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Lydia- The Pet Communicator (Wattys13- Finalist!) by durriza
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[Re-writting+ Editing] [PG] Lydia was living a normal and happy life in Cambridge, United Kingdom. She had deep affection towards animals, since a very small age. Lydia built a small space (shelter) for disowned and sick animals back at her home, with the help of her father. She was her daddy's little girl. Lydia's dream was to be one of the best Veterinarian, by completing her studies at the Cambridge University. When it was the final day of her board exams, Lydia met with an accident while saving a little puppy that got trapped in the middle of the road, because of some weighty trash. Lydia was hurt gravely on her head and she went into coma for six months, since the damage reached her brain. By surprise, after waking up from coma, the first voice she heard was of a pigeon. The pigeon cooed, while sitting on the hospital's window, "I got some sticks for my nest, great!" Lydia was amazed, shocked and puzzled. After her recovery, she realized that she could hear and understand the animals, also the animals discovered that she could understand them. But sadly, her world started falling apart when she confessed to her close ones that she could actually understand the animals, excluding her father. Reached- #6 Science Fiction/ #7 Fanstasy and Watty Awards 2013 Finalist.
Filling The Gaps by sparklecentric
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Ella Nelson's life has been far from normal. In the first eighteen years she's lived in a children's home, been adopted, found a strange love for film-making, passed up the university offer of a lifetime and instead jetted off on a gap year with five faces from the past. When something as simple as a promotional E-Mail lands itself in your inbox, do you delete it or do you consider the possibilities? Do you ever wonder if that one irrelevant E-Mail will change your life forever? Because that's what Ella did. Now 4,350 miles away from home, she's heading for the horizons and seeking out her dreams. But not without the many skeletons in her closet lingering two steps behind...
The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home by NaomiAlderman
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Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad. Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toronto's a lot further away than it used to be. Clio suggests that Okie transport Sumatra across the border, because family is family. But coaching Okie by cellphone isn't easy, and Clio has some zombies of her own to contend with. Luckily she has some garden tools. Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood team up for this unusual two-hander. Encompassing love, death, sex, and the meaning of family, The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home will surprise, delight, and convince you of the vital importance of keeping ready supplies of rhubarb and mini-wieners in your freezer at all times. The story unfolds beginning October 24.