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It's 1876, the entire year of the Centennial in Philadelphia. Katherine has dropped her twin sister Anna in a heartbreaking skating accident.  One wickedly warm September evening, Katherine sets out for the exhibit reasons to cut short the life she no further really wants to stay. Full of vibrant detail that artfully brings yesteryear alive, National Book Award nominee Beth Kepartis HARMFUL NEIGHBORS is just a classic and finely-crafted novel about betrayal and shame, desire and despair, love, loss, and new beginnings.Publisher’s Weekly Starred ReviewSet in Philadelphia from the back-drop of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition (the very first World’s Fair within the U.S.), this atmospheric novel traces the emotions of grief-stricken Katherine, whose identical twin brother, Anna, died in a tragic incident earlier in the year.  Whilst the novel starts, Katherine, who feels accountable for Anna’s demise, has chose to get her very own life.  Again and again, she's attracted to the exhibit grounds.  Below, advanced marvels and unforeseen events-including a devastating flame- detain her from finishing her suicidal mission.  Dropping himself in a throng of visitors, she investigates her past, remembering the improvement of her sister’s solution love with a “dangerous neighbor” and the ultimate series of events that resulted in Anna’s death.  Conjuring well-defined, thoroughly detailed pictures of reasonable displays (“The miracles of the planet slip past.  French corsets cavorting on their pedestals.  Vases on lacquered shelves.  Folding beds.  Surfaces of cutlery.  The best range of glucose-colored tablets, ready to cruise on a yacht”), Kephart (One's Heart isn't a Dimension) evokes an enticing face of love, regret, and redemption.  Ages 12-up.  (August.)