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01702aam a2200325 i 4500 001 EB1D23B6369B11EAA59B8B3C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200114010144 007 n 008 160428s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1471141357 020 $a 9781471141355 020 $a 1471140970 (paper back) 020 $a 9781471140976 (paper back) 035 $a (OCoLC)948622372 040 $d IaAtL $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Fleming, Leah,. 245 14 $a The Last Pearl / $c Leah Fleming. 264 1 $a London : $b Simon & Schuster, $c 2016. 300 $a 410 pages ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a 1879, York. Greta Costello must rely on her wits to survive. She finds refuge as a Saturday girl for an old jeweller, Saul Abrahams, and her eye for detail, her long fingers and appreciation of beauty persuade Saul to train her as a pearl stringer. This skill will lead her through hardship and pain towards a new life. 1879, Scotland.Jem Baillie knows the immense power of a perfect pearl. His father was a fisher on a tributary of the Tay river in Perthshire, Scotland, and together they found the rarest of pearls, a great white pearl they call Queenie. When this is stolen from them, Eben vows revenge. Spanning generations and continents, tracing the rivers of Scotland and the Mississippi. 541 $d 20190620. 650 $a Pearls $v Fiction. 651 $a Scotland $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 651 $a York (England) $v Fiction. 651 $a Great Britain $x Fiction. $y Victoria, 1837-1901 $x Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l XSPE157 $d 20200114015530.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EB1D23B6369B11EAA59B8B3C97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search