Bücher von Quoleena Sbrocca

SLIP is a Young Adult Science Fiction novel about transgender identity.All 17-year-old Xavier can think about is graduating high school and moving to a place where no one will look twice at him. Everyone at school thinks he's gay, but he'll take the rumors over everyone knowing his truth. For 17-year-old Natasha, life's pretty good. She's popular, has two best friends, and is dating the captain of the football team, the object of Xavier's crush.After witnessing a traumatic event at a Halloween bash, Xavier and Natasha experience a night which forces them to view the world through each other's eyes. Soon Natasha is faced with the grim realization that her identity dictates how the people in her life treat her. Meanwhile, it's a concept which Xavier knows painfully well. As they struggle to accept certain truths of their realities, they can tell no one what's happening to them. No one would believe them anyway, because they barely believe it themselves.

Once upon a time, there was a girl who was naïve enough to believe reason and logic were all it took to sway even the darkest of hearts.Then one day, she discovered a world unlike her own. It was in this world-a darkened land-where she learned the truth.She returned to her reality and uncovered the depths of darkness hidden behind a shroud of illusion.…And then her world as she knew it ceased to exist.In grief and despair, she discovered a new thing, and she devoured it. She savored the taste of it, the way it lingered on her tongue and left her hungry for more.Yet she did not worry when the next taste would come, and she knew one day she would have her fill of it.As the last bites dribbled down her chin, mingling with the drizzling rain, she lifted her face to the sky and gave the thing a name:Vengeance.

"I have no hankerin' for thrills if needs be sought in the heavens. I shall keep my feet firmly planted in contentment." - Harriet, The Crossing Hour"I shall yield a rifle of fury, loaded with the justice of time and the raging storm of my soul!" - John, The Crossing HourIn this debut novel, time travel is a naturally occurring phenomenon. The aged scientist, Stanley Graf, has discovered it in a planetary black hole in northern Delaware. He appoints his granddaughter Leigh to await the latest event. One traveler appears: a 28-year-old runaway slave from the 19th century. Leigh and her family serve as her guardians and slowly introduce her to the 21st century.When John, a young, mysterious man arrives from rural Pennsylvania, Leigh and her brother Stan try to balance their duty to Harriet and the past with the actions of the peculiar gentleman. As they realize there is more to their grandfather's research, they work to uncover the secrets their family is keeping from them.

In the 20th century, Jimmy Hoffa was a man obsessed with power.The mob wanted him dead, and on July 30, 1975, they hired his friend to do it. But Hoffa was never murdered that night...and the mob didn't know about time travel.Every four and five years, invisible doorways open and close. Any living being caught within the magnetic, gravitational field awakens incoherently to a future world. On July 31, 1975, it happened to Jimmy Hoffa, and he awoke in the summer of 2010.Before he could ever learn the truth of what happened that night, he was imprisoned in a facility, guarded by a team of agents. Would he ever escape to see his kids, grown and years older than he? Or would he forever remain at the will of another, stripped of all sense of a word that he once knew so well?