Elvis Costello arrives at the end of the millennium generally recognized as one of the most important and influential stars of popular music. There are very few songwriters who can match his output on an album-to-album basis and none, with the exception of Bob Dylan, can match his depth of passion and lyrical deftness. Born in London in 1955 as Declan Patrick McManus, he left school at seventeen, working as a computer operator by day and a folk singer by night. His first album, My Aim Is True, released in 1977, hit the charts, becoming the biggest import album of the decade when it crossed the Atlantic on the CBS/Columbia label. On his first U.S. tour, when a clash with Stephen Stills and Bonnie Bramlet turned ugly, Costello flew back home with death threats ringing in his ears. In the twenty years since, there have been twenty-three more albums that have made pop-music history. Tony Clayton-Lea tells the fascinating life story of an icon of the rock world-the hits, the drugs, the drink, the women, the critics, and the record companies-of the man who once said it was his ultimate vocation in life to be an irritant. 
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It's been years since Zoe has felt the eerie pull of the spirit world, and sensed the need to travel into the past. But now, during the summer of her fourteenth year, those feelings have returned -- and they're too strong for Zoe to resist.

Without warning, Zoe finds herself transported from summer camp to the island that she and her grandparents call home. But her grandparents seem younger than Zoe ever remembered, and the little girl that's with them is someone Zoe doesn't recognize -- at first. Then she makes a startling realization that she's witnessing her own mother's childhood -- and that it contains a horrible secret. Can Zoe save her mother from the impending danger? Or will she be trapped in the past -- forever . . .? 
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