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02843aim a2200409 a 4500 001 0A6C604EDE6B11DF9C83A1F56AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20101023010128 008 100805s2008 000 0 eng u 020 $a 9781415945766 020 $a 1415945764 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)\9781415945766 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) 040 $a TEFOD $d SILO 100 1 $a Russell, Mary Doria, 1950- 245 1 $a Dreamers of the day [electronic resource] : $b [a novel] $c Mary Doria Russell. 260 $a New York $b Books on Tape $c 2008. 300 $a Mode of access: $b World Wide Web. Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 164691 KB). 500 $a Downloadable audio file. 500 $a Duration: 11:27:38. 500 $a Title from: Title details screen. 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Read by Ann Marie Lee. 520 $a "I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling, even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You won't really understand your times until you understand mine." So begins the account of Agnes Shanklin, the charmingly diffident narrator of Mary Doria Russell's compelling new novel, Dreamers of the day ... And what is Miss Shanklin's "little story?" Nothing less than the creation of the modern Middle East at the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, where Winston Churchill, T.E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell met to decide the fate of the Arab world--and of our own. A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic, Agnes has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the Peace Conference convenes, Agnes, with her plainspoken American opinions--and a small, noisy dachshund named Rosie--enters into the company of the historic luminaries who will, in the space of a few days at a hotel in Cairo, invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. 650 $a Audiobooks. 650 $a Bell, Gertrude Lowthian, 1868-1926 $x Fiction. 650 $a Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965 $x Fiction. 650 $a Historical fiction. 650 $a Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935 $x Fiction. 650 $a Love stories. 650 $a Middle East $x Fiction. $x 1914-1923 $x Fiction. 650 $a Women teachers $x Fiction. 700 $a Books on Tape, Inc. 700 $a Lee, Ann Marie. 856 $u http://wilbor.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=9822AE91-B73E-4063-AA84-B2178A5BF7F9 $3 URL 941 $a 2 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20110309010817.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20101023011137.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0A6C604EDE6B11DF9C83A1F56AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search