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В недалеком будущем для обеспечения постоянного интернет соединения бедные люди готовы сдавать часть своего головного мозга для осуществление интернет трафика. И кто бы знал, что несчастная любовь может позволить одному из таких отбросов общества научиться управлять сетью изнутри...
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New York. Fin des années 1920. L’un est le Kid Wolf, jeune boxeur talentueux qui rêve de soulever la ceinture de champion. L’autre est le Kraken Boy, le plus doué des tatoueurs, un grand type nonchalant dont l’art et l’encre font merveille — littéralement. Mais les temps sont durs dans le Lower East Side de l’entre-deux-guerres gangréné par la mafia juive. D’autant que la Grande Dépression pointe son nez, et avec elle les mouvements sociaux qui se radicalisent et les briseurs de grève aux mains des syndicats qui font régner la terreur… Et puis il y a Hinky Friedman, née Rivkah Heinckmann, alias Rebecca-la-Hink, la Reine des Gangsters. Et Hinky a une vision, l’ambition d’un autre monde — meilleur, qui sait ? Or pour cela elle a un plan, un plan pour Kid Wolf et Kraken Boy, un plan pour tout changer. Mais ce que n’a pas prévu Hinky, c’est l’amour. Un amour impossible, interdit, un amour qui, lui, pourrait véritablement remodeler la face du monde…

After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city’s denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges—crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called “the breaks” is ravaging the population.

When a strange new visitor arrives—a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side—the city is entranced. The “orcamancer,” as she’s known, very subtly brings together four people—each living on the periphery—to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves.

More Happy Than Not meets Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future in this gritty, contemporary YA debut about a bullied gay teen boy with an eating disorder who believes he’s developed super powers via starvation.

Matt hasn’t eaten in days.

His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal. But Matt won’t give in. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp—and he needs to be as sharp as possible if he’s going to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away.

Matt’s hardworking mom keeps the kitchen crammed with food, but Matt can resist the siren call of casseroles and cookies because he has discovered something: the less he eats the more he seems to have . . . powers. The ability to see things he shouldn’t be able to see. The knack of tuning in to thoughts right out of people’s heads. Maybe even the authority to bend time and space.

So what is lunch, really, compared to the secrets of the universe?

Matt decides to infiltrate Tariq’s life, then use his powers to uncover what happened to Maya. All he needs to do is keep the hunger and longing at bay. No problem. But Matt doesn’t realize there are many kinds of hunger… and he isn’t in control of all of them.

A darkly funny, moving story of body image, addiction, friendship, and love, Sam J. Miller’s debut novel will resonate with any reader who’s ever craved the power that comes with self-acceptance.