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Book of forbidden words : a novel / Louise Fein.
1552, PARIS: The print-ing press is quickly spreading new ideas across Europe, threatening the power of church and state and unleashing a wave of book burning and heretic hunting. When frightened ex-nun Lysbette Angiers arrives at Charlotte Guillard's famous printing shop with her manuscript, neither woman knows just how far the powerful elite will go to prevent the spread of Lysbette's audacious ideas.1952, NEW YORK: Milly Bennett is a lonely housewife struggling to find her way in her new neighborhood amidst the paranoid clamors of McCarthy's America. She finds her life taking an unexpected turn when a relic from her past presents her with a 400-year-old manuscript to decipher, pulling her into a vortex of danger that threatens to shatter her world. From the risky backstreets of sixteenth-century Paris to the unpredictable suburbs of mid-twentieth century New York, the stakes couldn't be higher when, 400 years apart, Milly, Lysbette, and Charlotte each face a reality where the spread of ideas are feared and every effort is made to suppress them.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063411432 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: xii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2026]
- Copyright: ©2026
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes discussion questions. |
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| Subject: | Books > Fiction. Equality > Fiction. Manuscripts > Fiction. Women > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > History > 1951- > Fiction. Paris (France) > History > 16th century > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Novels. |
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- 0 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 3 current holds with 1 total copy.
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