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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
January Scaller is the ward of Mr. Locke, a wealthy and mysterious businessman in turn-of-the-century America. She is a solitary child in a big mansion. Her adventurous father occasionally visits, but doesn't seem interested in her.
As a young woman, January finds a book about a girl who discovers doors to other realms, a girl who travels, finding these doors, and visiting these other worlds. January learns that these doors, and that words, are magic. She must avoid a terrifying secret society that hunts her as she journeys on her own.
A paen to the power and the beauty of words, and family, this is a classic, with a ferociously bookish heroine straight from a Bronte novel. One of my favorite books.