By Marc Simon

Book Details:

ISBN: 0615802907
EAN: 9780615802909
ASIN: 0615802907
Publisher: Tierra Lago Studio
Publication Date: 2013-05-20
Number of Pages: 268
Website: Amazon, LibraryThing, Google Books, Goodreads

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Set in Pittsburgh within the early 1900's, The intercalary year Boy is the tale of a rare boy named Alex Miller, born right into a operating classification family members on February 29, 1908. What makes Alex so amazing is that although he's complete time period, he weighs simply kilos, one ounce and is 9 inches lengthy. regardless of his measurement, Alex is completely fit. despite the fact that, his physique grows at one-fourth the speed of a typical child-so that when 12 months, he's the scale of a three-month-old-but his brain grows a lot swifter. ultimately, so do sure components of his physique and his skill to do a number of and weird issues with them. As Alex's unique talents develop into obvious, these round him see him as either a miracle baby and a freak of nature-a freak to use. How Alex saves himself from the designs of others is on the middle of the novel.

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Bonny halted in front of his wife with his boots just short of the water, and for a moment he seemed about to hit her. Then he hesitated, and his gaze fell away from hers, and he scowled across at Shandy. He fumbled a clasp knife out of his pocket—Shandy stepped back, snatching at his own—but when Bonny had unfolded his blade he pressed the point into the tip of his own left forefinger and flicked the blade outward, throwing a couple of drops of blood toward Shandy, and at the same time he began chanting a nonsensical multi-language rhyme.

Beth and I will be jumping ship at the first opportunity. htm (41 of 185) [2/14/2004 1:05:00 AM] ON STRANGER TIDES - Tim Powers would slip—that's soaked into her wood. I've got an uncle who needs hanging. He turned back toward the fires and started walking again, and it occurred to him that he wasn't far from the spot where he'd seen the man with the torn pockets and the bound-up jaw; and the memory of it made him walk a little faster, not because the man had looked threatening, but because of what Davies had said when Shandy told him about it.

Someone was yelling. "Cap'n Davies! " Davies dropped his bottle into the sand. "That's Venner," he said thoughtfully. "How did that move go? " Shandy shut his eyes and pictured it. "Right. " As the two men trudged back toward the fires, Davies pulled a pistol out of his belt. "If Venner plays me square I can handle him," he said quietly. "But if he doesn't, I want you to hang back with this and make sure no—" He stopped talking suddenly and gave a weary laugh. "Never mind. " He put the pistol away and lengthened his stride.

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