| International Standard Book Number |
9781250322807 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250322804 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Tesch, Elle, author.
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| Title Statement |
What wakes the bells / Elle Tesch.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
324 pages ; 22 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Inspired by an ominous Prague legend, What Wakes the Bells is a lavish gothic fantasy by debut author Elle Tesch. Built by long-gone Saints, the city of Vaiwyn lives and breathes and bleeds. As a Keeper, Mina knows better than most what her care of Vaiwyn's bells means for the sentient city. It's the Strauss family's thousand-year legacy -- prevent the Vespers from ringing, or they will awake a slumbering evil.One afternoon, to Mina's horror, her bell peals thirteen times, shattering the city's tenuous peace. With so much of the city's history and lore lost in a long-ago disaster, no one knows the danger that has been unleashed -- until the city begins to fight back. As the sun sets, stone gargoyles and bronze statues tear away from their buildings and plinths to hunt people through the streets. Trapped in Mina's bell, the soul of a twisted and power-hungry Saint festered. Now free of his prison, he hides behind the face of one of Vaiwyn's citizens, corrupting the city and turning it on itself.As the death toll rises, the only chance Mina has to stop the destruction and horrific killings is finding and destroying the Saint's host. Everyone is a suspect, including Mina's closest loved ones. She will have to decide how far she'll go to save her city -- and who she's willing to kill to do it.
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| Target Audience Note |
Ages 13 and up. Feiwel and Friends.
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| Target Audience Note |
Grades 10-12. Feiwel and Friends.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Good and evil Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Families Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
City and town life Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Cities and towns Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Love-hate relationships Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Corruption Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
LGBTQ+ people Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Bells Juvenile fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Saints Juvenile fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Young adult fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Gothic fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Queer fiction.
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