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01753aam a2200241 a 4500 001 C12327E2AC9F11EBAF53C5C920ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210504011201 008 210409s2018 xxu 000 0 eng 020 $a 1945663278 020 $a 9781945663277 (softcover) 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Maulsby, Dennis. 245 10 $a House de Gracie / $c Dennis Maulsby. 260 $a United States : $b Neoleaf Press , $c 2020. 300 $a 316 pages ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a Twenty-eight-year-old Army Major Hugh de Gracie returns to his half a millennium old family home in the Adirondacks for the first time in a decade. He is close to death, due to the cumulative effect of wounds and an untreatable virus acquired as a Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan. Kept ignorant by father and family during his childhood and rebellious teenage years, he does not realize the true nature of the family residence. The de Gracies both serve and are served by their domicile. The multistory de Gracie chateau is a living plant, a mythical tree of life, whose human companions have evolved over tens of thousands of years to function as symbiotes to what they call the mother-tree. Complicating matters, the fighting in Afghanistan has earned him an implacable human enemy, one whose culture insists on vendetta. Fahad, a Taliban commander, backed by the vast resources of a wealthy Saudi family, seeks revenge for Hugh?s killing of his relatives. In less than a year, the war will come to upper New York State. 610 20 $a Taliban $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Terrorism $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Family secrets $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210504014004.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C12327E2AC9F11EBAF53C5C920ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search