Bøker av Jud Widing

Kira Trecothik doesn't feel good about letting her teenaged daughter Leigh go to a sleepaway summer camp, but she has to get over that. A mother has to let go, eventually. So Kira lets go, and Leigh goes to camp, and a nightmare scarcely dreamt of comes true: there's a shooting at the camp. Leigh is killed. Upon learning of her daughter's death, Kira feels as though her life ends too. Can't understand how she can keep on living, beyond the end. Yet she does keep living. And before long, Kira learns that her daughter died a hero; Leigh gave her own life to save three of her friends. This does nothing to make Kira feel better. Until she learns another thing: that the world is a stranger, more terrible place than she'd realized. For there exists an entity, a towering creature that needs nothing, but wants so much. An entity that finds Kira, and offers her a gift: Leigh's life. It will bring Kira's daughter back to her. But it wants something in return, of course. Something simple, yet impossible. It wants Kira to kill the three girls that Leigh had died to save. Only then will it bring Leigh back. Oh, Kira knows she can't do this. How could she? Yet locked in the endless torment of living beyond the end, it's not long before she starts to wonder...well, how could she? With less emphasis on the could, and a quite a bit more on the how.

JAILBREAK! - Get this: Samuzzo D'Amato just busted out of Sing Sing. You know Sing Sing, right? That big famous prison? Real maximum security type deal. Anyway, forget about Sing Sing already, on accounta D'Amato's outta there.Only don't forget about it so fast. See, D'Amato's lawyer cooked up a way to bust him out legally. Whole bunch of loopholes, I guess, since you better believe D'Amato did all those crimes they said he did. Plus some others. Point is, the wheels of ain't-so-justice were gonna start turnin' tomorrow. D'Amato was gonna get free, legally. Tomorrow. Too bad he did that break-out tonight, huh? BIG MISTAKE! - Lucky him, he's got some pals who're real good at plans. And they figure if Samuzzo can break back in to Sing Sing before anybody notices he flew the coop, then they can still do that loophole stuff to get him out legally. Otherwise he's gonna spend his whole life on the lam. And lemme tell ya, he's a big guy. Not the kinda guy can just move three towns over and grow a funny mustache. So alright, they gotta get him back in before mornin'. They get to makin' plans.But plans got a way of fallin' apart. Cause not everybody out there is D'Amato's pal, you get my meanin'. So there's enemies afoot, meanwhile mornin's comin' on fast, and I ain't even had a chance to tell ya how does the fish play into it. What a set-up, right? How's he gonna get outta this one? I ain't about to tell ya here! I'll tell ya on the inside of the book.

For the first time in their lives, nineteen year-old Nur De Dernberg and her younger sister Deirdre are leaving Seychelles, Africa. They've come to Boston for a year, but not to party with the college kids - they're here to learn English. Nur, trapped by her inability to speak the language and her sister's inability to speak in anything other than clipped wisecracks, finds herself in a strange country with nobody to talk to; she is dreadfully, existentially alone.Until, that is, she goes to language class and meets Hyun-Woo. Despite sharing no common language, Nur feels something distinctly spark-like between them. Thus commences an awkward courtship...maybe? Is it a courtship? Does he feel for her the way she feels for him? Does he know how she feels? Then again, does she? Nur is beset by questions that would be easy to ask, if only she had the words. Those words are coming slowly, though, while her feelings for Hyun-Woo are thundering along at a more breakneck pace.