands his entire life. When he meets Ida, something about her sad, defiant spirit pierces his emotional defenses. As Midas helps Ida come to terms with her affliction, she gradually unpicks the knots of his heart, and they begin to fall in love...What they need most is time - and time is slipping away fast. Will they find a way to stave off the spread of the glass? The Girl with Glass Feet is a dazzlingly imaginative and gripping first novel, a love story to treasure.

The Girl with Glass Feet

There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins. There is no warning. No chance to prepare. They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves. Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realises that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognisable world. Michelle, his wife, is across the sea in Ireland and he has no way of knowing whether the trees have come for her too. Then Adrien meets green-fingered Hannah and her teenage son Seb. Together, they set out to find Hannah's forester brother, to reunite Adrien with his wife - and to discover just how deep the forest goes. Their journey will take them to a place of terrible beauty and violence, to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves.

The Trees

From the author of the stunning debut novel The Girl with Glass Feet comes another magical story of love, discovery, and nature When Elsa's father is killed in a tornado, all she wants is to escape--from New York, her job, her boyfriend--to somewhere new, anonymous, set apart. For some years she has been haunted by a sight once seen from an airplane: a tiny, isolated settlement called Thunderstown. Thunderstown has received many a pilgrim, and young Elsa becomes its latest, drawn to this weather-ravaged backwater, this place rendered otherworldly by the superstitions of its denizens. In Thunderstown, they say, the weather can come to life, and when Elsa meets Finn Munro, an outcast living in the mountains above the town, she wonders whether she has witnessed just that. For Finn has an incredible secret: he has a thunderstorm inside of him. Not everyone in town wants happiness for Elsa and Finn. As events turn against them, can they weather the tempest--can they survive at all? This work of lyrical, mercurial magic and imagination is a modern-day fable about the elements of love.

The Man who Rained

Seltsame Dinge gehen auf St. Hauda's Land vor: Eigentümliche geflügelte Kreaturen schwirren umher, in schneebedeckten Wäldern versteckt sich ein Tier, das mit seinem Blick alles in Weiss verwandelt, im Meer sind wundersame Feuerwerke zu beobachten ... und Ida Maclaird verwandelt sich langsam, von den Füssen aufwärts, zu Glas. Nun kehrt sie an den Ort zurück, wo alles begann, in der Hoffnung, hier Hilfe zu finden. Doch stattdessen findet sie die grosse Liebe: Mit ihrer traurigen und trotzigen Art schafft Ida es, die Knoten in Midas' Herzen zu lösen. Gemeinsam versuchen sie nun, das Glas aufzuhalten. Ali Shaw wurde 1982 geboren und wuchs in einer kleinen Stadt in Dorset, Grossbritannien, auf. Nach seinem Abschluss in Englischer Literatur an der Universität von Lancaster arbeitete er als Buchhändler und in einer Bibliothek in Oxford. Sein Debüt Das Mädchen mit den gläsernen Füssen war ein grosser Überraschungserfolg und wurde in 18 Sprachen übersetzt. Gerade hat Ali Shaw seinen zweiten Roman beendet.

Roman

Das Mädchen mit den gläsernen Füßen

Der Mann, der den Regen träumt

Tyttö joka muuttui lasiksi

Kat Lee

Cheli Sigler

Karen Bozeman

Lindsey Bell

Sabrina Gogerty

God. Plan. Move. is a 6 week study that looks to God's Word for the Biblical foundation for: Meeting with God each day, planning our days with His glory in mind, and moving toward a healthy lifestyle to enable us to obey His call-- three components of a life-giving morning routine! Each day has a scripture reading, a relatable and insightful commentary and a journal page with optional action steps to take your study of the passage as deep as you'd like to go.Our Hello Mornings Bible studies are specifically designed to help you consistently dive deep into Scripture whether you have five minutes or fifty. Each 6-week study contains: daily scripture, commentary, study prompts daily worksheets with planning and fitness space

A Topical Bible Study Based on the 3 Core Elements of the Hello Mornings Routine

God. Plan. Move

An inventive and richly visual novel about young lovers on a quest to find a cure for a magical ailment, perfect for readers of Alice Hoffman Strange things are happening on the remote and snowbound archipelago of St. Hauda's Land. Unusual winged creatures flit around the icy bogland, albino animals hide themselves in the snow-glazed woods, and Ida Maclaird is slowly turning into glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts, a mainlander who has visited the islands only once before. Yet during that one fateful visit the glass transformation began to take hold, and now she has returned in search of a cure. Midas Crook is a young loner who has lived on the islands his entire life. When he meets Ida, something about her sad, defiant spirit pierces his emotional defenses. As Midas helps Ida come to terms with her affliction, she gradually unpicks the knots of his heart. Love must be paid in precious hours and, as the glass encroaches, time is slipping away fast. Will they find a way to stave off the spread of the glass? The Girl with Glass Feet is a dazzlingly imaginative and magical first novel, a love story to treasure.

A Novel

La ragazza dai piedi di vetro

Alice May Douglas

Bipolar? No one really knows what it is. Even today it's still massively misunderstood and badly affected by stigma. Ali Douglas was no different when she was diagnosed in 2009. Beautiful Chaos is the story of one woman's triumph against Bipolar II and a no-holds-barred account of the reality that comes with the diagnosis.

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