Susan Cooper Libri

"Fire on the Mountain Shall Find the Harp of Gold Played to Wake the Sleepers, Oldest of the Old..." With the final battle between the Light and the Dark soon approaching, Will sets out on a quest to call for aid. Hidden within the Welsh hills is a magical harp that he must use to wake the Sleepers - six noble riders who have slept for centuries. But an illness has robbed Will of nearly all his knowledge of the Old Ones, and he is left only with a broken riddle to guide him in his task. As Will travels blindly through the hills, his journey will bring him face-to-face with the most powerful Lord of the Dark - the Grey King. The King holds the harp and Sleepers within his lands, and there has yet to be a force strong enough to tear them from his grasp...

Simon, Jane e Barney, i protagonisti di Sopra il mare, sotto la terra , e Will Stanton, l'eroe di Uno spicchio di tenebra , non si erano mai visti prima che il misterioso Merriman li convocasse in Cornovaglia, in un paesino dove si sta per celebrare un antico rito: la costruzione di un pupazzo chiamato Stregaverde, che verrà affidato al mare perché protegga la pesca e il raccolto. Se i quattro ragazzi sono là, è per ritrovare il sacro Graal rubato dai seguaci delle Tenebre, pronte a scatenare la loro oscura magia e a impadronirsi del mondo. E toccherà a Jane, la più fragile, misurarsi con Stregaverde in persona, emersa dalle onde per impedire che il prezioso calice sia restituito ai Vetusti, gli adepti della Luca impegnati in una guerra millenaria contro il Male...

Epic. Bestselling. Award-winning. The complete Dark Is Rising Sequence is now available as one keepsake collection. Will Stanton’s ordinary life is shattered with the dreadful revelation that the Dark—the source of all evil—is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. He finds that he is no ordinary boy, but the last-born of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to keeping mankind free from the Dark. Soon Will is swept up in the great battle, along with his ageless master, Merriman; the three Drew children, who are mortal but have their own vital part to play; and a strange boy named Bran. These six fight fear and death in a quest through time and space interwoven with the most ancient myths of the islands of Britain—until, at last, Will and Bran find the weapon that will ultimately vanquish the Dark. One of the most celebrated fantasy sequences of all time, The Dark Is Rising is a searing, epic rendering of the eternal conflict between good and evil. This complete collection includes Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; and Silver on the Tree.

The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free -- must join forces with this ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light. Drawn in with them are the three Drew children, who are mortal, but have their own vital part in the story. These six fight fear and death in the darkly brooding Welsh hills, in a quest through time and space that touches the most ancient myths of the British Isles, and that brings Susan Cooper's masterful sequence of novels to a satisfying close.

A young boy learns the meaning of fear when the Blitz strikes London in this powerful book by Newbery Award winner Susan Cooper.

Second adventure for Emily and the prankster spirit and his cousin the lock Ness Monster.

So the shortest day came, and the year died... As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit candles. They played music, bringing their own light to the darkness, while wondering if the sun would ever rise again... Written for a theatrical production that has become a ritual in itself, Susan Cooper's poem The Shortest Day captures the magic behind the returning of the light, the yearning for traditions that connect us with generations that have gone before - and the hope for peace that we carry into the future. Richly illuminated by Carson Ellis, this beautiful book evokes the joy and community found in the ongoing mystery of life when we celebrate light, thankfulness, and festivity at a time of rebirth. Welcome Yule!

West and Cally, who speak different languages and come from different countries thousands of miles apart, are wrenched by catastrophe out of reality into a perilous world through which they must travel toward the sea.

On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark

"Centuries old and housands of miles from home". When Emily and Jess Volnik's family inherits a remote, crumbling Scottish castle, they also inherit the Boggart - an invisible, mischievous spirit who's been playing tricks on residents of Castle Keep for generations. Then the Boggart is trapped in a rolltop desk and inadvertently shipped to the Volniks' home in Toronto, where nothing will ever be the same - for the Volniks or the Boggart. In a world that doesn't believe in magic, the Boggart's pranks wreak havoc. And even the newfound joys of peanut butter and pizza and fudge sauce eventually wear thin for the Boggart. He wants to go home - but his only hope lies in a risky and daring blend of modern technology and ancient magic.

On holiday in Cornwall, the three Drew children discover an ancient map in the attic of the house that they are staying in. They know immediately that it is special. It is even more than that -- the key to finding a grail, a source of power to fight the forces of evil known as the Dark. And in searching for it themselves, the Drews put their very lives in peril. This is the first volume of Susan Cooper's brilliant and absorbing fantasy sequence known as The Dark Is Rising.

In the winter of his eleventh year, Little Hawk goes deep into the forest, where he must endure a three-month test of solitude and survival which will turn him into a man. But outside the woods, the world is changing. English settlers are landing on the shores of the New World, and tensions between native tribes and the invaders are rising. Little Hawk’s fate becomes irreversibly entwined with that of John, a young English boy who dares to question intolerance. He is witness to a secret murder – will he now be witness to bloodshed between nations?

Matt Haig, Derek Landy, Philip Reeve, Joseph Delaney, Susan Cooper, Mal Peet, Berlie Doherty, Robin Jarvis, Eleanor Updale, Jamila Gavin and Sam Llewellyn have come together to bring you eleven spine-tingling stories. Watch your step as you take a ghost walk around the ancient city of York and a long-ago woodland which is reawakening. Be warned of the drowned boy who will stop at nothing to find someone to play with for all time. Look into the mirror, where a lost child lurks, ready to pull you in, and try not to cry out at the monstrous creatures prowling for their next victim. Some stories will make you scream, some will make you shiver - but all will haunt you long after you've put the book down.

A Newbery Medalist delivers an enthralling family saga in which two children cross an ocean 200 hundred years apart: Sam in 1805, and Molly in 2005. Separate yet together, Sam and Molly struggle through fear and excitement to a final ordeal that terrifyingly tests their courage.

The world of Shakespeare brought to life in a new and exciting way.

Dust jacket and boards in good, clean condition. Softening to ends of spine. Page block is a bit grubby. Pages are clean and bright. Some dog-eared pages. Dust jacket has been library reinforced and plastic protected. Library sticker on spine of dust jacket and FEP. Library stamp on front inside cover and contents page.

Elf Gruselstorys von preisgekrönten Autoren aus der ganzen Welt, darunter Susan Cooper, Klaus Kordon, Paul Biegel, Margaret Mahy, Kit Pearson und Uri Orlev. $11$ Eine Grusel-Sammlung der Spitzenklasse!

Preisgekrönte Autoren aus aller Welt bescheren albtraumhafte Gruselstunden. Spannendes von Susan Cooper, Klaus Kordon, Uri Orlev, Paul Biegel, Bjarne Reuter u. a.

Susan Cooper, romancière britannique établie à Paris, écrit des polars lus dans le monde entier. Alors qu'elle s'apprête à se rendre au Salon du livre de Monaco, une jeune femme qu'elle ne connaît pas la contacte via Instagram et lui annonce qu'elle a tué un homme quelques heures plus tôt. Que répondre à cet étrange message ? D'ailleurs, faut-il y répondre ? Le plus sage serait sans doute de l'ignorer. Mais, c'est bien connu, les écrivains sont par nature des gens curieux...

Eine »schlichte Aufzeichnung jener kleinen Ereignisse, aus denen im Landleben der Lauf der Jahreszeiten besteht« nannte Susan Fenimore Cooper ihre 1850 erstmals erschienenen Stunden auf dem Lande , »eine Menge unbedeutender Beobachtungen über ländliche Themen, an die man sich später am Kamin freudig erinnert«. Doch so bescheiden sie ihr Werk zunächst auch auswies, so entschieden war das Anliegen, das Cooper darin vertrat: Mit Sorgfalt im Detail und dem geschulten Blick einer stets die Schönheit inmitten unvermeidlichen Verfalls suchenden Malerin bezeugt sie, leichtfüßig von poetischer Prosa über essayistische Einschübe hin zu dokumentarischen Passagen gleitend, den Wandel nicht nur der Natur, sondern mit Besorgnis insbesondere jenen, den das anbrechende Industriezeitalter damals bereits zu entfesseln begann. Diesen im scharfen Gegensatz zur Dauerhaftigkeit von Naturprozessen stehenden Entwicklungen setzt die Pionierin des amerikanischen Nature Writings ihren auch heute nicht minder gültigen Entwurf einer Gesellschaft entgegen, die sich durch Kenntnis der Natur und ihrer Formen dem Land in Demut und Dankbarkeit nähert und so zu Einklang zwischen Mensch, Natur und Tier führt.