Author: Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1444799959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The final instalment of the Last Dragonslayer Chronicles, demonstrating that with a small band of committed followers, a large tin of resolve and steely determination, almost anything can be achieved . . . Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekick and fellow Orphan Tiger Prawns have been driven to the tip of the UnUnited Kingdoms - Cornwall - by the invasion of the Trolls. Their one defence is a six-foot-wide trench full of buttons, something which the Trolls find unaccountably terrifying (it's their clickiness). Worse than being eaten by Trolls is the prospect of the Mighty Shandar requisitioning the Quarkbeast and using him to achieve supreme power and domination - an ambition that has been four hundred years in the planning and which will ultimately leave the Earth a cold cinder, devoid of all life. Nothing has ever looked so bleak, but Jennifer, assisted by a renegade vegan Troll, a bunch of misfit sorcerers, the Princess (or is she now the ruler?) of the UnUnited (or are they now United?) Kingdoms, and Tiger, must find a way to vanquish the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, and along the way discover the truth about her parents, herself, and what is in the locked glovebox of her VW Beetle . . .
Author: Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054773848X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
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International bestselling author Fforde invites fans to return to the witty, wizardly world of the Chronicles of Kazam with the fabulous follow-up to "The Last Dragonslayer."
Author: Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547738471
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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As magic fades from the world, 15-year-old Jennifer Strange is having trouble keeping her magician employment agency business afloat, until she begins having visions that foretell the death of the last dragon and the coming of Big Magic.
Author: Stephen Christiansen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781312478282
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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Tsalmaveth has accepted the declaration of war that had been challenged upon him The invasion into his realm and the attack upon himself will be answered and he will scour every realm to find the one that has crossed his path Jotunn has decided that now is the time to strike His desire to bring trolls into the world as a race to be reckoned with is only fueled by his desire of revenge upon the dark elves that have time and again taken everything from him.As his war spreads upon the land, he comes closer to the very dark elf that had caused him the most pain With the arrival of the shade he is able to hone in on his target. However, can the shade be trusted or does it have an agenda of its own? House Orbbelgguren finds itself surround by trolls from all sides Allies and neighbors are succumbing to the horrors of war They have to come together and trust each other if they want to survive The events of this war will touch the lives and souls of everyone involved and no one will be the same again
Author: David Weber
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618242113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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There he was in his sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic, all alone and loving it. Well, there was a US Navy carrier group on his southern horizon, but he was a Navy guy himself, so he didn't mind. Then came the UFOs, hurtling in from the Outer Black to overfly the carriers at Mach 17. Their impossible aerobatics were bad enough¾but then they started shooting at each other. And at the Navy. With nukes. Little ones at first, but winding up with a 500 megatonner at 90 miles that fried every piece of electronics within line-of-sight. Richard Ashton thought he was just a ringside observer to these now over-the-horizon events. Until the crippled alien lifeboat came drifting down and homed in on his sailboat; suddenly he has his hands full of an unconscious, critically wounded and impossibly human alien warrior who also happens to be a gorgeous female. That's when things got interesting. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "... a particular delight, offering nonstop action that's both well executed and emotionally satisfying." ¾Publishers Weekly "It's a rollicking fun tale that's impossible to put down." ¾Philadelphia Weekly Press "... the best work (Weber] has done ... the rewards are ample ... recommended...." ¾Starlog
Author: Ingri d'Aulaire
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590172179
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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In this spectacular follow-up to their beloved Book of Norse Myths, the husband-and-wife team of Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire explore the uncanny reaches of Norse mythology, an enchanted night-world populated by trolls of all kinds—mountain trolls, forest trolls, trolls who live underwater and trolls who live under bridges, uncouth, unkempt, unbreakable, unforgettable, and invariably unbelievably ugly trolls—who work their wiles and carry on in the most bizarre and entertaining fashions. With their matchless talent as storytellers and illustrators, the d’Aulaires bring to life the weird and wonderful world of Norse mythology.
Author: Jan Lindenberger
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
ISBN: 9780764308635
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Current prices and photography in this book give the collector a real edge on any troll-hunting adventure.
Author: Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101601043
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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The seventh installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of Early Riser With more than one million books in print worldwide, Jasper Fforde’s beloved series charms a growing number of readers with each new adventure. In The Woman Who Died a Lot, Thursday Next faces her trickiest assignment yet. When her former SpecOps division is reinstated, Thursday assumes she’s the obvious choice to lead the Literary Detectives. Instead, she’s put in charge of the Swindon All-You-Can-Eat-at-Fatso’s Drink Not Included Library. But where Thursday goes, trouble follows. As the new Chief Librarian faces one-hundred-percent budget cuts and the ever-evil Jack Schitt, the Next children face their own career hiccups—and possible nonexistence.
Author: Charles Coleman Finlay
Publisher: Pyr
ISBN: 9781591023326
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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The Prodigal Troll is a tale of a human child raised by a band of mythological creatures that is both hysterical and moving. When Lord Gruethrist's castle is laid under siege by an invading baron, he sends a trusted knight and nursemaid off with his infant son. Their escape across a wilderness landscape populated by fantastic creatures and torn by war takes unexpected turns until the baby is finally adopted by a mother troll grieving for her own lost child. Christened "Maggot" by a hostile stepfather, the human boy grows up amid the crude but democratic trolls until he leaves the band to rediscover the world of humankind. But the world of man is a complex and capricious place. Maggot must master its strange ways if he is to survive... let alone win the heart and hand of the Lady Portia. Finlay's society of trolls are unlike any you've ever read before, and his matriarchal medieval world, pitted as they are against an analog of Native American tribesmen, provides a rich setting for many poignant social and political insights.
Author: Jamie Mae
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1499808542
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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The team is tapped for another mission! This time, can they find a way to end a prank war between the cyclops and the trolls? After the success of their last mission helping a leprechaun, the team is ready for another challenge! But when the latest mission is given to their arrogant classmates Lissa, Gashsnarl, Jori, and Trom, they're stuck waiting for an assignment of their own. Just when it seems as though all hope is lost, the head of the isle gives them an urgent mission. There's a cyclops who lives in a cave on the island, and he's being pranked by some trolls! Can the misfits find a way to work together with their rivals to solve the case?
