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Tess Sharpe, Jessica Spotswood - Toil & Trouble, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Toil & Trouble

15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

Av Tess Sharpe, Jessica Spotswood

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This extraordinary collection of fifteen stories celebrates witches using their power and claiming their destinies. THERE'S NOTHING MORE POWERFUL THAN A WITCH WHO BELIEVES IN HERSELF.Women accused of witchcraft. Fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies, and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure, to kill…and to live. A young witch uses social media to connect with her astrology clients—and with a NASA-loving girl as cute as she is skeptical. A priestess of death investigates a ritualized murder. A bruja who cures lovesickness might need the remedy herself when she falls for an altar boy. A theater production is turned upside down by a visiting churel. A water witch uses her magic to survive the soldiers who have invaded her desert oasis. And in the near future, a group of girls accused of witchcraft must find their collective power…and destroy their captors.NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A TEEN WITCH!Featuring stories by:Tehlor Kay MejiaAndrea RobertsonTess SharpeLindsay SmithBrandy ColbertShveta ThakrarRobin TalleyNova Ren SumaZoraida CórdovaBrenna YovanoffKate HartJessica SpotswoodAnna-Marie McLemoreEmery LordElizabeth May
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-10-14
  • Mått: 133 x 202 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 288 g
  • Ålder: 12-15
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Läsålder: 12-15
  • Antal sidor: 400
  • Förlag: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • ISBN: 9781335424372
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TESS SHARPE (she/her) is the author of books for children, teens and adults, including Far From You and The Girls I've Been. She lives in the backwoods with a pack of dogs and a cabal of slightly feral forest cats. Jessica Spotswood is also the editor of the feminist historical anthologies A Tyranny of Petticoats and The Radical Element. She is the author of the Cahill Witch Chronicles and the contemporary novels Wild Swans and The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls. Tess Sharpe is the author of the young adult mystery Far From You and the feminist thriller for adults Barbed Wire Heart. She lives in the backwoods with a pack of dogs and a cabal of slightly feral forest cats.

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"...this powerful and diverse collection is perfect for fans of female-led fantasy stories. No damsels in distress to be found here." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review"At the heart of each [story] is a girl (or girls) learning to discover her power...The collective impact is undeniably resounding, and the particularly strong back half will leave readers more than a little bewitched themselves." –Booklist (starred review)"[A] provocative, eclectic collection." –Publishers Weekly (starred review)"This collection brings together short, witchy stories from fifteen brilliant YA authors...It's a whole lot of magical fun, and a definite must-read for all the witches in your life." –Bustle

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