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The left-handed booksellers of London / Garth Nix.
In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but Susan doesn't get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin. Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller (one of the fighting ones). With the right-handed booksellers (the intellectual ones), he belongs to an extended family of magical beings who police the mythic and legendary Old World when it intrudes on the modern world - in addition to running several bookshops. Susan's search for her father begins with her mother's possibly misremembered or misspelled surnames, a reading-room ticket, and a silver cigarette case engraved with something that might be a coat of arms. Merlin has a quest of his own: to find the Old World entity who used ordinary criminals to kill his mother. As he and his sister, Vivien, tread in the path of a botched or covered-up police investigation from years past, they find this quest strangely overlaps with Susan's. Who or what was her father? Susan, Merlin, and Vivien must find out, as the Old World erupts dangerously close to the New.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062683250
- ISBN: 006268325X
- Physical Description: xiv, 393 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
- Copyright: 2020
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| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader UG 6.3 16 16 511933 |
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| Subject: | Magic > Juvenile fiction. Missing persons > Investigation > Juvenile fiction. Fathers and daughters > Juvenile fiction. Booksellers and bookselling > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Young adult fiction. Fantasy fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Lawrence County Federated Library System. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at New Castle Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| New Castle Public Library | YAF Fic Nix (Text)
Memorial:
In Memory of Elaine Lamoree, given by The McDonald's Coffee Group.
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31902005409347 | NWCM Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
