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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Perils for Portents

Perils for Portents

Benedict, Diana

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1539129446
ISBN13: 9781539129448
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 18 2016
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
America in the 1890s is a land of dreams for anyone brave enough-and strong enough-to make them come true. After Francie Wolcott's parents die, leaving her and her genius younger brother, Rooney, penniless, she intends to tour the world with the fortunetelling automaton he built. But first she must bring Rooney to their uncle in San Francisco, where he will have a place to happily tinker and invent things. With no traveling funds, Francie and Rooney join a traveling carnival heading west, using the automaton as an attraction to pay their way. All goes well at first-until a real ghost takes up residence in the automaton. As the fortunes become eerily more accurate, Francie believes real success is finally within her grasp, but the machine's prognostications also implicate the carnival manager, Big Jim, in a murder. Intent on murdering Francie to keep his secret safe, Jim pursues them across the country to the boomtown of San Francisco. Francie must use her all her wits and skill to stop him if she has any hope of achieving her dream of independence and of protecting her and her brother from Big Jim's clutches.

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