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The shape of water

Toro, Guillermo del 1964- (author.). Kraus, Daniel, 1975- (author.).

Summary: 1962. Elisa Esposito-- mute her whole life-- works as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore's Occam Aerospace Research Center. Only Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, help her make it through her day. Then she sees something she was never meant to see: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it.

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  • ISBN: 9781250165343
  • ISBN: 1250165342
  • Physical Description: print
    315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC, 2018.

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Guillermo del Toro is the award-winning director of numerous critically acclaimed feature films, such as Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy, and Pacific Rim, and the co-author (with Chuck Hogan) of the bestselling Strain Trilogy. He lives in California with his wife and two children.

Daniel Kraus has landed on Entertainment Weekly‘s Top 10 Books of the Year (2015 - The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) and has won two Odyssey Awards (for Rotters and Scowler). His novels have been Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks, Parent’s Choice Gold Award winners, Bram Stoker finalists, and more. He co-authored Trollhunters with Guillermo del Toro. He lives in Chicago.

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