The Medium (Thorndike Press Large Print Clean Reads)

Sickels, Noelle

ISBN 10: 1410411591 / ISBN 13: 9781410411594

Published by Thorndike Pr, United States, 2009

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RELIABLE AND PRESENTABLE LARGE PRINT HARDCOVER BOOK withdrawn from the library collection. Some shelf wear and library markings to the covers. The binding is good and the pages flow clearly. Enjoy this sturdy LARGE PRINT hardcover book for your intellectual needs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Medium (Thorndike Press Large Print Clean Reads)
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr, United States
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1410411591
• ISBN 13: 9781410411594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Sickels, Noelle

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.