In 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the _Guardian_ , set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year, Chopin's Ballade No. 1 - a piece that inspires dread in many professional pianists. His timing could have been better. The next twelve months were to witness the Arab
Against Impassable Barriers
✍ Scribed by Kate MacLeod
- Publisher
- Ratatoskr Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 159 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Toronto
- ISBN
- 194655264X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Stranded on the far side of the moon with her friends, Scout Shannon waits for rescue from galactic central. Hunted by two sets of enemies, surrounded by an impenetrable barrier maintained by an almost alien class of humans, time runs short.
Caught between two factions of a powerful trade dynasty, Scout fights to remain free and to protect her friends. But the people trying to make her their pawn barely seem human to her eyes. Fight them? She can barely understand them.
With friends on both sides of the planetary blockade, Scout just needs to find a way to get her friends stuck on the inside to those waiting for them on the outside.
But foes also lurk on both sides. And they hide among her friends. How to tell friend from foe? Scout better learn before the enemies close in around her.
"Against Impassable Barriers" the fourth book in "The Travels of Scout Shannon" series, a young adult science fiction novel for fans of resourceful heroines, political intrigue, and loyal dog sidekicks.
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✦ Subjects
Space flight -- Fiction
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