{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Outcast Trader Daja and her friends journey from Winding Circle to the Gold Ridge Mountains, where drought threatens widespread famine. There, Daja creates an astonishing object: a living metal vine. A caravan of Traders covets the vine, and Daja's dealing with her former people reawaken a longing for familiar ways. Now Daja must choose--should she return to the Traders or remain with the Winding Circle folk who have become her family?"}, "title": "Daja's book", "covers": [385024, 958426, 958424, 280037], "first_publish_date": "1998", "key": "/works/OL29245W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL26576A"}}], "dewey_number": ["[Fic]"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Magic", "Briar Moss (Fictitious character)", "Fiction", "Fantasy", "Tris (Fictitious character : Pierce)", "Sandry (Fictitious character : Pierce)", "Daja Kisubo (Fictitious character)", "Friendship", "Juvenile fiction", "1000blackgirlbooks", "Children's fiction", "Magic, fiction", "Fantasy fiction", "Winding circle temple (imaginary place), fiction"], "location": "/works/OL29245W", "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Sunset blazed above Gold Ridge Valley in north Emelan, throwing shadows over a company of mounted riders."}, "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "Sunset blazed above Gold Ridge Valley in north Emelan, throwing shadows over a company of mounted riders."}], "genres": ["/tags/OL169T"], "latest_revision": 17, "revision": 17, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-13T05:04:29.912480"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-31T19:09:44.439164"}}