Title:
A peculiar peril
Author:
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2020
Publication Information:
New York : Straus Farrar Giroux & Dvorak, 2020.
Physical Description:
631 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780374308865
Abstract:
"The first book in a two-volume fantasy about a teenaged boy who inherits his grandfather's mansion and discovers three strange doors, evidence his grandfather did not die of natural causes but spectacularly unnatural ones, and clues to the family's ties to an alternate Europe immersed in a war fought with strange tech and dark magic"-- Provided by publisher.
General Note:
Includes excerpt from A short history of the builders.
Subject Term:
Geographic Term:
Language:
English
Audience:
012-018.
Available:3
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Emily Carr Branch Emily Carr Branch | Teen fiction book | Fiction | VAN | 39066040511293 | Fiction Unknown |
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Juan de Fuca Branch Juan de Fuca Branch | Teen fiction book | Fiction | VAN | 39066040511277 | Fiction Unknown |
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