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(0)Sheri Holman
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Language
English
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In Sunderland, England, a city quarantined by the cholera epidemic of 1831, a defiant, fifteen-year-old beauty in an elegant blue dress sells her body to feed her only love: a fragile baby boy. When the surgeon Henry Chiver offers Gustine a different kind of work, she hopes to finally change her terrible circumstances. But Chiver was recently implicated in the famous case of Burke and Hare, who murdered beggars and sold their corpses for medical research....
Author
Language
English
Description
A riveting mystery that recalls the work of Umberto Eco and Barry Unsworth, A Stolen Tongue is the captivating debut novel that launched critically acclaimed author Sheri Holman's literary career.
In 1483, Father Felix Fabri sails from Germany to Mount Sinai on a pilgrimage to venerate the relics of Saint Katherine of Alexandria. But at each of the shrines he visits throughout Greece and Palestine, he finds that the remains of Katherine's body are...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
187 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a seventh century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.
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Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2011], p2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 12 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
His private life shattered amid rumors of his mother's witchcraft activities, Eddie Alley leaves his Depression-era Virginia hometown to begin a television career in New York and finds the past returning years later when he offers shelter to a homeless teen.