The worst moment of Sam's life was captured on video and shared across the internet for all to gawk at. This is something she has in common with Robot, who just wants to move past the mistakes he's made, if only his small town will let...
Outcasts
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Auteur:Bauman, ZygmuntSommaire:The 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts is an inevitable outcome of modernization. Zygmunt Bauman shows that the problem of coping with 'human waste' provides a key for understanding some otherwise...
- Auteur:Carey, M. R.Sommaire:
Koli never planned to set foot outside his small village. He knew that beyond its walls lay a fearsome landscape filled with choker trees, vicious beasts, and Shunned men. But when he was exiled, he had no choice but to journey out into...
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Auteur:Nason, RielSommaire:Winner, Commonwealth Book Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and Frye Academy Award. Shortlisted, CLA Young Adult Book Award, Red Maple Award, and University of Canberra Book of the Year....
- Auteur:Rollins, JamesSommaire:
A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts. On the run, hunted by enemies old and new, they must learn to trust each other in order to...
- Auteur:Crutcher, PaigeSommaire:
"Mystical, magical, and wildly original...If Alice Hoffman and Sara Addison Allen had a witchy love child, she would be Paige Crutcher. Do not miss this beautifully realized debut!"-- JT Ellison, New York Times bestselling...
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Auteur:McCulloch, AmySommaire:In the land of Darhan, promises are bound by magic, tied into knots, and worn with pride. Those who break them are physically scarred, cast out into the desert, and stalked by vengeful shadows of their treachery. Fifteen-year-old Raim,...
- Auteur:Yuknavitch, LidiaSommaire:
A self-defined misfit makes a powerful case for not fitting in--for recognizing the beauty, and difficulty, in forging an original path. A misfit is a person who missed fitting in, a person who fits in badly, or this: a person who is...
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Auteur:Goobie, BethSommaire:Shadow Council chooses Sally to be their go-fer, and deliver messages of doom to selected targets. How will the other students respond? A tense, complex novel.
- Auteur:Carey, M. R.Sommaire:
Now that Koli and his companions have found the source of the signal they've been following--the mysterious "Sword of Albion"--there is hope that their perilous journey will finally be worth something. They're...
- Auteur:Woods, JaneSommaire:
Set in a small town in Quebec, Running Downhill Like Water is made up of four interconnected stories spanning fifty years of the lives of four people whose prospects have been violently shattered. Lucy, a perennial misfit, is thwarted...
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Auteur:Ellis, SarahSommaire:Lynn’s life is full — choir practice, school, shopping for the perfect jeans, and dealing with her free-spirited mother. Then one day her life is saved by a mysterious girl named Blossom, who introduces Lynn to her own world and family...
- Auteur:Quinn, Susan KayeSommaire:
When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep. Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can't read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can't be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a...
- Auteur:Quinn, Susan KayeSommaire:
When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can't read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can't be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a...
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Auteur:Blais, Marie-ClaireSommaire:Literary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the latest installment in her ongoing portrait of life in contemporary North America. In this swirling fresco, we meet...
- Auteur:McClellan, BrianSommaire:
From Brian McClellan, author of The Powder Mage trilogy, comes the first novel in the Glass Immortals series, In the Shadow of Lightning , an epic fantasy where magic is a finite resource—and it's running out. "Excellent...
- Auteur:Suri, TashaSommaire:
The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an exiled Amrithi mother she...
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Auteur:Madeleine LefebvreSommaire:« Qu'y a-t-il à comprendre ? Qui y a-t-il à comprendre ? Les autres ? Les autres sont des menaces, des mystères dangereux, des maladies contagieuses. Il faut se défendre de ces incompréhensibles par l'attaque, les tenir...
- Auteur:Ostlund, LoriSommaire:
After leaving his partner in New Mexico to start a new life in San Francisco, ESL teacher Aaron Englund seeks closure from a rejection-marked childhood and his own questionable choices by exploring his relationships with fellow misfits...
