β Scribed by Gaige, Amity
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit. Eric Schroder brings his daughter, Meadow, to Lake Champlain, Vermont, in an attempt to outrun the authorities amid a heated custody battle with his wife-- who will soon discover that her husband is not who he says he is. A deftly imagined novel on the many identities we take on in our lives-- those we are born with and those we construct for ourselves.;"Attending summer camp as a boy, Erik Schroder -- a first generation East German immigrant -- adopts the name of Eric Kennedy, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course"--Jacket flap.
A Novel
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Um folheto de divulgação de uma colΓ΄nia de fΓ©rias exibe meninos americanos felizes e integrados. Para se tornar um deles, o adolescente Erik, que deixou a Alemanha Oriental rumo aos Estados Unidos aos cinco anos, acredita que deve ter um inglΓͺs impecΓ‘vel e sem sotaque, uma histΓ³ria famil
"When seventeen-year-old Toby McGonigal finds himself lost in space, separated from his family, he expects his next drift into cold sleep to be his last. After all, the planet he's orbiting is frozen and sunless, and the cities are dead. But when Toby wakes again, he's surprised to discover a thrivi
Karl Schroeder. A Tom Doherty Associates Book.
"Every thirty years, ten billion visitors overrun Earth during one month of madness: partying, polluting, and brawling. In between, the world is ruled by the Million; the inheritors and custodians of all of humanity's wealth and history, they lead unimaginable lives of privilege and wealth, and they
Karl Schroeder is one of the new stars of hard SF. His novels, Ventus and Permanence, have established him as a new force in the field. Now he extends his reach into Larry Niven territory, returning to the same distant future in which Ventus was set, but employing a broader canvas, to tell the story