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?
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The Sweet Far Thing
By Bray, Libba
* A huge work of massive ambition.Publishers Weekly, Starred It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father alaudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds.The Orderthe mysterious group her mother was once part ofis grappling for control of the realms, as is the Rakshana. Spence's burned East Wing is being rebuilt, but why now Gemma and her friends see Pippa, but she is not the same. And their friendship faces its gravest trial as Gemma must decide once and for all what role she is meant for.A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA #1 Book Sense BestsellerA New York Times BestsellerA Publishers Weekly BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA 2008 New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
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* A huge work of massive ambition.Publishers Weekly, Starred It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father alaudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds.The Orderthe mysterious group her mother was once part ofis grappling for control of the realms, as is the Rakshana. Spence's burned East Wing is being rebuilt, but why now Gemma and her friends see Pippa, but she is not the same. And their friendship faces its gravest trial as Gemma must decide once and for all what role she is meant for.A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA #1 Book Sense BestsellerA New York Times BestsellerA Publishers Weekly BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA 2008 New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
A Great and Terrible Beauty
By Bray, Libba
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?
The Sweet Far Thing
By Bray, Libba
* A huge work of massive ambition.Publishers Weekly, Starred It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father alaudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds.The Orderthe mysterious group her mother was once part ofis grappling for control of the realms, as is the Rakshana. Spence's burned East Wing is being rebuilt, but why now Gemma and her friends see Pippa, but she is not the same. And their friendship faces its gravest trial as Gemma must decide once and for all what role she is meant for.A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA #1 Book Sense BestsellerA New York Times BestsellerA Publishers Weekly BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA 2008 New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age Show more Show less #outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } * A huge work of massive ambition.Publishers Weekly, Starred It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father alaudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds.The Orderthe mysterious group her mother was once part ofis grappling for control of the realms, as is the Rakshana. Spence's burned East Wing is being rebuilt, but why now Gemma and her friends see Pippa, but she is not the same. And their friendship faces its gravest trial as Gemma must decide once and for all what role she is meant for.A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA #1 Book Sense BestsellerA New York Times BestsellerA Publishers Weekly BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA 2008 New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age