{"product_id":"north-bog-queen-hardcover","title":"North - Bog Queen, hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e AND \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eESQUIRE \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the gorgeous new novel by the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e New York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eOutlawed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, ‘a strangely well-preserved Iron Age body turns up in an English bog, and the American forensic anthropologist on the case is thrust into an absorbing, complex mystery’ (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePeople \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003emagazine).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen a body is found in a bog in northwest England, Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is called to investigate. But this body is not like any she's ever seen. Though its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, it is almost completely preserved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoon Agnes is drawn into a mystery from the distant past, called to understand and avenge the death of an Iron Age woman more like her than she knows. Along the way, she must contend with peat-cutters who want to profit from the bog and activists who demand that the land be left undisturbed. Then there's the moss itself: a complex repository of artifacts and remains, with its own dark stories to tell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Agnes faces the deep history of what she has unearthed, she's also forced to question what she thought she knew about her talent, her self-reliance, and her place in the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFlashing between the uncertainty of post-Brexit England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBog Queen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brims with contemporary urgency and ancient wisdom as it connects across time two gifted, farsighted young women learning to harness their strange strengths in a landscape more mysterious and complex than either can imagine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52074117660903,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/4490e3f5a776777dfd55bafc564bb0ae8104c763.jpg?v=1778993168","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/north-bog-queen-hardcover","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}