Augustus -- John Williams, Paperback Children's All Ages - History - General History Hulda Larkin of the Boston

Hulda Larkin of the Boston Institute for the Keeping of Enchanted Rooms has been trained in taming such structures in order to preserve their historical and magical significance

making it the perfect place for Abby to finally tell her best friend Kat that she's in love with her (and

she braves the wasteland's dangers--deadly storms

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Augustus -- John Williams, Paperback Children's All Ages - History - General History Hulda Larkin of the BostonWINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD By the Author of Stoner In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner.