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No Vain Loss

230 pages
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Published: 5 Dec 2017
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ISBN: 9781548077679

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication date: 26 July 2017

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Description

A soldier is summoned to the North Pole, days before the year changes, told to fix the great Clock for a celebration. He has no idea what to do.A girl, hunted for the crime of being born, almost dies out on the ice. She is rescued by the last polar bear left alive.A library waits for them both, a library built over a span of a hundred years, forgotten in the basement of an ice shack.The world hasn't known hunger or sickness in hundreds of years. It has also forgotten love and beauty.This is the One World.The year is 2524.Inspired by the short stories of Ray Bradbury, this futuristic young adult novel in three parts is set in a world where Christmas -among other things- is obsolete and a Clock is what keeps the fragile balance of peace.Written in three parts, this is the breathtaking story of how two unlikely people change the world, and each other, one book at a time. In No Vain Loss, the world is on the brink of the greatest war humanity has ever known. Lives will be lost. New truths will be revealed.Fast, Futuristic, Creative. -Yesha, Books Teacup and ReviewsMy new obsession and yours too! No Ordinary Star reads like a love letter to humanity. -S. E. Anderson, author of StarstruckThis book is magic. -Alex Rowe, @captain.valourI fell head-over-heels in love! -Drew C.Oh, how I've already fallen in love with our two main characters, tin solider and match girl. -Rebecca Ravenwas never supposed to be the sacrifice...