Authors: Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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WISDOM'S KISS
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Glossary &
Geographic Gazetteer
The Imperial Encyclopedia of Lax
Queen of All the Heavens
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Murdock, Catherine Gilbert.
Wisdom's Kiss / written by Catherine Gilbert Murdock.
p. cm.
Summary: Princess Wisdom, who yearns for a life of adventure beyond the
kingdom of Montagne, Tips, a soldier keeping his true life secret from his
family, Fortitude, an orphaned maid who longs for Tips, and Magic the cat
form an uneasy alliance as they try to save the kingdom from certain destruc-
tion. Told through diaries, memoirs, encyclopedia entries, letters, biogra-
phies, and a stage play.
ISBN 978-0-547-56687-0
[1. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 2. Supernatural—Fiction.
3. Princesses—Fiction. 4. Soldiers—Fiction. 5. Household employees—
Fiction. 6. Orphans—Fiction. 7. Cats—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M9416Wis 2011
[Fic]—dc22
2011003708
Created in the United States
E-ISBN 978-0-547-55082-4
To Nick and Mimi
An Introduction, Presenting Several Important Characters, But Not All of ThemTruth requires many voices,
for it is a relentless foe
but a most unobliging mistress.
A Life Unforeseen
T
HE
S
TORY OF
F
ORTITUDE OF
B
ACIO
, C
OMMONLY
K
NOWN AS
T
RUDY
,
AS
T
OLD TO
H
ER
D
AUGHTER
Privately Printed and Circulated
TRUDY'S SIGHT revealed itself one warm summer night when the child was no older than three.