The Friend of the Family - Dean Koontz - Thomas & Mercer

''The human 'oddities' in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum's golden ticket--until she's rescued by two compassionate strangers. Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl in need of a loving touch and a family. With the openhearted couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds it. Yet despite everyone's overwhelming generosity and acceptance, Alida knows she is still a very different kind of girl. Her dreams bear that out. They're vivid, unsettling, and threatening. Alida fears that they're also warnings--and that it's the Fairchilds who may need rescue from a bad, bad world''--

Product Specs:
EAN/ISBN: 9781662533297

Contributor: Dean Koontz

Dewey: 813.54

Category: Sideshows ; Carnivals ; Dreams ; Families ; Love ; Nineteen thirties ; Paranormal fiction ; Historical fiction ; Thrillers (Fiction)

Harmonized Code: 4901.99.0070

Category: Topical | Coming of Age

Publish Date: 01/20/2026