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Author:

Khoury, Jessica, 1990- author.

Title:

Origin / Jessica Khoury.

Publisher:

Razorbillan imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

393 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Immortality--Fiction.
Science--Experiments.--Fiction.
Indigenous peoples--Fiction.
Rain forests.--Fiction.
Amazon River Region--Fiction.

Notes:

"Now with added content, including an author Q&A"--Page 4 of cover. APR16.

Summary:

Pia has always known her destiny: to start a new race, a line of descendants who will bring an end to death. She has been bred for immortality, raised by a team of scientists in a secret compound hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. Now those scientists have begun to challenge her, with the goal of training her to carry on their dangerous work. For as long as she can remember, Pia's greatest desire has been to fulfill their expectations. But then one night she finds a hole in the impenetrable fence that surrounds her sterile home. Free in the jungle for the first time in her life, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Unable to resist, she continues sneaking out to see him. As they fall in love, they begin to piece together the truth about Pia's origin - a truth with consequences that are nothing less than deadly.

Series:

Origin ; 1

ISBN:

1595145966 (pbk.)
9781595145963 (pbk.)

LCCN:

bl2013038202

Locations:

YAPC771 -- Bondurant Community Library (Bondurant)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

KTPC296 -- Mediapolis Public Library (Mediapolis)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)