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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smith, Sherri L. Orleans / Sherri L. Smith. p. cm. Summary: “Set in a futuristic, hostile Orleans landscape, Fen de la Guerre must deliver her tribe leader’s baby over the Wall into the Outer States before her blood becomes tainted with Delta Fever”— Provided by publisher. [1. Science fiction. 2. Virus diseases—Fiction. 3. New Orleans (La.)—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.S65932Or 2013 [Fic]—dc23 2012009634 ISBN 978-1-101-60785-5
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