The Medium (Thorndike Press Large Print Clean Reads) - Hardcover

Sickels, Noelle

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410411591 ISBN 13: 9781410411594

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2009

Synopsis

Sickels, Noelle

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From the Inside Flap

When thirteen-year-old Helen Schneider receives a psychic vision of a neighbor caught in a catastrophic fire, she's too frightened to tell anyone. Her grandmother discovers Helen's secret and wants to train her to be a medium. Afraid of being branded a freak, Helen resists. She suppresses her clairvoyance for years, leading a normal life that includes the bloom of first love. Then, in 1941, the young woman is jolted by a startling premonition.

Believing it's her patriotic duty, Helen agrees to hold séances for the grieving families of dead servicemen. Increasingly fascinated with the world beyond the grave, Helen develops an urgent desire to learn why spirits come to her. At the same time, she faces sharp anxieties in the world of the living. Will her feisty German grandmother be sent to an internment camp for enemy aliens? Can her deepening romance with Billy Mackey survive his disapproval of the gift that makes her different from other people? Or will the day come when she has to choose between him and her amazing ability to contact the dead and see the future? And why is the U. S. Army suddenly so interested in her séances?

The Medium, a historical tale of suspense and romance, is rich with details about everyday life on the home front during World War II, and it paints an eerily appealing picture of the mysterious realm of ghosts and spirit guides. Searching for her true place in both worlds, Helen struggles not only with the uncertainties of life and love during wartime, but also with the unique problem of how to heed the insistent voices of the dead.

From the Back Cover

"The Medium is a book where the characters literally come alive to haunt you. In the true form of a medium, the plot will intrigue you. The book is unique and real."

-----Patricia L. Price, Registered Medium "The inner world of psychic mediums is a nuanced and fascinating place, rarely portrayed accurately by fiction writers. In The Medium, Noelle Sickels wonderfully accomplishes that difficult task and much more."

-----Christine Wicker, author of Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead From The Medium: "Helen, her heart and gut fluttering, picked up Billy's cap and gloves and held them against her face. She closed her eyes and did what she'd sworn to herself she would never do. She tried to sense what Billy's future held, whether he was going to his death." Walking West "The westward expansion is expertly chronicled in Sickels' heartrending novel....a stirring tale of triumph over despair."

------Publisher's Weekly The Shopkeeper's Wife "...a strong and finely crafted psychological novel about friendship, gender, and murder. A quiet thriller."

------Ursula LeGuin

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1410411591
• ISBN 13: 9781410411594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 637