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Collection:
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7-day Books |
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Call Number:
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M |
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Author:
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Winspear, Jacqueline |
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Title:
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The comfort of ghosts |
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Remainder of title:
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A Maisie Dobbs Novel |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion - the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously, they appear to possess self-defense skills one might expect of trained adults in wartime. Her quest to bring comfort and the promise of a future to the youngsters and to the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie's first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental aircraft. As Maisie picks apart the threads of her dead husband's life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true. The award-winning Maisie Dobbs series has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers around the world, readers who are drawn to a woman who is of her time, yet familiar in ours - and who inspires with her resilience and capacity for endurance at the worst of times. This final assignment of her own choosing not only opens a new future for Maisie Dobbs and her family, but serves as a fascinating portrayal of the challenges facing the people of Britain at the close of the Second World War"-- |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9781641296069 |
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(hardcover) |
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(e-book) |
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Canceled/invalid ISBN:
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9781641296076 |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Geographic area code:
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e-uk--- |
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Geographic area code:
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e-uk-en |
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Classification number:
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PR6123.I575 |
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Item number:
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C655 2024 |
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Edition number:
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23/eng/20231211 |
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Classification number:
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823/.92 |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1955- |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Jacqueline Winspear. |
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Place of publication:
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New York, NY |
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Name of publisher:
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Soho Press |
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Date of publication:
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2024 |
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Projected publication date:
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2406 |
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New York, NY : |
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Soho Crime, |
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2024. |
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Extent:
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338 pages |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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nc |
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Series statement:
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A Maisie Dobbs novel ; |
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Volume number/sequential designation:
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18 |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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B&T 6/7/24 |
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Purchase price:
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29.95 |
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Personal name:
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Dobbs, Maisie |
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Titles and other words associated with a name:
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(Fictitious character) |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Subject:
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Orphans |
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Subject:
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World War, 1939-1945 |
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Subject:
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Great Britain |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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General subdivision:
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History |
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Chronological subdivision:
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George VI, 1936-1952 |
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Geographic subdivision:
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England |
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Source of term:
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lcgft |
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Source of term:
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lcgft |
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Source of term:
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lcgft |
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Genre/form data or focus term:
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Detective and mystery fiction. |
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Genre/form data or focus term:
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Historical fiction. |
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Genre/form data or focus term:
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Novels. |
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acquire |
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1 shelf copy |
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policy default |
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xk41 2023-12-11 |
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xk41 2023-12-11 to review |
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xk33 2023-12-14 to CIP |
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xk33 2023-12-14 |
Bibliography Copy Information:
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Due Back |
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53997 |
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