| International Standard Book Number |
9780063487437
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6 TnLvILS
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| Personal Name |
Albert, Melissa, author.
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| Title Statement |
The children : a novel / Melissa Albert.
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| Imprint |
New York : HarperCollins, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
416 pages ; 23 cm
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Guinevere Sharpe has two childhoods. In one, she and her brother, Ennis, live in the wooded shadow of their family's isolated Vermont farmhouse; in the other, the pages of their mother's world-famous Ninth City books, where their magical adventures have made them household names. In reality, Guinevere's childhood isn't the enchanted idyll her mother's readers imagine: she and Ennis are growing up near-feral, unwashed and underfed, escaping each day to the wild woods they've made their playland. As Edith Sharpe's books explode into epic popularity, the threats of a rural childhood give way to the escalating perils of fame--until the night it all goes up in flames, leaving Edith's series unfinished and her children the sole survivors. Now an adult coasting on her mother's name, Guinevere is mid-promotion for a ghostwritten memoir when her estranged brother, an artist who has until now spurned his family's legacy, announces an upcoming installation titled, simply, Mother. As rumors swirl around a death connected to his last show, unsettling recollections from Guinevere's childhood begin to surface. Her public facade starts to crack, forcing her to confront the questions she's spent the last twenty years running from: What really happened the night of the fire? And what dark history lies behind their mother's fantasy world?"--Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Families Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Secrecy Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Children Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authors Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Child abuse Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Siblings Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Thrillers - Suspense
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Literary
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Gothic
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Fantasy - Dark Fantasy
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Family Life - General
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Magical Realism
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Psychological
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Coming of Age
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fiction/Multiple Timelines
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Bildungsromans.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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