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    A Twisted Tale

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    Author Liz Braswell
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    $19.99 US
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    5.8"W x 8.52"H x 1.64"D  
    On sale Sep 01, 2020 | 512 Pages | 9781484781319
    Grade 7 & Up
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    The 10th installment in the New York Times bestselling A TWISTED TALE series asks: What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late?

    Alice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. She’d rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian’s lively salon, ignoring her sister’s wishes that she stop all that “nonsense” and become a “respectable” member of society. Alice is happy to meander to Miss Yao’s teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. She’s also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there, but just because she’s curious, of course, not because he was sweet and charming.
    But when Alice develops photographs she has recently taken about town, familiar faces of old suddenly appear in the place of her actual subjects—the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar. There’s something eerily off about them, even for Wonderland creatures. And as Alice develops a self-portrait, she finds the most disturbing image of all—a badly-injured dark-haired girl asking for Alice’s help. Mary Ann.

    Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice finds herself on a mission to stop the Queen of Hearts’ tyrannical rule and to find her place in both worlds. But will she able to do so . . . before the End of Time?


    For more twisted adventures, try the other books in the A TWISTED TALE series:

    • A Whole New World by Liz Braswell
    • Once Upon a Dream by Liz Braswell
    • As Old as Time by Liz Braswell
    • Reflection by Elizabeth Lim
    • Part of Your World by Liz Braswell
    • Mirror, Mirror by Jen Calonita
    • Concel, Don't Feel by Jen Calonita
    • Straight On Till Morning by Liz Braswell
    • So This is Love by Elizabeth Lim
    • Go the Distance by Jen Calonita
    • What Once Was Mine by Liz Braswell
    Liz Braswell spent her childhood reading fairy tales and going on adventures with her cat in the forest. She majored in Egyptology at Brown University (and, yes, she can write your name in hieroglyphs). After spending the next ten years producing video games, Liz began her career as a full-time writer with a retelling of “Snow White” called Snow, followed by Rx and the Nine Lives of Chloe King series. She is also the author of Stuffed, Stuffed 2: Into Darkness, and many Twisted Tales, including A Whole New World, Once Upon a Dream, As Old as Time, Part of Your World, Straight On Till Morning, Unbirthday, What Once Was Mine, and Adventure Is Out There! The New York Times best-selling author lives in Brooklyn with a husband, two children, a cat, and several coffee trees—one of which has already produced a rather tolerable espresso. View titles by Liz Braswell

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    The 10th installment in the New York Times bestselling A TWISTED TALE series asks: What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late?

    Alice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. She’d rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian’s lively salon, ignoring her sister’s wishes that she stop all that “nonsense” and become a “respectable” member of society. Alice is happy to meander to Miss Yao’s teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. She’s also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there, but just because she’s curious, of course, not because he was sweet and charming.
    But when Alice develops photographs she has recently taken about town, familiar faces of old suddenly appear in the place of her actual subjects—the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar. There’s something eerily off about them, even for Wonderland creatures. And as Alice develops a self-portrait, she finds the most disturbing image of all—a badly-injured dark-haired girl asking for Alice’s help. Mary Ann.

    Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice finds herself on a mission to stop the Queen of Hearts’ tyrannical rule and to find her place in both worlds. But will she able to do so . . . before the End of Time?


    For more twisted adventures, try the other books in the A TWISTED TALE series:

    • A Whole New World by Liz Braswell
    • Once Upon a Dream by Liz Braswell
    • As Old as Time by Liz Braswell
    • Reflection by Elizabeth Lim
    • Part of Your World by Liz Braswell
    • Mirror, Mirror by Jen Calonita
    • Concel, Don't Feel by Jen Calonita
    • Straight On Till Morning by Liz Braswell
    • So This is Love by Elizabeth Lim
    • Go the Distance by Jen Calonita
    • What Once Was Mine by Liz Braswell

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    Liz Braswell spent her childhood reading fairy tales and going on adventures with her cat in the forest. She majored in Egyptology at Brown University (and, yes, she can write your name in hieroglyphs). After spending the next ten years producing video games, Liz began her career as a full-time writer with a retelling of “Snow White” called Snow, followed by Rx and the Nine Lives of Chloe King series. She is also the author of Stuffed, Stuffed 2: Into Darkness, and many Twisted Tales, including A Whole New World, Once Upon a Dream, As Old as Time, Part of Your World, Straight On Till Morning, Unbirthday, What Once Was Mine, and Adventure Is Out There! The New York Times best-selling author lives in Brooklyn with a husband, two children, a cat, and several coffee trees—one of which has already produced a rather tolerable espresso. View titles by Liz Braswell

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