Alice has spent most of her life on the road, always one step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at her heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her isolated estate - the Hazel Wood- Alice discovers how bad her luck can really get.

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Skremmende magisk! En del av deg kommer aldri til å forlate Hazel Wood. Sytten år gamle Alice og moren har tilbrakt størsteparten av Alices liv på veien, alltid et steg foran den nifse uflaksen som alltid forfølger dem. Men da Alices mormor, den hemmelighetsfulle forfatteren bak en kultroman med bekmørke eventyr, dør alene og isolert på godset sitt, Hazel Wood, forstår Alice hvor forferdelige uflaksen kan bli: Moren blir kidnappet - av en skikkelse som hevder å komme fra Hinterland, den onde overnaturlige verdenen der mormorens historier fant sted. Alices eneste ledetråd er beskjeden moren etterlot seg: «Hold deg unna Hazel Wood.». Alice har alltid holdt seg langt unna mormorens merkelige fans. Men nå har hun ikke annet valg enn å alliere seg med klassekameraten Ellery Finch, en Hinterland superfan som kan ha skjulte motiver for å stille opp for henne. For å finne moren, må Alice først reise til Hazel Wood, så inn i verdenen der mormorens fortellinger begynte - og der hun kanskje kan finne ut hvorfor hennes egen fortelling gikk så dårlig.ennom nifst og fengende.» «Tvers igjennom nifst og fengende.» Kristin Cashore. «Denne boka er ren fantasygodteri.» Stephanie Garber. «Skjebnebestemt til å bli en klassiker.» - Kami Garcia.

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Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she’s always known―that there's more to her mother than meets the eye.

Alice has fought hard for a normal life. Having escaped the Hinterland - the strange, pitch-dark world she was born into - she has washed up in New York City, determined to build a new future for herself. But when her fellow survivors start being brutally murdered, Alice must face the fact that the Hinterland cannot be so easily escaped. And that, from the shadows of her past something - or someone - is coming for her...

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This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical manifestations, costume is explored in six thematic chapters, examining the transformative ritual of costuming; choruses as reflective of society; the grotesque, transgressive costume; the female sublime as emancipation; costume as sculptural art in motion; and the here-and-now as history. Viewing the material costume as a crucial aspect in the preparation, presentation and reception of live performance, the book brings together costumed performances through history. These range from ancient Greece to modern experimental productions, from medieval theatre to modernist dance, from the `fashion plays' to contemporary Shakespeare, marking developments in both culture and performance. Revealing the relationship between dress, the body and human existence, and acknowledging a global as well as an Anglo and Eurocentric perspective, this book shows costume's ability to cross both geographical and disciplinary borders. Through it, we come to question the extent to which the material costume actually co-authors the performance itself, speaking of embodied histories, states of being and never-before imagined futures, which come to life in the temporary space of the performance.With a contribution by Melissa Trimingham, University of Kent, UK

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Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues.Contents:Editors' IntroductionCredit Policy as Fiscal Policy, Deborah LucasComments by Alan J. Auerbach and William G. GaleLearning from Potentially Biased Statistics, Alberto Cavallo, Guillermo Cruces, and Ricardo Perez-TrugliaComments by Stefan Nagel and Ricardo ReisDoes the United States Have a Productivity Slowdown or a Measurement Problem?, David M. Byrne, John G. Fernald, and Marshall B. ReinsdorfComments by Martin Neil Baily and Robert J. GordonUnderstanding Declining Fluidity in the U.S. Labor Market, Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, Ricardo Trezzi, and Abigail WozniakComments by Erica L. Groshen and John HaltiwangerMeasuring Income and Wealth at the Top Using Administrative and Survey Data, Jesse Bricker, Alice Henriques,Jacob Krimmel, and John SabelhausComments by Katharine G. Abraham and Wojciech KopczukIncome Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Decision to Drop Out of High School, Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. LevineComments by Miles Corak and Robert A. Moffitt

From climate change, debt, and refugee crises to energy security, environmental disasters, and terrorism, the events that lead nightly newscasts and drive public policy demand a global perspective. In the twentieth century the world sought solutions through formal institutions of international governance such as the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and the World Bank, but present-day responses to global realities are often more provisional, improvisational, and contingent. Tracing this uneven history in order to identify principal actors, contesting ideologies, and competing rhetoric, Negative Cosmopolitanism challenges the Kantian ideal of cosmopolitanism as the precondition for a perpetual global peace. Uniting literary scholars with researchers working on contemporary problems and those studying related issues of the past - including slavery, industrial capitalism, and corporate imperialism - essays in this volume scrutinize the entanglement of cosmopolitanism within expanding networks of trade and global capital from the eighteenth century to the present. By doing so, the contributors pinpoint the ways in which whole populations have been unwillingly caught up in a capitalist reality that has little in common with the earlier ideals of cosmopolitanism. A model for provoking new and necessary questions about neoliberalism, biopolitics, colonialism, citizenship, and xenophobia, Negative Cosmopolitanism establishes a fresh take on the representation of globalization and modern life in history and literature. Contributors Include Timothy Brennan (University of Minnesota), Juliane Collard (University of British Columbia), Mike Dillon (California State University, Fullerton), Sneja Gunew (University of British Columbia), Dina Gusejnova (University of Sheffield), Heather Latimer (University of British Columbia), Pamela McCallum (University of Calgary), Geordie Miller (Dalhousie University), Dennis Mischke (Universitat Stuttgart), Peter Nyers (McMaster University), Liam O'Loughlin (Pacific Lutheran University), Crystal Parikh (New York University), Mark Simpson (University of Alberta), Melissa Stephens (Vancouver Island University), and Paul Ugor (Illinois State University).

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