At Christmas time two orphans and their guardian search through snowbound London for their missing landlord, even though he has threatened to evict them.
Parables are stories with numerous meanings. Once again the storyteller-author of Twelve and One Half Keys unlocks a treasury of twenty-two or forty-four original parable-stories as traveling companions for those on the spritual quest.
Published in 40 countries, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy--The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass--has graced the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Sense, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. In 1996, The Golden Compass changed the face of fantasy publishing, and 2006 marks its ...more
Having suffered a complete loss of memory regarding every aspect of his own identity, rare book dealer Yambo withdraws to a family home nested between Milan and Turin, where he sorts through boxes of old records and experiences memories in the form of a graphic novel. By the author of Baudolino. 250,000 first priinting.