03168cam a2200337 4500 526848650 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780544084049 0544084047 B00MSZJXM6 Amazon 8fddc1a7-52b3-4ad8-9a1f-557fdfc143d6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1930206 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Spjut, Stefan. The Shapeshifters [Libby] : A Novel. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2268kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 2268kB. Fiction. Horror. Mystery. Mythology. HTML:<p><b>This tale of missing children and mythic monsters is "a fantastic novel in every sense of the word" (Karl Ove Knausgård</b><b>).</b><br /> <br /> Summer 1978. A young boy disappears without a trace from a summer cabin. His mother claims he was carried away by a giant. He is never found.<br /> <br /> Twenty-five years later, another child goes missing. This time there's a lead, a single photograph taken by Susso Myrén. She's devoted her life to the search for trolls, legendary giants known as stallo who can control human thoughts and assume animal form. Convinced that the fabled beasts are real, she follows the trail of missing children to northern Sweden. But humans, some part stallo themselves, have been watching over the creatures for generations, and this hidden society of protectors won't hesitate to close its deadly ranks.<br /> <br /> Mixing folklore and history, suspense and the supernatural, <i>The Shapeshifters</i> is an extraordinary journey into a frozen land where myth bleeds into reality.<br /> <br /> "Spjut has accomplished the masterstroke of writing convincingly about the existence of trolls and other mythical creatures in the Nordic forests . . . all this unfolds in a language that captures the everyday reality we know so well, with such precision and exquisite style that the words seem to sparkle on the page." —Karl Ove Knausgård, author of <i>My Struggle</i><br /> <br /> "A fun, cunning crime thriller . . . If you enjoy the novels of Michael Koryta or Tana French's <i>The Secret Place</i> . . . you might eat up <i>The Shapeshifters</i>." —<i>Chicago Tribune</i><br /> <br /> "Spjut turns Scandinavian mythology upside down in a shades-of-gray world built for lovers of fantastical suspense." —<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br /></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8fddc1a7-52b3-4ad8-9a1f-557fdfc143d6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8fddc1a7-52b3-4ad8-9a1f-557fdfc143d6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8fddc1a7-52b3-4ad8-9a1f-557fdfc143d6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)