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"  Gabriella Mondini isn&amp;#039;t your typical Venetian \u00ADsociety lady: Her father made her his \u00ADprot\u00E9g\u00E9 in medicine and his collaborator in composing a grand compen\u00ADdium on healing. But after Dad \u00ADdeparts for foreign lands in 1580, in search of more cures, the good \u00ADdoctors of Venice eventually make Mondini under\u00ADstand that, as a woman, she is no \u00ADlonger free to treat \u00ADpatients. So she flees the city a decade after her father and criss\u00ADcrosses \u00ADEurope looking for him\u2014as well as \u00ADfor new entries to add to their volume, The Book of Madness and Cures. Prizewinning poet and artist Regina O&amp;#039;Melveny&amp;#039;s debut novel of the same title from Little, Brown traces our spirited heroine&amp;#039;s transit through the spooky German Schwarzwald, \u00ADhumanistic Hol\u00ADland, academic Edin\u00ADburgh, Reformation-torn France, and post-Inquisition Spain to Morocco. Her journey, with two loyal servants in tow, is filled with incident\u2014brigandage, religious and gender prejudice, the \u00ADnecessity of disguise, tantalizing traces of her father&amp;#039;s trail, even some hot, bodice-unlacing action\u2014all conveyed with earthy and sensual brio, clearly well-researched evocations of time and place, and, not surprisingly, poetical description: On a ship to Morocco, Mondini beholds a vast pod of dolphins not merely leaping out of the sea but &amp;quot;sewing sky to water.&amp;quot; If that image grabs you, you will love this adventure. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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