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050	0	0	_aPS3557.R48935 _bH55 2013
082	0	0	_aFIC GRI
100	1		_aGriffith, Nicola
245	1	0	_aHild _b: a novel _c/ Nicola Griffith
250			_aFirst edition
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar, Straus and Giroux _c, 2013
300			_a546 p. _b: illus. & genealogical table _c; 24 cm.
520			_aA historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild. Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest niece. She has the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the world -- of studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing human nature and predicting what will happen next -- that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. She establishes herself as the king's seer. And she is indispensable -- until she should ever lead the king astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, her family, her loved ones, and the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can read the world and see the future.
600	0	0	_aHilda _c, of Whitby, Saint _d, 614 - 680 _v--Fiction
650		0	_aChristian women saints _z--England _z--Whitby _v--Fiction
650		0	_aChristain saints _z--England _z--Northumbria (Region) _v--Fiction
650		0	_aWomen _x--History _y--Middle Age, 500 - 1500 _v--Fiction
655		7	_aHistorical fiction
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