Paul Stewart
Author
Series
Barnaby Grimes volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. . . .
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, young librarian knight Rook Barkwater and his colleagues - Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends - must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades.
But perils aplenty are ahead for the crowd, and Rook knows the journey will be full of danger. Meanwhile, in the Goblin Nations, the tribes are amassing for war. Will Rook be able to keep his friends,
9) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
384 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
370 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Vox
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Rook Barkwater, the young librarian knight, attempts to stop Vox Verlix, the Most High Academe, in his plot to take over Edgeworld once again.
12) The immortals
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 10
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
688 pages ; cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Barnaby Grimes volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
204 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Soon after Victorian messenger Barnaby Grimes is attacked by a huge beast while crossing London's rooftops, he becomes entangled in a mystery involving patent medicine, impoverished patients, and very expensive furs.
16) Fergus Crane
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
215 pages : black and white illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Fergus Crane's life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting neighbors, and helping with his mother's work until a mysterious box flies into his window and leads him toward adventure.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
18) Citizen Kane
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy newspaper publisher achieves tremendous social and political power, but fails to overcome the loneliness which plagues him throughout his life.
Series
Criterion collection volume 781
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (134 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hard-hitting docu-drama about two ex-cons who ruthlessly murder a Kansas family in 1959 in order to steal their non-existent stash of money. Based on the novel by Truman Capote.