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Bibliographic Information
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The warm hands of ghosts : a novel
First edition.
- Author
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Arden, Katherine,
- Publisher:
- Del Rey,
- Pub date:
- [2024]
- Pages:
- 324 pages :
- ISBN:
- 9780593128251
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult new fiction shelf.
1 copy total in all locations.
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Adult Fiction in Hardcover
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Adult new fiction shelf
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The warm hands of ghosts : a novel
First edition.
Arden, Katherine,
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The warm hands of ghosts : a novel
First edition.
Arden, Katherine,
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Personal Author:
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Arden, Katherine,
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Title:
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The warm hands of ghosts : a novel / Katherine Arden.
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Edition:
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First edition.
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Physical description:
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324 pages : map ; 25 cm
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Summary:
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"During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this historical novel with a speculative twist"-- Provided by publisher.
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Summary:
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January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, she receives word of Freddie's death in combat, along with his personal effects--but something doesn't make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital. Soon after arriving, she hears whispers about haunted trenches, and a strange hotelier whose wine gives soldiers the gift of oblivion. Could Freddie have escaped the battlefield, only to fall prey to something--or someone--else? November 1917. Freddie Iven awakens after an explosion to find himself trapped in an overturned pillbox with a wounded enemy soldier, a German by the name of Hans Winter. Against all odds, the two men form an alliance and succeed in clawing their way out. Unable to bear the thought of returning to the killing fields, especially on opposite sides, they take refuge with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to make the hellscape of the trenches disappear. As shells rain down on Flanders, and ghosts move among those yet living, Laura's and Freddie's deepest traumas are reawakened. Now they must decide whether their world is worth salvaging--or better left behind entirely.
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Subject term:
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Missing persons--Fiction.
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Subject term:
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Nurses--Fiction.
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Siblings--Fiction.
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World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
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Personnes disparues--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Infirmières--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Frères et sœurs--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Subject term:
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Missing persons--Fiction.
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World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
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Nurses--Fiction.
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Geographic term:
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Canada--Armed Forces--Nurses--Fiction.
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Geographic term:
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Belgium--Fiction.
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Geographic term:
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Canada--Forces armées--Infirmières--Romans, nouvelles, etc.