Books with author Nancy Faber

From the unique combination of the timelessness of an old and seemingly forgotten world deftly mixed with the futuristic reality of a brave new world comes a chilling tale of ethics and mortality that is thought provoking and macabre, and yet strangly fascinating...Is this the way of the future? Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children, from other people. To most people Matt isn't a boy, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence trully means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, Matt longs for escape. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom because Matt is marked but his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect.

Nira was a princess. She was kind and warm-hearted. Nira was well liked for her humble nature regardless of her royalty. But Nira was not a beautiful princess like most princesses are. She wanted to find beauty to become the princess everyone expected her to be. Nira wanted to shine amongst all at the ball. If only she could find a way to discover true beauty by the time of the ball. Nira’s journey leads her on a search and revelation about beauty and inner beauty that will change her life forever.

The conclusion to Newbery Honor author Nancy Farmer’s captivating Sea of Trolls trilogy. The crowning volume of the trilogy that began with The Sea of Trolls and continued with The Land of Silver Apples opens with a vicious tornado. (Odin on a Wild Hunt, as the young berserker Thorgil sees it.) The fields of Jack’s home village are devastated, the winter ahead looks bleak, and a monster—a draugr—has invaded the forest outside of town. But in the hands of bestselling author Nancy Farmer, the direst of prospects becomes any reader’s reward. Soon, Jack, Thorgil, and the Bard are off on a quest to right the wrong of a death caused by Father Severus. Their destination is Notland, realm of the fin folk, though they will face plenty of challenges and enemies before get they get there. Impeccably researched and blending the lore of Christian, Pagan, and Norse traditions, this expertly woven tale is beguilingly suspenseful and, ultimately, a testament to love.

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-26 Pages: 432 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster Matt has always been nothing but a clone - an exact replica. grown from a strip of old El Patrons skin Now. age fourteen. Matt. suddenly finds himself thrust into the position of ruling over his own country. Opium. on the one-time border between the US and Mexico. stretching from the ruins of San Diego to the ruins of Matamoros. But while Opium thrives. the rest of the world has been devastated by ecological disaster ... and hidden somewhere in Opium is the cure. And that isnt all thats hidden within the depths of Opium. Matt is haunted by the ubiquitous army of eejits. zombie-like workers harnessed to the old El Patrons sinister system of drug growing ... people stripped of the very qualities which once made them human. Matt wants to use his newfound power to help stop the suffering. bu...