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02605aam a22003615i 4500 001 F697651C14DB11EFA62C719E34ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240518010043 008 240314s2024 miu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2024934383 020 $a 9798885795777 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Westerbeke, Douglas $e author. 245 12 $a A short walk through a wide world $c Douglas Westerbeke. 250 $a Large print. 263 $a 2405 264 1 $a Farmington Hills : $b Thorndike Press, $c 2024. 300 $a 557 pages (large print) $c 23 cm 520 $a Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her backpack that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she starts to bleed to death. When medical treatment only makes her worse, she flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realizes that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. So begins her lifelong journey on the run from her condition, which won't allow her to stay anywhere for longer than a few days nor return to a place where she's already been. From the scorched dunes of the Calashino Sand Sea to the snow-packed peaks of the Himalayas; from a bottomless well in a Parisian courtyard, to the shelves of an infinite underground library, we follow Aubry as she learns what it takes to survive and ultimately, to truly live. But the longer Aubry wanders and the more desperate she is to share her life with others, the clearer it becomes that the world she travels through may not be quite the same as everyone else's... Fiercely independent and hopeful, yet full of longing, Aubry Tourvel is an unforgettable character fighting her way through a world of wonders to find a place she can call home. A spellbinding and inspiring story about discovering meaning in a life that seems otherwise impossible, A Short Walk Through a Wide World reminds us that it's not the destination, but rather the journey--no matter how long it lasts--that makes us who we are" $c Provided by publisher. 650 $a Large type books 650 $a Immortalism 650 $a Blessing and cursing 650 $a Chronically ill 650 $a Puzzles 650 $a Diseases 650 $a Travel 650 $a Historical fiction 650 $a Magic realist fiction 650 $a Fantasy fiction 941 $a 1 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20240518010053.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F697651C14DB11EFA62C719E34ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search