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001 ocn979572149
003 OCoLC
005 20190424163611.0
008 170329s2017 enk 000 1 eng
020 _a9780008152291
_q(hardback)
020 _a0008152292
_q(hardback)
020 _a9780008152307
_q(paperback)
020 _a0008152306
_q(paperback)
029 0 _aAU@
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035 _a(OCoLC)979572149
040 _aAU@
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082 0 4 _a813/.6
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100 _917273
_aLawrence, Mark,
_d1966-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aRed sister /
_cMark Lawrence.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aLondon
_bHarperVoyager
_c2017.
300 _a500 pages ;
_c24 cm.
440 _939508
_aBook of the ancestor
490 0 _aBook of the ancestor ;
_v1
520 _a"I was born for killing - the gods made me to ruin" At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices' skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls as a bloodstained child of eight, falsely accused of murder: guilty of worse. In her short life, Nona has made many powerful enemies, and despite the security and isolation of the convent her secret, violent past will one day find her out. Nona must come to terms with her demons and learn to become a deadly assassin if she is to survive ...
655 0 _aFantasy fiction.
_2gsafd
_9118
650 0 _917761
_aAssassins
_vFiction.
650 0 _98799
_aSecrecy
_vFiction.
942 _2ddc
_cFIC
948 _hNO HOLDINGS IN NZWMT - 41 OTHER HOLDINGS
999 _c38843
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