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1 online resource (624 pages) |
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Following a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her family and her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as "the radio people," Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life. For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics--and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly's life, affecting all the people Holly loves--even the ones who are not yet born. A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting on the war in Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list--all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder. |
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Interweaves six narratives spanning the period between 1984 and the 2030s to chronicle a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes who would take them down. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction.
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Cults -- Fiction.
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Coincidence -- Fiction.
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Mortality -- Fiction.
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Mystics -- Fiction.
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Coincidence. |
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Cults. |
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Imaginary wars and battles. |
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Mortality. |
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Mystics. |
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Parapsychology -- Fiction.
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Science fiction.
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Downloadable e-Books.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Science fiction.
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Science fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Mitchell, David (David Stephen). Bone clocks New York : Random House, [2014] 9781400065677 (DLC) 2014008517 (OCoLC)870896536 |
| ISBN |
9780812994735 : $54.00 |
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0812994736 : $54.00 |
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