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Book of a Thousand Days

Shannon Hale

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

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From New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale comes a Brothers Grimm fairy tale retelling about mistaken identity and love gone awry. 
 
When Lady Saren refuses to marry a man she fears, she and her maid, Dashti, are locked in a tower with just a tiny flap open to the outside world. As food runs low and the weather changes from broiling hot to unbearably cold, it is all Dashti can do to make them comfortable in their dark prison. 
 
Not long after their confinement begins, Saren's suitors arrive--one welcome, the other less so--and she orders Dashti to speak to them. Impersonating Lady Saren is a crime punishable by death, but Dashti will have to play the role many times if she is to save them both from the tower and the dangers outside. As she takes control of their desperate situation, Dashti begins to understand her own astonishing talents and believe that even a low-born maid can find true love. 
 
Don't miss any of these other books from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale: 
 
The Books of Bayern 
The Goose Girl 
Enna Burning 
River Secrets 
Forest Born 
 
The Princess Academy trilogy 
Princess Academy 
Princess Academy: Palace of Stone 
Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters 
 
Book of a Thousand Days 
 
Dangerous 
 
Graphic Novels 
with Dean Hale, illustrated by Nathan Hale 
Rapunzel's Revenge  
Calamity Jack 
 
For Adults 
Austenland 
Midnight in Austenland 
The Actor and the Housewife
Available since: 12/01/2009.
Print length: 336 pages.

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