{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"In American Ghost, Hannah Nordhaus traces the life, death, and unsettled afterlife of her great-great-grandmother Julia, from her childhood in Germany to her years in the American West with her Jewish merchant husband. As she traces the strands of Julia's life, Nordhaus uncovers a larger tale of how a true-life story becomes a ghost story and how difficult it can sometimes be to separate history and myth\"--"}, "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-320)."}, "title": "American ghost", "subtitle": "a family's haunted past in the desert southwest", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL3544404A"}], "publish_date": "2015", "table_of_contents": [{"level": 0, "title": "Aura of sadness", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "A dress of black satin", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The prairie ocean", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Good-time town", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Promised land", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Book of prayer", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Broncho maneuvers", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Bricks and mortar", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Other speculations", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Four letters", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The upper ten", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The great Pacific", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Men could not move her", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Proper girl", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Region of insanity", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Low season", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Schustergarten", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The merchant prince", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Princess Goldenhair", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Boodle and payola", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Tale of woe", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The angel of Neuhaus", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Other moments contribute", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Destination camp", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Her long rest", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Bequest", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Diaspora", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Map of the world", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "At famous La Posada", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "The record of what was", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}, {"level": 0, "title": "Dust.", "type": {"key": "/type/toc_item"}}], "isbn_10": ["0062249215"], "copyright_date": "2015", "full_title": "American ghost a family's haunted past in the desert southwest", "subjects": ["Ghosts", "Families", "Family"], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "pagination": "320 pages", "source_records": ["promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2021-07-13:W6-AWQ-656", "marc:marc_openlibraries_phillipsacademy/PANO_FOR_IA_05072019.mrc:71334402:2812", "marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run05.mrc:145192126:2923", "bwb:9780062249210", "ia:americanghostfam0000nord", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2020-04-09:261-BAA-434", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_033.bib.mrc:72731568:3409"], "dewey_decimal_class": ["133.10978956"], "isbn_13": ["9780062249210"], "edition_name": "First edition.", "subject_places": ["Santa Fe", "New Mexico"], "local_id": ["urn:bwbsku:W6-AWQ-656", "urn:phillips:31867007228070", "urn:sfpl:31223092458901", "urn:sfpl:31223115680499", "urn:sfpl:31223115680481", "urn:sfpl:31223112608691", "urn:bwbsku:261-BAA-434"], "subject_people": ["Hannah Nordhaus"], "publish_country": "nyu", "by_statement": "Hannah Nordhaus", "oclc_numbers": ["881139522"], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "location": ["gaaagpl"], "covers": [11579343], "ocaid": "americanghostfam0000nord", "lc_classifications": ["F804.S253", "BF1472.N484 N67 2015"], "key": "/books/OL26887331M", "number_of_pages": 320, "works": [{"key": "/works/OL19668887W"}], "publishers": ["Harper"], "identifiers": {"amazon": [""]}, "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2019-05-15T07:26:21.234789"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-03-20T06:58:37.989425"}}