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Winner of the 2013 Michael L. Printz Award
Bloomsbury is proud to be the global publisher of In Darkness, a stunning tour-de-force set in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. "Shorty" is a Haitian boy trapped in the ruins of a hospital when the earth explodes around him. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing desperately weak from lack of food and water, death seems imminent. Yet as Shorty waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, he becomes aware of another presence, one reaching out to him across two hundred yearsof history. It is the presence of slave and revolutionary leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, whose life was marred by violence, and whose own end came in darkness. What unites a child of the slums with the man who would shake a troubled country out of slavery? Is it the darkness they share . . . or is it hope?
Raw, harrowing, and peopled with vibrant characters, In Darkness is an extraordinary book about the cruelties of man and nature, and the valiant, ongoing struggle for a country's very survival.
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South Ozone Park - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | SRC14 | 0228552035617 | Available |
Baisley Park- Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228552035674 | Available | |
East Elmhurst - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228552035716 | Available | |
Central Library Teen Space | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228552035724 | Available | |
Bayside - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790581 | Available | |
Bay Terrace - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790607 | Available | |
Corona - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790615 | Available | |
Baisley Park- Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554790771 | Available | |
Lefferts - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802022 | Available | |
Ridgewood - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802055 | Available | |
Rochdale Village - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228554802196 | Available | |
Forest Hills - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561047017 | Available | |
Kew Gardens Hills - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561047025 | Available | |
Langston Hughes - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561047041 | Available | |
Lefferts - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561047132 | Available | |
Lefrak City - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561047157 | Available | |
South Ozone Park - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | SRC14 | 0228561047165 | Available |
Queensboro Hill - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561047173 | Available | |
McGoldrick - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561047231 | Available | |
Mitchell-Linden - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561047256 | Available | |
Richmond Hill - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561047264 | Available | |
Ridgewood - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Trade Paperback | 0228561047298 | Available | |
South Hollis - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561047348 | Available | |
Central Library Teen Space | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561047389 | Available | |
East Flushing - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561048080 | Available | |
East Elmhurst - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561048098 | Available | |
Hollis - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561658284 | Available | |
Bay Terrace - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561658292 | Available | |
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Forest Hills - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561658334 | Available | |
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St.Albans - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561754414 | Available | |
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Windsor Park - Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228561754521 | Available | |
Arverne- Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Paperback | 0228566475783 | Available | |
Glen Oaks | FIC Lake | Adult Hard Cover | 0228568082728 | Available | |
Peninsula- Young Adult | FIC Lake | Adult Trade Paperback | 0228607589170 | Available |