Ergebnis für "Exile" in Literatur & Belletristik

With a speculative and surreal style, Amy Lee Lillard’s prize-winning collection explores a living museum of women from across time; a life app that forces women to comply with beauty standards; a future internment camp with a literal race for survival; and a band of middle-aged Riot Grrrls, taking vengeance with a new power. With humor, rage, and a razor-sharp eye for detail, Exile in Guyville renders the invisible as seen, and the powerless as empowered.

Revolution. Riot. Enslaved magical creatures and an exiled, reluctant hero. Bella Kanto finds herself aboard a hostile ship bound for a frontier town. When she encounters an old lover along the way, she has a chance to escape—but does she really want to take it? Meanwhile, apprentice Lucy and her friend Maz have been kidnapped from Tabat and taken to the Southern Isles in search of ancient magic. They fear what will happen when they get there, particularly when their kidnapper realizes he’s wrong about Lucy’s identity.

In a poetic exploration of the trauma that comes when one is forced to choose between the ones they love and being true to themselves, "Middle to Margins" brings the listener on one person's journey of coming out as transgender. With vulnerability and raw honesty, poet Dakota Senese shares the whirlwind of self-discovery, rejection, and belonging. From the loss of community when he was rejected by his conservative church to discovering a new-to-him way of living authentically as the man he is, the poetry is ultimately grounded in hope and love.

Defiant young Annie Laurie Balfour is sent to a distant land in hopes of avoiding a devastating public scandal. There she acquires a dark and dangerous ally, a guardian angel of great, and terrible power. Together they return to Scotland to extract vengeance and gain justice for Annie. Will they succeed or die in the attempt? Only time will tell.