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Friday, April 15, 2011

STAFF PICKS -- A Great and Terrible Beauty

Karyn's pick:  A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray (YA)

Synopsis:
It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?
From the Hardcover edition.

Karyn says:  A victorian gothic novel about a young girl who has lost her mother.  Set in a girls boarding school, the vivid language made it a real page turner.
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  1. AnonymousApril 15, 2011 at 9:24 AM

    a great cross of girl-boarding school and then the surprise of fantasy - a classic!

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