The Clockwork Adventures - Alexa Rayburn

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Résumé :
Fifteen-year-old Phillip is shocked to find that his old friend, tailor Naji Najeem, may have just deliberately sent him to a Victorian Steampunk town with the hopes that he could unite the people for one last stand against the oppressors. Accompanied by his best friend and his new tinydog companion, he faces a dangerous world of eccentric inventors, clockwork machinery, deadly metalwork creatures, and airships piloted by killer Automatons. Isn't he still searching for that one family member who is missing? Or is the temptation to serve as the chosen leader too much to turn down? Can he champion the fight for freedom and risk losing the chance to ever go home again? Read this thrilling sequel to The Clockwork Adventures, Part One...

Biographie:
Alexa Rayburn is the pen name of Nan Kopitnik.Nan Kopitnik is a Board-Certified Addiction Medicine Physician in active practice, as well as an Attorney admitted to the Florida Bar. She also serves as an editor for several online medical resources. She has published articles in medical journals, lectured at national meetings on addiction, and counseled numerous families. She is the author of four children's books and The Clockwork Adventures, a young adult dystopian adventure series. She loves to weave relationship issues into exciting adventure stories. She also authors humorous stories and scripts. From the age of seven, she was a great fan of the novels of Patrick Dennis, which she read under her covers with a flashlight. She is currently completing the sequel to The Mayhem and Medical Mischief of Dr. Olivia Day, a novella detailing the adventures of a home-visiting physician and her trusty assistant Mr. MacKenzie, who encounter spooky situations in their daily assignments. The chapters, which can stand alone as short stories, come together to unravel a mystery concerning the scary Executive Staff who employs them. The stories are scary, but with a comedic twist! Her most recent children's book, Shy Sam the Wolfdog, chronicles the true story of a Florida family that integrates a wolfdog into their life. The book is accompanied by teaching pages for both children and adults.Her latest achievement is the completion of the Masters of Fine Arts Creative Writing Degree Program at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. She also is an annual vendor at Megacon Orlando, Tampa Bay Comic-Con, Tampa MetrocCon, and Holiday Matsuri, Orlando, where she sells books and merchandise from her company, TinyDog Books. She is the keeper of toy robots and one remarkable tinydog. She is the handler of five large, rescue parrots that bite with reckless abandon, and most happily the mother of two exceptionally creative and ambitious children.

Sommaire:
The Search for Norwall in the second book in this seven-part series! As in Book One, artwork adorns the beginning of each chapter. This beautifully illustrated version of The Clockwork Adventures features concept art and character development profiles critical to this story in a separate section at the back of the book. In The Story Continues..., see how this sequel expanded upon the foundations of The Clockwork Adventures, Part One: The Search for Norwall. In Character Development, learn how the author, in collaboration with the illustrator, created memorable characters. In The Places of Norwall, get a deep dive into the world-building of the steampunk world our heroes find themselves in. Enjoy a special behind-the-scenes look at early versions of the illustrations within the book, and learn about the process of taking these illustrations from an idea to a finished artwork! Our tinydog companion, Pebby, finds herself again, the center of attention! Here is an excerpt: from the book Pebby, splendid in her beloved derby and gear-vest, happily looked out on the crowd of bakers as the entire work floor came to a complete silence. Even the Automaton guards were quiet. Suddenly more than one hundred white hats flew into the air, accompanied by raucous cheering and clapping. Their beloved little vagabond had returned home....