[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning request
- From: "robert tweedy" <roberttweedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:03:14 -0500
I will too. Here's the info from NLS. Author: Gregory, Philippa.
Title: The wise woman [sound recording] / Philippa
Gregory.
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : NLS, 1996. (Talking Book
Publishers, recording agency. Talking Book Publishers,
distributor.)
Description: 4 sound cassettes (C-90) : analog, 15/16 ips, 4
track, mono.
Book Number: RC 39655
Dewey No.: 823.914 AFI
Notes: Availability restricted to those meeting the
eligibility criteria of the holding agency.
Narrated by Jill Ferris.
From an early age, Alys is apprenticed to Morach,
the wise woman of the moors, but when the chance comes, Alys
takes refuge in a nearby abbey and becomes a nun. When the
abbey is burned by Lord Hugo, Alys returns to live with
Morach. She is soon summoned to care for Lord Hugo's father,
and finds herself using spells that create more havoc than
good. Some strong language, some violence, and some
descriptions of sex.
Female narrator. NLS/BPH
Contains descriptions of sex. NLS/BPH
Contains descriptions of violence. NLS/BPH
Contains strong language. NLS/BPH
Reproduced from: New York : Pocket Books, 1993.
93021824
Subjects: Witches -- England -- Fiction.
Love stories. gsafd
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547
-- Fiction.
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----- Original Message -----
From: siss52
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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:17 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning request
That sounds like a great read! I shall eagerly await the time when it joins
the collection! Thanks, Stacey and Shanon.
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: solsticesinger
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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:30 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning request
It is the book. If you would scan it, I would really appreciate it, and, as I
said, I'll be happy to validate it.
Shannon
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----- Original Message -----
From: Anastasia Saridakis
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Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 9:16 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning request
Is this the book?
The wise woman
Gregory, Philippa.
Review
The author of the Wideacre trilogy offers another intense, absorbing tale,
a grisly drama of passion and witchcraft in 16th-century England. Growing up as
an ill-used apprentice to Morach, the much-feared wise woman of the moors, Alys
finds respite by joining an order of Catholic nuns. When young Lord Hugo and
his men burn the abbey to the ground during a drunken rampage, Alys is the only
one to escape; she flees back to Morach, consumed with guilt at having
abandoned her dying sisters. Summoned to minister to Lord Hugh, Hugo's father,
Alys soon finds herself deeply involved in the treachery and intrigue
surrounding the old man's attempts to have his son's marriage to the barren
Lady Catherine annulled. Attracted to Hugo despite his murderous past, Alys
begins to practice witchcraft in earnest to rid him of Catherine and become his
wife. Her spells work all too well: Catherine's long-awaited pregnancy ends
disastrously, and Hugo comes to love Alys, but in a sickly haze of lust that
provides no basis for marriage. Alys soon finds herself so sunk in evil, so
removed from God's love, that only a truly shocking gesture can bring about her
salvation. Gregory adeptly manipulates hair-raising horror and mounting
suspense, brilliantly evoking the period's turbulent atmosphere. Dou ble day
Book Club alternate. Copyright 1993 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Appeared
in: Reed Elsevier Inc. (c) Copyright 2006, Cahners Business Information, a
division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
This new novel by the author of Wideacre (S. and S., 1987) and other
popular historical fiction profiles a woman versed in charms, conjuring, and
fortune-telling who nonetheless falls into catastrophic misfortunes time after
time. Escaping from an English convent, young Alys learns the arts of healing
and magic from the ``wise woman'' who takes her in. Her struggle to find an
independent life takes her among an array of characters, including a mediocre
lover, a sickly old man still very much in control of the lives around him, and
two challenging women: Marach and Mother Hildebrande. Gregory weaves a vivid
tapestry of life in the 16th century, including plenty of sex, as the narrative
strains toward a not-unexpected end. M.E. Chitty, Fairchild International Lib .
Inst . , Plainfield, N.J.Copyright 1993 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Appeared in: Reed Elsevier Inc. (c) Copyright 2006, Cahners Business
Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
If it is my liibrary has it. I can get it if you are stil interested
Tkae care
Anastasia
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