This is not an ordinary book: it's a BookCrossing book! BookCrossing books are world travelers - they like to have adventures and make new friends...and every once in a while they even write home to say what they've been doing.

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St. Petersburg, Russia in 1914: Katya's mother has just been chosen to be a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Alexandra, wife of Tsar Nicholas II. It is an exciting time for Katya, but the Russian revolution is coming, and everything in her life will change...

From a garage sale in Kaimuki.

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Themes for the first quarter re-do of Secretariat's 2018 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Release Challenge:

Week 3: pictures of winter sports equipment (skates)
Week 11: green (St. Patrick's Day)

Friday, April 06, 2018: left on some steps on the third floor, outside Ann Taylor. (Larger photo here.)

Released for Secretariat's 2018 NJABBIC Challenge (week 13: 1st quarter re-do).

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