The Resource Descent : a novel, by Tim Johnston
Descent : a novel, by Tim Johnston
Resource Information
The item Descent : a novel, by Tim Johnston represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 11 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Descent : a novel, by Tim Johnston represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 11 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- A girl vanishes "on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning" and thus begins a "family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life?"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- 374 pages
- Note
- "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited"--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9781616203047
- Label
- Descent : a novel
- Title
- Descent
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- by Tim Johnston
- Subject
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- trueDomestic fiction
- trueWisconsin
- trueSearching
- trueMissing teenage girls
- trueFamilies of kidnapping victims
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- trueSurvival
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueCoping
- trueKidnapping
- Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
- trueRocky Mountains
- Rocky Mountains Region -- Fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueConflict in families
- truePsychological fiction
- trueWilderness survival
- Families -- Fiction
- Abduction -- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- trueFamilies
- trueBrothers and sisters
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A girl vanishes "on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning" and thus begins a "family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life?"--
- Summary
- When their daughter disappears while out for a morning run during a late-summer vacation in the Rocky Mountains, her parents embark on a harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths where they must answer some difficult questions to find the truth
- Award
- School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2015.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10392070
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1962-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Johnston, Tim
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Missing persons
- Abduction
- Families
- Loss (Psychology)
- Rocky Mountains Region
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Descent : a novel, by Tim Johnston
- Note
- "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn866938509
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- 374 pages
- Isbn
- 9781616203047
- Isbn Type
- (Hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014024023
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)866938509
- Label
- Descent : a novel, by Tim Johnston
- Note
- "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn866938509
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Extent
- 374 pages
- Isbn
- 9781616203047
- Isbn Type
- (Hardcover)
- Lccn
- 2014024023
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)866938509
Subject
- Abduction -- Fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueBrothers and sisters
- trueConflict in families
- trueCoping
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueFamilies
- Families -- Fiction
- trueFamilies of kidnapping victims
- trueKidnapping
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- trueMissing teenage girls
- Mystery fiction
- truePsychological fiction
- trueRocky Mountains
- Rocky Mountains Region -- Fiction
- trueSearching
- trueSurvival
- trueWilderness survival
- trueWisconsin
Genre
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueDomestic fiction
- Fiction
- Mystery fiction
- truePsychological fiction
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Central LibraryBorrow it710 W. Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX, 78701, US30.271302100000 -97.746016800000
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Spicewood Springs Branch Borrow it8637 Spicewood Springs Rd., Austin, TX, 78759, US30.4337083 -97.7730809
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