Like an Echo

Like an Echo
Author: Catinca Maria Tripa
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1514425661

Three troubled souls encounter their worst fears, establish relationships, and take on new challenges on their journey to find true happiness and hope. This fictional novel is written from three perspectives. The story starts off with a horse who gives the reader insight of what it is like to suffer behind the walls of slaughterhouses and auctions. The horse experiences much cruelty and brutality as his hope to remain alive diminishes. Melanie has every reason to leave her life in the city to move to her fathers farm after dealing with the loss of her two best friends and the unfortunate scandal between her and her cheating boyfriend. On her trip to her fathers farm, she realizes this may be the best decision for her and she doesnt know that there is a rather big surprise waiting for her when she arrives. Meanwhile, Jordan lives with her aunt, while dealing with severe depression because of the loss of her mother at birth. Jordan is haunted by the images she manifests of her insane father. The only hope she has left is with Jack, her dearly beloved boyfriend who has his own problems that require attention, but he puts Jordan before anything else. Together, these three embark on the journey of their lives. With many twists and turns, this thrilling adventure will show the importance of trust, friendship, honesty and love as Echo, Melanie, and Jordan find peace in one way or another.

A Handful of Stars

A Handful of Stars
Author: Cynthia Lord
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2015-05-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545700299

This powerful middle-grade novel from the Newbery Honor author of RULES explores a friendship between a small-town girl and the daughter of migrant workers. When Lily's blind dog, Lucky, slips his collar and runs away across the wide-open blueberry barrens of eastern Maine, it's Salma Santiago who manages to catch him. Salma, the daughter of migrant workers, is in the small town with her family for the blueberry-picking season. After their initial chance meeting, Salma and Lily bond over painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather, and Salma's friendship transforms Lily's summer. But when Salma decides to run in the upcoming Blueberry Queen pageant, they'll have to face some tough truths about friendship and belonging. Should an outsider like Salma really participate in the pageant-and possibly win?Set amongst the blueberry barrens and by the sea, this is a gorgeous new novel by Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord that tackles themes of prejudice and friendship, loss and love.

Echo

Echo
Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545576504

Newbery Honor Book New York Times Bestseller This impassioned, uplifting, and virtuosic tour de force from a treasured storyteller follows three children, in three different times and places, whose lives mysteriously intersect. Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each, in turn, become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting a brother, holding a family together. And ultimately, pulled by the invisible thread of destiny, their suspenseful solo stories converge in an orchestral crescendo. Richly imagined and masterfully crafted, Echo pushes the boundaries of genre, form, and storytelling innovation to create a wholly original novel that will resound in your heart long after the last note has been struck.

Echo

Echo
Author: Francesca Lia Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0061756601

Acclaimed author Francesca Lia Block weaves pure magic into this deftly constructed tale殮e girl′s path to womanhood told in linked short stories. Written in her uniquely poetic, carefully crafted style, Echo is a tour-de-force from one of our most exciting contemporary writers. Ages 11+

Idol Limerence

Idol Limerence
Author: Wallea Eaglehawk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-03-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780648799993

When an idol and fan stand face to face and the idol's mask comes off, is it simply the fan staring into a mirror, admiring their own reflection? Idol Limerence explores the mass phenomena of the Korean idol, in particular, BTS and how it intersects with the psychological experience of limerence, as originated by Dorothy Tennov. Further phenomena will be introduced with an exploration of persona as a link to a fantasy realm accessed by both idol and fan. Culminating in the exploration of the revolutionary capacity of BTS and their fan base, ARMY, who were created in their image. Echo's narrative spans from her first love as a child to falling in love with BTS as an adult, an experience she feels is largely out of her control. Idol Limerence is a love story wrapped in social theory that spans this universe and the next. Insperence is the space where the revolution can begin to take hold; insperence is where we can all become revolutionaries. In many ways, we already are.Idol Limerence: The Art of Loving BTS as Phenomena by Wallea Eaglehawk is a scholarly and literary work on the phenomenon that is BTS, the most popular and influential music group of our generation. Idol Limerence is a cognitive and emotional state of loving adoration and attachment to an Idol or celebrity. Echo, a young millennial woman, finds herself falling deeply in love with a group of blouse-wearing Korean men who sing, dance and dish out uncommon potent eye contact like it's a period drama. This book joins Echo on her journey from first love as a child to falling in love with K-pop group BTS as an adult. Echo learns just how and why she can't control her feelings towards BTS, not that she really wants to; and this is not an isolated experience, she is not alone but part of BTS' fan base, ARMY. The theory of Idol Limerence is developed from the psychological idea of limerence and linked to sociological concepts of identity, persona, parasocial relationships, love and celebrity. The theory development is interwoven with the love narrative of Echo which shows how Idol Limerence can be a 'safe-love' alternative for millennials overwhelmed by loving and dating in a world on the brink of collapse. If the question is 'Why can't I stop thinking about what my life with BTS would look like?' Idol Limerence is the answer and becoming a revolutionary to save the world is the result.

Black Girl Unlimited

Black Girl Unlimited
Author: Echo Brown
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-01-14
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250309867

A William C. Morris Award Finalist "Brown has written a guidebook of survival and wonder."—The New York Times "Just brilliant."—Kirkus Reviews Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism—all through the arc of a transcendent coming-of-age story for fans of Renee Watson's Piecing Me Together and Ibi Zoboi's American Street. Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. Each day, Echo travels between two worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind the place that made you. Echo soon realizes there is pain flowing through everyone around her, and a black veil of depression threatens to undo everything she’s worked for. Christy Ottaviano Books

Are You an Echo?

Are You an Echo?
Author: Misuzu Kaneko
Publisher: Chin Music
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN: 9781634059626

Kaneko's empathetic children's poetry was lost for decades. Now, this color-illustrated, bilingual volume presents her biography and most beloved poems.

echo

echo
Author: J. A. Adams
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2014-11-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1480911798

Love, loss, pain, anger, light, darkness… the human condition is as vast as it is varied. With such powerful feelings, is it possible that we leave imprints around us? If that is true, what would these echoes of ourselves sound like? echo explores the lives of several people from different times and places, each with their own history and experience, who become drawn to a mysterious clearing in the woods outside of Seattle. Each leaves their own echo – echoes of fear, joy, love and anguish. One young being, called simply “echo,” is left to explore her new home in the mountain, with other echoes of people long past. These spirit-like beings live on, in a new existence that mirrors our own. Through echo’s eyes, the question “does our echo have an echo” is answered.

Echo City

Echo City
Author: Tim Lebbon
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2011-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0748124845

Surrounded by a vast, toxic desert, the inhabitants of labyrinthine Echo City believe there is no other life in their world. Some like it that way, so when a stranger arrives he is anathema to powerful interest groups. But Peer Nadawa found the stranger and she is determined to keep him and the freedom he represents alive. A political exile herself, she calls on her ex-lover Gorham, now leader of their anti-establishment network. Then they recruit the Baker, whose macabre genetic experiments seem close to sorcery. However, while factions prepare for war, an ancient peril is stirring. In the city's depths something deadly is rising, and it will soon reach the levels where men dwell.