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Jacket design by Chelsea McGuckin
Jacket art by David Wu
Spider Webs by Getty Images; Egg Sac by David T Roberts/NaturesImages/Getty Images
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Author photograph by Laurie Willick
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Boone, Ezekiel, author.
Title: The hatching : a novel / Ezekiel Boone.
Description: New York : Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2016. | Series: The Hatching Series ; Volume 1
Identifiers: LCCN 2015038203 | ISBN 9781501125041 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501125058 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501125065 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Spiders—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Horror. | FICTION / Suspense. | GSAFD: Horror fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3602.O6577 H38 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015038203
ISBN 978-1-5011-2504-1
ISBN 978-1-5011-2506-5 (ebook)
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