The Resource Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory
Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory
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The item Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- A generations-spanning family of psychics--both blessed and burdened by their abilities--must use their powers to save themselves from the CIA, the local mafia, and a skeptic hell-bent on discrediting them in this hilarious, tender, magical novel about the invisible forces that bind us. The Telemachus family is known for performing inexplicable feats on talk shows and late-night television. Teddy, a master conman, heads up a clan who possess gifts he only fakes: there's Maureen, who can astral project; Irene, the human lie detector; Frankie, gifted with telekinesis; and Buddy, the clairvoyant. But when, one night, the magic fails to materialise, the family withdraws to Chicago where they live in shame for years. Until: As they find themselves facing a troika of threats (CIA, mafia, unrelenting skeptic), Matty, grandson of the family patriarch, discovers a bit of the old Telemachus magic in himself. Now, they must put past obstacles behind them and unite like never before. But will it be enough to bring The Amazing Telemachus Family back to its amazing life?
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 399 pages
- Isbn
- 9781786482761
- Label
- Spoonbenders
- Title
- Spoonbenders
- Statement of responsibility
- Daryl Gregory
- Title variation
- Spoon benders
- Subject
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- trueDomestic fiction
- truePsychic ability
- trueSkeptics
- trueMafia
- Intergenerational relations -- Fiction
- trueEccentrics and eccentricities
- trueMagic
- trueCIA
- Psychic ability -- Fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueHumorous stories
- trueSwindlers and swindling
- trueFamilies
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A generations-spanning family of psychics--both blessed and burdened by their abilities--must use their powers to save themselves from the CIA, the local mafia, and a skeptic hell-bent on discrediting them in this hilarious, tender, magical novel about the invisible forces that bind us. The Telemachus family is known for performing inexplicable feats on talk shows and late-night television. Teddy, a master conman, heads up a clan who possess gifts he only fakes: there's Maureen, who can astral project; Irene, the human lie detector; Frankie, gifted with telekinesis; and Buddy, the clairvoyant. But when, one night, the magic fails to materialise, the family withdraws to Chicago where they live in shame for years. Until: As they find themselves facing a troika of threats (CIA, mafia, unrelenting skeptic), Matty, grandson of the family patriarch, discovers a bit of the old Telemachus magic in himself. Now, they must put past obstacles behind them and unite like never before. But will it be enough to bring The Amazing Telemachus Family back to its amazing life?
- Summary
- A generations-spanning family of psychics, blessed and burdened by their abilities, is challenged to use their powers collectively to save themselves from the CIA, the local mafia and a skeptic bent on discrediting them.
- Award
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2017
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10560688
- Cataloging source
- QRML
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- Gregory, Daryl
- Dewey number
- 813.6
- Index
- no index present
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 650
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Intergenerational relations
- Psychic ability
- Dysfunctional families
- Intergenerational relations
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory
- 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
- 000060220863
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 399 pages
- Isbn
- 9781786482761
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)981170811
- Label
- Spoonbenders, Daryl Gregory
- 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
- 000060220863
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 399 pages
- Isbn
- 9781786482761
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)981170811
Subject
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueCIA
- trueDomestic fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- trueEccentrics and eccentricities
- trueFamilies
- trueHumorous stories
- Intergenerational relations -- Fiction
- trueMafia
- trueMagic
- truePsychic ability
- Psychic ability -- Fiction
- trueSkeptics
- trueSwindlers and swindling
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