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      The Gates

      by John Connolly
      Published
      Oct 2009
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
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      296
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      Bursting with imagination and impossible to put down, this "wholly original" (People) and "refreshing" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly is about the pull between good and evil, physics and fantasy—and a quirky boy, who is impossible not to love, and the unlikely cast of characters who give him the strength to stand up to a demonic power.

      Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween, which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe, a gap through which a pair of enormous gates is visible. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out...

      Can one small boy defeat evil? Can he harness the power of science, faith, and love to save the world as we know it?

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      General Fiction

      Age Level

      Young Adult / Teens

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      First Edition Oct 2009 Hodder & Stoughton (UK) ISBN13 9780340995808 ISBN10 0340995807
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      Oct 2010 Washington Square Press ISBN13 9781439175408 ISBN10 1439175403
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      Sep 2011 Simon & Schuster ISBN13 9781442429338 ISBN10 144242933X
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      Sep 2009 Hodder & Stoughton (UK) ISBN13 9780340995792 ISBN10 0340995793
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      Oct 2009 Atria ISBN13 9781439172636 ISBN10 1439172633
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      Sep 2009 Atria Books ISBN10 B002QJZ9Y0
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      Sep 2009 Hodder & Stoughton (UK) ISBN13 9781848944831 ISBN10 1848944837
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