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A young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers has returned to her hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, for rest and relaxation. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived, however, when her aunt drowns under mysterious circumstances.
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Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Suspense fiction, Literature, Drowning victims, Mystery fiction, Suspense, Psychics, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2008-08-17, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Large type books, mystery & detective, women sleuths, thrillers, Women psychics, American fiction, Psişik, Roman, Amerikan romanı, Polish language materials, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Salem (mass.), fictionPeople
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The Lace Reader
2010, Windsor | Paragon
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Wróżby z koronek
2010, Albatros A. Kuryłowicz
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in Polish
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The Lace Reader
2007-07, Flap Jacket Press
Paperback
in English
- Flap Jacket Press trade paperback edition
097915930X 9780979159305
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The Lace Reader (2006) is a novel by Brunonia Barry. The novel is set in Salem, Massachusetts, the American town famous for the Salem witch trials. A crucial plot device is the Ipswich lace that the protagonist's family would make.
The novel came to be well known for its unusual route to mainstream publishing. Originally self-published by the author it became a local success story, got rave reviews in many places including Publishers Weekly, and was eventually picked up by the US branch of HarperCollins in a multimillion-dollar deal.
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