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""In the tower of Count Stelli in the ancient city-state of Agora, two children meet, apparently by chance. Mark has escaped the plague ravaging the city's slums. Lily is the servant who cares for him. At first, their only goal is survival: In Agora, everything can be bought and sold, debt is death, and Mark and Lily must barter their labor for their lives. Then comes an opportunity for them to exchange destinies: for Lily to escape the tower for the city outside, and for Mark to find refuge inside by taking a serving position with the Count. The exchange will set them on divergent paths: Mark's toward fame and fortune as an astrologer, Lily's as the founder of an almshouse for the city's poor and destitute. Yet their lives remain strangely intertwined, and it is Lily who will discover the role that each of them is destined to play in fulfilling the prophecy and challenge of the secret Midnight Charter devised by Agora's founders ..."--Dust cover flap."@en
"In the tower of Count Stelli in the ancient city of Agora, two children meet, apparently by chance. Mark is an orphan who has escaped the plague ravaging the city's slums. Lily, also an orphan, is the servant who cares for him. Then comes an opportunity for them to exchange destinies: for Lily to escape the tower for the city outside, and for Mark to find refuge inside by taking a serving position with the Count."@en
"In the tower of Count Stelli in the ancient city of Agora, two children meet, apparently by chance. Mark is an orphan who has escaped the plague ravaging the city's slums. Lily, also an orphan, is the servant who cares for him. Then comes an opportunity for them to exchange destinies: for Lily to escape the tower for the city outside, and for Mark to find refuge inside by taking a serving position with the Count."
""In the tower of Count Stelli in the ancient city-state of Agora, two children meet, apparently by chance. At first, their only goal is survival: In Agora, everything can be bought and sold, debt is death, and Mark and Lily must barter their labor for their lives. But they are destined to fulfill the prophecy of the secret Midnight Charter devised by Agora's founders. What is the Charter? How and why are members of the city's powerful elite involved--and who among them can Lily and Mark trust?"--P. [2] of cover."@en
"Dans la cité d'Agora, tout se vend et tout s'achète : la nourriture, les vêtements, les émotions, etc. Les enfants eux-mêmes sont la propriété de leurs parents, jusqu'à leur 12e anniversaire. Mark a été vendu par son père, et Lily, orpheline de naissance, a dû échanger sa force de travail pour survivre. Réunis dans la tour du comte Stelli, éminent astrologue, ils décident de s'échapper."
"Two children meet in the ancient city-state of Agora, apparently by chance. Mark has escaped the plague ravaging the city's slums and Lily is the servant who cares for him. Mark and Lily must barter their labor for their lives. Then comes an opportunity for them to exchange destinies: for Lily to escape the tower for the city outside, and for Mark to find refuge inside by taking a serving position with the Count. The exchange will set them on divergent paths: Mark's toward fame and fortune as an astrologer, Lily's as the founder of an almshouse for the city's poor and destitute. Yet their lives remain strangely intertwined, and it is Lily who will discover the role that each of them is destined to play in fulfilling the prophecy and challenge of the secret Midnight Charter devised by Agora's founders. Suggested level: imtermediate, secondary."
"Mark en Lily (12) wonen in Agora, een stad waarin alles verhandeld wordt, zelfs kinderen. Ze raken bevriend, maar weten niet dat de heerser van de stad hen in de gaten houdt. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar."
"In the city of Agora, anything can be bought and sold. Even children are possessions until their twelfth birthday. Mark has been sold by his father, and Lily, an orphan from birth, has bartered for her life. Thrown together by chance, in the ancient tower of Count Stelli, they face an existence of poverty and servitude, unless they can find a way to break free."@en
"Premier tome d'une trilogie. Une dystopie, où la magie se mêle à l'évocation réaliste d'une société inégalitaire. Dans une cité, Agora, gangrénée par la corruption et les trafics, et où des contrats de toutes sortes régissent les relations entres les habitants, les enfants s'échangent comme des marchandises et la vente des émotions bat son plein ; aspirées et embouteillées, celles-ci agissent comme une puissante drogue. Deux adolescents, inexplicablement liés par une prophétie, tentent, par des voies différentes, d'échapper au destin qui leur est assigné : Mark, en devenant riche et puissant, et Lily, en se rebellant contre le système aliénant des contrats."