Thomas Wharton

• Oct-1996
• / Historical
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At a quarter past three in the afternoon, on August 17, 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slipped on the ice of Acturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slid into a crevasse . . . Nearly sixty feet below the surface, Byrne is wedged upside down between...

• Aug-2002
• / General Fiction
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Nicholas Flood, an unassuming eighteenth-century London printer, specializes in novelty books -- books that nestle into one another, books comprised of one spare sentence, books that emit the sounds of crashing waves. When his work captures the atten...

• Oct-2004
• / General Fiction
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“The particular volume I’m looking for is nameless, lacking a cover, title page, or any other outward markings of identity. Over the centuries its leaves have known nothing but change. They have been removed, replaced, altered, lost. The namel...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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A rich, absorbing fantasy follows a rebellious teen on his journey through the Perilous Realm, where dreams, fairy tales, and reality intersect.

When Will crashes his father’s motorcycle and stumbles into the Perilous Realm, all he wants is ...

• Sep-2014
• / Literary
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A novel of letters. A book of wonders. A story of love, loss, and life on Earth. It begins in the pre-internet age with a letter left at the front desk of a hotel in Iceland. The recipient, Martha Geddes, is a neophyte journalist from New York, the s...

• Jun-2024
• / General Fiction
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST, ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE Audaciously imaginative. . . . I wish more books surprised me as much as this one did.--Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange Paradise Wondrous.--Eden Robinson, author of the Tri...