Showing results by author "Julia Whelan"

American Ella Durran has had the same plan for her life since she was 13: study at Oxford. At 24, she’s finally made it to England on a Rhodes Scholarship when she’s offered an unbelievable position in a rising political star’s presidential campaign. With the promise that she’ll work remotely and return to DC at the end of her Oxford year, she’s free to enjoy her Once in a Lifetime Experience. That is until a smart-mouthed local who is too quick with his tongue and his car ruins her shirt and her first day.

Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, and intrepid orphans - decked out in corsets, clockwerk suits, and tall black boots - solve dastardly crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.

It's a question as old as time itself: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? In this anthology, edited by Holly Black and Justine Larbalestier (unicorn and zombie, respectively), strong arguments are made for both sides in the form of short stories. Half of the stories portray the strengths - for good and evil - of unicorns and half show the good (and really, really bad-ass) side of zombies.

Gazing up at the dreaming spires of Oxford, American student Ella Duran can’t believe it: she has finally arrived at Oxford University. A new life starts, and not even Ella’s handsome lecturer Jamie Davenport can distract her from her classes. But, as the term goes on, Ella can’t deny the growing attraction between them - an attraction that soon turns to love. And when Ella learns of Jamie’s life-changing secret, their relationship becomes deeper than Ella could have ever anticipated.

Es soll das Jahr ihres Lebens werden. Mit einem Stipendium erfüllt sich Ella ihren lange gehegten Traum, in Oxford zu studieren. Doch gleich am ersten Tag stößt sie mit dem unglaublich arroganten Jamie Davenport zusammen, der zu allem Übel auch noch ihren Literaturkurs leitet. Als Ella und Jamie eines Abends gemeinsam in einem Pub landen, kommen sie sich dabei viel näher als geplant. Und obwohl sie sich dagegen wehrt, verliebt sich Ella in ihn. Aber Jamie hat ein trauriges Geheimnis. Als Ella davon erfährt, steht sie auf einmal vor der schwierigsten Entscheidung ihres Lebens.