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Many waters / Madeleine L'Engle.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: L'Engle, Madeleine. Time quintet ; 4.Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1986.Edition: 1st edDescription: 310 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0374347964
  • 0374347972 (lim. ed.)
  • 9780374347963
  • 9780374347970 (lim. ed.)
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Contents:
Virtual particles and virtual unicorns -- Pelican in the wilderness -- Japheth's sister Yalith -- Grandfather Lamech and Grandfather Enoch -- Nephilim -- Adnarel and the quantum leap -- Seraphim -- Oholibamah, Japheth's wife -- Mahlah's time, Lamech's time -- Song of the stars -- Many waters cannot quench love -- Neither can the floods drown it.
Summary: The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy L'Engle Madelein 4 Available 33111005194937
Total holds: 0

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Sandy and Dennys have always been the normal, run-of-the-mill ones in the extraodinary Murry family. They garden, make an occasional A in school, and play baseball. Nothing especially interesting has happened to the twins until they accidentally interrupt their father's experiment.

Then the two boys are thrown across time and space. They find themselves alone in the desert, where, if they believe in unicorns, they can find unicorns, and whether they believe or not, mammoths and manticores will find them.

The twins are rescued by Japheth, a man from the nearby oasis, but before he can bring them to safety, Dennys gets lost. Each boy is quickly embroiled in the conflicts of this time and place, whose populations includes winged seraphim, a few stray mythic beasts, perilous and beautiful nephilim, and small, long lived humans who consider Sandy and Dennys giants. The boys find they have more to do in the oasis than simply getting themselves home--they have to reunite an estranged father and son,but it won't be easy, especially when the son is named Noah and he's about to start building a boat in the desert.

Virtual particles and virtual unicorns -- Pelican in the wilderness -- Japheth's sister Yalith -- Grandfather Lamech and Grandfather Enoch -- Nephilim -- Adnarel and the quantum leap -- Seraphim -- Oholibamah, Japheth's wife -- Mahlah's time, Lamech's time -- Song of the stars -- Many waters cannot quench love -- Neither can the floods drown it.

The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.

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