Paul Stewart
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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BARNABY GRIMES IS a tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and “highstacking” around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. In this first adventure, Barnaby is attacked one night by an enormous dog and soon finds himself swept up in a world of crooked doctors, poor and ill-advised patients, strange tonics, and very expensive furs. . . .
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Barnaby Grimes isa tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and high-stacking around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. This is a fantastic romp through a Dickensian-style city, with a wonderful new hero in the guise of Barnaby.
After collecting a strange parcel from a deserted ship in the fog of the docks, and delivering it to the local schoolmaster, Barnaby thinks he’s earned a moment to sit on the rooftops...
After collecting a strange parcel from a deserted ship in the fog of the docks, and delivering it to the local schoolmaster, Barnaby thinks he’s earned a moment to sit on the rooftops...
3) Ya Wanna Go?
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English
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United States Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee Paul Stewart is a tough-as-rawhide sports legend with a heart of gold and tireless will to survive.
The heir apparent to a legacy in sports, Stewy was raised in a family that tracked the seasons by which sport was being played. The grandson of Stanley Cup-winning coach Bill Stewart, Sr., Stewy's road to professional hockey should have been smoother. In his long-anticipated autobiography, Stewy recounts the...
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English
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'Let's play remembering,' says Hedgehog. But Rabbit isn't very keen - 'You know what always happens,' he says. And sure enough the friends remember events entirely differently, whether it be an acorn rolling competition or crossing a stream ('You fell in!' says Hedgehog. 'I was picking up a water snail,' says Rabbit. 'I dropped it when you grabbed me.')
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English
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From the creators of the Edge Chronicles comes the thrilling conclusion to the epic saga of Wyrmeweald! The bone trail litters the barren lands of the wyrmeweald with the remains of dragon-like wyrmes, fortune-hunting kith bandits, and wyrme-protecting kin assassins alike-all viciously slaughtered in the gruesome quest for gold and power. Micah and his friends have battled tirelessly against the kith bandits to protect the winged wyrmes. But the kith...
6) Bloodhoney
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English
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From the creators of the Edge Chronicles comes the second installment in the fantastic tale of Wyrmeweald! Winter is a dangerous time in the wyrmeweald. Once a magnificent wilderness, the home of the dragon-like wyrmes has become an icy wasteland. Brutal battles rage between the evil kith, intent on ravaging all that they can, and the wyrme-friendly kin. Young Micah is safe in a winter den, sheltered from the intense cold, with kin Eli and the...
7) The State of Northern Ireland and the Democratic Deficit: Between Sectarianism and Neo-Liberalism
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English
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Written to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the GFA, this book argues that the seeds of recent problems were sown in the 1998 agreement. The fiasco of a Renewable Heating Incentive that overpaid participants, the lingering whiff of corruption, communities in crisis and growing poverty are all symptoms of the inherent failings of the supposed settlement.
Current difficulties are more than teething problems arising from the transition from...
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Edge chronicles ; 1
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
9) Stormchaser
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Edge chronicles ; 2
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English
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In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
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Edge chronicles ; 3
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English
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Twig, a young sky pirate captain, is the only one who can save the floating city of Sanctaphrax from the Mother Storm.
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Wyrmeweald ; 1
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English
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Young pioneer, Micah, enters Wrymeweald full of hope to return home having made his fortune. But this is a land where wyrmes, fabulous dragon-like beasts, roam wild and reign supreme. After a near-brush with death on the edge of a canyon, Micah soon finds a chance to prove his worth when he meets with Eli, a veteran tracker of Wrymeweald.
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Edge chronicles ; 4
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Apprenticed to the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, a floating city of scholars, gossip, and treachery, fourteen-year-old Quint runs increasingly dangerous errands, which eventually bring him to a place of gruesome monsters that threaten his life and those of his friends.
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Edge chronicles ; 5
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David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Rook Barkwater, one of the apprentices chosen to make a dangerous journey to study in the Deepwoods, joins the sky pirate Captain Twig in opposing the Guardians of the Night and learns more about his own past.
15) Vox
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Edge chronicles ; 6
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Rook Barkwater, the young librarian knight, attempts to stop Vox Verlix, the Most High Academe, in his plot to take over Edgeworld once again.
16) Freeglader
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Edge chronicles ; 7
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and the librarian knights and Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades.
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Edge chronicles ; 8
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Quint finally begins his training at the Knights Academy, Maris adjusts to life in Undertown, and Sanctaphrax shivers in anticipation of a legendary storm, while a storm of a different kind brews between sky-scholars and earth-scholars.
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Edge chronicles ; 9
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Quint leaves his studies at the Knights Academy in Sanctaphrax to assist his father Wind Jackall in his obsessive and dangerous quest to track down and bring to justice the evil Turbot Smeal.
20) The immortals
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Edge chronicles ; 10
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Nate Quarter, a lowly lamplighter in the phraxmines of the Eastern Woods, must flee for his life when the mine sargeant wants him killed, while elsewhere, a storm unlike any ever seen is building.