A measure of light : a novel
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| North Bay Public Library | FIC H Powni | 33874004639307 | Adult - Fiction | Available | - |
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- ISBN: 9780345808479 (hardcover)
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323 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2015.
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| Summary, etc.: | Mary Dyer is a seventeenth-century Puritan who ... Read More |
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| Subject: | Women Fiction Quakers Fiction Massachusetts Fiction |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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