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Patrick Ness - paperback From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Knife of Never Letting Go, A Monster Calls, and The Rest of Us Just Live Here comes a heart-stopping story set in a world almost our own, of fanaticism, improbable second chances, and hope and bravery in a world on the very brink of its own destruction. Now in paperback! On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm . . . Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to. The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though. Sarah can’t help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn’t have a soul but who is seemingly intent on keeping her safe. Because the dragon knows something she doesn’t.  He has arrived at the farm wi