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The oracle glass

Seventeeth-century Paris, Genevieve is a skinny, precocious girl with a mind full of philosophy and the remarkable power to read the swirling waters of an oracle glass.

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  • "Oracle glass"@it
  • "Oracle glass"@pl

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  • "Seventeeth-century Paris, Genevieve is a skinny, precocious girl with a mind full of philosophy and the remarkable power to read the swirling waters of an oracle glass."@en
  • "Absorbing and arresting. ?New York Times Fascinating and factual. ?Los Angeles Times Chilly, witty, and completely engrossing ... great, good fun. ? Kirkus Reviews An outstanding historical novel of 17th?century France ... based on a real?life scandal known as the Affaire des Poisons, this tale is riveting from start to finish. ?Library Journal For a handful of gold, Madame de Morville will read your future in a glass of swirling water. You'll believe her, because you know she's more than 150 years old and a witch, and she has all of Paris in the palm of her hand. But Madame de Morville hides more behind her black robes than you know. Her real age, the mother and uncle who left her for dead, the inner workings of the most secret society of Parisian witches: none of these truths would help her outwit the rich who so desperately want the promise of the future. After all, it's her own future she must control , no matter how much it is painted with uncertainty and clouded by vengeance. Take a full cup of wit, two teaspoons of brimstone, and a dash of poison, and you have Judith Merkle Riley's mordant, compelling tale of an ambitious young woman who disguises herself as an ancient prophetess in order to gain entry into the dangerous, scheming glamour of the Sun King's court. Based on scandalous true events, The Oracle Glass brims with our human foibles, passions, and eccentricities; it's a classic of the genre and unlike any historical novel you have ever read. ?C. W. Gortner, author of The Confessions of Catherine de Medici"
  • "A 17th Century tale of sorcery based on Paris police records. The heroine is Genevieve Pasquier, a fortune teller who uses her powers to manipulate the lives of the famous at the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King."
  • "A 17th Century tale of sorcery based on Paris police records. The heroine is Genevieve Pasquier, a fortune teller who uses her powers to manipulate the lives of the famous at the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King. By the author of In Pursuit of the Green Lion."
  • ""Seventeenth-century Paris. Genevieve is a skinny, precocious girl with a mind full of philosophy and the remarkable power to read the swirling waters of an oracle glass. Left for dead by her family, she is taken in by the ingenious occultist La Voisin, who rules a secret society of witches that manipulates the rich and the scandalous all the way up to the throne. Tutored by La Voisin, Genevieve creates a new identity for herself--as the mysterious Madame de Morville, rumored to be one hundred fifty years old. Soon, even the reigning mistress of the Sun King himself consults Madame de Morville on what the future holds for her. And as Madame de Morville, Genevieve can revel in what women are usually denied--power, an independent income, and the opportunity to speak her mind. But beneath her intelligence and wit, and in the face of unexpected love, Genevieve is driven by the obsessed spirit of revenge."--www.fantasticfiction.co.uk"
  • "A 17th century tale of sorcery based on Paris police records. the heroine is Genèvieve Pasquier, a fortune teller who uses her powers to manipulate the liveds of the famous at the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King."@en

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  • "Occult fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Powieść historyczna amerykańska"@pl

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  • "A párizsi látó : pillantás a Napkirály fényes, ám korrupt és titkokkal teli udvarába : [regény]"@hu
  • "La jeune fille aux oracles"
  • "La sfera dell'indovina"
  • "La sfera dell'indovina"@it
  • "Den falske markise"@da
  • "Czara wyroczni"
  • "Czara wyroczni"@pl
  • "El oraculo de cristal"
  • "La jeune fille aux oracles : roman"
  • "El oráculo de cristal"@es
  • "El oráculo de cristal"
  • "The oracle glass"@en
  • "The oracle glass"
  • "El Oráculo de cristal"
  • "A párizsi látó : pillantás a Napkirály fényes, ám korrupt és titkokkal teli udvarába"
  • "The Oracle Glass"

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