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Zusatztext Praise for A Map of Days : “The best-selling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series returns! this time with a new story arc that takes place in America…[with] weirdly wonderful characters .” – I09 “ The stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom” – Tor.com “ A Map of Days reveals Ransom Riggs at the peak of his powers ! leaving loyal fans ravenous for more.” – NY Journal of Books “ Riggs reinvigorates his best-selling series ! expanding the peculiar world and history! while drawing parallels to contemporary hot-button issues…This series is a big deal!” – Booklist Praise for the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series: “A tense! moving! and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.” —John Green! #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars “Readers searching for the next Harry Potter may want to visit Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.” —CNN “With its X-Men: First Class -meets-time-travel story line! David Lynchian imagery! and rich! eerie detail.” — Entertainment Weekly “‘Peculiar’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. Riggs’ chilling! wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.”— People “[A] thrilling! Tim Burton-esque tale with haunting photographs.”— USA Today Pop Candy Informationen zum Autor Ransom Riggs is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children novels. Riggs was born on a farm in Maryland and grew up in southern Florida. He studied literature at Kenyon College and film at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, bestselling author Tahereh Mafi, and their family. Klappentext The instant bestseller! • New York Times bestseller • USA Today bestseller • Wall Street Journal bestseller "A Map of Days reveals Ransom Riggs at the peak of his powers, leaving loyal fans ravenous for more." -NY Journal of Books Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery-a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob's grandfather, Abe. Clues to Abe's double-life as a peculiar operative start to emerge, secrets long hidden in plain sight. And Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited-truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine's time loop. Now, the stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom-a world with few ymbrynes, or rules-that none of them understand. New wonders, and dangers, await in this brilliant next chapter for Miss Peregrine's peculiar children. Their story is again illustrated by haunting vintage photographs, now with the striking addition of full-color images interspersed throughout for this all-new, multi-era American adventure. Prologue Never have I doubted my soundness of mind as often as I did on that first night, when the bird-woman and her wards came to save me from the madhouse. That’s where I was going, pinned between beefy uncles in the back seat of my parents’ car, when a wall of peculiar children seemed to leap directly from my imagination into the driveway before us, aglow in our high beams like a formation of angels. We skidded to a stop. A wave of dust erased everything beyond our win...
