Keeper of the Hourglass

The Life and Death of Peter Nichols

By: G.L. Garrett

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Hardcover | 19 December 2019

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Hardcover
182 Pages

Age
13 - 18

Grade
2 - 7

Dimensions(cm)
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.17

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"Readers of all ages will be challenged and enlightened by the author’s sensitive approach to confronting lies, death, and sorrow." –Authors Reading

To a ten-year-old, death is far from kind: it is imprisonment! To help the living get to their next day, Peter is required to work in the “Conservatory,” a library where every person is represented by a “LifeBook.” Turning the pages of LifeBooks is excruciatingly dull, so Peter plots his escape! However, that would ruin Apius’ evil plan to obtain an Ancient Hourglass that controls time. With the hourglass in hand, all of the guarded souls in the LifeBooks could be his, making him unstoppable.

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"Readers of all ages will be challenged and enlightened by the author's sensitive approach to confronting lies, death, and sorrow." -Authors Reading

"Garrett's book is filled with great warmth and is meant to be read and reread. It offers an interesting philosophical take on coping with loss and life in the great beyond." - Authors Reading

"This is a truly beautiful book that plays with the themes of life, death and time in a clever and imaginative way and also challenges the concept that paths of pre defined. An excellent book that I would highly recommend to any fantasy lover not just the recommended YA group." - NetGalley Reviewer

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