Bits of String Too Small to Save

Peru Ruby

ISBN 10: 0692513450 / ISBN 13: 9780692513453

Published by Pangloss Press Mai 2017, 2017

About this Item

Neuware - Ruby Peru's freewheeling imagination enlivens her fantasy novel, Bits of String, tremendously. With a nod to Lewis Carroll, whose rabbit hole becomes her badger hole, Peru builds her narrative on an impressive array of colorful images, improbable characters and a generous helping of charm. --John Berendt, best selling author: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The City of Falling Angels In her amazing debut novel, Bits of String, writer Ruby Peru boggles and seduces with her marvelous imagery, humor, and storytelling until you find yourself in the middle of an irresistible world populated with exotic and oddly familiar creatures human and otherwise-and before you know it you are entwined and delighted to be so. A 'must read!' for YA and adult readers alike. --Sarah Lovett, best-selling author: Dangerous AttachmentsElizabethAnn Von Earp never intends to leave the safety of suburban No Oaks, but when her eccentric grandmother peels around the corner in a jacked-up, pimped-out, original-orange International Scout and shouts that it's time to break the space/time continuum, they dive through a badger hole into Bumblegreen. There, ElizabethAnn joins forces with a cast of characters to save a forested dystopia from greedy watchmakers, toxic babies, and a particularly obnoxious Lothario. In this new world of seduction and betrayal, illusion and intuition, black arts and purple-speckled fruits, you, dear reader, must ask yourself, will magic avenge our heroine Will technology save her Or are ElizabethAnn and her gang of malcontents already too late to repair the beautiful, mysterious, and troubled land of Bumblegreen.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bits of String Too Small to Save
• Publisher: Pangloss Press Mai 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692513450
• ISBN 13: 9780692513453
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Illustrator: Harris, Philip
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 24D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 24 millimeters depth
• Weight: 636 grams

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Synopsis

     In this "wildly imaginative, occasionally haunting fantasy anchored by strong, evolving female characters" (Kirkus Reviews), Mad Max meets Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children for a dystopian adventure of "freewheeling imagination" (John Berendt). When young ElizabethAnn falls through a portal, she must save her new home by befriending royalty, manipulating monkeys, and redefining the relationship between magic and technology. 


    The day ElizabethAnn's beloved, eccentric grandmother is confined to "a home," they dive together, through a portal, into the land of Bumblegreen. There, an imbalance between magic and technology is destroying an ancient world filled with mad magicians and dangerous people/animal hybrids. ElizabethAnn must solve the mystery of Bumblegreen's deadly blight or she and Grandma will be caught between worlds, without any home at all. 
    Thirteen-year-old Queen Dahlia was forced to be Bumblegreen's monarch when her parents died suddenly, but if she can't resolve this land's blights, diseases, and disasters, "off with her head" might be the last words she hears. The Duchess, meanwhile, wants nothing more than to reunite with her sons, who, by law, are being raised by talking monkeys. Tammy, the duchess' personal chef, is pregnant by a deadbeat named Fast Eddie who left her with a desire for the ultimate vengeance. When The Duchess tries to overthrow Queen Dahlia and Tammy obtains black magic from a magician's lair, their schemes threaten to destroy Bumblegreen once and for all ... or will ElizabethAnn and Queen Dahlia learn, together, to harness their powers to save Bumblegreen, even if claiming those powers could destroy childhood itself?

About the Author

Ruby Peru has spent a decade as a ghostwriter of memoirs and nonfiction. Bits of String Too Small to Save is the first book published in her own name.