Author’s agent: Barry Goldblatt, Barry Goldblatt Literary. Visual indication that the title is an audiobook. (Unabridged) &mid Greenglass House By Kate Milford. The legends and folktales Milford ( The Broken Lands) creates add to Nagspeake’s charm and gently prepare the ground for a fantasy twist. The creaky smugglers inn is always quiet during this season. Likewise, the fictional port of Nagspeake, whose daring smugglers face off against ruthless customs agents, makes for a unique and cozy setting, where Milo’s parents’ inn provides a refuge for “runners,” as the smugglers call themselves. The mysteries surrounding the guests and their connections to the inn unravel slowly, but Milo-with his resentment of the unexpected, his growing empathy, and his quick powers of deduction-is a well-drawn protagonist. Always available signed/personalized in hardcover or paperback from McNally Jackson. With cover art and illustrations by Jaime Zollars. Milo’s new persona allows him to imagine his Chinese birth family without the guilt he usually feels toward his loving adoptive parents when he does so. As objects go missing and tempers flare, Milo and Meddy, the cook’s daughter, must decipher clues and untangle the web of deepening mysteries to discover the truth about Greenglass Houseand themselves. But his new friend Meddy has other ideas, and soon the pair is investigating a series of thefts and creating alter egos based on the role-playing game Odd Trails. Twelve-year-old Milo’s Christmas looks ruined when five eccentric guests arrive at his parents’ inn on the first day of vacation.
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