Books with title Elsewhere

Zan is worried about his sister, Jade, who doesn't seem to recognize family and friends. Even more disturbing, Jade insists she's Janet Bailey; a girl from another time and place. This must be the result of Jade's recent horrific ordeal, musn't it? But if it's Post Traumatic Stress then why are her memories of being Janet so utterly vivid? And will they ever be able to get the real Jade back? An unput-downable chiller about a girl with apparent multiple personalities who must somehow find the courage to face her recent horrific experiences and return to herself.

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Excerpt from Elba and ElsewhereThis nearly submerged peak, whose hills are iron and its valleys farms, is ancient in its years. The Romans found in its red ore the metal for their spear-heads. For two thousand years its forges sent out the material for the tools of war, and now its furnaces smoke unceasingly in a vast industry of iron and steel where the converters are turning out steel billets and iron to the extent of seven hundred and fifty thousand tons a year under the guid ance of a hand trained in America, Fritz Glein, of johnstown, Pennsyl vania, whose wife, once a Pennsylvania schoolma'am, is the sole American on the island.But the furnaces are alone in their 2modernity. They border on a moat built by Lorenzo de' Medici, and the Medicean castles frown down upon an unchanged town. Eight thousand souls dwell in Porto Ferraio, in houses that are centuries old, walking streets and terraces paved by the Florentines, while the landing-portal bears the Me dicean mark of 1624, and the customs guards inhabit La Torre detta di Pas sanante, a bastion at the sea-gate of rare architectural beauty, in itself an adequate memorial of the wonderful Genoese, the last masters of the island before Napoleon came.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Please meet Adam Frayn, his mother, Fredl and his little sister, Hofi. Doctor Aldo Frayn has mysteriously vanished, forcing the family to start a new life without him in the little fishing village of Anster. Adam already has an enemy at school, the dreadful Ratho McMaggott who is determined to make Adam’s life a misery. But the family has friends, too, in particular Mary and her very eccentric small brother Sammy. Adam also makes a new friend: the very rich and posh Munroe whose grandfather still does hush-hush work for the government. Then there is the kindly Reverend Boniface Black and several others. It is while the friends are out cycling along a disused railway line that the next mystery is encountered, but why won’t the old people in the village say anything about a dreadful accident? Why is lightning concentrating its self over the very odd Turnip Hall? What is the white Morris Minor estate car that appears and then disappears, its wheels never touching the ground, unable to get wet even in the heaviest rain, and which can easily fit a whole shipping container into it boot? Is it the same one as was driven by a most intriguing man whom no one really ever sees, who can repair broken bikes and limbs just by thought, and who for some reason keeps an eye on Adam while all the time doing several things that seem impossible? Who is this man and what is going on? Why is he involved with strange signals from outer space? Spend an intriguing week with Adam finding some answers and sharing the fun, and the fear.

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