Siân Mackie
1) The rot
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English
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"In this sequel to Odin's child, Hirka is stranded in a dying world, pursued by hunters and deadborn, and filled with deep longing for Rime, the friend she left behind in Ym. Now in modern-day England, Hirka finds that her fight for survival pales in comparison to the discovery of her true identity. For a thousand years, the source of the rot has craved freedom. A freedom only Hirka can provide. The Rot is the story of how far people will go for revenge,...
2) The might
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"Hirka has been sent to the world of the blind, a powerful and immortal people whom she has been taught to fear since infancy---and who now see her as their only chance to reignite a thousand-year-old war. The blind will use Hirka's ability to travel between worlds to return to Ym, the land where Hirka grew up and where the blind were betrayed all those years ago. And this time, they will prevail"--
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Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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A multicultural mash-up of seek-and-find puzzles and counting exercises, this unique picture book features crowd scenes in various locales ranging from a library to to a supermarket to a marathon race. Captions below each picture offer readers subtle visual cues and invitations to speculate about what they see. End matter includes solutions, additional leading questions, and an invitation to create more scenarios.
4) Odin's child
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Hirka has always been a little bit different, ostracized because her tail was cut off when she was an infant, so it is unexpected that she's summoned to take place in this year's Rite -- and even more shocking that her adoptive father reveals she is a tailless, powerless, human whose kiss rots flesh. The Rite also looms for Rime, a popular young man whose discovery of Hirka's secret threatens his destiny on the Council, and Urd, who would literally...
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Helvetiq
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The patriarchy is falling. It's time to smash it. This graphic novel shows you how. Patriarchy means "the rule of the father" and describes a system where men are in control. At least since the time of Aristotle, loud-mouthed men have called women weak and inferior. In entertaining comic book form, Smash the Patriarchy shames the culprits and salutes more than 100 inspiring women--from Pharaoh Hatshepsut to Mary Wollstonecraft to Petra Herrera--who...