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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Preston, Douglas J., author. | Child, Lincoln, author.
Title: Old bones / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child.
Description: First edition. | New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019006977| ISBN 9781538747223 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781538733844 (large print) | ISBN 9781549142246 (audio book) | ISBN 9781549142239 (audio download) | ISBN 9781538747216 (ebook)
Subjects: | GSAFD: Suspense fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3566.R3982 O43 2019 | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019006977
ISBNs: 978-1-5387-4722-3 (hardcover), 978-1-5387-4721-6 (ebook), 978-1-5387-3400-1 (int’l), 978-1-5387-3384-4 (large print), 978-1-5387-0121-8 (B&N signed edition), 978-1-5387-0120-1 (signed edition), 978-1-5387-0137-9 (paperback)
E3-20191212-DA-PC-REW
E3-20190624-DA-PC-ORI