| International Standard Book Number |
9780593296745 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780593296738 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593296737 hardcover
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| Personal Name |
Knox, Elizabeth. author.
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| Title Statement |
The absolute book / Elizabeth Knox.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
[New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
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| Physical Description |
628 pages ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
"First published in New Zealand in slightly different form by Victoria University Press, Wellington, in 2019"--Title page verso.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"The epic fantasy that's taking the world by storm--a bewitching story about a revenge killing, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fires, and the book that changed everything Taryn Cornick believes that the past--her sister's violent death, and her own ill-conceived revenge--is behind her, and she can get on with her life. She has written a successful book about the dangers that threaten libraries... but not all of the attention it brings her is good. Questions arise about a fire in the library at her grandparents' house and about the whereabouts of an ancient scroll box known as the Firestarter. A policeman, Jacob Berger, also has questions, about a cold case. Then a shadowy young man named Shift appears, forcing Taryn and Jacob toward a reckoning felt in more than one world. The Absolute Book is an epic fantasy with an intimate tone; one in which hidden treasures are recovered, wicked things resurface, dead sisters are a living force, and great beauty is born of lies and treachery. It is a book of journeys and returns, from contemporary England to a magical land of great beauty and peace but is founded on treachery, from New Zealand to Purgatory itself. Above all, it is a declaration of love for stories and the ways in which they shape our worlds"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Libraries Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fire Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Multiverse Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Scrolls Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Magic Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Good and evil Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Books and reading Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sisters Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Revenge Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Epic fiction.
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