Ordinary Monsters

Ordinary Monsters

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Anndee Newson
, Marilyn Stanley
, Lara Maynard
, Chantal Comeau
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Penny Gilman
, Jude Castillo
, Liz Moreau
, Linda Leitch
, Ariane Béland
, Sarah Schwartz
, Andrea Pole
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Shannon Holmes
, Shelley Gibbs
, LJ Law
, Deb Philippon
, Huguette Lemieux
, Susan Jang
, Mathew Webb
, Deana Bueley
, Barry Kazimer
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Natasa Ilic
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Andy Holmes
, Davina Liew
, Melissa Kohlman
, Tyler Webb
, Ed Gilman
, Sandra Furlotte
, Chelsey Boley
, Summer Halls
, Debra Fisher
, Andrea Gillespie
, Holly Elisabeth
, Emily Jennings
, Heather Ritz
, Janet Meisner
, Navkomal Toor
, Susan Baues
, Sharon Bird
, finn mulryan
, Diana Richardson
, Tina May
, Randi Ann Doll
, Maggie Keating
, Karen Kendrick
, Becky Bridger
, Kathryn Galan
, Lauren Seal
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Margaret Jones
, robin Harrison
, Karen Nordrum
, Gwynn Scheltema
, C. Ray
, Kate Rutter
, Ken Gilmour
, joy mills
, Olivia Pellegrino
, Patricia Johnson
, Maria Mclean
, Ariel Gordon
, Susan Terendy
, Kate Kostandoff
, Robert Hykawy
, Ellen Clarke
, Linda Ham
, Noelle Walsh
, maria blanco
, Alex Henderson
, Sandra Dufoe
, Hoda Montazeri

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19/06/2022

02/07/2022

Yes

Becky Bridger
, Kate Rutter
, Ken Gilmour

England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness—a man made of smoke.

Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When a jaded female detective is recruited to escort them to safety, all three begin a journey into the nature of difference, and belonging, and the shadowy edges of the monstrous.

What follows is a story of wonder and betrayal, from the gaslit streets of London, and the wooden theatres of Meiji-era Tokyo, to an eerie estate outside Edinburgh where other children with gifts—the Talents—have been gathered. There, the world of the dead and the world of the living threaten to collide. And as secrets within the Institute unfurl, Marlowe, Charlie and the rest of the Talents will discover the truth about their abilities, and the nature of what is stalking them: that the worst monsters sometimes come bearing the sweetest gifts.