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Author:

Koryta, Michael.

Title:

The Cypress House / Michael Koryta.

Edition:

1st Little, Brown mass market ed.

Publisher:

LittleBrown,

Copyright Date:

2012, c2011

Description:

464 p. ; 18 cm.

Subject:

Gulf Coast (Fla.)--Fiction.
Depressions--1929--Fiction.
Boardinghouses--Fiction.
Political corruption--Fiction.
Precognition--Fiction.
Gulf Coast (Fla.)--Fiction.
Great Depression, 1929-1939--Fiction.
Boardinghouses--Fiction.
Political corruption--Fiction.
Extrasensory perception--Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.

Summary:

Arlen Wagner, gifted with the eerie ability to predict death, convinces nineteen-year-old Paul Brickhill to abandon the train with him and avoid imminent death, but their escape leads them to Rebecca Cady and her Florida boarding house, which is in the direct path of an oncoming hurricane, and Rebecca refuses to abandon her home.

Indexed by:

Wilson's Fiction, January 2012
Library Journal Starred, November 2010
Pub Weekly, November 2010
New York Times, January 2011
Kirkus Review, November 2010
Wilson's Fiction
Library Journal Starred
Pub Weekly

ISBN:

0316053694
9780316053693 (pbk.)

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XCPB737 -- Lied Public Library-Essex (Essex)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)