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Author Westerbeke, Douglas, author.

Title A short walk through a wide world : a novel / Douglas Westerbeke.

Edition First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Publication Info. New York : Avid Reader Press, 2024.
4 holds on first copy returned of 8 copies
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3177919~S1
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 95th Street Adult Fiction-NEW  F WESTERBE    DUE 05-28-24
 95th Street Adult Fiction-NEW  F WESTERBE    DUE 06-03-24
 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction-NEW  F WESTERBE    ON HOLDSHELF
 Naper Blvd. Adult Fiction-NEW  F WESTERBE    DUE 05-30-24
 Nichols Adult Fiction Popular Picks  F WESTERBE    DUE 06-05-24
 Nichols Adult Fiction Popular Picks  F WESTERBE    DUE 05-17-24
 Nichols Adult Fiction-NEW  F WESTERBE    ON HOLDSHELF
 Nichols Adult Fiction-NEW  F WESTERBE    ON HOLDSHELF
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Description 390 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "Paris, 1885. Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her backpack that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she starts to bleed to death. When medical treatment only makes her worse, she flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realizes that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. So begins her lifelong journey on the run from her condition, which won't allow her to stay anywhere for longer than a few days nor return to a place where she's already been"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Immortalism -- Fiction.
Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.
Chronically ill -- Fiction.
Voyages around the world -- Fiction.
Travel -- Fiction.
Genre Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781668026069
1668026066
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