PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Alexis Marie Chute is an award-winning author, artist, filmmaker, curator, and inspirational speaker. Her memoir, Expecting Sunshine: A Journey of Grief, Healing, and Pregnancy After Loss, was a Kirkus Best Book of 2017 and received many literary awards. Expecting Sunshine is also a highly acclaimed feature documentary film, produced and directed by the author, that was screened around the world in 2018 and 2019. Chute holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She is an internationally exhibited painter and photographer, curator of InFocus Photography Exhibition, and a widely published writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Her 8th Island Trilogy has been called A Wrinkle in Time meets The Princess Bride (Lee Lee Thompson, The Perpetual You), and was a 2018 Top 15 Unputdownable YA Reads pick (Bookstr). She lives in snowy Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with her husband, Aaron, and their three living children.
With this follow-up to Above the Star, Chute has produced another book of immense beauty and heart-stopping peril. As this spectacular company of brave yet vulnerable characters race against time towards the Star and a cure for 15-year-old Ella, they must battle floods and sea monsters, treacherous mazes, malicious shape-shifting sands, and a host of fierce enemies. With stunning imagery and imaginative prose, Chute brings to life a dark magical world where love and wonder shine brightly. A terrific read! --Fran Kimmel, award-winning author of The Shore Girl and No Good Asking Praise for Book 1 in the series Above the Star Will hold you spellbound until the last page. --Reader's Favorite Think of Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and Homer's Odyssey all wrapped up together. -- Raymond Gariepy, editor of WestWord magazine Shows readers that there is a power within all of us to change the world. -- Jessica Kluthe, author of Rosina, The Midwife
