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Title The monsters of Templeton [electronic resource] / Lauren Groff.
Author Groff, Lauren.
Publication Info. New York : Hyperion Audiobooks, 2008.
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Playing Time 131809
System Details Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 191171 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note Downloadable audio file.
Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Performer Read by Nicole Roberts.
Note Duration: 13:18:09.
"Enhanced."
Summary "The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part contemporary story, part historical novel, and part ghost story, this spellbinding novel is at its core a tale of how one town holds the secrets of a family. In the wake of a wildly disastrous affair, Willie Upton arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York, where her hippie-turned-born-again-Baptist mom, Vi, still lives. Willie expects to be able to hide in the place that has been home to her family for generations, but the monster's death changes the fabric of the quiet, picture-perfect town her ancestors founded. Even further, Willie learns that the story her mother had always told her about her father has all been a lie: he wasn't the random man from a free-love commune, but someone from this very town. As Willie digs for the truth about her lineage, she discovers that the secrets of her family run deep. Through letters, editorials, and journal entries, the dead rise up to tell their sides of the story as dark mysteries come to light, past and present blur, old stories are finally put to rest, and the shocking truth about more than one monster is revealed.
Subject Single women -- Fiction.
Women genealogists -- Fiction.
Sea monsters -- Fiction.
Genre Fantastic fiction.
Audiobooks.
Added Author Roberts, Nicole.
Hyperion Audiobooks.
OverDrive, Inc.
Related To Original 1401388922 (OCoLC)166372860
ISBN 9781401389154 ODA (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
1401389155 ODA (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)