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Vial of tears / Cristin Bishara.
Samira and Rima live with their maddeningly unreliable mother in a rundown trailer in Michigan. Dad's dead, money's tight, and Mom disappears for days at a time. When Sam's grandfather wills her the family valuables-- a cache of Lebanese antiquities-- she's desperate enough to try pawning them before Mom can. She discovers that one is cursed, forbidden: the burial coin of a forgotten god. Disturbing it condemns them to the Phoenician underworld, a place of wicked cities, burning cedar forests, poisoned feasts of milk and lemons, and an endless, windless ocean. To get home, Sam will have to outwit beautiful shapeshifters, pose as a royal bride, sail the darkest sea-- and maybe kill the god of death himself. -- adapted from jacket
Record details
- ISBN: 9780823446414 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0823446417 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Holiday House, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes recipes. |
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| Subject: | Phoenician antiquities > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. Shapeshifting > Fiction. Monsters > Fiction. Magic > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Fantasy fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Independence Branch | YA BISHA C (Text) | 33126014308328 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
When Samira receives a strange vase with some ancient coins, she and her sister Rima are pulled into Baalbek, a Phoenician underworld where they are caught up in the a struggle between deities, shapeshifters, and ghouls--and Eshmun, who wants his obol, his burial coin, back. - Baker & Taylor
When the sale of a Lebanese antiquity heirloom condemns her and her sister to the Phoenician underworld where nothing is what it seems, Samira must outwit the enemy and possibly kill the god of death himself to save them both. Simultaneous eBook. - Random House, Inc.
Two sisters become trapped in the underworldâand in the machinations of deities, shapeshifters, and ghoulsâin this lush and dangerous Phoenician mythology-inspired fantasy.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year
Teenage sisters Samira and Rima aren't exactly living the dream. Instead, they live with their maddeningly unreliable mother in a rundown trailer in Michigan. Dad's dead, money's tight, and Mom disappears to gamble for days at a time. So when Sam's grandfather wills her the family valuablesâa cache of Lebanese antiquitiesâshe's desperate enough to try pawning them before Mom can.
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But she shouldn't. Because one is cursed, forbidden, the burial coin of a forgotten god. Disturbing it condemns her and Rima to the Phoenician underworld, a place of wicked cities, burning forests, poisoned feasts of milk and lemons, and an endless, windless ocean.
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Nothing is what it seems. No one is who they say. And down here, the night never ends.
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To get homeâand to keep her sister safeâSam will have to outwit beautiful shapeshifters, pose as a royal bride, sail the darkest sea... and maybe kill the god of death himself.
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A lush and intensely imaginative novel in which fierce women protect each other from rapacious gods and hungering demons, and in which two tenacious sisters come into their power, Vial of Tears introduces readers to the rich and brilliant mythology of ancient Lebanon.
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A Den of Geek Top New YA
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