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A Map of the Known World

In A Map of the Known World, readers are taken on a journey through the 15th and 16th centuries, witnessing the rise of European exploration and the subsequent changes in the understanding of the world. The novel focuses on the challenges faced by cartographers and explorers, the political and religious tensions of the time, and the impact of their discoveries on the known world. The story is rich in historical detail and offers a vivid portrayal of the era's cultural and scientific advancements. more

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Lisa Ann Sandell
Lisa Ann Sandell

Lisa Ann Sandell is an American author born in 1977. Her works span across young adult literature and adult fiction, known for their deep emotional insights and rich imagination. more

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“When I was at school my jography told me th' earth was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody. No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems there's not enow quarters to go around. But don't you-none o' you- think as you own th' whole orange or you'll find out you're mistaken, an' you won't find it without hard knocks. What children learns from children, is that there's no sense grabbin' at th' whole orange-peel an' all. If you do you'll likely not get even th' pips, an' them's too bitter to eat.”

“Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment. Unalloyed. This old so dying woman. So dead. In the madhouse of the skull and nowhere else. Where no more precautions to be taken. No precautions possible. Cooped up there with the rest. Hovel and stones. The lot. And the eye. How simple all then. If only all could be pure figment. Neither be nor been nor by any shift to be. Gently gently. On. Careful.”

“You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that." And it was memories like that that made it so hard to comprehend this quest to kill him, even if he was a Strigoi. Yet...at the same time I had to destroy him. I needed to remember him as the man who'd loved me and held me in bed. I needed to remember that that man would not want to stay a monster.”