Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children - A Map of Days
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The first three novels in the series introduced Jacob Portman and the world of the peculiars--and saw that world threatened by, and spared from, destruction by a hostile splinter faction and their monstrous servants. Now, in a thrilling new story arc,...
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The first three novels in the series introduced Jacob Portman and the world of the peculiars--and saw that world threatened by, and spared from, destruction by a hostile splinter faction and their monstrous servants. Now, in a thrilling new story arc, Jacob's adventure continues as Ransom Riggs reveals even more secrets of the peculiar world, set against the rich landscapes of American history.
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Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob s grandfather, Abe. Clues to Abe s double-life as a peculiar operative start to emerge, secrets long hidden in plain sight. And Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine s time loop.
Now, the stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom a world with few ymbrynes, or rules that none of them understand. New wonders, and dangers, await in this brilliant next chapter for Miss Peregrine s peculiar children. Their story is again fully illustrated by haunting vintage photographs, but with a striking addition for this all-new, multi-era American adventure full color.
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PrologueNever have I doubted my soundness of mind as often as I did on that first night, when the bird-woman and her wards came to save me from the madhouse. That s where I was going, pinned between beefy uncles in the back seat of my parents car, when a wall of peculiar children seemed to leap directly from my imagination into the driveway before us, aglow in our high beams like a formation of angels.
We skidded to a stop. A wave of dust erased everything beyond our windshield. Had I conjured their echo, some flickering hologram projected from deep within my brain? Anything seemed more believable than my friends being here, now. Peculiars had a way of making anything seem possible, but a visit from them was one of the few impossibilities of which I could still be certain.
It had been my choice to leave Devil s Acre. To go home again, where my friends couldn t follow. I had hoped that in returning I might sew together the disparate threads of my life: the normal and the peculiar, the ordinary and the extraordinary.
Another impossibility. My grandfather had tried to sew his lives together too and failed, estranged in the end from both his peculiar family and his normal one. In refusing to choose one kind of life over the other, he had doomed himself to lose both just as I was about to.
I looked up to see a figure moving toward us through the clearing dust.
Who the hell are you? my dad said.
Alma LeFay Peregrine, she replied, Ymbryne Council leader pro tem and headmistress to these peculiar children. We ve met before, though I don t expect you d remember. Children, say hello.
Chapter One
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It s strange, what the mind can digest and what it resists. I had just survived the most surreal summer imaginable skipping back to bygone centuries, taming invisible monsters, falling in love with my grandfather s time-arrested ex-girlfriend but only now, in the unexceptional present, in suburban Florida, in the house I d grown up in, was I finding it hard to believe my eyes.
Here was Enoch, splayed upon our beige sectional, sipping Coke from my dad s Tampa Bay Buccaneers tumbler; here was Olive, unstrapping her lead shoes to float ceilingward and ride circles on our fan; here were Horace and Hugh in our kitchen, Horace studying the photos on the fridge door while Hugh rustled for a snack; here was Claire, both mouths slack as she gazed at the great black monolith of our wall-mounted television; here was Millard, my mother s decor magazines rising from the coffee table and splitting in midair as he skimmed them, the shape of his bare feet imprinted into our carpet. It was a mingling of worlds I d imagined a thousand times but never dreamed possible. But here it was: my Before and After, colliding with the force of planets.
Millard had already tried to explain to me how it was possible they could be here, apparently safe and unafraid. The loop collapse that had nearly killed us all in Devil s Acre had reset their internal clocks. He didn t quite understand why, only that they were no longer in danger of sudden catastrophic aging if they stayed too long in the present. They would get older one day at a time, just like I did, their debt of years seemingly forgiven, as if they hadn t spent most of the twentieth century reliving the same sunny day. It was undoubtedly a miracle a breakthrough unprecedented in peculiar history and yet how it had come to be was not half as amazing to me as the fact that they were here at all: that beside me stood Emma, lovely, strong Emma, her hand entwined with mine, her green eyes shining as they scanned the room in wonder. Emma, whom I d so often dreamed abo
It s strange, what the mind can digest and what it resists. I had just survived the most surreal summer imaginable skipping back to bygone centuries, taming invisible monsters, falling in love with my grandfather s time-arrested ex-girlfriend but only now, in the unexceptional present, in suburban Florida, in the house I d grown up in, was I finding it hard to believe my eyes.
Here was Enoch, splayed upon our beige sectional, sipping Coke from my dad s Tampa Bay Buccaneers tumbler; here was Olive, unstrapping her lead shoes to float ceilingward and ride circles on our fan; here were Horace and Hugh in our kitchen, Horace studying the photos on the fridge door while Hugh rustled for a snack; here was Claire, both mouths slack as she gazed at the great black monolith of our wall-mounted television; here was Millard, my mother s decor magazines rising from the coffee table and splitting in midair as he skimmed them, the shape of his bare feet imprinted into our carpet. It was a mingling of worlds I d imagined a thousand times but never dreamed possible. But here it was: my Before and After, colliding with the force of planets.
Millard had already tried to explain to me how it was possible they could be here, apparently safe and unafraid. The loop collapse that had nearly killed us all in Devil s Acre had reset their internal clocks. He didn t quite understand why, only that they were no longer in danger of sudden catastrophic aging if they stayed too long in the present. They would get older one day at a time, just like I did, their debt of years seemingly forgiven, as if they hadn t spent most of the twentieth century reliving the same sunny day. It was undoubtedly a miracle a breakthrough unprecedented in peculiar history and yet how it had come to be was not half as amazing to me as the fact that they were here at all: that beside me stood Emma, lovely, strong Emma, her hand entwined with mine, her green eyes shining as they scanned the room in wonder. Emma, whom I d so often dreamed abo
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Autoren-Porträt von Ransom Riggs
Ransom Riggs is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Miss Peregrine s Peculiar Children novels. Riggs was born on a farm in Maryland and grew up in southern Florida. He studied literature at Kenyon College and film at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, bestselling author Tahereh Mafi, and their family.
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- Autor: Ransom Riggs
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 12 Jahre
- 2018, Internationale Ausgabe, 496 Seiten, Masse: 13,2 x 20,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 0735231567
- ISBN-13: 9780735231566
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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Praise for A Map of Days:The best-selling Miss Peregrine s Peculiar Children series returns, this time with a new story arc that takes place in America [with] weirdly wonderful characters. I09
The stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom Tor.com
A Map of Days reveals Ransom Riggs at the peak of his powers, leaving loyal fans ravenous for more. NY Journal of Books
Riggs reinvigorates his best-selling series, expanding the peculiar world and history, while drawing parallels to contemporary hot-button issues This series is a big deal! Booklist
Praise for the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine s Peculiar Children series:
A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story. John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars
Readers searching for the next Harry Potter may want to visit Miss Peregrine s Home for Peculiar Children. CNN
With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail. Entertainment Weekly
Peculiar doesn t even begin to cover it. Riggs chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies. People
[A] thrilling, Tim Burton-esque tale with haunting photographs. USA Today Pop Candy
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