The wolves of midwinter / Anne Rice.
Material type: TextSeries: Wolf gift chroniclesPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: 387 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0345805542 (trade paperback)
- 0385349963 (hardback)
- 9780345805546 (trade paperback)
- 9780385349963 (hardback)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | Rice Anne | Available | 33111007229640 | |||||
Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Rice Anne | WG 2 | Available | 33111005194747 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The tale of The Wolf Gift continues ... It is winter at Nideck Point and for Reuben Golding, now infused with the Wolf Gift, this promises to be a season like no other.
Oak fires burn in the stately flickering hearths, and the community organizes its annual celebration of music and pageantry. Reuben is preparing to honor an ancient Midwinter festival with his fellow Morphenkinder--a secret gathering that takes place deep within the verdant recesses of the surrounding forests.
However, Reuben is soon distracted by a ghost. Tormented, imploring, and unable to speak, it haunts the halls of the great mansion, drawing him toward a strange netherworld of new spirits, or "ageless ones." And as the swirl of Nideck's preparations reaches a fever pitch, they reveal their own dark magical powers.
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
It is the beginning of December. Oak fires are burning in the stately flickering hearths of Nideck Point. It is Yuletide. For Reuben Golding, now infused with the wolf gift and under the loving tutelage of the Morphenkinder, this Christmas promises to be like no other . . . as he soon becomes aware that the Morphenkinder, steeped in their own rituals, are also celebrating the Midwinter Yuletide festival deep within Nideck forest. From out of the shadows of the exquisite mansion comes a ghost - tormented, imploring, unable to speak yet able to embrace and desire with desperate affection . . . As Reuben finds himself caught up with the passions and yearnings of this spectral presence and the preparations for the Nideck town Christmas reach a fever pitch, astonishing secrets are revealed, secrets that tell of a strange netherworld, of spirits - centuries old - who possess their own fantastical ancient histories and taunt with their dark, magical powers.