You need a password to access your library account. To create a password, click the “reset my password” link on the log in page or contact the library. 

Puccini's ghosts

Book Cover
Average Rating
Author:
Publisher:
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date:
2006
Edition:
Delacorte Press hardcover ed
Language:
English
Description
CWA Silver Dagger Award winner Morag Joss peers into the soul of a wounded family in this haunting, harrowing masterpiece of psychological suspense. With equal parts subtlety and menace, Joss takes us on a dizzying journey toward a collision between fantasy and reality—and an astounding moment of revelation that shatters illusions, hopes, and lives forever. The year is 1960. The place is a Scottish seaside town utterly devoid of culture and charm. Here, Lila lives as the third player in her parents’ dramatically embittered marriage. Until her flamboyant, irrepressible uncle George shows up from London and her family decides to squander a windfall on the most preposterous of causes: a civic production of the Puccini opera Turandot. Lila knows nothing of opera and little of her uncle or the dashing young man he hires to sing the role of Calaf. But Lila does know passion. Because it’s coursing through her veins—and rushing blindly, wildly all around her. Now a girl on the verge of womanhood is about to blunder into a grown-up world where secrets are kept and exposed, hopes soar and wither, and where crimes petty and great exact the most chilling punishments of all. Masterfully paced and spellbinding till its final, haunting scene, Puccini’s Ghosts is a piercing look into the fierce darkness that lurks behind seemingly ordinary lives.
Also in This Series
More Like This
More Copies In Prospector
Loading Prospector Copies...
More Details
ISBN:
9780385339780
9780440336303
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View

Grouping Information

Grouped Work IDe05aef53-9b9a-bc16-c4ca-f38ba563deb0
Grouping Titlepuccinis ghosts
Grouping Authormorag joss
Grouping Categorybook
Grouping LanguageEnglish (eng)
Last Grouping Update2024-02-11 10:12:02AM
Last Indexed2024-03-27 23:18:30PM

Solr Fields

accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
author
Joss, Morag
author_display
Joss, Morag
available_at_basalt
Basalt
detailed_location_basalt
Basalt Fiction
display_description
CWA Silver Dagger Award winner Morag Joss peers into the soul of a wounded family in this haunting, harrowing masterpiece of psychological suspense. With equal parts subtlety and menace, Joss takes us on a dizzying journey toward a collision between fantasy and reality—and an astounding moment of revelation that shatters illusions, hopes, and lives forever. The year is 1960. The place is a Scottish seaside town utterly devoid of culture and charm. Here, Lila lives as the third player in her parents’ dramatically embittered marriage. Until her flamboyant, irrepressible uncle George shows up from London and her family decides to squander a windfall on the most preposterous of causes: a civic production of the Puccini opera Turandot. Lila knows nothing of opera and little of her uncle or the dashing young man he hires to sing the role of Calaf. But Lila does know passion. Because it’s coursing through her veins—and rushing blindly, wildly all around her. Now a girl on the verge of womanhood is about to blunder into a grown-up world where secrets are kept and exposed, hopes soar and wither, and where crimes petty and great exact the most chilling punishments of all. Masterfully paced and spellbinding till its final, haunting scene, Puccini’s Ghosts is a piercing look into the fierce darkness that lurks behind seemingly ordinary lives.
format_basalt
Book
format_category_basalt
Books
id
e05aef53-9b9a-bc16-c4ca-f38ba563deb0
isbn
9780385339780
9780440336303
itype_basalt
Fiction
last_indexed
2024-03-28T05:18:30.059Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Fiction
literary_form_full
Fiction
local_callnumber_basalt
F JOS
owning_library_basalt
Basalt Regional Library
owning_location_basalt
Basalt
primary_isbn
9780385339780
publishDate
2006
publisher
Delacorte Press
recordtype
grouped_work
subject_facet
Electronic books
Families -- Fiction
Fiction
Literature
Opera -- Production and direction -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Scotland -- Fiction
Sopranos (Singers) -- Fiction
Suspense
Teenage girls -- Fiction
Thriller
title_display
Puccini's ghosts
title_full
Puccini's ghosts / Morag Joss
Puccini's ghosts [electronic resource] : A novel. Morag Joss
title_short
Puccini's ghosts
topic_facet
Families
Fiction
Literature
Opera
Production and direction
Sopranos (Singers)
Suspense
Teenage girls
Thriller

Solr Details Tables

item_details

Bib IdItem IdShelf LocCall NumFormatFormat CategoryNum CopiesIs Order ItemIs eContenteContent SourceeContent URLDetailed StatusLast CheckinLocation
ils:.b26615873.i47809322Basalt FictionF JOS1falsefalseOn ShelfNov 06, 2021bafi
overdrivecmc:ODN0000092835ODN0000092835Overdrive (CMC)Online Overdrive (CMC)eBookeBook1falsetrueOverdrive (CMC)http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=162&titleID=92835Available OnlineOverdrive (CMC)

record_details

Bib IdFormatFormat CategoryEditionLanguagePublisherPublication DatePhysical DescriptionAbridged
ils:.b26615873BookBooksDelacorte Press hardcover edEnglishDelacorte Press2006367 pages ; 24 cm
overdrivecmc:ODN0000092835eBookeBookEnglish20061 online resource

scoping_details_basalt

Bib IdItem IdGrouped StatusStatusLocally OwnedAvailableHoldableBookableIn Library Use OnlyLibrary OwnedHoldable PTypesBookable PTypesLocal Url
ils:.b26615873.i47809322On ShelfOn Shelffalsetruetruefalsefalsetrue116, 117, 118, 119, 120