A great and terrible beauty [electronic resource] : The gemma doyle trilogy, book 1. Libba Bray.
The first book in the critically acclaimed  New York Times, USA Today , and  Publishers Weekly  bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, the exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and  Going Bovine . 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? “A delicious, elegant gothic.”— PW , Starred  “Shivery with both passion and terror.”— Kirkus Reviews  "Compulsively readable." —VOYA  A New York Times Bestseller A Publishers Weekly Bestseller A Book Sense Bestseller BBYA (ALA/YALSA Best Book for Young Adults) Iowa High School Book Award Garden State Teen Book Award Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award
Record details
- ISBN: 9780739344637 (sound recording)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (10 audio files) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Listening Library, 2004.
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General Note: | Unabridged. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Josephine Bailey. |
Target Audience Note: | Text Difficulty 3 UG/Upper grades (9th-12) 700 Lexile. 5.1 ATOS Level |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 318793 KB). |
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- Baker & Taylor
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world. - Findaway World Llc
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? - Random House Digital
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. - Random House, Inc.
Itâs 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, Gemmaâs reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, sheâs 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 Spenceâs most powerful girlsâand their foray into the spiritual worldâlead to?
From the Hardcover edition.