The girl in the tower /
Arden, Katherine,
The girl in the tower / Katherine Arden. - Large print edition. - 368 pages ; 23 cm. - Winternight trilogy ; book two. . - Arden, Katherine, author. Winternight trilogy ; book 2. .
"The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege"-- Vasilisa's gift for seeing what others do not won her the attention of Morozko-- Frost, the winter demon. But Frost's aid comes at a cost, and her people have condemned her as a witch. Driven from her home, she faces an impossible choice: marriage or life in a convent. Instead she dresses herself as a boy and sets off astride her stallion Solovey. Prevailing in a skirmish with bandits, the Grand Prince of Moscow anoints her a hero for her exploits. She dares not reveal to the court that she is a girl, but soon she discovers a grave threat lying in wait for all of Moscow itself.
9781785037610 1432845306
Thorndike Pr, C/O Gale Group Po Box 9187, Farmington Hills, MI, USA, 48331-3535, (248)6994253 SAN 213-4373
2017049442
Good and evil--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Magic--Fiction.
Spirits--Fiction.
Villages--Fiction.
Russia--Fiction.
PS3601.R42 / G57 2018
813/.6
The girl in the tower / Katherine Arden. - Large print edition. - 368 pages ; 23 cm. - Winternight trilogy ; book two. . - Arden, Katherine, author. Winternight trilogy ; book 2. .
"The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege"-- Vasilisa's gift for seeing what others do not won her the attention of Morozko-- Frost, the winter demon. But Frost's aid comes at a cost, and her people have condemned her as a witch. Driven from her home, she faces an impossible choice: marriage or life in a convent. Instead she dresses herself as a boy and sets off astride her stallion Solovey. Prevailing in a skirmish with bandits, the Grand Prince of Moscow anoints her a hero for her exploits. She dares not reveal to the court that she is a girl, but soon she discovers a grave threat lying in wait for all of Moscow itself.
9781785037610 1432845306
Thorndike Pr, C/O Gale Group Po Box 9187, Farmington Hills, MI, USA, 48331-3535, (248)6994253 SAN 213-4373
2017049442
Good and evil--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Magic--Fiction.
Spirits--Fiction.
Villages--Fiction.
Russia--Fiction.
PS3601.R42 / G57 2018
813/.6