Resentful that he is being limited, Odin begins to rebel against the authorities in his life. At school, he acts up in class, refuses to do homework, and predicts answers before hearing the question. At home, Odin becomes suspicious that his parents aren't the loving caregivers they claim to be, but instead manipulative captors programming his every action and thought. With Wendell still whispering his head, Odin becomes more powerful and less trusting until finally learning a stark truth:...

Far from the family who had secretly monitored him, armed guards follow Odin's every movement through an underground facility dedicated to the secret project known only as Solar Flare. Under the constant surveillance of General Edward Delgado, Odin is subjected to daily experiments which push his powers to their very limits and beyond. Although Odin's childhood therapist Alice Burnett assures him that these experiments are altruistic, Wendell continues to force doubt and suspicion directly...

Finally back home, Odin reaches out to the very people who programmed his childhood, experimented on him, and manipulated him into creating a new weapon capable of unprecedented terror. However, after watching Wendell use Odin's body to destroy their entire facility, the Solar Flare project is not interested in anything Odin has to tell them. Now powerless and with disaster inevitable, Odin must find a way to work with General Delgado and Solar Flare director Clancy Braxton in stopping an ...

Wendell has won. After demonstrating Solar Flare's destruction and with Odin completely powerless in front of him, nothing is left to can stand in Wendell's way. His plan is progressing exactly as he said it would. He is making the world everything he wants it to be. With his home taken away and only Dr. Burnett left from the life he once had, only one purpose remains for Odin: revenge. Reflecting on the lives stolen from his family, his friends, and from himself, Odin uses everything he h...

Odin Lewis has always known he is different from everyone else: he can levitate objects, look into the past, and learn things no one else can. Now, approaching his seventeenth birthday, Odin's life is changed when his old friend Wendell returns. Trouble is, Wendell isn't real, he's an imaginary friend absent since Odin was still a child. Wendell brings with him secrets both powerful and disturbing. Under Wendell's influence, Odin begins to question everything he thought he knew about himse...

After learning the truth of what the Solar Flare project has become, General Delgado takes Dr. Burnett prisoner, and threatens Odin's life if he doesn't immediately cooperate with the Project's plans. Desperate to escape, Odin takes the only action he can which would allow him to face the hundreds of armed soldiers between him and freedom: he gives control of his powers to Wendell. With Wendell unleashed, Odin watches helplessly as his powers are used to carve a horrific path of destructio...

Red Peonies: Two Novellas of China is the first translation in English of two of the books written by Zhang Yihe about women she met and befriended in prison. The subjects of her stories have been described as “beautiful women who wielded magic power over men. They were like jealous evil spirits, vengeful treacherous persons—countless snakes coiled around other people.”Zhang Yihe was fifteen in 1957, the year her father was declared an enemy of the People’s Republic of Chi...

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Here are the voices and visions from a world having need of an angel—most of all an angel of reality to help us see the Earth again, its people, and objects, to hear its tragic drone, and to recognize what it is to be human. The writing ranges from Burma/Myanmar to South Asia, China, Central America, Africa, and the U.S. From the oration of Frederick Douglass in the 1850s and the reportage of Walter F. White in the Jim Crow South during the 1920s. From the Apache genocide in the American S...

With nearly 400 pages, Out of the Shadows of Angkor: Cambodian Poetry, Prose, and Performance through the Ages is an outstanding collection of classic and contemporary writing. The volume emerges from the thirty-year effort of a community to gather Cambodian literary and cultural works. In doing so, they not only translated rare works into English for the first time, but also helped to rescue writing lost during the Khmer Rouge regime (1975–1979).Readers will find the foll...

Mountain/Home presents new translations of Japanese literature from the country’s medieval period to the present. The narrative arc of the selections follows the evolution of Japan’s national self-image. Because Mount Fuji, more than any other national symbol, has represented the soul of Japan, Mountain/Home begins with works inspired by the mountain’s presence. They include excerpts from some of the first literary works in which Mount Fuji appears: the mysterious Tal...

Elegant, exuberant, and idiosyncratic, Acting My Age is a memoir and meditation by one of America’s most playful and inventive writers. In the words of Mary Mackey (The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams), “in Acting My Age, Thomas Farber gives us an unflinching, luminous, cleverly conceived meditation on his own mortality as well as on the extinction of the coral reefs, snow leopards, dolphins, and, ultimately the human species. Couching his observations in a series ...