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The book of lamps and banners : a novel

Author: Elizabeth Hand
Publisher: New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, [2020] ©2020
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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"Cass Neary needs cash to get home to New York, and she's already sold her camera - like losing a limb, for a photographer of her experience. Her best chance is to get in on the deal that Griffin, an old flame, is about to cut with a notoriously particular bookseller for a gorgeous, ancient illuminated manuscript: The Book of Lamps and Banners. This Book is more than just a beautiful object - its text and images are  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Fiction
Mystery fiction
Suspense fiction
Named Person: Cass Neary, (Fictitious character)
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth Hand
ISBN: 9780316485937 0316485934
OCLC Number: 1135584280
Description: 344 pages ; 25 cm.
Other Titles: Book of lamps & banners
Responsibility: Elizabeth Hand.

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"Cass Neary needs cash to get home to New York, and she's already sold her camera - like losing a limb, for a photographer of her experience. Her best chance is to get in on the deal that Griffin, an old flame, is about to cut with a notoriously particular bookseller for a gorgeous, ancient illuminated manuscript: The Book of Lamps and Banners. This Book is more than just a beautiful object - its text and images are said to have a powerful magic capable of life-changing effects on anyone who reads it. But before the sale can be completed, an intruder brazenly steals the Book out from under the dealer's nose. Cass and Griff are the only suspects. To clear their names, and keep the missing text out of dangerous hands, Cass plunges into a curious underworld at the intersection of antiquarian books, cutting-edge software, and modern nationalist politics."--Publisher description.

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