Isle of the shapeshifters

Isle of the shapeshifters
Author: Otto Coontz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Total Pages: 209
Release: 1983-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780395345528

When she arrives for a brief stay, twelve-year-old Theo has no idea how tied she is to Nantucket's past and how instrumental she will soon be in shaping the island's future.

Isle of the Shapeshifters

Isle of the Shapeshifters
Author: Otto Coontz
Publisher: Bantam Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 1985
Genre: Children's stories, American.
ISBN: 9780553248012

Lured back to her homeland on Nantucket Island, young Theo Benedict, a girl of Indian descent, experiences terrifying visions and nightmares about the spirits of Nantucket rising from their ancient slumbering grounds.

Shapeshifters

Shapeshifters
Author: Gavin Francis
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1541697510

From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human life To be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo -- such as birth, puberty, and death, but also laughter, sleeping, and healing-and those that only some of our bodies will: like getting a tattoo, experiencing psychosis, suffering anorexia, being pregnant, or undergoing a gender transition. In Francis's hands, each event becomes an opportunity to explore the meaning of identity and the natures-biological, psychological, and philosophical-of our selves. True to its own subject, Shapeshifters combines Francis's lyrical imagination and deep knowledge of medicine and the humanities for a life-altering read.

Shapeshifter

Shapeshifter
Author: Holly Bennett
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1554695333

A woman trapped in the body of a deer. A dark sorcerer in relentless pursuit. A mysterious child, found alone on the slopes of a great mountain. This is the turbulent and heartbreaking story of Sive, a girl of the Otherworld who must flee her world of plenty to live as a hunted beast. Surviving hardship, danger and crushing loneliness, she finally finds refuge—and unexpected joy—with a mortal champion, Finn Mac Cumhail, the great hero of Irish legend. But Sive's ordeal is far from over. She has a gift the Dark Man craves, and the smallest misstep will give him his chance to snatch her away from all she holds dear. Set in the wild, magical landscape of Iron Age Ireland, Shapeshifter is a tale of rapacious evil, quiet courage and the healing power of love.

Island of Fog

Island of Fog
Author: Keith Robinson
Publisher: Unearthly Tales
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-03-16
Genre: Fog
ISBN: 9780984390601

"Eight children on a foggy island begin to experience frightening physical transformations. Are they freaks of nature, or subjects of a dark, sinister experiment?"--P. [4] of cover.

The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature

The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature
Author: Brian J. Frost
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780879728601

In this fascinating book, Brian J. Frost presents the first full-scale survey of werewolf literature covering both fiction and nonfiction works. He identifies principal elements in the werewolf myth, considers various theories of the phenomenon of shapeshifting, surveys nonfiction books, and traces the myth from its origins in ancient superstitions to its modern representations in fantasy and horror fiction. Frost's analysis encompasses fanciful medieval beliefs, popular works by Victorian authors, scholarly treatises and medical papers, and short stories from pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. Revealing the complex nature of the werewolf phenomenon and its tremendous and continuing influence, The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature is destined to become a standard reference on the subject.

Isle of Dragons

Isle of Dragons
Author: Pam Elise Harris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2020-12-07
Genre:
ISBN:

A sixteen-year-old girl is on the run, banished from her family's noble fiefdom and resolute to save her father after the royal court exiled him to a faraway land of untamed magic. In this provocative and fast-paced fantasy adventure, Jade Sol must survive on her wits and determination while unraveling the secrets and lies of the royal court. She discovers that their machinations not only threaten her and her family, but the world itself.

Isle

Isle
Author: Jes Dory
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2016-02-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1460275284

Eleanora Stone has spent her entire life moving from place to place with her aunt Ada, never putting down roots. Never making friends. When, on the cusp of her eighteenth birthday, she is brought to a remote island off the coast of Maine to live, everything changes—for this is a homecoming of sorts. Here she will connect not only with her family history but also the destiny of her blood. Here she will be expected to grow into powers beyond all imagining and unseat an ancient evil poised to destroy mankind.

Writing the Breakout Novel

Writing the Breakout Novel
Author: Donald Maass
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2002-08-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1599633256

Take your fiction to the next level! Maybe you're a first-time novelist looking for practical guidance. Maybe you've already been published, but your latest effort is stuck in mid-list limbo. Whatever the case may be, author and literary agent Donald Maass can show you how to take your prose to the next level and write a breakout novel - one that rises out of obscurity and hits the best-seller lists. Maass details the elements that all breakout novels share - regardless of genre - then shows you writing techniques that can make your own books stand out and succeed in a crowded marketplace. You'll learn to: • establish a powerful and sweeping sense of time and place • weave subplots into the main action for a complex, engrossing story • create larger-than-life characters that step right off the page • explore universal themes that will interest a broad audience of readers • sustain a high degree of narrative tension from start to finish • develop an inspired premise that sets your novel apart from the competition Then, using examples from the recent works of several best-selling authors - including novelist Anne Perry - Maass illustrates methods for upping the ante in every aspect of your novel writing. You'll capture the eye of an agent, generate publisher interest and lay the foundation for a promising career.