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Birnam Wood / Eleanor Catton.

Catton, Eleanor, 1985- (author.).

Summary:

"The Booker-winning author of The Luminaries delivers a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive"-- Provided by publisher.
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice: on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike. Natural disaster has created an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. Robert Lemoine, the enigmatic American billionaire, has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker--or so he tells Mira when he catches her on the property. Intrigued by Mira, Birnam Wood, and their entrepreneurial spirit, he suggests they work this land. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other?

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374110338
  • ISBN: 0374110336
  • Physical Description: 424 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

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General Note:
Originally published in 2023 by Granta Books, Great Britain.

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Subject: Landslides > Fiction.
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Rich people > Fiction.
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Genre: Thrillers.
Novels.
Thrillers (Fiction)
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Psychological fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Available copies

  • 3 of 4 copies available at Skagit Evergreen Libraries.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Burlington Public Library. (Show)

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 4 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Burlington Public Library F CATTON 39851001663245 Adult Fiction Copy hold Available -
La Conner Regional Library FIC CATTON 62022000000030 FICTION Copy hold On holds shelf -
Sedro-Woolley Library ADULT FICTION CATTON BIRNAM 2023 20120001045537 Adult Fiction Copy hold Available -
Upper Skagit Library CAT 1016135 Mystery/Thriller Copy hold Available -

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