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A Northern Light

Written by: Jennifer Donnelly
Narrated by: Hope Davis
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All of Mattie Lyon's hopes and dreams are riding on her summer job at the Glennmore Hotel. She'll make enough money to go to college in the fall. She'll prove to her father that she is responsible. She'll learn how to survive in the sophisticated world beyond her dad's brokeback farm. But all her plans fall to pieces when a young woman turns up drowned in the lake. Only Mattie knows that her death is a murder.

An astonishing and heartbreaking story set in 1906, this novel will take its place beside To Kill a Mockingbird, Little Women, and other classics that hark back to times of lost innocence.

A Northern Light is Jennifer Donnelly's first published young adult novel, and it marks the debut of a major new talent. Coming of Age Crime Fiction Historical Fiction History & Culture Literature & Fiction Murder Mysteries & Detectives Mystery Mystery & Suspense Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Romance Historic Family Mystery
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A captivating fast paced story narrated by a young girl on her journey, as she became a woman and found her way during trying times.

The experiences she learned and grew from, the good of some and the manipulations of others, with their desires for personal gains at the expense of the innocent.

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