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Tom Pollock
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London, The United Kingdom
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Ursula K. Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, David Almond, Alan Garner
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December 2010
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The City's Son (The Skyscraper Throne, #1)
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2012
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27 editions
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This Story Is a Lie
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2018
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15 editions
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The Glass Republic (The Skyscraper Throne, #2)
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2013
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23 editions
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Heartstream
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2019
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5 editions
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Our Lady of the Streets (The Skyscraper Throne, #3)
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2014
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17 editions
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Conejo blanco, lobo rojo
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White Rabbit, Red Wolf EXTENDED SAMPLER
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The Skyscraper Throne eBook Omnibus
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2015
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Skyscraper Throne (3 Book Series)
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The Rising: Journeys in the Wake of Global Warming
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2004
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Mal Peet
Mal Peet died yesterday.
I never met him. I dearly wish I had. I wish every possible comfort on those who did.
Life: An Exploded Diagram was the novel that opened YA up for me. It blew the doors off the field. It was everything I wanted a book to be and like nothing I’d ever read before.
Life, Keeper, Tamar. Again and again, Peet’s writing – his language, the shape of his stories, the sheer, true power of them – left me awestruck. It...before.
Life,did.Life:yesterday.I Read more of this blog post »
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A working class boy and an upper crust girl fall in love in the shadow of the Cuban Missile crisis. In between chapters of Clem and Frankie racing to get their rocks off before the bombs start falling, and hilariously acute looks at Soviet ...more |
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Tom Pollock
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City of Stairs
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"Oh wow - hard to find words to describe how much I loved this book and indeed the whole trilogy. Couldn't stop reading but didn't want it to end either. The first two books were full of imagination and action but this one is the best of the three..."
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“Our memories are like a city: we tear some structures down, and we use rubble of the old to raise up new ones. Some memories are bright glass, blindingly beautiful when they catch the sun, but then there are the darker days, when they reflect only the crumbling walls of their derelict neighbours. Some memories are buried under years of patient construction; their echoing halls may never again be seen or walked down, but still they are the foundations for everything that stands above them.
"Glas told me once that that's what people are, mostly: memories, the memories in their own heads, and the memories of them in other people's. And if memories are like a city, and we are our memories, then we are like cities too. I've always taken comfort in that.”
― The City's Son
"Glas told me once that that's what people are, mostly: memories, the memories in their own heads, and the memories of them in other people's. And if memories are like a city, and we are our memories, then we are like cities too. I've always taken comfort in that.”
― The City's Son
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“Our memories are like a city: we tear some structures down, and we use rubble of the old to raise up new ones. Some memories are bright glass, blindingly beautiful when they catch the sun, but then there are the darker days, when they reflect only the crumbling walls of their derelict neighbours. Some memories are buried under years of patient construction; their echoing halls may never again be seen or walked down, but still they are the foundations for everything that stands above them.
"Glas told me once that that's what people are, mostly: memories, the memories in their own heads, and the memories of them in other people's. And if memories are like a city, and we are our memories, then we are like cities too. I've always taken comfort in that.”
― The City's Son
"Glas told me once that that's what people are, mostly: memories, the memories in their own heads, and the memories of them in other people's. And if memories are like a city, and we are our memories, then we are like cities too. I've always taken comfort in that.”
― The City's Son
