Whitney Quesenbery

Kevin Brooks

"We all tell stories. It's one of the most natural ways to share information, as old as the human race. This book is not about a new technique, but how to use something we already know in a new way. Stories help us gather and communicate user research, put a human face on analytic data, communicate design ideas, encourage collaboration and innovation, and create a sense of shared history and purpose. This book looks across the full spectrum of user experience design to discover when and how to use stories to improve our products. Whether you are a researcher, designer, analyst or manager, you will find ideas and techniques you can put to use in your practice"--Provided by publisher.

Crafting Stories for Better Design

Storytelling for User Experience

Before the attack, sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was just an ordinary boy. But now fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded in his brain and it's having an extraordinary effect . . . Because now Tom has powers. The ability to know and see more than he could ever imagine. And with incredible power comes knowledge - and a choice. Seek revenge on the violent gangs that rule his estate and assaulted his friend Lucy, or keep quiet? Tom has control when everything else is out of control. But it's a dangerous price to pay. And the consequences are terrifying . . .

Gekürzte Lesung

IBoy

After having a routine exam that turns out to be anything but routine, Robert learns about the mechanical parts and plastic casings that make up his being; forcing him to flee the only world he has ever known and go on a dangerous search to find out who (and what) he is.

Being

Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.

Kissing the Rain

Dawn Bundy is fifteen. She doesn�t fit in and she couldn�t care less. Dawn has other things on her mind. Her dad disappeared two years ago and it�s all God�s fault. When Dawn�s dad found God, it was the worst time ever. He thought he�d found the answer to everything. But that wasn�t the end of it . . .

Killing God

Faced with the possibility of living with a dreadful aunt, fifteen-year-old Martyn Pig decides not to tell authorities when his alcoholic father dies accidentally, instead asking a friend for her help in disposing of the body. Reissue.

Martyn Pig

Diario del búnker

Bunker diary

When two of sixteen-year-old Pete's childhood classmates disappear from a carnival the same night, he is a suspect, but his own investigation implicates other old friends he was with that evening--and a tough, knife-wielding enemy determined to keep him quiet.

Black Rabbit Summer

L'estate del coniglio nero

People have simple needs. Food, water, light, space. Maybe a small measure of dignity. What happens when someone takes all that away? This pulse-pounding, award-winning novel explores what happens when your worst nightmare comes true.

The Bunker Diary

Naked

The much anticipated follow-up title from the multi-award winning author of The Bunker Diary, winner of the 2014 Carnegie Medal.Elliot is terrified of almost everything. From the moment he was born thirteen years ago, his life has been governed by his acute and very real fears. He lives in an isolated village in the Yorkshire Dales, and the only things that keep his terrors in check are the pills that he takes every day, and his mother, the one person he loves and trusts.It's Christmas Eve, there's a snowstorm and Elliot's medication is almost gone. The phone lines are down. His mother nips out to collect his prescription. It's just 482 metres down the road - but she doesn't come back. Then the power goes off. Does Elliot stay and wait, or does he try to find her? It's only 482 metres. It might as well be 482 miles...

Born Scared

El Diario del Bunker

It is the weekend of Halloween, and PI John Craine has temporarily closed down his business and gone to stay in a rundown old hotel on Hale Island -- a small, bleak island just off the coast of Essex. He's come to Hale to get away from it all -- the memories and the guilt, and a past that just won't let go. All too soon Craine stumbles across the dead body of a young girl on the beach. He calls the police, but when they arrive the body has inexplicably disappeared -- or did Craine imagine it in the first place? Determined to get to the truth, Craine starts to ask his own questions. And once more he finds himself tangled up in a deadly network of corruption, fear and violence. But it seems no one on the island is talking.

Until the Darkness Comes

Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London traveling to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister.

The Road of the Dead

Thirteen-year-old Travis is still trying to get his life back on track following the death of his parents. But he can't shake the feeling that the crash that killed them wasn't an accident. He's trying to stop obsessing about it by solving a petty-thieving spree at school, but the distraction isn't enough. Especially when he begins to suspect that there's a traitor at the heart of the private detective business his parents ran -- and that that traitor sold his parents out. The question is why? Once Travis starts thinking like this, he quickly starts to feel that he can't trust anybody, not even his closest allies.

A Travis Delaney Mystery

The Danger Game

Elliot has lived his first thirteen years confined to his home, incapacitated by fear. Now he’s out of pills, snow is falling, and his only safe person is missing. A terrifying thriller from Carnegie Medalist Kevin Brooks. From the moment of his birth, Elliot’s life has been governed by fear of almost everything, even of his own fear — a beast that holds him prisoner in his room. The beast is kept at bay, though not eliminated, with a daily regimen of pills. But on Christmas Eve, a mix-up at the pharmacy threatens to unleash the beast full force, and his mother must venture out in a raging snowstorm to a store that should be only minutes away. Hours later, when she still hasn’t returned, Elliot sees no choice but to push through his terror, leave the house, and hunt for her. What happens if the last of his medication wears off and the beast starts scratching at the doors of his mind? Everyone has a breaking point — will Elliot come to his? With plot twists and turns that keep readers on the edge of their seats, multi-award-winning author Kevin Brooks offers a high-suspense exploration of fear and what it means to truly be afraid.

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