The Friend of the Family by Dean Koontz
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In this historical novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz, a girl liberated from a carnival sideshow discovers her mysterious purpose in a moving story of family, sacrifice, and transcendent love.
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, she has resigned herself to an exploited, lonely life on the road as the museum’s golden ticket—until two compassionate strangers rescue her.
Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted, uncannily well-read girl in need of love and a family. With the openhearted couple and their three imaginative children, Alida begins to find both. Yet despite their generosity and acceptance, she knows she is still very different.
Her dreams are vivid, unsettling, and threatening. Alida fears they are warnings—and that the Fairchilds may need rescue from a bad, bad world. Empowered by a purpose to vanquish evil, she will do anything to protect the family she now holds most dear.
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