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The book of life : a novel / Deborah Harkness.
- Title
- The book of life : a novel / Deborah Harkness.
- Author
- Harkness, Deborah E., 1965-
- Publication
- New York : Viking, 2014.
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Text | Request in advance | PS3608.A7436 B66 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 561 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches--with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the trilogy's final volume, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In ancestral homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to the palaces of Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago"--
- Series Statement
- All souls trilogy ; 3
- Harkness, Deborah E., 1965- All souls trilogy bk. 3.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fantasy fiction
- Love stories
- Fiction
- Romance fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home in France they reunite with their families -- with one heart-breaking exception. But the real threat to their future is yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on a terrifying urgency.
- ISBN
- 9780670025596 (hardback)
- 0670025593 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2014004495
- OCLC
- 878301024
- SCSB-11883347
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library