Zusatztext The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths! mystery! community! humor! grief! and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.Brunonia Barry! New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader [A] book-club-friendly read that will have readers itching for a sequel. Booklist "In subtle! graceful prose! Ellen Block gives us a tale that is both filled with longing and hopeful."Cathy Buchanan! author of The Day the Falls Stood Still Informationen zum Autor Ellen Block is the author (as Brett Ellen Block) of The Grave of God's Daughter and the Macavity Award-nominated novel, The Lighting Rule . She lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext A magical novel that unravels one of life's greatest mysteries-how to go on after a devastating loss-through the power of words and their ability to heal! to transform! and to touch the heart. Luck: an event that could be for good or ill! depending on your interpretation. As a lexicographer! Abigail Harker has always taken refuge in the meaning of words. But when fate erases in one tragic moment what she loves the most! the very foundations of her life vanish. Abigail retreats to Chapel Isle! a secluded island in North Carolina's Outer Banks. As caretaker of a run-down lighthouse! she hopes to redefine herself. But as a resident soon remarks! "If you came to Chapel Isle for normal! you came to the wrong place." For on Chapel Isle! no one can be neatly defined. From a scientific genius to the feuding fishermen's wives! from a handsome hothead to the ghost said to be haunting the lighthouse! everyone is struggling to find meaning where meaning seems lost. And when a series of mysterious crimes strikes the island! Abigail finds that she must face down her deepest fears if she is to save herself! her neighbors! and the new life she's unexpectedly come to cherish. A a•be•ce•dar•i•an?(¯a´b¯e s¯e dâr´¯e n), n.1. a person who is learning the letters of the alphabet.2. a beginner in any field of learning.adj. 3. of or pertaining to the alphabet.?. arranged in alphabetical order.5. rudimentary; ele- mentary; primary.?Also, abecedary.[15951605; , ML abeced¯ari¯anus. See abecedary, -an] ••• Never was a word she didn't care for. Not because of the infiniteness it implied or because it sounded so stubbornly unforgiving, but because it was, by definition, improbable. Improbability bothered her. The consummate hyperbole, never was a nervy word, especially for an adverb. Limitless and indiscriminate, never did what few words could. It refused to be qualified, to succumb to rationality or be bridled by it for longer than a single sentence. Never defied logic, and for Abigail Harker, there was nothing more perturbing than that. Logic was, in a manner, her job. She was a lexicographer. She edited dictionaries for a living. Greek in origin, the term lexicographer was a marriage of lexicon, meaning dictionary, and graphos, signifying a writer or writing. The pleasing precision of its etymology translated to the profession as a whole. It was a career in which Abigail's syllogistic nature served her well. Facts, proof, and reasoning were her cardinal directions, while logic acted as the map with which she navigated the world, keeping her on course and helping her maintain her bearings. A compass could shiver at due north. A weather vane might waver in the wind. Yet logic was as steady as stone. It could take Abigail wherever she needed to go, and on one crisp October day, logicalong with an actual maptook her from a quiet side street of a Boston suburb across six states and over eight hundred miles of unfamiliar highway to Bourne's Crossing. Neither a city nor...

ldquo;The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.”—Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader
 
“[A] book-club-friendly read that will have readers itching for a sequel.”—Booklist
 
"In subtle, graceful prose, Ellen Block gives us a tale that is both filled with longing and hopeful."—Cathy Buchanan, author of The Day the Falls Stood Still

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Ellen Block is the author (as Brett Ellen Block) of The Grave of God’s Daughter and the Macavity Award-nominated novel, The Lighting Rule. She lives in Los Angeles.

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A magical novel that unravels one of life's greatest mysteries-how to go on after a devastating loss-through the power of words and their ability to heal, to transform, and to touch the heart.

Luck: an event that could be for good or ill, depending on your interpretation.

As a lexicographer, Abigail Harker has always taken refuge in the meaning of words. But when fate erases in one tragic moment what she loves the most, the very foundations of her life vanish.

Abigail retreats to Chapel Isle, a secluded island in North Carolina's Outer Banks. As caretaker of a run-down lighthouse, she hopes to redefine herself. But as a resident soon remarks, "If you came to Chapel Isle for normal, you came to the wrong place."

For on Chapel Isle, no one can be neatly defined. From a scientific genius to the feuding fishermen's wives, from a handsome hothead to the ghost said to be haunting the lighthouse, everyone is struggling to find meaning where meaning seems lost. And when a series of mysterious crimes strikes the island, Abigail finds that she must face down her deepest fears if she is to save herself, her neighbors, and the new life she's unexpectedly come to cherish.

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A magical novel that unravels one of life’s greatest mysteries—how to go on after a devastating loss—through the power of words and their ability to heal, to transform, and to touch the heart.
 
Luck: an event that could be for good or ill, depending on your interpretation.
 
As a lexicographer, Abigail Harker has always taken refuge in the meaning of words. But when fate erases in one tragic moment what she loves the most, the very foundations of her life vanish. 

    Abigail retreats to Chapel Isle, a secluded island in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. As caretaker of a run-down lighthouse, she hopes to redefine herself. But as a resident soon remarks, “If you came to Chapel Isle for normal, you came to the wrong place.” 

    For on Chapel Isle, no one can be neatly defined. From a scientific genius to the feuding fishermen’s wives, from a handsome hothead to the ghost said to be haunting the lighthouse, everyone is struggling to find meaning where meaning seems lost. And when a series of mysterious crimes strikes the island, Abigail finds that she must face down her deepest fears if she is to save herself, her neighbors, and the new life she’s unexpectedly come to cherish.

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a•be•ce•dar•i•an?(¯a´b¯e s¯e dâr´¯e n), n.1. a person who is learning the letters of the alphabet.2. a beginner in any field of learning.—adj. 3. of or pertaining to the alphabet.?. arranged in alphabetical order.5. rudimentary; ele- mentary; primary.?Also, abecedary.[1595–1605; , ML abeced¯ari¯anus. See abecedary, -an]

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Never was a word she didn’t care for. Not because of the infiniteness it implied or because it sounded so stubbornly unforgiving, but because it was, by definition, improbable. Improbability bothered her.

The consummate hyperbole, never was a ner…