A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

A Great and Terrible Beauty by 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
BYA (ALA/YALSA Best Book for Young Adults)
Iowa High School Book Award
Garden State Teen Book Award
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award

Libba Bray is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels, both available on audio from Listening Library. She has never lived in the Victorian era, is not British, and has no superpowers, though if she did, they would involve being able to eat her weight in Swedish fish without feeling the urgent need to brush her tongue afterward. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, their son, and a cat of questionable intelligence. Visit her website at www.libbabray.com.

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ISBN 13	9780385730280
ISBN 10	0385730284
Title	A Great and Terrible Beauty
Author	Libba Bray
Series	Gemma Doyle Trilogy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Delacorte Press
Year published	2003-12-09
Number of pages	416
Prizes	Winner of New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award (Children's) 2005, Winner of Iowa High School Book Award 2006, Commended for Tayshas Reading 2005, Short-listed for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Young Adult) 2006, Short-listed for Grand Canyon Reader Award (Teen) 2008, Short-listed for Colorado Blue Spruce Award 2005
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.