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Rosli, Fadzlishah Johanabas bin
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Fiction
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✦ LIBER ✦
Act of Faith
- Book ID
- 107483988
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 466 KB
- Category
- Standards
- ISBN
- 0730493016
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✦ Synopsis
When ideas were dangerous, one girl found the courage to act England, 1640. Sixteen-year-old Isabella is forced to flee her home when her father′s radical ideas lead him into a suicidal stand against Oliver Cromwell′s army. Taking refuge in Amsterdam and desperate to find a means to survive, Isabella finds work with an elderly printer, Master de Aquila, and his enigmatic young assistant, Willem. When Master de Aquila travels to Venice to find a publisher brave enough to print his daring new book, Isabella accompanies him and discovers a world of possibility - where women work alongside men as equal partners, and where books and beliefs are treasured. But in a continent torn apart by religious intolerance, constant danger lurks for those who don′t watch their words. And when the agents of the Spanish Inquisition kidnap de Aquila to stop him printing his book, Isabella and Willem become reluctant allies in a...
✦ Subjects
Историческая проза
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