Philip Pullman
21) The collectors
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A chilling Gothic tale with a revealing glimpse of the iconic Mrs. Coulter--one of Philip Pullman's most enigmatic characters. This companion story to His Dark Materials is now in print for the first time in a beautiful gift edition. In this darkly delicious tale, internationally acclaimed author Philip Pullman invites readers to meet the mysterious girl who will one day become the sinister Mrs. Coulter. On a cold winter's night, two art collectors...
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"In over 30 essays, written over 20 years, one of the world's great story-tellers meditates on story-telling. Warm, funny, generous, entertaining and, above all, deeply considered, they offer thoughts on a wide variety of topics, including the origin and composition of Philip's own stories, the craft of writing and the story-tellers who have meant the most to Philip. The art of story-telling is everywhere present in the essays themselves, in the instantly...
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Golden compass (Graphic novels) volume 1
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"In the first of a three-volume graphic novel adaptation, Lyra Belacqua and her daemon familiar set out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North"--
25) The balloonist
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In 1897, three men, a scientist, a journalist, and an adventurer, set off in a hot-air balloon hoping to be the first men to land on the North Pole, as Major Gustav Crispin, the scientist, contemplates their situation and remembers his love affair with the exasperating Luisa.
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What do Philip Pullman and J.K. Rowling have in common that has made both of their stories so successful? What does Pullman listen to while he writes—and who, or what, is Dust?
Pullman's award-winning trilogy His Dark Materials has been appreciated by readers of all ages. It is now set to welcome new fans as it is adapted for television by the BBC, and his new trilogy at last sees publication.
Nicholas Tucker, a leading authority on children's literature,...
28) Paradise lost
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"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the Restoration, Milton dictated his sweeping biblical epic Paradise Lost to a series of helpers. While the struggle between God and Satan rages across the cosmos, the human tragedy of Adam and Eve the temptation and fall is movingly depicted in language unsurpassed in its musicality and beauty. A staggering and audacious undertaking...
29) I was a rat!
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A little boy turns life in London upside down when he appears at the house of a lonely old couple and insists he was a rat.
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Recounts one of the most famous of the Arabian Nights tales. Aladdin is a shiftless good-for-nothing boy until he unwittingly acquires a magic lamp inhabited by a genie -- and the adventure that follows both makes his fortune and makes him a man. Terrific for reading aloud!
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In a wondrous parallel world where witches soar the skies and Ice Bears rule the frozen North, one special girl is destined to hold the fate of the universe in her hands. When Lyra Belacqua becomes the keeper of the Golden Compass, she discovers that her world and all those beyond are threatened by the secret plans of Ms. Coulter. With the help of Lord Asriel and a group of unlikely allies ready to stand at her side, Lyra embarks on an extraordinary...
32) La daga
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As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
Lyra llega a una misteriosa ciudad donde conoce a un enigmático muchacho: un asesino. Los destinos de ambos jóvenes están extrañamente enlazados, y juntos deben encontrar un objeto poderoso y secreto, por el cual gentes de muchos mundos estarían incluso dispuestas a matar...--Desde la descripción...
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Gracias a la ayuda de sus compañeros, como Iorek Byrnison y las brujas, y a la aparición de nuevos personajes decisivos, Will y Lyra podrán llegar al país de los muertos y averiguar el auténtico sentido de todo lo que han vivido. Pero los sacrificios que deberán hacer son dolorosos.
Thanks to the help of their companions like lorek Byrinson and the witches, and to the appearance of decisive, new characters, Will and Lyra might be able to get...
36) La Bella salvaje
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Book of dust volume 1
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Shares the story of how Lyra Belacqua and her daemon Pantalaimon came to be living at Jordan College.
"Malcolm Polstead, un joven adolescente de once años, y su daimonion Asta viven con sus padres muy cerca de Oxford. Al otro lado del río Támesis (en el que Malcolm navega habitualmente utilizando su amada canoa, un bote con el nombre de La Bella Salvaje) está la abadía de Godstow, habitada por las monjas de la región. Malcolm descubrirá que...
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"Chris and Jenny are teenage lovers from the gritty side of modern Oxford, England in this adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Philip Pullman (author of The Golden Compass). Chris, a naive lad, suspended between school and college, and Jenny, a free spirit fleeing a traumatized childhood. They are caught in the crossfire, as Carson, a gangster gunman with a grudge, comes looking for Chris's boss, to avenge events from long ago. Heady romance gives...
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His dark materials volume 1
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Primera parte de La materia oscura, la gran serie de fantasia de todos los tiempos, escrita por uno de los mejores narradores de nuestra epoca. Lyra Belacqua y su animal daimonion llevan una vida un tanto salvaje y despreocupada entre los alumnos del Jordan College de Oxford. El destino que la aguarda la conducira a las heladas tierras del Artico, donde reinan los clanes de brujas y los osos polares libran virulentas luchas. Su extraordinario viaje...
40) The tin princess
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Sally Lockhart quartet volume 4
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In 1882 sixteen-year-old Becky applies for a tutoring job in London and becomes embroiled in assassination, intrigue, and dangerous politics in the small European kingdom of Razkavia.