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Genre/Form: | Fantasy fiction, Australian Young adult fiction, Australian Fantasy fiction Juvenile works Fiction Juvenile fiction Juvenile iction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Garth Nix |
ISBN: | 0060278234 9780060278236 0060278242 9780060278243 9780060005429 0060005424 0060590165 9780060590161 9780061474347 0061474347 9781404635326 1404635327 1864488158 9781864488159 0060528737 9780060528737 |
OCLC Number: | 45052727 |
Awards: | Winner of Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature: National Children's Literature Award 2002 |
Description: | 487 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | An Ill-Favored Birthday -- A Future Lost -- Paperwings -- A Glint in the Snow -- An Unexpected Opportunity -- Third Assistant Librarian -- Beyond the Doors of Sun and Moon -- Down the Fifth Back Stair -- Creatures by Nagy -- Dog Day -- Search for a Suitable Sword -- Into the Lair of the Chief Librarian -- Of Stilken and Strange Magic -- Prince Sameth Hits a Six -- The Dead Are Many -- Into Death -- Nicholas and the Necromancer -- A Father's Healing Hand -- Ellimere's Thoughts on the Education of Princes -- A Door of Three Signs -- Beyond the Doors of Wood and Stone -- Power of Three -- A Troublesome Season -- Cold Water, Old Stone -- A Family Conference -- A Letter from Nicholas -- Sam Makes Up His Mind -- Sam the Traveler -- The Observatory of the Clayr -- Nicholas and the Pit -- A Voice in the Trees -- "When the Dead Do Walk, Seek Water's Run" -- Flight to the River -- Finder -- Remembrancer -- A Denizen of Death -- A Bath in the River -- The Book of the Dead -- High Bridge -- Under the Bridge -- Free Magic and the Flesh of Swine -- Southerlings and a Necromancer -- Farewell to Finder -- Abhorsen's House. |
Responsibility: | Garth Nix. |
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Abstract:
When scientist Nicholas Sayre leaves Ancelestierre to cross the Wall into the Old Kingdom, he has no idea he has been lured there by an ancient evil for his help in fulfilling its terrible destiny. His and the Kingdom's fates lie with the Clayr's daughter Lirael, Prince Sameth and their companions.
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