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When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a railway camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort the ugliest woman he could imagine away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower. In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. Their escape from the asylum in the company of another inmate sets into motion a series of adventures and misadventures that are at once hilarious, deeply moving, and downright terrifying.

После школы, девочка решила зайти к отцу на работу, но заблудилась в многочисленных коридорах. Спустившись в подвал, она знакомится с норвежским психологом Видкуном.

This story, which won the Shirley Jackson Award in 2009 and a World Fantasy award soon after, is a frankly chilling story of a teenager sent away to a torturous correctional facility in which the girls, when they’re not disappearing, are forbidden to speak. Even scarier: the story is based on an actual reform school for children.

Lizzie Hayes, a member of the San Francisco elite, is a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies Relief and Protection Society Home, or "The Brown Ark". All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from the ruling conventions. When the wealthy and well-connected, but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark, Lizzie is drawn to her. It is the beautiful, but mysterious Mary Ellen, an outcast among the women of the elite because of her notorious past and her involvement in voodoo, who will eventually hold the key to unlocking Lizzie's rebellious nature.

Loosely based in historical fact, Sister Noon is a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from this "fine writer" whose "language dazzles" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Летом 1954 года в Йосемитском национальном парке исчезла молодая семья (родители и трёхлетний ребенок), восемь лет спустя в том же парке заболевает чумой молодая девушка. Казалось бы — какая связь между этими событиями? Но она есть, и один доктор, с помощью собственного вьетнамского опыта, сможет эту связь найти...
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