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" Dreamers of the day : "
Mary Doria Russell.
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BL
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979891
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b734261
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| Main Entry
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Russell, Mary Doria,1950-
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| Title & Author
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Dreamers of the day : : a novel /\ Mary Doria Russell.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Random House,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (253 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1588366758
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1400064716
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9781400064717
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| Abstract
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A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes 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, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T.E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American opinions, she becomes a sounding board for these historic luminaries who will, in the space of a few days, invent the nations of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan. While neither a pawn or a participant at the conference, she is drawn into the geopolitical intrigue surrounding the conference.
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Bell, Gertrude Lowthian,1868-1926
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Churchill, Winston,1874-1965
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Lawrence, T. E., (Thomas Edward),1888-1935
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Bell, Gertrude Lowthian,1868-1926.
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Churchill, Winston,1874-1965.
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Lawrence, T. E., (Thomas Edward),1888-1935.
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Women teachers, Fiction.
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FICTION-- General.
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FICTION.
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Women teachers.
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Middle East, History, 1914-1923, Fiction.
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Middle East.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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| LC Classification
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PS3568.U76678D74 2008eb
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FIC014000bisacsh
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