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IN THE SHADOW OF BLACKBIRDS
By: Cat Winters
Harry N Abrams
October 2014
On Sale: October 17, 2014
Featuring: Mary Shelley Black
404 pages
ISBN: 1419710230
EAN: 9781419710230
Kindle: B00C6ACUB4
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Young Adult Historical | Young Adult
In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the government ships young men to the front lines of a brutal war, creating an atmosphere of fear and confusion. Sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches as desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort, but she herself has never believed in ghosts. At her bleakest moment, however, she’s forced to rethink her entire way of looking at life and death, for her first love—a boy who died in battle—returns in spirit form. But what does he want from her? Featuring haunting archival early-20th-century photographs, this is a tense, romantic story set in a past that is eerily like our own time.
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