The Blessing Stone: A Novel
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ISBN: 0312320248 / Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, January 2004
Follows the story of a blue crystal that fell to the earth and journeyed throughout human history in the hands of several owners, from a young girl called the Tall One who first discovers it on the African plain, to its bearers in nineteenth-century America. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.
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Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain---and it formed her destiny, as well as the destiny of generations to come. From ancient Israel to imperial Rome, medieval England, fifteenth-century Germany, the eighteenth-century Caribbean, and the nineteenth-century American West, the destiny of the stone and the history of the world unfold. Each story is full of the betrayals and obsessions of the human heart, and the quests of the human spirit. In The Blessing Stone, Barbara Wood has both told the intimate details of her characters' lives and created a sense of the epic sweep of human history.
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