03499cam a2200721 4500 2756475983 TxAuBib 20260509120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781683695066 1683695062 B0DW3LK8S5 Amazon 976b8851-3cd1-4532-96dc-7b1ce17dead7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11620420 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Costa, Sheldon. The Great Work [Libby eBook]. Quirk Books, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. science fiction and fantasy. fantasy books for adults. supernatural western. Supernatural Horror. speculative fiction. paranormal fiction. Historical Fiction. historial fiction. paranormal books. fantasy fiction. western fiction. fantasy novels. gothic fiction. western novels. westerns books. gothic western. western horror. Weird Western. fiction books. fantasy novel. books fiction. western books. supernatural. Dark Fantasy. fantasy book. dark western. western book. Paranormal. westerns. alchemy. western. cowboy. demons. HTML:<p>Alone in a frontier town in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest, Gentle Montgomery is grieving his best friend. Liam was an alchemist, killed when he tried to capture a creature that shouldn't exist: a giant salamander that drives men mad. When Gentle's nephew, Kitt, arrives at his doorstep, the two set out together to track the monster down so they can use its blood in an alchemical formula that will bring Liam back to life.<br /> It's a hard and haunted journey. The salamander produces surreal nightmares and waking dreams of a blighted, burning future. And Gentle and Kitt soon find themselves pursued by a bloodthirsty hunter, a sadistic judge, and a doomsday cult, all of whom have their own plans for the river monster. Armed with nothing but Liam's alchemical notebooks, they must not only find the salamander but learn to understand it—and the terrifying visions it causes—before it's too late. And as Gentle struggles to comprehend this harrowing experience, it becomes clear that the Great Work of the alchemists may pale in comparison to the small work of human connection.<br /> Sheldon Costa's dark, vivid, and strangely hopeful debut novel is a supernatural adventure through the wilderness of friendship and the rotten heart of the early American empire.</p>. Literature. Fantasy. Fiction. Western. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-05-08 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=976b8851-3cd1-4532-96dc-7b1ce17dead7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=976b8851-3cd1-4532-96dc-7b1ce17dead7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXGID