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Series
Discworld volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Brutha is a novice who is content with growing melons for the temple monks until the great god, Om, manifests himself in the form of a tortoise and announces that Brutha is to become the chosen one.
5) The Djinn in the nightingale's eye (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): five fairy stories
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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Description
handful of brilliantly imaginative historical and contemporary fairy stories for grow-ups by the Booker Prize-winning author of "Possession". Packaged in a beautiful little illustrated edition similar to Byatt's extremely successful collection, "The Matisse Stories", this collection will make a lovely, affordably priced gift that will introduce her magical writing to many new readers.
Author
Publisher
Wildside
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Paid piper is a retelling of The Pied Piper of Hamelin; Red as blood is a retelling of Snow White; Thorns is a retelling of Sleeping beauty; When the clock strikes is a retelling of Cinderella; The golden rope is a retelling of Rapunzel; The princess and her future is a retelling of The frog prince; Wolfland is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood; Black as ink is a retelling of Swan lake; Beauty is a retelling of Beauty and the beast.
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Language
English
Description
'A time of dragons' might conjure the image of a fantastical medieval world, with knights dark and light, clever sorcerers and witches, doomed kings and charmed innocents. Love might seem to be very much a part of such a world, where passions rage and honour fires the blood. But the truth is that dragons come in many guises, even into modern times. As does love.
Love and the dragon go hand in hand: the hot fiery breath of desire and the madness that...
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Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume Book 1
Language
English
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All seven books in the Chronicles of Narnia are now available together in a hardcover volume which includes an essay by C. S. Lewis, On Three Ways of Writing for Children, where he explains precisely how the magic of Narnia first came to life.
10) The Blade Itself
Author
Series
First law volume 1
Language
English
Description
Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers. Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating his friends at cards. Vain, shallow, selfish and self-obsessed, the biggest...
Author
Series
Lord of the Rings volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Part one: The Fellowship of the Ring; Part two: The Two Towers; Part three: The Return of the King.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"These rediscovered tales were written by Terry Pratchett under a pseudonym for British newspapers during the 1970s and 1980s. The stories have never been attributed to him until now, and might never have been found, were it not for the efforts of a few dedicated fans. As Neil Gaiman writes in his introduction, 'through all of these stories we watch Terry Pratchett becoming Terry Pratchett.' Though none of the short works are set in the Discworld,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey / Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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Description
"The dark, fearsome Ringwraiths are searching for a Hobbit. Frodo Baggins knows that they are seeking him and the Ring he bearsђthe Ring of Power that will enable evil Sauron to destroy all that is good in Middle-earth. Now it is up to Frodo and his faithful servant, Sam, with a small band of companions, to carry the Ring to the one place it can be destroyed: Mount Doom, in the very center of Sauronђs realm." -- Provided by publisher
Author
Series
Lord of the Rings volume 1, 2, 3
Language
English
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Presents the epic depicting the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-earth, following the odyssey of Frodo the hobbit and his companions on a quest to destroy the Ring of Power.
16) The Silmarillion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
"For the first time ever, a very special edition of the forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout in color by J.R.R. Tolkien himself and with the complete text printed in two colors. The Silmarillion fills in the background which lies behind the more popular work, and gives the earlier history of Middle-earth, introducing some of the key characters. The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels, fashioned by Fëanor, most gifted of the...
18) The last wish
Author
Series
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Geralt the Witcher—revered and hated—holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in this collection of adventures, the first chapter in Andrzej Sapkowski's groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the hit Netflix show and the blockbuster video games.
Geralt is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless hunter. Yet...
Geralt is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless hunter. Yet...
Author
Series
History of Middle-earth volume 7
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. The Treason of Isengard is the seventh volume in Christopher Tolkien's History of Middle-earth and the second in his account of the evolution of The Lord of the Rings. In this book, following the long halt in the darkness of the Mines of Moria with which The Return of the Shadow ended, is traced the great expansion of the tale into new lands and new peoples south and east of the Misty Mountains; the emergence of Lothlorien, of...