New Releases by Patrick Ness

La novela original en la que se basa la película, inspirada en una idea de Siobhan Dowd e ilustrada por Jim Kay. Esta edición especial de Un monstruo viene a verme contiene material adicional exclusivo, por Patrick Ness, Jim Kay y el director J.A. Bayona, así como entrevistas con Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones y Lewis MacDougall. Siete minutos después de la medianoche, Conor despierta y se encuentra un monstruo en la ventana. Pero no es el monstruo que él esperaba, el de la pesadilla que tiene casi todas las noches desde que su madre empezó el arduo e incansable tratamiento. No, este monstruo es algo diferente, antiguo... Y quiere lo más peligroso de todo: la verdad. Maliciosa, divertida y conmovedora, Un monstruo viene a verme nos habla de nuestra dificultad para aceptar la pérdida y de los lazos frágiles pero extraordinariamente poderosos que nos unen a la vida. Con esta edición especial e ilustrada de la novela más aclamada y premiada de Patrick Ness, descubrirás la formidable historia que hay detrás del libro y la película. Leyendo los artículos y entrevistas exclusivos que cierran este volumen, sabrás cómo creó Patrick Ness este clásico contemporáneo, así como luego el guion para la gran pantalla. Verás bocetos inéditos de Jim Kay y cómo fueron tomando forma sus ideas para el monstruo. Oirás de boca del afamado director de cine J.A. Bayona cómo preparó la adaptación y asistirás al set de rodaje con los actores Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones y Lewis MacDougall. Repleta de material nunca antes visto y de fotografías espectaculares, esta magnífica edición aporta una perspectiva única y fascinante al proceso creativo del libro y a película. Una lectura imprescindible. La crítica ha dicho... «Apasionante..., poderosa, impresionante.» Philip Pullman «PatrickNess escribe rematadamente bien.» John Green «Excepcional... He aquí cómo debería ser siempre la narrativa: desgarradora, lírica y trascendente.» Meg Rosoff «Valiente y hermoso, lleno de compasión, Un monstruo viene a verme funde lo doloroso y lo intuitivo, lo simple y lo profundo. El resultado tiembla de vida.» The Independent «Las ilustraciones de Kay, amenazadoras y llenas de energía, y la manera en que interactúan con el texto, junto a la generosidad de los materiales con que está hecho el libro, hacen que sea una verdadera alegría tan solo sostenerlo en la mano.» The Guardian «Imprescindible... Apasionante, conmovedor, brillante.» The Times «Excepcional... Destaca por su compasión.» Daily Mail La crítica ha dicho: «Apasionante..., poderosa, impresionante.» Philip Pullman «Patrick Ness escribe rematadamente bien.» John Green «Excepcional... He aquí cómo debería ser siempre la narrativa: desgarradora, lírica y trascendente.» Meg Rosoff «Valiente y hermoso, lleno de compasión, Un monstruo viene a verme funde lo doloroso y lo intuitivo, lo simple y lo profundo. El resultado tiembla de vida.» The Independent «Las ilustraciones de Kay, amenazadoras y llenas de energía, y la manera en que interactúan con el texto, junto a la generosidad de los materiales con que está hecho el libro, hacen que sea una verdadera alegría tan solo sostenerlo en la mano.» The Guardian «Imprescindible... Apasionante, conmovedor, brillante.» The Times «Excepcional... Destaca por su compasión.» Daily Mail

O livro que inspirou o filme estrelado por SIGOURNEY WEAVER, FELICITY JONES, TOBY KEBBELL, LEWIS MACDOUGALL e LIAM NEESON Uma aventura que mistura fantasia e realidade. Sinopse: Conor é um garoto de 13 anos e está com muitos problemas na vida. A mãe dele está muito doente, passando por tratamentos rigorosos. Os colegas da escola agem como se ele fosse invisível, exceto por Harry e seus amigos que o provocam diariamente. A avó de Conor, que não é como as outras avós, está chegando para uma longa estadia. E, além do pesadelo terrível que o faz acordar em desespero todas as noites, às 00h07 ele recebe a visita de um monstro que conta histórias sem sentido. O monstro vive na Terra há muito tempo, é grandioso e selvagem, mas Conor não teme a aparência dele. Na verdade, ele teme o que o monstro quer, uma coisa muito frágil e perigosa. O monstro quer a VERDADE. Baseado na ideia de Siobhan Dowd, Sete minutos depois da meia-noite é um livro em que fantasia e realidade se misturam. Ele nos fala dos sentimentos de perda, medo e solidão e também da coragem e da compaixão necessárias para ultrapassá-los.

Twelve bestselling authors, twelve Doctors, twelve brilliant adventures in time and space for all Doctor Who fans! This collection features all twelve original Doctor Who eshort stories, covering each of the twelve Doctors and written by a selection of wonderful children''s authors.

Doze Doutores, doze contos, doze autores. Não é qualquer universo que pode receber doze visitantes tão ilustres e acolher doze interpretações tão radicalmente diferentes do mesmo herói. Doctor Who, o fenômeno cultural britânico que conquistou o mundo, a série de ficção científica mais antiga da televisão, conta as aventuras do Doutor, um alienígena de aparência humana que trafega livremente pelo tempo e pelo espaço. Fascinado pelo planeta Terra e a humanidade, o Doutor está sempre acompanhado de um terráqueo enquanto viaja na sua máquina do tempo, a TARDIS, por todos os cantos do universo e da história. Nesse cinquentenário, o Doutor foi interpretado por doze atores, cada um deles uma encarnação diferente do personagem, com personalidades e trejeitos peculiares. As muitas faces do Doutor e suas jornadas infinitas ofereceram aos criadores da série a liberdade de explorar não só as galáxias e profundezas do tempo, mas também temas que vão do lírico ao terror, numa verdadeira investigação do coração e mente do ser humano. É essa mesma liberdade de imaginação que agora vemos nas mãos de doze dos autores de ficção mais queridos da atualidade, incluindo nomes como Eoin Colfer, Derek Landy, Neil Gaiman e Holly Black. Doze autores que foram conquistados pelas peripécias do Doutor, alguns desde que eram crianças, e que agora compartilham com os fãs doze visões muito particulares do personagem mais cativante deste lado da galáxia.

A magical novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of a broken-hearted man is transformed when he rescues an injured white crane that has landed in his backyard. George Duncan is an American living and working in London. At forty-eight, he owns a small print shop, is divorced, and lonelier than he realizes. All of the women with whom he has relationships eventually leave him for being too nice. But one night he is woken by an astonishing sound—a terrific keening, which is coming from somewhere in his garden. When he investigates he finds a great white crane, a bird taller than even himself. It has been shot through the wing with an arrow. Moved more than he can say, George struggles to take out the arrow from the bird''s wing, saving its life before it flies away into the night sky. The next morning, a shaken George tries to go about his daily life, retreating to the back of his store and making cuttings from discarded books—a harmless, personal hobby—when through the front door of the shop a woman walks in. Her name is Kumiko, and she asks George to help her with her own artwork. George is dumbstruck by her beauty and her enigmatic nature, and begins to fall desperately in love with her. She seems to hold the potential to change his entire life, if he could only get her to reveal the secret of who she is and why she has brought her artwork to him. Witty, magical, and romantic, The Crane Wife is a story of passion and sacrifice, that resonates on the level of dream and myth. It is a novel that celebrates the creative imagination, and the disruptive power of love.

In welcher Wirklichkeit leben wir? Ein Junge ertrinkt, verzweifelt und verlassen in seinen letzten Minuten. Er stirbt. Dann erwacht er, nackt, verletzt und durstig, aber lebendig. Wie kann das sein? Und an was für einem seltsamen, verlassenen Ort befindet er sich? Während er versucht zu verstehen, was mit ihm geschehen ist, regt sich Hoffnung bei dem Jungen. Ist das vielleicht doch noch nicht das Ende? Bietet dieses Leben vielleicht doch mehr als das? Patrick Ness wuchs in den Vereinigten Staaten und auf Hawaii auf. Seit Ende der 90er-Jahre lebt er in London und ist dort als Literaturkritiker für die Tageszeitung The Guardian tätig. Für seine Kinder- und Jugendbücher wurde er mehrfach ausgezeichnet, er gewann unter anderem den renommierten Costa Children''s Book Award und war auf der Auswahlliste für die Carnegie Medal. Für \"Sieben Minuten nach Mitternacht\" erhielt er als erster Autor gleichzeitig die Carnegie Medal und den Kate Greenaway Award sowie neben unzähligen anderen Auszeichnungen den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2012. In \"Sieben Minuten nach Mitternacht\" schreibt Patrick Ness eine Idee seiner mit der Carnegie Medal ausgezeichneten Schriftstellerkollegin Siobhan Dowd weiter. Ihr früher, tragischer Krebstod verhinderte die Umsetzung ihrer Idee in eine eigene Geschichte.

From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life — or perhaps afterlife — of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world. A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned. What’s going on? And why is it that whenever he closes his eyes, he falls prey to vivid, agonizing memories that seem more real than the world around him? Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this. . . .

NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting-- he’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It’s ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd-- whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself-- Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined.

Una notte di luna e brezza leggera, il piccolo Conor si sveglia di colpo sentendo bussare alla finestra della sua cameretta. Terrorizzato, allunga l''orecchio per cogliere qualche rumore sospetto dal piano di sotto. Nulla. Sono passati sette minuti dalla mezzanotte. D''un tratto, sente chiamare il suo nome¿ Conor è preso dal panico: potrebbe essere l''apparizione spaventosa che da giorni lo tormenta nel sonno, l''incubo che viene a trovarlo da quando sua madre ha iniziato le cure mediche. Invece, quando si fa coraggio e si sporge dalla finestra, trova ad attenderlo un mostro. Un mostro tutto particolare, però, senza artigli o denti aguzzi. È semplicemente un albero. Antico e selvaggio, una creatura che sembra uscita da un altro tempo. Il mostro è pronto a stringere un patto con lui: nelle notti successive racconterà a Conor tre storie, di quelle che aiutano a uccidere i draghi che ognuno di noi nasconde nel fondo del proprio animo, storie che spingono ad affrontare le paure più grandi. Ma in cambio la creatura misteriosa vuole da lui una quarta storia, un racconto che deve contenere e proteggere la cosa più pericolosa di tutte: la verità. Con la grazia struggente dei veri narratori, Patrick Ness dà vita a un romanzo sincero ed emozionante, che tocca il cuore del bambino che ognuno di noi è stato.

Zwei große Erzähler – eine Geschichte, die den Tod in seine Schranken weist Das Monster erscheint sieben Minuten nach Mitternacht. Aber es ist nicht das Monster, das Conor fürchtet. Was er eigentlich fürchtet, ist jener monströse Albtraum, der ihn jede Nacht quält, seit seine Mutter ihre Behandlung begann. Dieser Traum, in dessen Herzen tiefstes Dunkel herrscht und wo im Abgrund ein Albtraumwesen lauert, bis dann ein Schrei die Nacht zerreißt ... Das Monster aber, das scheinbar im Garten hinter Conors Haus lebt, verkörpert etwas völlig anderes. Es ist uralt, wild und weise – es ist das Leben selbst. Und es ist gekommen, um Conor zu helfen. Doch auf welchen Weg Conor sich mit seinem gigantischen Freund begeben wird, ahnt er nicht. Er wird ihn hinab in die tiefsten Tiefen seiner Seele führen, er wird ihn in seinen Albtraum begleiten und dann wird er ihm das Gefährlichste überhaupt abverlangen: die ganze Wahrheit. Denn nur wenn Conor sich dieser stellt, wird er das wahre Wesen des Lebens erkennen ...

In this dramatic short story -- a prequel to the award-winning Chaos Walking Trilogy -- author Patrick Ness gives us the story of Viola''s journey to the New World. Whether you''re new to Chaos Walking or an established fan, this prequel serves as a fascinating introduction to the series that Publishers Weekly called one of the most important works of young adult science fiction in recent years.

Part two of the literary sci-fi thriller follows a boy and a girl who are caught in a warring town where thoughts can be heard – and secrets are never safe. Reaching the end of their flight in The Knife of Never Letting Go, Todd and Viola did not find healing and hope in Haven. They found instead their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss, waiting to welcome them to New Prentisstown. There they are forced into separate lives: Todd to prison, and Viola to a house of healing where her wounds are treated. Soon Viola is swept into the ruthless activities of the Answer, while Todd faces impossible choices when forced to join the mayor’s oppressive new regime. In alternating narratives the two struggle to reconcile their own dubious actions with their deepest beliefs. Torn by confusion and compromise, suspicion and betrayal, can their trust in each other possibly survive?

A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard – and the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret. Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn''t she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd''s gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.

In the riveting conclusion to the acclaimed dystopian series, a boy and girl caught in the chaos of war face devastating choices that will decide the fate of a world. As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs, even as a convoy of new settlers approaches. And as the ceaseless Noise lays all thoughts bare, the projected will of the few threatens to overwhelm the desperate desire of the many. The consequences of each action, each word, are unspeakably vast: To follow a tyrant or a terrorist? To save the life of the one you love most, or thousands of strangers? To believe in redemption, or assume it is lost? Becoming adults amid the turmoil, Todd and Viola question all they have known, racing through horror and outrage toward a shocking finale.

Scintillating, surprising, inventive fiction from one of the most talented writers in Britain – this is a superb collection of short stories from the acclaimed author of the Chaos Walking series and ‘More Than This’.

Love is political, obsessive and utterly strange in the first novel from the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and new novel ‘More Than This’.

Tom Hewitt es el único niño en un pueblo donde solamente hay hombres. A un mes de celebrar su cumpleaños, se ve rodeado de amenazadores secretos y terribles verdades relacionadas con el lugar donde vive. ¿Podrá correr lo bastante rápido para escapar? Una novela de ciencia ficción trepidante que refleja el difícil camino a la madurez personal.