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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
Grateful acknowledgement is made to reprint from the following: Rao, Velcheru Narayana. Hibiscus on the Lake. © 2003 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin system. Reprinted by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Baldwin, Shauna Singh, 1962–
The selector of souls / Shauna Singh Baldwin.
eISBN: 978-0-307-36294-0
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PS8553.A4493S44 2012 C813’.54 c2012-902052-4
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