Creator: Renée Raudman
Edition: Unabridged library
Publication date: 2006-03-01
List Price: $82.25
Price: $82.25
Review Wall and the Wing, The / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:In one vast and sparkling city, everyone can fly. Almost everyone. A few, nicknamed leadfeet, are sentenced by a trick of nature or fate to forever spend their lives closer to the ground. But one night, a girl named Gurl - a leadfoot, an orphan, a nobody - discovers that she can do something much better than fly. She can become invisible. This amazing power will help her uncover the secret mysteries of the city. But even with her newfound talent, Gurl can’t seem to hide from a giant rat man with a taste for cats, a manipulative matron with a penchant for plastic surgery, and a belligerent boy named Bug. Gradually Gurl learns to control her power and teams up with Bug to figure out who and what she is. Their quest will take them on a wild ride through this magical city, where they’ll confront chatty birds and mind-bending monkeys, an eccentric genius with a head full of grass and a pocket full of kittens, and the handsome but lethal Sweetcheeks Grabowski - the gangster who holds the key to Gurl’s past. [+]and the world’s future.
Authors
- Kathleen Kampa
- Charles Vilina
Price: $82.94
Review Magic Time: Level 1 / Oxford University Press:A two-level introductory series for kindergarten and early elementary students studying English for the first time.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-02
List Price: $30.00
Price: $84.84
Review Charlotte's Web / Listening Library:Since its publication in 1952, Charlotte's Web has become one of America's best-loved children’s books. This special cloth-bound anniversary edition features Garth Williams’s original drawings lovingly colorized by renowned illustrator Rosemary Wells. Also included is a retrospective essay written in honor of this anniversary by scholar Peter Neumeyer, about the development and publication of this landmark book. The Charlotte's Web 50th Anniversary Edition is a keepsake book that readers of all ages will cherish. An affectionate, sometimes bashful pig named Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above his pen. A prancing, playful bloke, Wilbur is devastated when he learns of the destiny that befalls all those of porcine persuasion. Determined to save her friend, Charlotte spins a web that reads "Some Pig," convincing the farmer and surrounding community that Wilbur is no ordinary animal and should be saved. In this story of friendship, hardship, and the passing on into time, E. B. White reminds us to open our eyes to the wonder and miracle often found in the simplest of things.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-12
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $113.00
Price: $82.49
Review Robinson Crusoe (Classics for Young Adults and Adults) / In Audio:
Publication date: 1999-09
List Price: $7.95
Price: $84.05
Review A Traditional Christmas: A Collection of Children's Well Loved Festive Songs / Cimino Publishing Group:
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Publication date: 2007
Review Magyk [UNABRIDGED CD] (Audiobook) (Book 1, The Septimus Heap series):British author Angie Sages incredibly popular fantasy novels have been compared to the Harry Potter series. She begins an enchanting trilogy with Magyk. Septimus Heap is the seventh son of a seventh son, but his family believes he died the day he was born because he was whisked away by the midwife. This is the same day his father, Silas, returns home with an abandoned infant girl he found in the woods. The true story of Septimus is clouded by wizardry and magykbut his destiny cannot be denied.
Run time: 360 min.
Creator: full cast
Edition: Unabridged CD
Publication date: 2006-01
List Price: $65.00
Price: $153.81
Review The Golden Compass His Dark Materials, Book I / Listening Library:In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing—victims of so-called "Gobblers"—and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved. [+] Some books improve with age-the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own-nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal daemon, the manifestation of their souls in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied: As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had daemons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them. Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war. " But Lyra's carefree existence changes forever when she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear. In The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children's book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn't speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel, The Subtle Knife, will help put off that inevitability for a while longer. -Alix Wilber.
Edition: Pap/Com
Publication date: 2000-05
Dewey code: 780
Price: $29.95
Review Shiny Dinah: Sing With Me! Dance With Me! Read With Me! (Kindermusik Library) / Kindermusik International:Shiny Dinah Choo-Choo! Shiny Dinah shines her way through tunnels, around the bends, all day long and into the night, clickety-clacking down the track. Big book, CD, Accompanying instrument: Two Shiny Dinah egg shaped chimes. Recommended ages: 3-5 years.
Creator: Bernard Giraudeau
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-03-23
List Price: $175.00
Price: $175.00
Review Harry Potter et la Chambre des Secrets / French audio (8 CD's) edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / French & European Pubns:
Creator: Jean Reed Bahle
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2008-11-21
List Price: $84.97
Price: $84.97
Review Lyon's Pride (Rowan/Damia) (Rowan/Damia) / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:The beautiful woman called The Rowan was the most powerful telepath on all the planets of the Alliance - until the birth of her daughter, Damia. Damia and her husband, Afra Lyon, were the most extraordinary team of telepaths the Alliance had ever seen - until the powers of their children began to emerge. Now the combined power of all these generations, especially the unique abilities of the younger Lyon clan, is needed to face once and for all the threat of the alien Hivers. The human worlds see themselves as peaceful, and traditionally they have used deadly force only in self-defense, but now the time has come to take the battle with the Hivers out into space. A fleet of starships, with the powerful Lyon clan as its leaders, is sent into Hiver territory. Their mission: seek and destroy the Hiver threat that is lurking at the edges of known space.
Creator: Lynn Redgrave
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-06
List Price: $85.00
Price: $165.00
Review Inkheart / Listening Library:From the author of the sensational New York Times bestseller The Thief Lord comes a thrilling new adventure about magic and self-discovery. Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a bookbinder. But her father has a deep secret-he possesses an extraordinary magical power. One day a mysterious stranger arrives who seems linked to her father's past. Who is this sinister character and what does he want? Suddenly Meggie is involved in a breathless game of escape and intrigue as her father's life is put in danger. Will she be able to save him in time?Includes an excerpt from Inkspell, the sequel to Inkheart, read by Brendan Fraser. Meggie’s father, Mo, has an wonderful and sometimes terrible ability. When he reads aloud from books, he brings the characters to life-literally. Mo discovered his power when Maggie was just a baby. He read so lyrically from the the book Inkheart, that several of the book’s wicked characters ended up blinking and cursing on his cottage floor. [+]Then Mo discovered something even worse-when he read Capricorn and his henchmen out of Inkheart, he accidentally read Meggie’s mother in. Meggie, now a young lady, knows nothing of her father's bizarre and powerful talent, only that Mo still refuses to read to her. Capricorn, a being so evil he would "feed a bird to a cat on purpose, just to watch it being torn apart," has searched for Meggie's father for years, wanting to twist Mo's powerful talent to his own dark means. Finally, Capricorn realizes that the best way to lure Mo to his remote mountain hideaway is to use his beloved, oblivious daughter Meggie as bait! Cornelia Funke’s imaginative ode to books and book lovers is sure to be enjoyed by fans of her breakout debut, The Thief Lord, and young readers who enjoyed the similarly themed The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley. (Ages 10 to 15) -Jennifer Hubert.
Publication date: 1997-04-10
Dewey code: 372
List Price: $18.95
Price: $79.99
Review The Scarlet Letter CD set (Cambridge Literature) / Cambridge University Press:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. This Naxos AudioBook CD recording is appropriate for use with the Cambridge Literature edition.
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Publication date: 2007
Review Flyte [UNABRIDGED CD] (Audiobook) (Book 2, The Septimus Heap series):Its been a year since Septimus Heap discovered his real family and true calling to be a wizard. As Apprentice to Extra Ordinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand, he is learning the fine arts of Conjurations, Charms, and other Magyk, while Jenna is adapting to life as the Princess and enjoying the freedom of the Castle. But there is something sinister at work. Marcia is constantly trailed by a menacing Darke Shadow, and Septimuss brother Simon seems bent on a revenge no one understands. Why is the Darke Magyk still lingering?.
Creator: William Dufris
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-04-20
List Price: $82.25
Price: $82.25
Review Pendragon Book Two: The Lost City of Faar (Pendragon) (Pendragon) / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon is not like other boys his age. His uncle Press is a Traveler, and, as Bobby has learned, that means Uncle Press is responsible, through his journeys, for solving interdimensional conflict wherever he encounters it. His mission is nothing less than to save the universe from ultimate evil. And he’s taking Bobby along for the ride. Fresh from his first adventure on Denduron, Bobby finds himself in the territory of Cloral, a vast world that is entirely covered by water. Cloral is nearing a disaster of huge proportions. Reading the journals Bobby sends home, his friends learn that the desperate citizens of the endangered floating cities are on the brink of war. Can Bobby – suburban basketball star and all-around nice guy – help rid the area of marauders, and locate the legendary lost land of Faar, which may hold the key to Cloral’s survival?.
Publication date: 2006-08-30
List Price: $7.95
Price: $81.82
Review Sing-along Songs: All the Brainy Baby Songs You Love!:
Authors
- Susan Rivers
- Carolyn Graham
Price: $79.69
Review Tiny Talk ABC Songbook CDs / Oxford University Press:The Songbook contains the words and music to all 60 Tiny Talk songs and chants especially written by Carolyn Graham for 3-6 year olds. The accompanying cassettes and CDs are available in both British and American English. The Songbook can be used either independently or in conjunction with the Tiny Talk course.
Publication date: 1998-12-13
Dewey code: 372
List Price: $22.95
Price: $79.99
Review Wuthering Heights CD set (Cambridge Literature) / Cambridge University Press:Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended, and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will include writing in English from various genres and differing times. This Naxos AudioBook CD recording is appropriate for use with the Cambridge Literature edition.
Publication date: 2003-11
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $110.00
Price: $80.30
Review The Book of Pirates / In Audio:Highly readable, magnificently illustrated tales recount the rip-roaring adventures of swashbuckling pirates and buccaneers of the Spanish Main. Includes "The Ghost of Captain Brand," "Tom Chist and the Treasure Box," "Jack Ballister's Fortunes," "The Ruby of Kishmoor," and other tales. Enhanced with 63 of the author's own illustrations, including 11 full-color plates.
Edition: CD & Book
Publication date: 2003-12
Dewey code: 813
List Price: $129.00
Price: $94.17
Review A Tale of Two Cities (Unabridged Classics for High School and Adults) / In Audio:
Creator: Colin Moody
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-07-31
List Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00
Review Bloodtide: Library Edition / Bolinda Publishing:
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Wall and the Wing, The, Magic Time: Level 1, Charlotte's Web, Robinson Crusoe (Classics for Young Adults and Adults), A Traditional Christmas: A Collection of Children's Well Loved Festive Songs, Magyk [UNABRIDGED CD] (Audiobook) (Book 1, The Septimus Heap series), The Golden Compass His Dark Materials, Book I, Shiny Dinah: Sing With Me! Dance With Me! Read With Me! 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