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The book of lost hours : a novel / Hayley Gelfuso.

Gelfuso, Hayley, (author.).

Summary:

"A spectacular historical and speculative novel about a WWII-era girl who grows up trapped in the "time space," a cavernous library featuring books that house memories--but while government agents burn memories they wish to erase, she saves them, until an affair with an American CIA agent as a young woman changes the course of her life." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781668076347
  • ISBN: 1668076349
  • ISBN: 9781668076354
  • ISBN: 1668076357
  • Physical Description: 390 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First Atria Books hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, [2025]

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General Note:
"A GMA book club pick!"--Jacket.

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Friendship > Fiction.
Life change events > Fiction.
Time travel > Fiction.
Clock and watch makers > Fiction.
Space and time > Fiction.
Libraries > Fiction.
Memory > Fiction.
Genre:
Fantasy fiction.
Historical fiction.
Time-travel fiction.

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Hot Springs Library FIC GEL (Text) 30229101398039 Adult Fiction Checked out 08/06/2026

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