title: Girl Ascending (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places)
author:  Melissa Ann Pinney 
description: <div></div><P><B>Melissa Ann Pinney</B> is a photographer and teaches photography at Columbia College Chicago. Her work has been widely exhibited at such renowned institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Francisco Musuem of Modern art. Her first book, <I>Regarding Emma: Photographs of American Women and Girls</I>, was also published by the Center for American Places.
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  > The Girl from the North
  
  Cat Bruno
  
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  Painted Quill Press
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2015 by Cat Bruno
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
  distributed, or transmitted without the written consent of the author.
  
  Art and book design by Simon Valev
  
  Printed and bound in the United States of America
  
  Painted Quill Press
  
  Second Edition
  
  ISBN # 978-1507581704
  
  Author’s Note:
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either
  the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously, and any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Notes about the Pathway of the Chosen Series:
  
  The first two books in the series can be read as an introductory pair, or a
  reader can begin with Queen of Stars and Shadows. Below, you will find the
  links to the books in the series. Expect Book Five in Fall 2019.
  
  Book One:
  
  The Girl from the North
  
  
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