Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit. Tolkien considered The Silmarillion his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world...
2) Truth
Author
Language
English
Description
" In the darknes you will see the stars Fairest One; they will shine for you in a place you thought would never contain life" I had grown up hearing these words uttered by my father. Now, here on Europa, a planet full of wonder and mistery, I've discovered the caves my father of actually do exist. Trouble is, nothing's gone to plan since we've been here. What's more, now that the Youphelons, our ancestors, have trethened my life; the race to get to...
3) Demimonde
Author
Language
English
Description
I am Watcher, Guardian of Reason.
I bring your last chance.
I see your future. Fate has given you the number thirteen, for the thirteen steps ascending a gallows deck and the thirteen twists in a hangman's knot.
Stop drinking and drugging before the midnight hour. Tomorrow is too late. Life doesn't exist in the thirteenth hour. Not for you. Not for any creature. The thirteenth ends in death.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In one volume for the first time, this revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece 'The Hobbit' includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and illustrations by Tolkien himself. For the first time in one volume, The History of the Hobbit presents the complete unpublished text of the original manuscript of J.R.R.Tolkien's The Hobbit, accompanied by John Rateliff's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An extraordinary collection of short stories from an author who is set to become one of America's leading literary voices. In the tradition of Raymond Carver or Tobias Wolff, these are all-encompassing stories of the American psyche, of love and loss and of the landscape and its people. A goldfish circles in its bowl, refusing to die, becoming the silent focus of a difficult family life; a pianist loses his talents as he is forced to question the...
Author
Language
English
Description
The powerful new novel from the award-winning author of 'Eve Green' and 'Oystercatchers' is a tale of love and the lore of the sea. A profound tale of love, loss and the lore of the sea. The islanders of Parla are still mourning the loss of one of their own. Four years since that loss, and a man - un-named, unclothed - is washed onto their shores. Some say he is a mythical man from the sea - potent, kind and beautiful; others suspect him. For the...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request