Morgan Vandermeiren's Library
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| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
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| 9781595147066 | Gathering Darkness: A Falling Kingdoms Novel | Morgan Rhodes | War brought them together. Love will tear them apart.Alliances form across Mytica and beyond as royals and rebels alike race to hunt down the Kindred—the four elemental crystals that give their owners god-like power. The stakes have never been higher for Magnus and Cleo, who are brought together by a life or death decision that will lock their fates and change the course of the kingdom forever.THE REBELS forge ahead. Princess Cleo slays with sweetness—and a secret that might control Lucia’s magic—as she and vengeful Jonas lead the hunt for the all-powerful Kindred.THE KRAESHIANS join the fray. Ashur and Amara, the royal siblings from the vast kingdom across the Silver Sea, prove to be just as ruthless as they are charming as they manipulate their way to victory.THE WATCHERS follow Melenia out of the Sanctuary. They ally, in the flesh, with King Gaius, who vows to use Lucia’s powers to unveil the Kindred.And which side will Prince Magnus choose, now that everyone he’s been betrayed by everyone he’s ever loved? | Razorbill |
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| 9781904994589 | Guinness World Records 2011 | Guinness World Records | Guinness World Records 2011 continues to build on the intriguing, informative, inspiring and instructional records and superlatives that have made Guinness World Records one of the most famous brands and an annual best-seller around the world. Over 110 million copies have sold since the first edition was published in 1955. Nearly 4 million copies are sold every year in more than 100 countries and in 25 languages. Market research has indicated that Guinness World Records is one of the strongest brands in the world, with prompted brand recognition of 98.2% in the English language territories.What's New in GWR 2011...More US specific content including spreads dedicated to "American Heroes", "North American wildlife", "Route 66" and extended US sports pages!· New unique design - new decade, new look. A fun, poster-style design reminiscent of the circus, the old wild west and letter pressed WANTED ads!· Records GPS - starting at Greenwich, London - the home of time - we go around the world city by city revealing fascinating records set along the way.· Glossary - improve your vocabulary by learning the meaning of new and unusual words.· As Well as -- New spreads on....* Space Shuttle - being retired in 2010* TV's 75 years Diamond Anniversary* Pop Culture chapter - all your favorite movies, DVDs, comics, graphic novels, manga and so on....* Mr. World Record Breaker | Guinness World Records |
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| 9781423102779 | Hannah Montana #4: Truth or Dare | M. C. King | Miley Stewart adores all the e-mail that Hannah Montana’s fans send her. But when she gets one from a girl at her own school, Miley takes things a few steps too far. Will Miley’s matchmaking work out? Or will it backfire, and ruin one of her closest friendships? | Disney Press |
| 9781423104629 | Hannah Montana: Nightmare on Hannah Street - #7 | Laurie McElroy | Series Description: Miley Stewart looks like a regular girl-next-door, but she’s got a big secret. When the lights go down, Miley is the famous teen pop sensation Hannah Montana! Miley may be a celebrity when she’s on stage, but she wants the rest of her life to be as normal as possible. The only people who know the truth about Miley’s dual identity are her father, brother, and best friends Lilly and Oliver. But keeping that secret—and balancing school with her newfound fame and fortune—is harder than Miley ever thought it would be. Hannah Montana #7: When Miley’s scheming, look-alike cousin Luann pays a visit, she’s surprisingly well behaved. Miley thinks they finally might have gotten over the rough patch from their childhood, and even invites Luann to the coolest Halloween party in town. But when Luann hog-ties Miley in her pop-star closet, Miley realizes she’s made a big mistake! Will Miley’s friends rescue her in time to stop Luann from revealing Miley’s secret identity? Plus, when Miley’s grandmother comes for a visit, Miley’s brother Jackson seems to be getting more than his fair share of attention. Didn’t anyone teach Grandma Stewart not to play favorites? Hannah Montana #8: Ever since Jake Ryan started acting on the TV show, Zombie High, Miley thinks he’s become a huge egomaniac. So when he invites Miley to the school Seventies Dance, she says no. Then Hannah Montana guest stars on Jake’s show, and Miley realizes she might have been wrong about her former crush—but is it too late? Plus, when Miley and Jake start using other people to make each other jealous, it’s bound to backfire—Miley just never expected it would be on her! Hannah Montana #9: When Hannah Montana becomes a spokesmodel in a TV commercial for a new perfume, there’s only one problem—she hates it! But when she gets an incredibly hot gift for being the new face of Eau Wow, Miley starts to reconsider. . . . But could she really go on TV and lie to the whole world? Plus, when Miley accidentally gets her brother Jackson fired from his job, she makes him Hannah Montana’s assistant—with serious consequences! | Disney Press |
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| 9780439064873 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | J. K. Rowling | the Eagerly Anticipated Sequel To The Astounding Smash Hit harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone Is Finally Here! No Need To Wait — Harry's Back For His Second Year At Hogwarts, Where The Infamous Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened For The First Time In 50 Years. The Monster That Is Unleashed Is Literally Petrifying Hogwarts Students (turning Them Into Stone, That Is), And Who Is The Primary Suspect? Harry Potter Himself. Add To This Some Enormous Spiders, A Deathday Party, A Ghost Named Moaning Myrtle Who Haunts The Girls' Bathroom, And Lots And Lots Of Suspense, And You'll Soon Find Yourself Engrossed In Another Terrific Tale In Which Magic Does Exist And Good Eventually Triumphs Over Evil.children's Literatureharry Potter Fans Will Be Positively Thrilled With This Continuation Of His Trials And Tribulations Of Growing Up As A Young Wizard Caught Between The Supernatural And Muggle (real People) Worlds. Whisked Away In A Flying Car Near The End Of A Confining, Torturous Summer With The Dursleys, Harry Returns To Hogwarts School For Witchcraft And Wizardry. He Does This Despite Numerous Warnings And Obstacles From About His Potential Doom. The Legend Of The Chamber Of Secrets Appears To Be A Reality. Petrified School Mates, A Bathroom Ghost Named Moaning Myrtle, The Reference Library, A Diary And Super-sleuthing Lead A Familiar Cast Of Characters Through This Fast-paced Who-dunnit. New Readers Unfamiliar With The Previous Adventure Will Be Just As Enthralled With This Fantasy-adventure-mystery Tale. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780545582926 | Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (Book 2) (2) | J. K. Rowling | This special edition of HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS has a gorgeous new cover illustration by Kazu Kibuishi. Inside is the full text of the original novel, with decorations by Mary GrandPreThe Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone - or something - starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects... Harry Potter himself! | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9781338299205 | Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows | Rowling, J.K. | Arthur A. Levine Books | |
| 9780545010221 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) | Rowling, J. K. | don't Miss The Seventh And Final Book In J.k. Rowling's Bestselling Harry Potter Series!the New York Times - Michiko Kakutanij. K. Rowling's Monumental, Spellbinding Epic, 10 Years In The Making, Is Deeply Rooted In Traditional Literature And Hollywood Sagas—from The Greek Myths To Dickens And Tolkien To Star Wars. And True To Its Roots, It Ends Not With Modernist, Soprano-esque Equivocation, But With Good Old-fashioned Closure: A Big-screen, Heart-racing, Bone-chilling Confrontation And An Epilogue That Clearly Lays Out People's Fates. Getting To The Finish Line Is Not Seamless—the Last Part Of harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, The Seventh And Final Book In The Series, Has Some Lumpy Passages Of Exposition And A Couple Of Clunky Detours—but The Overall Conclusion And Its Determination Of The Main Characters' Story Lines Possess A Convincing Inevitability That Make Some Of The Prepublication Speculation Seem Curiously Blinkered In Retrospect. | Arthur A. Levine Books |
| 9780439784542 | Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince | J. K. Rowling | As the Harry Potter sequence draws to a close, Harry's most dangerous adventure yet is just beginning . . . and it starts July 16, 2005.We could tell you, but then we'd have to Obliviate your memory. | Arthur A. Levine Books |
| 9781338299199 | Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince | Rowling, J.K. | Arthur A. Levine Books | |
| 9780439785969 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) | J.K. Rowling | The war against Voldemort is not going well; even the Muggles have been affected. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses.And yet . . . as with all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Harry receives some extraordinary help in Potions from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. And with Dumbledore's guidance, he seeks out the full, complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort -- and thus finds what may be his only vulnerability. | Scholastic Paperbacks |
| 9780439358071 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | Scholastic Inc. | ||
| 9790590353403 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | |||
| 9780590353427 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Rowling, J.K. | In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry, an orphan, lives with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley. One day just before his eleventh birthday, an owl tries to deliver a mysterious letter-the first of a sequence of events that end in Harry meeting a giant man named Hagrid. Hagrid explains Harry's history to him: When he was a baby, the Dark wizard, Lord Voldemort, attacked and killed his parents in an attempt to kill Harry; but the only mark on Harry was a mysterious lightning-bolt scar on his forehead.Now he has been invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the headmaster is the great wizard Albus Dumbledore. Harry visits Diagon Alley to get his school supplies, especially his very own wand. To get to school, he takes the Hogwarts Express from platform nine and three-quarters at King's Cross Station. On the train, he meets two fellow students who will become his closest friends: Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.Harry is assigned to Gryffindor House at Hogwarts, and soon becomes the youngest-ever Seeker on the House Quidditch team. He also studies Potions with Professor Severus Snape, who displays a deep and abiding dislike for Harry, and Defense Against the Dark Arts with nervous Professor Quirrell; he and his friends defeat a mountain troll, help Hagrid raise a dragon, and explore the wonderful, fascinating world of Hogwarts.But all events lead irrevocably toward a second encounter with Lord Voldemort, who seeks an object of legend known as the Sorcerer's Stone... Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. | Scholastic |
| 9780439192866 | Hatchet | Gary Paulsen | Brian is on his way to Canada to visit his estranged father when the pilot of his small prop plane suffers a heart attack. Brian is forced to crash-land the plane in a lake--and finds himself stranded in the remote Canadian wilderness with only his clothing and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present before his departure.Brian had been distraught over his parents' impending divorce and the secret he carries about his mother, but now he is truly desolate and alone. Exhausted, terrified, and hungry, Brian struggles to find food and make a shelter for himself. He has no special knowledge of the woods, and he must find a new kind of awareness and patience as he meets each day's challenges. Is the water safe to drink? Are the berries he finds poisonous?Slowly, Brian learns to turn adversity to his advantage--an invading porcupine unexpectedly shows him how to make fire, a devastating tornado shows him how to retrieve supplies from the submerged airplane. Most of all, Brian leaves behind the self-pity he has felt about his predicament as he summons the courage to stay alive.A story of survival and of transformation, this riveting book has sparked many a reader's interest in venturing into the wild. | Scholastic |
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| 9780439692427 | Hatching Magic | Ann Downer | Poore Theodora Oglethorpe! Her biologist father has gone off to explore the jungles of Loas without her, her two best friends are away on vacation, and a long, hot, lonely Boston summer is all she has to look forward to ... |