Henry And The Guardians Of The Lost

Author : Jenny Nimmo
Publisher : Egmont Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1405280875

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Henry and the Guardians of the Lost by Jenny Nimmo Pdf

A spell-binding new children's book from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. Perfect for fans of Eva Ibbotson, Inkheart, and the Charlie Bone series. The yellow letter arrived on a Saturday, otherwise Henry would have been at school. The envelope was such a bright, sunny colour, no one would have believed that it contained a bombshell. Less than 10 minutes after the arrival of the mysterious letter, Henry is on the run with his Auntie Pearl, possibly never to return home. Henry has a secret. He is twelve, but he hasn't aged a day since the moment he was thrust a hundred years into the future. Now his secret has put him in danger. His only hope is the protection of the Guardians of the Lost. A wonderfully immersive fantasy book for children aged 9 and up. "A fast moving, dialogue-driven romp with plenty of cliff-hangers for those first hooked into reading by Harry Potter." (The Bookseller on Midnight for Charlie Bone).

Author : Jenny Nimmo
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545520980

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Charlie Bone and the Red Knight (Children of the Red King #8) by Jenny Nimmo Pdf

The highly anticipated conclusion to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Charlie Bone series!Charlie and his friends take on a powerful and dangerous magic in Book Eight of this extraordinary series. Wicked forces come to a head at Bloor's Academy, and Charlie and his friends must use all their skills and magic to fight the evil and save Charlie's parents. In his greatest adventure yet, Charlie must discover the fate of his family, the evil intentions of the Bloors, what has become of Septimus Bloor's will, and, most important, the destiny of the Red King's heirs. But are the Children of the Red King strong enough to defeat the darkness and find the answers?

Author : Jenny Nimmo
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545520911

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Charlie Bone and the Time Twister (Children of the Red King #2) by Jenny Nimmo Pdf

The second book in the Children of the Red King series, TIME TWISTER offers more magical fantasy that is fast paced and easy to read.January 1916:Henry Yewbeam and his younger brother, James, have been sent to stay with their cousins at the Bloor's Academy. It is one of the coldest days of the year, and all Henry wants to do is hide from his mean cousins and play marbles. He finds a nice, long hall and begins to roll his marbles. Then he discovers a marble that doesn't look familiar to him. Suddenly a series of strange events takes place. Henry begins to disappear. He quickly scribbles on the floor GIVE THE MARBLE TO JAMES, and then he vanishes from the year 1916.

Author : Great Britain. [Appendix. - History & Politics. - I.]
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001494678

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The family history of England, etc. [With plates, including portraits, and maps.] by Great Britain. [Appendix. - History & Politics. - I.] Pdf

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Double 9 Booksllp
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9357271791

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The Outcry by Henry James Pdf

Henry James wrote a book titled The Outcry in 1911. It was once intended to be a play. His final work, The Outcry, was finished just before he passed away in 1916. The plot centers on affluent Americans purchasing priceless works of art from Britain. The widower Lord Theign intends to sell American millionaire Breckenridge Bender his exquisite painting Duchess of Waterbridge by Sir Joshua Reynolds to pay off the gambling debts of his daughter Kitty Imber. Young art critic Hugh Crimble opposes the sale, saying that Britain's priceless works of art should remain in the nation. Lady Grace, Theign's astute daughter, lends him encouragement. When word of the Reynolds' impending sale reaches the media, a patriotic uproar erupts, much to Bender's delight. Crimble, meantime, has discovered another artwork in Theign's collection that he believes to be a Mantovano rare. (James believed this artist to be a fabrication; nevertheless, it was later discovered that a little-known painter by that name actually existed.) Crimble's suspicion on the Mantovano eventually proves to be accurate. Theign decides not to sell the Reynolds to Bender and instead chooses to gift the Mantovano to the National Gallery. His friend Lady Sandgate joins forces with Theign by giving her family's Sir Thomas Lawrence artwork to the Gallery.

Author : Henry Porter
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802159366

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Empire State by Henry Porter Pdf

“A powerful, propulsive piece of thriller writing...Porter has consolidated his reputation for writing some of the best espionage thrillers around.” —Guardian (UK) The head of the US National Security Agency is assassinated in spectacular fashion at Heathrow. An airport employee and his family are found murdered in their council house in Uxbridge. In New York, a fashionable Upper East Side osteopath receives two postcards showing the Empire State Building. A group of migrant workers are brutally gunned down in Macedonia. Legendary spy Robert Harland is drawn back into a world he thought he’d left behind with a dual role for the UN and MI6 in the nail-biting quest to find the link between these apparently random events.

Author : Sarah Manguso
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429950220

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The Guardians by Sarah Manguso Pdf

The Guardians opens with a story from the July 24, 2008, edition of the Riverdale Press that begins, "An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night as it pulled into the station on West 254th Street." Sarah Manguso writes: "The train's engineer told the police that the man was alone and that he jumped. The police officers pulled the body from the track and found no identification. The train's 425 passengers were transferred to another train and delayed about twenty minutes." The Guardians is an elegy for Manguso's friend Harris, two years after he escaped from a psychiatric hospital and jumped under that train. The narrative contemplates with unrelenting clarity their crowded postcollege apartment, Manguso's fellowship year in Rome, Harris's death and the year that followed—the year of mourning and the year of Manguso's marriage. As Harris is revealed both to the reader and to the narrator, the book becomes a monument to their intimacy and inability to express their love to each other properly, and to the reverberating effects of Harris's presence in and absence from Manguso's life. There is grief in the book but also humor, as Manguso marvels at the unexpected details that constitute a friendship. The Guardians explores the insufficiency of explanation and the necessity of the imagination in making sense of anything.

Author : Jenny Nimmo
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545520904

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Midnight for Charlie Bone (Children of the Red King #1) by Jenny Nimmo Pdf

A magical fantasy that is fast-paced and easy-to-read. Charlie Bone has a special gift- he can hear people in photographs talking.The fabulous powers of the Red King were passed down through his descendants, after turning up quite unexpectedly, in someone who had no idea where they came from. This is what happened to Charlie Bone, and to some of the children he met behind the grim, gray walls of Bloor's Academy. Charlie Bone has discovered an unusual gift-he can hear people in photographs talking! His scheming aunts decide to send him to Bloor Academy, a school for genius's where he uses his gifts to discover the truth despite all the dangers that lie ahead.

Author : Rahma Krambo
Publisher : Rahma Krambo
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0983705410

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Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria by Rahma Krambo Pdf

In the wrong hands, some books can be dangerous-and some libraries can be positively deadly. Marco, a young tabby, has been perfectly happy as a small town library cat and newly appointed Guardian of an ancient mystical book. However, when otherworldly creatures begin roaming the stacks after hours, and his mentor, the elder Guardian, is killed, Marco's innocent world is shattered. The young tabby cat is on his own, ill-prepared for the daunting task of safekeeping the magical book of power-and the very heart and soul of the library. Time and space are no barriers for Marco's shape shifting friends and enemies as he learns that the library is the most dangerous place worth saving. Guardian Cats is the classic hero's journey with cats as the guardians of an ancient mystical book of power.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : England
ISBN : PRNC:32101076373685

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Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vivienne Lee Fraser
Publisher : Vivienne Lee Fraser
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780648218180

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Swagman: The Guardians of Time Book One by Vivienne Lee Fraser Pdf

What if Waltzing Matilda's Swagman didn't die when he jumped into the lake? What if he ended up in medieval England embroiled in a plot to set a new king on the throne? For once in his life Swagman John is lost for words. Accused of stealing the lamb he rescued fears being thrown in jail. But instead of protesting his innocence he backs into the waters of the billabong and falls. Certain he is dead, John cannot believe the lamb when he tells him he has been brought through a time and space portal to Medieval England. When Mistress Barabal and Squire Stanislaus stumble upon John in the New Forest he is taken back to Winchester Castle where he actually finds the King has been killed and his brother Prince Henry is about preparing to take his place and his new friends are assisting him. Suddenly talking lambs are the least of his worries. Caught up in political intrigues he does not fully understand, John finds dungeons and magic are not just for fairy tales, and that there are people prepared to go to great lengths to see William the Conquerer's other son crowned king—even as far as murder. Just as John wonders if going to prison for stealing sheep was not a better option all along, he finds there is an even more sinister foe meddling in with history. Against such odds how can John set history straight so he can return home to his family?

Author : Margaret Weis
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307801982

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The Lost King by Margaret Weis Pdf

A galactic revolution has toppled the Starfire dynasty, and swept into power the harsh Democratic Republic. To support the murdered king is now punishable by death. But on distant worlds, the few surviving Guardians carry a dangerous secret: Somewhere in the galaxy, they shield the rightful heir to the throne. Stalking the hidden king is the Warlord, a ruthless Republican general who wields the bloodsword. Only a few brave rebels dare to oppose him: young Dion, who fights to find his destiny; the mercenary Tusk; the outlaw commander Dixter; and the beautiful Lady Maigrey, the only person alive who can match the Warlord’s cunning. Theirs is the ultimate battle against a star-spanning corruption—the ultimate sacrifice for the glory of the lost king’s throne.

Author : H. Beam Piper
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775455516

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Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper Pdf

A miner on the planet Zarathustra crosses paths with an adorable fuzzy creature -- and soon realizes that the little guy may possess human-like intelligence. This realization may throw the social and political balance of the planet into question, and several different groups are soon engaged in a heated race to gauge the smarts of the small fuzzy fellows.

Author : Kathryn Huang,Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545301657

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Lost Tales of Ga'Hoole (Guardians of Ga'Hoole) by Kathryn Huang,Kathryn Lasky Pdf

The second companion book to the New York Times bestselling series, the LOST TALES reveals never-before-told stories of the Great Tree!Guided by the Knower, Otulissa has studied long in the libraries of the Others; she has probed the ancient lore of the strange and powerful dire wolves of the Beyond. And at the Great Ga'Hoole tree itself she has uncovered secret histories of Guardians she thought she knew well! Attention Dear Reader! Great mysteries will be revealed to the attuned mind in these last Lost Tales of the Great Tree!

Author : Leon Festinger,Stanley Schachter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781625589774

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When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger,Stanley Schachter Pdf

The study reported in this volume grew out of some theoretical work, one phase of which bore specifically on the behavior of individuals in social movements that made specific (and unfulfilled) prophecies. We had been forced to depend chiefly on historical records to judge the adequacy of our theoretical ideas until we by chance discovered the social movement that we report in this book. At the time we learned of it, the movement was in mid-career but the prophecy about which it was centered had not yet been disconfirmed. We were understandably eager to undertake a study that could test our theoretical ideas under natural conditions. That we were able to do this study was in great measure due to the support obtained through the Laboratory for Research in Social Relations of the University of Minnesota. This study is a project of the Laboratory and was carried out while we were all members of its staff. We should also like to acknowledge the help we received through a grant-in-aid from the Ford Foundation to one of the authors, a grant that made preliminary exploration of the field situation possible.