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The Amber Spyglass
by Philip Pullman

ISBN 0375823352 (0-375-82335-2)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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From the very start of its very first scene, The Amber Spyglass will set hearts fluttering and minds racing. All we'll say here is that we immediately discover who captured Lyra at the end of The Subtle Knife, though we've yet to discern whether this individual's intent is good, evil, or somewhere in between. We also learn that Will still possesses the blade that allows him to cut between worlds, and has been joined by two winged companions who are determined to escort him to Lord Asriel's mountain redoubt. The boy, however, has only one goal in mind--to rescue his friend and return to her the alethiometer, an instrument that has revealed so much to her and to readers of The Golden Compass and its follow-up. Within a short time, too, we get to experience the "tingle of the starlight" on Serafina Pekkala's skin as she seeks out a famished Iorek Byrnison and enlists him in Lord Asriel's crusade:
A complex web of thoughts was weaving itself in the bear king's mind, with more strands in it than hunger and satisfaction. There was the memory of the little girl Lyra, whom he had named Silvertongue, and whom he had last seen crossing the fragile snow bridge across a crevasse in his own island of Svalbard. Then there was the agitation among the witches, the rumors of pacts and alliances and war; and then there was the surpassingly strange fact of this new world itself, and the witch's insistence that there were many more such worlds, and that the fate of them all hung somehow on the fate of the child.
Meanwhile, two factions of the Church are vying to reach Lyra first. One is even prepared to give a priest "preemptive absolution" should he succeed in committing mortal sin. For these tyrants, killing this girl is no less than "a sacred task."
In the final installment of his trilogy, Philip Pullman has set himself the highest hurdles. He must match its predecessors in terms of sheer action and originality and resolve the enigmas he already created. The good news is that there is no critical bad news--not that The Amber Spyglass doesn't contain standoffs and close calls galore. (Who would have it otherwise?) But Pullman brings his audacious revision of Paradise Lost to a conclusion that is both serene and devastating. In prose that is transparent yet lyrical and 3-D, the author weaves in and out of his principals' thoughts. He also offers up several additional worlds. In one, Dr. Mary Malone is welcomed into an apparently simple society. The environment of the mulefa (again, we'll reveal nothing more) makes them rich in consciousness while their lives possess a slow and stately rhythm. These strange creatures can, however, be very fast on their feet (or on other things entirely) when necessary. Alas, they are on the verge of dying as Dust streams out of their idyllic landscape. Will the Oxford dark-matter researcher see her way to saving them, or does this require our young heroes? And while Mary is puzzling out a cure, Will and Lyra undertake a pilgrimage to a realm devoid of all light and hope, after having been forced into the cruelest of sacrifices--or betrayals.
Throughout his galvanizing epic, Pullman sustains scenes of fierce beauty and tenderness. He also allows us a moment or two of comic respite. At one point, for instance, Lyra's mother bullies a series of ecclesiastical underlings: "The man bowed helplessly and led her away. The guard behind her blew out his cheeks with relief." Needless to say, Mrs. Coulter is as intoxicating and fluid as ever. And can it be that we will come to admire her as she plays out her desperate endgame? In this respect, as in many others, The Amber Spyglass is truly a book of revelations, moving from darkness visible to radiant truth. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Anne of Avonlea
by L.M. Montgomery

ISBN 1595401091 (1-59540-109-1)
Softcover, Authorhouse

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Large format paper back for easy reading. One of a series of fictional, semi-historical novels. [via]
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The Complete Cheapskate: How to Break Free from Money Worries Forever, Without Sacrificing Your Quality of Life
by Mary Hunt

ISBN 1561795208 (1-56179-520-8)
Softcover, Focus on the Family Pub

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In need of a Money Makeover? Let America's most popular cheapskate show you how to go from financial chaos to freedom and security--painlessly and in less time than you ever imagined. Mary Hunt has helped thousands live a debt-free life with her popular newsletter, "The Cheapskate Monthly." In The Complete Cheapskate, Mary puts all the very best money advice she has in one place. Becoming a classy, dignified cheapskate is not all that difficult, and Mary shows how with her user-friendly principles of saving, restraint, and living debt-free. This book will teach you how to: - Create--and stick to--a monthly spending plan - Live well off 80% of your income - Climb out--and stay out--of debt's hole - Stretch every dollar to its absolute maximum - Manage savings and investments - Lower bills on clothes, food, and gifts without lowering living standards - Live within a financial plan that includes a margin for fun and spontaneity With hundreds of tips on cutting expenses, The Complete Cheapskate is the indispensable guide for people ready to regain control of their finances, relieve the stress money has created, and prepare for their future. [via]
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Farmer Boy
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

ISBN 0064400034 (0-06-440003-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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While laura ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, almanzo wilder is living on a big farm in new york state. Here almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Time for fun comes when the jolly tin peddler visits, or best of all, when the fair comes to town. This is laura ingalls wilder's beloved story of how her husband almanzo grew up as a farmer boy far from the little house where laura lived [via]
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Le Petit Prince
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

ISBN 0395240050 (0-395-24005-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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95 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleurs dans le texte et hors texte, de l'auteur. Couverture rempliée. Ouvrage de bibliothèque avec une couverture plastique transparente sur [via]
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Le Petit Prince
by De Saint

ISBN 2070334538 (2-07-033453-8)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc

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Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face à un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! À partir de là, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire.
S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.
Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne ! --Xavier Marciniak [via]
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Little House
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

ISBN 0064400409 (0-06-440040-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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used - very good [via]
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Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

ISBN 1581180780 (1-58118-078-0)
Hardcover, Library Reproduction Services

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Although the Little House stories are traditionally seen as "girl" books, boys might be happily surprised if they take another peek at their sisters' shelves. Little House in the Big Woods--the first book of the series and Laura Ingalls Wilder's first children's book--is full of the thrills, chills, and spills typically associated with "boy" books. Any boy or girl who has fantasized about running off to live in the woods will find ample information in these pages to manage a Wisconsin snowstorm, a panther attack, or a wild sled ride with a pig as an uninvited guest. Every chapter divulges fascinatingly intricate, yet easy-to-read, details about pioneer life in the Midwest in the late 1800s, from bear-meat curing to maple-tree sapping to homemade bullet making.
Wilder's autobiographical tales ring with truth and excitement. Readers will receive a perfectly painless history lesson, and in fact will clamor for more. Beloved illustrator Garth Williams spent years researching young Laura's pioneering family. His soft-line illustrations bring to life the full, simple days and nights in the family's log cabin. No one can read just one Little House book! (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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The Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

ISBN 1557361495 (1-55736-149-5)
Hardcover, Cornerstone Books

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LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books. Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas, and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and her family are kept busy and are happy with the promise of their new life on the prairie. Ages 8-12 [via]
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Little Prince
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Richard Howard

ISBN 0156012073 (0-15-601207-3)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.
The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy as Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. And despite his tone of gentle bemusement, Saint-Exupéry pulls off some fine satiric touches, too. There's the king, for example, who commands the Little Prince to function as a one-man (or one-boy) judiciary:
I have good reason to believe that there is an old rat living somewhere on my planet. I hear him at night. You could judge that old rat. From time to time you will condemn him to death. That way his life will depend on your justice. But you'll pardon him each time for economy's sake. There's only one rat.
The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer, and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult existence. Yet his tale is ultimately a tender one--a heartfelt exposition of sadness and solitude, which never turns into Peter Pan-style treacle. Such delicacy of tone can present real headaches for a translator, and in her 1943 translation, Katherine Woods sometimes wandered off the mark, giving the text a slightly wooden or didactic accent. Happily, Richard Howard (who did a fine nip-and-tuck job on Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma in 1999) has streamlined and simplified to wonderful effect. The result is a new and improved version of an indestructible classic, which also restores the original artwork to full color. "Trying to be witty," we're told at one point, "leads to lying, more or less." But Saint-Exupéry's drawings offer a handy rebuttal: they're fresh, funny, and like the book itself, rigorously truthful. --James Marcus [via]
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The Little Prince
by Richard Howard, Antoine De Saint-Exupery

ISBN 0156012197 (0-15-601219-7)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books

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You could be excused for thinking that this book is one containing a simple story for young children about a Little Prince. How wrong you would be! This is far from the truth: it is much more. It is a complex story containing lots of ambiguities about a child with golden hair. These are all eruditely discussed before the actual story begins, in a section entitled "How It All Began". "Is The Little Prince a story written for children or is it a meditation intended for adults?"
The Art of Living is discussed, along with a system of values, and the train of thought behind them is the unifying element. You are invited to "look at the book, and allow yourself to travel from one image to the next... " It was written and published more than 50 years ago in the USA, and the author was a Frenchman who illustrated the book himself; it was later translated by Kathryn Woods. The Little Prince is still very popular and has now been translated into many languages. Shortly after it was first written, the author died--disappearing together with his plane somewhere over the Mediterranean. This Gift edition contains all the original illustrations, plus some more original drawings that came to light later and have been published here for the first time.--Susan Naylor
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The Little Prince
by Irene Testot-Ferry, A. Exupery

ISBN 1853261580 (1-85326-158-0)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, well, prince, who asks him to draw a sheep. "In the face of an overpowering mystery, you don't dare disobey," the narrator recalls. "Absurd as it seemed, a thousand miles from all inhabited regions and in danger of death, I took a scrap of paper and a pen out of my pocket." And so begins their dialogue, which stretches the narrator's imagination in all sorts of surprising, childlike directions.
The Little Prince describes his journey from planet to planet, each tiny world populated by a single adult. It's a wonderfully inventive sequence, which evokes not only the great fairy tales but also such monuments of postmodern whimsy as Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. And despite his tone of gentle bemusement, Saint-Exupéry pulls off some fine satiric touches, too. There's the king, for example, who commands the Little Prince to function as a one-man (or one-boy) judiciary:
I have good reason to believe that there is an old rat living somewhere on my planet. I hear him at night. You could judge that old rat. From time to time you will condemn him to death. That way his life will depend on your justice. But you'll pardon him each time for economy's sake. There's only one rat.
The author pokes similar fun at a businessman, a geographer, and a lamplighter, all of whom signify some futile aspect of adult existence. Yet his tale is ultimately a tender one--a heartfelt exposition of sadness and solitude, which never turns into Peter Pan-style treacle. Such delicacy of tone can present real headaches for a translator, and in her 1943 translation, Katherine Woods sometimes wandered off the mark, giving the text a slightly wooden or didactic accent. Happily, Richard Howard (who did a fine nip-and-tuck job on Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma in 1999) has streamlined and simplified to wonderful effect. The result is a new and improved version of an indestructible classic, which also restores the original artwork to full color. "Trying to be witty," we're told at one point, "leads to lying, more or less." But Saint-Exupéry's drawings offer a handy rebuttal: they're fresh, funny, and like the book itself, rigorously truthful. --James Marcus [via]
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Little Town on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder

ISBN 0060264500 (0-06-026450-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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The little settlement that weathered the long, hard winter of 1880-81 is now a growing town. Laura is growing up, and she goes to her first evening social. Mary is at last able to go to a college for the blind. Best of all, Almanzo Wilder asks permission to walk home from church with Laura. And Laura, now fifteen years old, receives her certificate to teach school.
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott, Camille Cauti

ISBN 1593081081 (1-59308-108-1)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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- Beautifully illustrated in colour by well-known artists such as Quentin Blake and Michael Foreman.- Complete and unabridged editions.- Available individually at only $6.95 in paperback. [via]
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Little Women and Good Wives
by Louisa May Alcott

ISBN 1853261165 (1-85326-116-5)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions, Limited

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Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve. The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Lawrence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever. Good Wives takes up the story of the March sisters, some three years later, when, as young adults, they must face up to the inevitable trials and traumas of everyday life in their search for individual happiness. [via]
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Little Women or Meg, Joe, Beth and May
by Louisa May Alcott, Joe Wheeler

ISBN 1561797448 (1-56179-744-8)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub

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Uniquely designed, this 6" X 9" deluxe edition of Signature Classics features a padded leatherette casing enhanced by gold gilding on all three sides. Highlighted by a full color picture insert on the cover surrounded by gold foil stamping, this series is sure to become a collectable. A standard Jacketed Edition is also available. [via]
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Mujercitas / Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott

ISBN 848403450X (84-8403-450-X)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros

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Readers will take pleasure in discovering the classics through these beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of famous works of literature from all over the world. A variety of periods, themes, and authors are represented.
Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos por estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Se representa una variedad de épocas, temas, y autores. [via]
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On the Banks of Plum Creek
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Garth Williams

ISBN 0064400042 (0-06-440004-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these troubles.

And so continues Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story.
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Regulus
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

ISBN 0156014041 (0-15-601404-1)
Softcover, Harcourt

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In 2000 Harcourt proudly reissued Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince, in a sparkling new format. Newly translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Howard, this timeless classic was embraced by critics and readers across the country for its purity and beauty of expression. And Saint-Exupéry's beloved artwork was restored and remastered to present his work in its original and vibrant colors.

Now Harcourt is issuing uniform full-color foreign language editions. The restored artwork glows like never before. These affordable and beautiful editions are sure to delight an entire new generation of readers, students, children, and adults for whom Saint-Exupéry's story will open the door to a new understanding of life.
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Regulus Vel Pueri Soli Sapiunt/the Little Prince
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

ISBN 0156763001 (0-15-676300-1)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books

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The Latin edition of The Little Prince. Black-and-white illustrations by the Author. Translated by Auguste Haury.
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Subtle Knife
by Philip Pullman

ISBN 0375823468 (0-375-82346-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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With The Golden Compass Philip Pullman garnered every accolade under the sun. Critics lobbed around such superlatives as "elegant," "awe-inspiring," "grand," and "glittering," and used "magnificent" with gay abandon. Each reader had a favorite chapter--or, more likely, several--from the opening tour de force to Lyra's close call at Bolvangar to the great armored-bear battle. And Pullman was no less profligate when it came to intellectual firepower or singular characters. The dæmons alone grant him a place in world literature. Could the second installment of his trilogy keep up this pitch, or had his heroine and her too, too sullied parents consumed him? And what of the belief system that pervaded his alternate universe, not to mention the mystery of Dust? More revelations and an equal number of wonders and new players were definitely in order.
The Subtle Knife offers everything we could have wished for, and more. For a start, there's a young hero--from our world--who is a match for Lyra Silvertongue and whose destiny is every bit as shattering. Like Lyra, Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers, though, his have been deadly serious. This 12-year-old long ago learned the art of invisibility: if he could erase himself, no one would discover his mother's increasing instability and separate them.
As the novel opens, Will's enemies will do anything for information about his missing father, a soldier and Arctic explorer who has been very much airbrushed from the official picture. Now Will must get his mother into safe seclusion and make his way toward Oxford, which may hold the key to John Parry's disappearance. But en route and on the lam from both the police and his family's tormentors, he comes upon a cat with more than a mouse on her mind: "She reached out a paw to pat something in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will." What seems to him a patch of everyday Oxford conceals far more: "The cat stepped forward and vanished." Will, too, scrambles through and into another oddly deserted landscape--one in which children rule and adults (and felines) are very much at risk. Here in this deathly silent city by the sea, he will soon have a dustup with a fierce, flinty little girl: "Her expression was a mixture of the very young--when she first tasted the cola--and a kind of deep, sad wariness." Soon Will and Lyra (and, of course, her dæmon, Pantalaimon) uneasily embark on a great adventure and head into greater tragedy.
As Pullman moves between his young warriors and the witch Serafina Pekkala, the magnetic, ever-manipulative Mrs. Coulter, and Lee Scoresby and his hare dæmon, Hester, there are clear signs of approaching war and earthly chaos. There are new faces as well. The author introduces Oxford dark-matter researcher Mary Malone; the Latvian witch queen Ruta Skadi, who "had trafficked with spirits, and it showed"; Stanislaus Grumman, a shaman in search of a weapon crucial to the cause of Lord Asriel, Lyra's father; and a serpentine old man whom Lyra and Pan can't quite place. Also on hand are the Specters, beings that make cliff-ghasts look like rank amateurs.
Throughout, Pullman is in absolute control of his several worlds, his plot and pace equal to his inspiration. Any number of astonishing scenes--small- and large-scale--will have readers on edge, and many are cause for tears. "You think things have to be possible," Will demands. "Things have to be true!" It is Philip Pullman's gift to turn what quotidian minds would term the impossible into a reality that is both heartbreaking and beautiful. --Kerry Fried [via]
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LA Casa De LA Pradera/Little House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Guillermo Solana, Garth Williams

ISBN 8427931956 (84-279-3195-6)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns

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A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire. In Spanish. [via]
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LA Casa Del Bosque/Little House in the Big Woods
by Sharon Creech, Montserrat Solanas I Mata, Garth Williams

ISBN 8427932405 (84-279-3240-5)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oat crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher. [via]
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El Catalejo Lacado
by Philip Pullman, Maria Dolores Gallart Iglesias, Camila Batlles

ISBN 8440699476 (84-406-9947-6)
Hardcover, Ediciones B

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Though ostensibly written for children, this heroic and heart-wrenching His Dark Materials trilogy is beloved by readers of all ages. These three novels unlock the door to parallel universes where demons and winged creatures live side by side with humans, and a mysterious entity called Dust just might have the power to unite the universesif it isn't destroyed first. Lyra, Pantalaimon, Will, and the rest embark on the most breathtaking, heartbreaking adventure of their lives. The fate of the universe is in their hands.

Startling revelations arrive in this conclusion to the trilogy. Lyra must pay a price to walk through the land of the dead. Dr. Malone's amber spyglass exerts a haunting power. Most shocking of all, someone knows the names of who will liveand who will diefor love. All the while war rages with the Kingdom of Heaven, a brutal battle that will uncover the secret of Dust.
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LA Daga / The Subtle Knife
by Phillip Pullman, Luces Del Norte

ISBN 8440684096 (84-406-8409-6)
Hardcover, Ediciones B

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Though ostensibly written for children, this heroic and heart-wrenching His Dark Materials trilogy is beloved by readers of all ages. These three novels unlock the door to parallel universes where demons and winged creatures live side by side with humans, and a mysterious entity called Dust just might have the power to unite the universesif it isn't destroyed first. Lyra, Pantalaimon, Will, and the rest embark on the most breathtaking, heartbreaking adventure of their lives. The fate of the universe is in their hands.

Lyra and Will tumble separately into the strange tropical otherworld of Cittàgazze, where adults are curiously absent and children run wild. Their journey is plagued with obstacles, some familiar and some horribly new, but it eventually brings them closer to Will's father and to the Subtle Knife, a deadly, ancient tool that cuts windows between worlds.
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El Principito
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Bonifacio Del Carril

ISBN 0156284502 (0-15-628450-2)
Softcover, Harcourt

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The little prince discovers the secrets of friendship while traveling through the universe. [via]
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El Principito / The Little Prince
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Bonifacio Del Carril

ISBN 0156013924 (0-15-601392-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little man from a small planet who describes his adventures in the universe seeking the secret of what is really important in life. [via]
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Animaux Fantastiques / Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
by J. K. Rowling

ISBN 2070549283 (2-07-054928-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Voilà rien de moins que l'un des livres de classe de Harry, ou du moins sa copie conforme. Celui-là, c'est marqué sur la première page, il le partage avec son copain Ron Weasley, "parce que les pages du sien sont décollées". La préface est due à Aldous Dumbledore en personne. Ce manuel est précieux pour quiconque s'aventurerait au pays des sorciers, et évidemment passionnant pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent à l'univers de Harry. L'auteur, Newt Scamander (Norbert Dragonneau pour nous autres Moldus), présente tous les animaux auquel ce bon vieil Hagrid est tellement attaché : hippogriffe, horklump, loup-garou et autre manticore, de l'acromantula au yeti ! Chacun fait l'objet d'une présentation détaillée qui comporte une description de l'animal, ses principales particularités et sa classification par le ministère de la magie, selon sa dangerosité. Évidemment, comme nombre d'écoliers, Harry et son copain Ron n'ont pas pu s'empêcher d'écrire sur les pages, émaillant la lecture de leurs commentaires facétieux&
Indispensable pour les fans de Harry, cet ouvrage leur permettra, de plus, de participer à une bonne action, puisque le produit de sa vente sera intégralement reversé à l'association humanitaire Comic Reflief, qui finance des projets destinés à aider les enfants des pays les plus pauvres du monde. Ainsi donc, comme le fait remarquer Aldous Dumbledore, l'argent qui aura servi à l'acheter aura "un pouvoir magique plus grand encore que celui des sorciers". --Pascale Wester [via]
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Le Miroir D'Ambre
by Phillip Pullman

ISBN 2070543765 (2-07-054376-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Le Petit Prince
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

ISBN 0156013983 (0-15-601398-3)
Softcover, Harcourt

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Imaginez-vous perdu dans le désert, loin de tout lieu habité, et face à un petit garçon tout blond, surgi de nulle part. Si de surcroît ce petit garçon vous demande avec insistance de dessiner un mouton, vous voilà plus qu'étonné ! À partir de là, vous n'aurez plus qu'une seule interrogation : savoir d'où vient cet étrange petit bonhomme et connaître son histoire.
S'ouvre alors un monde étrange et poétique, peuplé de métaphores, décrit à travers les paroles d'un "petit prince" qui porte aussi sur notre monde à nous un regard tout neuf, empli de naïveté, de fraîcheur et de gravité. Très vite, vous découvrez d'étranges planètes, peuplées d'hommes d'affaires, de buveurs, de vaniteux, d'allumeurs de réverbères.
Cette évocation onirique, à laquelle participent les aquarelles de l'auteur, a tout d'un parcours initiatique, où l'enfant apprendra les richesses essentielles des rapports humains et le secret qui les régit : "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
Oeuvre essentielle de la littérature, ce livre de Saint-Exupéry est un ouvrage que l'on aura à coeur de raconter à son enfant, page après page, histoire aussi de redécouvrir l'enfant que l'on était autrefois, avant de devenir une grande personne ! --Xavier Marciniak [via]
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Les Quatre Filles Du Dr March
by Louisa Alcott

ISBN 2070515168 (2-07-051516-8)
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On est en Amérique, en pleine guerre de Sécession. Le docteur March est au front et sa petite famille doit survivre. Heureusement, les quatre soeurs March et leur mère forment un clan très uni qui affronte l'adversité avec courage et bonne humeur malgré tout.
L'auteur s'est fortement inspirée de sa propre vie pour écrire cette histoire. On la reconnaîtra sous les traits de Jo, le garçon manqué de la famille. Depuis sa publication en 1868, ce roman n'a cessé d'enchanter ses lecteurs, les petites filles surtout, qui se reconnaissent dans l'une ou l'autre des quatre soeurs. Sans jamais sombrer dans le mélo, l'histoire est extrêmement touchante, car la vie des personnages est ponctuée de beaucoup de joies mais aussi de grands moments d'angoisse. On suit avec plaisir les péripéties quotidiennes de leur existence, leur évolution aussi, puisque les quatre jeunes filles ne seront pas tout à fait les mêmes à la fin du roman. Ajoutons que ce livre présente pour le lecteur d'aujourd'hui un nouvel intérêt, celui de découvrir l'intimité de la vie d'une famille américaine au XIXe siècle, qui revêt pour nous nombre d'aspects étonnants et pittoresques. --Pascale Wester [via]
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Tour Des Anges
by Phillip Pullman

ISBN 2070541894 (2-07-054189-4)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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À la fin du premier volet, Les Royaumes du Nord, on avait quitté la jeune Lyra au moment où elle franchissait le pont entre deux mondes édifié par son père. On la retrouve donc dans un autre univers, où elle est rejointe par Will, débarqué, lui, d'un troisième monde très semblable au nôtre. On retrouve aussi la glaçante Mme Coulter, l'intrépide Lee Scoresby, entre autres personnages découverts dans le premier tome et désormais familiers. Apparaissent de nouveaux amis, mais aussi de nouveaux ennemis redoutables : des spectres qui vampirisent les adultes et sont invisibles aux yeux des enfants. Peu à peu, le mystère de la Poussière s'éclaircit tout en révélant sa complexité.
Il est question d'ésotérisme, de théologie, de destin, au fil d'aventures palpitantes narrées dans un style éblouissant. À ne surtout pas réserver aux enfants à partir de 11 ans, l'oeuvre envoûtante de Philip Pullman est appelée à devenir un classique de la littérature fantastique. --Pascale Wester [via]
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Das Bernstein-Teleskop
by Phillip Pullman

ISBN 3453864247 (3-453-86424-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Gleich vom Anfang der ersten Szene an wird Das Bernstein-Teleskop den Leser packen und nicht mehr loslassen. Wir verraten an dieser Stelle allerdings nur, dass man sofort feststellt, wer zum Schluss von Das Magische Messer Lyra gefangen genommen hat, obwohl es nicht klar ist, ob die Absichten dieses Individiums nun gut oder böse sind. Wir erfahren auch, dass Will nach wie vor im Besitz der Klinge ist, die ihn befähigt, sich den Weg von einer Welt zur anderen zu schneiden, und dass sich ihm mittlerweile zwei geflügelte Freunde angeschlossen haben, die fest entschlossen sind, ihn zur Bergfestung Lord Asriels zu begleiten. Der Junge hat allerdings nur ein Ziel vor Augen -- seine Freundin zu retten und ihr den Alethiometer zurückzugeben, ein Instrument, das ihr und den Lesern von Der goldene Kompass und dessen Fortsetzung so viel offenbart hat. Wir müssen auch nicht lange warten, bis wir das "Prickeln des Sternenlichts" auf Serafina Pekkalas Haut erfahren dürfen, während sie einen ausgehungerten Iorek Byrnison ausfindig macht und ihn für Lord Asriels Kreuzzug anwirbt.
In der Zwischenzeit kämpfen die zwei Fraktionen der Kirche darum, als erste an Lyra heranzukommen. Eine davon ist sogar bereit, einem ihrer Priester schon im Voraus Absolution zu gewähren, sollte es ihm gelingen, die Todsünde zu begehen, das Mädchen zu töten; für diese Tyrannen wäre dies nichts Geringeres als "eine heilige Pflicht".
In dieser letzten Folge seiner Trilogie hat sich Philip Pullman die höchsten Ziele gesetzt. Sie darf ihren Vorgängern in Sachen schierer Action und Originalität in nichts nachstehen und muss gleichzeitig alle noch bestehenden Rätsel auflösen. Die gute Nachricht hierbei ist, dass es keine ernsthaft schlechten Nachrichten gibt. Nicht, dass Das Bernstein-Teleskop keine verfahrenen und riskant-gefährlichen Situationen enthalten würde -- die gibt es zuhauf (wer wollte es auch anders haben?). Aber Pullman führt seine Trilogie zu einem Schluss, der sowohl friedlich als auch niederschmetternd ist. Mit einem Erzählstil, der klar und dennoch lyrisch und plastisch daherkommt, blendet sich der Autor mühelos in die Gedankenwelt seiner Hauptfiguren ein und wieder aus. Er wartet zudem mit einigen zusätzlichen Welten auf. In einer davon wird Dr. Mary Malone in eine scheinbar einfache Gesellschaft aufgenommen. Das Milieu der Mulefa (auch hier verraten wir nicht mehr) macht sie reich an Bewusstsein, während ihr Leben einem langsamen und gemessenen Rhythmus folgt.
Im Verlauf seines Epos erhält Pullman seine Szenen gewaltiger Schönheit und Zärtlichkeit aufrecht und gewährt uns sogar den einen oder anderen Moment der humorvollen Entspannung. An einer Stelle beispielsweise schikaniert Lyras Mutter eine Reihe kirchlicher Befehlsempfänger. Mrs. Coulter ist ohne Frage so berauschend und umwerfend wie eh und je. Kann es sein, dass wir sie letztendlich sogar bewundern werden, während sie ihr verzweifeltes Spiel zu Ende bringt? In diesem Fall -- wie auch sonst -- ist Das Bernstein-Teleskop wahrlich ein Buch der Offenbarungen, das sich von der sichtbaren Dunkelheit zur strahlenden Wahrheit bewegt. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Der Kleine Prinz
by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

ISBN 015601386X (0-15-601386-X)
Softcover, Harcourt

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The German edition of The Little Prince. Black-and-white illustrations by the Author. Translated by Grete and Josef Leitgeb.
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Das Magische Messer
by Philip Pullman

ISBN 3551352372 (3-551-35237-2)
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Mit Das magische Messer stellt Philip Pullman nach Der Goldene Kompaß den zweiten Band der His-Dark-Materials-Trilogie vor. Die Hauptrollen spielen der zwölfjährige Will Parry und die gleichaltrige Lyra Listenreich, Heldin der ersten Folge.
Der junge Parry will das Geheimnis um seinen Vater lösen, der vor zehn Jahren bei einer Polarexpedition verschwunden ist. Durch Zufall findet er einen Zugang zu einer anderen Welt, als er vor geheimnisvollen Männern flieht. Hier trifft er auf Lyra, die ebenfalls durch ein Dimensionstor aus ihrer Heimat, die der Erde ähnelt, in diese fremde Welt gelangt ist. Auch sie ist auf der Suche nach ihrem Vater, Lord Asriel. Es stellt sich heraus, daß das Schicksal der beiden eng miteinander verknüpft ist. Gemeinsam müssen sie in den verschiedenen Welten um ihr Leben kämpfen und viele Abenteuer überstehen. Im Verlauf der Geschichte wird es immer deutlicher, daß den beiden Kindern eine Hauptrolle zugedacht ist in der anstehenden entscheidenden Schlacht zwischen Gut und Böse.
Pullman greift in diesem Buch das in Film und Literatur immer wiederkehrende Prinzip von parallelen, sich in vielerlei Hinsicht ähnelnden Welten auf. Es ist etwas schwierig, den Einstieg zu finden. Die verschiedenen Handlungsstränge scheinen zu Beginn etwas verwirrend und ohne Zusammenhang zu sein. Doch je mehr man weiterliest und sich in den Inhalt vertieft, desto besser enthüllen sich diese Zusammenhänge. Man wird immer mehr in die von Pullman geschaffenen Welten von Hexen, Technik und Magie hineingezogen. Nach Beendigung des Buches bleibt nur zu hoffen, daß der Folgeband bald auf den deutschen Markt kommt. --Markus Hofstetter [via]
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