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The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories
by Joan Aiken & Garth Nix
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Because of a wish made by their mother before they were born, the two Armitage children, Mark and Harriet, lead lives full of magic and strangeness. Every Monday (and sometimes on a Tuesday) "interesting" things happen to the Armitage family: the Board of Incantation tries to take over their house to use as a school for young wizards; the purchase of a golden apple at a bargain price brings a visit from the Furies; Harriet climbs an apple tree and finds herself in the Land of Heroes. In the titl... more info>> 2008
Words: 110019 - Reading Time: 314-440 min.
Category: Young Adult
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Lirael [Book 2 of the Sabriel-Lirael-Abhorsen Trilogy] [Secure]
by Garth Nix
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Special feature: This PerfectBound eBbook contains an exclusive work-in-progress preview of Abhorsen, the third book in Garth Nix's The Old Kingdom Trilogy. Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Abandoned by her mother, ignorant of her father's identity, Lirael resembles no one else in her large extended family living in the Clayr's Glacier. She doesn't even have the Sight--the ability to see into the present and possible futures--that is the very birthright of the Clayr. None... more info>> 2001
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Abhorsen [Book 3 of the Sabriel-Lirael-Abhorsen Trilogy] [Secure]
by Garth Nix
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In the years since the publication of Sabriel, Garth Nix has proven himself one of the most accomplished fantasy writers around. Now he has completed the hotly anticipated conclusion of a trilogy that ranks with the finest fantasy published today. For Abhorsen continues the story of Lirael, formerly Second Assistant Librarian, now Abhorsen-in-Waiting and charged with maintaining the border between Life and Death. Together with Prince Sam, Mogget, and the Disreputable Dog, Lirael must forestall t... more info>> 2003
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Across the Wall [Secure]
by Garth Nix
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" Nicholas Sayre will do anything to get across the Wall, back to the Old Kingdom. Thoughts of Lirael and Sam haunt his dreams, and he has come to realize that his destiny lies there, along with all those he cares for. But here in Ancelstierre, far south of the Wall, the Charter is dormant, and among the obstacles Nick faces is one that is not entirely human, and which has a strange power that seems to come from Nicholas himself. With "Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case," Garth Nix cont... more info>>
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Sabriel [Book 1 of the Sabriel-Lirael-Abhorsen Trilogy] [Secure]
by Garth Nix & Leo Dillon & Diane Dillon
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Special feature: This PerfectBound eBook contains "How I Write," notes on his craft by Garth Nix. Ever since she was a tiny child, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the random power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorsen, is missing, and to find him Sabriel must cross back into the world. Though her journey begins alone, she soon finds companions: Mogget, whose seemingly harmless feline form hides a powerfu... more info>> 2001
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