Download or read book The Crown Of Dalemark written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Countess and Lord Keril send Mitt to kill a young woman Noreth Onesdaughter, who claims to know where the lost crown is hidden.
Download or read book Cart And Cwidder written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clennen and his family make their living as travelling musicians. A danger deepens around them, Moril is chosen to receive the mysterious musical instrument - the ancient cwidder.
Download or read book Drowned Ammet written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his protest against the tyrannical government fails, a young boy escapes, with two other children, to the mysterious Holy Islands where they learn the power of two folk figures celebrated by their countrymen.
Download or read book The Spellcoats written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tanaqui discovers she has the means to conquer the evil Kankredin who threatens her own people and the Heathens who have invaded prehistoric Dalemark.
Download or read book Power of Three written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayna could predict the future. Cari could find what was lost. Gair thought he was ordinary. The three children of Gest, the chief of Garholt, know the perils of the Moor on which they live. The Dorig, their people's enemies, are cold-blooded, fierce underwater creatures who terrify anyone unlucky enough to happen upon them. The Giants are dangerous and violent. But it's not until their home is invaded that Gair learns of a dying curse that endangers all three peoples of the Moor. A curse that ordinary Gair, with the help of his extraordinary brother and sister, may be able to break, but only at the most dreadful risk to all three, and to the Moor itself.
Download or read book Deep Secret written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast and witty new fantasy novel about the magician in charge of Earth, who maintains the balance between positive and negative magic for the good of all.
Download or read book Dark Lord of Derkholm written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Chesney operates Pilgrim Parties, a tour group that takes paying participants into an outer realm where the inhabitants play frightening and foreboding roles. The time has come to end the staged madness . . . but can it really be stopped? Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones serves up twists and turns, introduces Querida, Derk, Blade, and Shona and a remarkable cast of wizards, soldiers, kings, dragons, and griffins, and mixes in a lively dash of humor. With all the ingredients of high fantasy, this unforgettable novel will delight fans old and new.
Download or read book The Crown of Dalemark written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitt has fled from the South, but finds that North Dalemark is just as full of spies and tyrants. And now he is trapped by an order to kill Noreth - a young girl who has proclaimed herself the heir to the crown of Dalemark. If he doesn't murder her, he risks the lives of his friends.
Download or read book The Crown of Dalemark written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Countess and Lord Keril send Mitt to kill a young woman, Noreth Onesdaughter, who claims to know where the lost crown is hidden.
Download or read book Witch Week written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are good witches and bad witches, but the law says that all witches must be burned at the stake. So when an anonymous note warns, "Someone in this class is a witch," the students in 6B are nervous—especially the boy who's just discovered that he can cast spells and the girl who was named after the most famous witch of all. Witch Week features the debonair enchanter Chrestomanci, who also appears in Charmed Life, The Magicians of Caprona, and The Lives of Christopber Chant. Someone in the class is a witch. At least so the anonymous note says. Everyone is only too eager to prove it is someone else—because in this society, witches are burned at the stake.
Download or read book The Islands of Chaldea written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stand-alone novel of magic and adventure by the renowned fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones, who also wrote Howl's Moving Castle and the Chrestomanci books. Almost finished upon her death in 2011, the manuscript was completed by Diana's sister Ursula Jones, an acclaimed novelist and actress. Publishers Weekly called The Islands of Chaldea "a story to cherish" in their starred review. Aileen comes from a long line of magic makers, and her aunt Beck is the most powerful magician on Skarr. But Aileen's magic has yet to reveal itself, even though she is old enough and it should have by now. When Aileen is sent over the sea on a mission for the King, she worries that she'll be useless and in the way. A powerful talking cat changes all of that—and with every obstacle Aileen faces, she becomes stronger and more confident, until her magic blooms. This stand-alone novel, by the beloved and acclaimed author of such classic fantasy novels as Howl's Moving Castle and the Chrestomanci books, will be welcomed by fans old and new. "Jones's imaginative vigor is unabated in this last, picaresque novel; her deft, fluid style and penchant for precise, characterful description are amply present," proclaimed The Horn Book.
Download or read book Fire and Hemlock written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastic tale by the legendary Diana Wynne Jones—with an introduction by Garth Nix. Polly Whittacker has two sets of memories. In the first, things are boringly normal; in the second, her life is entangled with the mysterious, complicated cellist Thomas Lynn. One day, the second set of memories overpowers the first, and Polly knows something is very wrong. Someone has been trying to make her forget Tom - whose life, she realizes, is at supernatural risk. Fire and Hemlock is a fantasy filled with sorcery and intrigue, magic and mystery - and a most unusual and satisfying love story. Widely considered to be one of Diana Wynne Jones's best novels, the Firebird edition of Fire and Hemlock features an introduction by the acclaimed Garth Nix - and an essay about the writing of the book by Jones herself.
Download or read book The Pinhoe Egg written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two powerful young enchanters, Cat, the future Chrestomanci, and Marianne, who is being trained to be Gammer of the Pinhoes, work together as friends to try to end an illegal witches' war and, in the process, right some old wrongs.
Download or read book The Lives of Christopher Chant written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1988 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Christopher Chant, in training to become the next Chrestomanci or head controller of magic in the world, becomes a key figure in a battle with renegade sorcerers because he has nine lives. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Drowned Ammet written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cart and cwidder -- Drowned ammet -- The spellcoats -- The crown of Dalemark.
Download or read book Charmed Life written by Diana Wynne Jones and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chrestomanci has decreed that no children will practice witchcraft without supervision - Gwendolen Chant, a talented young witch, has no intention of being daunted by his rules and is determined to get the better of him.
Download or read book The Lamp from the Warlock s Tomb written by John Bellairs and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Monday and Miss Eells recover a magic lamp that was stolen from a warlock's tomb and is spreading evil to further the wicked ends of the thief.
