Paul Stewart
1) Stormchaser
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 5
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Rook Barkwater, one of the apprentices chosen to make a dangerous journey to study in the Deepwoods, joins the sky pirate Captain Twig in opposing the Guardians of the Night and learns more about his own past.
5) Hugo Pepper
Author
Series
Far-flung adventures volume 3
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A boy, orphaned and raised in the Frozen North by reindeer herders, boards his birth parents' sled and sets its special compass to "Home," where he uncovers a plot that threatens his mermaid godmothers and other friends of his family.
Author
Series
Knight's story volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When Sir Knight saves a damsel in distress, she is forced to return the favor.
7) Vox
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 6
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Rook Barkwater, the young librarian knight, attempts to stop Vox Verlix, the Most High Academe, in his plot to take over Edgeworld once again.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 9
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Quint leaves his studies at the Knights Academy in Sanctaphrax to assist his father Wind Jackall in his obsessive and dangerous quest to track down and bring to justice the evil Turbot Smeal.
9) Freeglader
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 7
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook Barkwater and the librarian knights and Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades.
10) Muddle Earth
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Where would you find three moons, a floating lake, and a perfumed bog filled with pink stinky hogs and exploding gas frogs? A place that's home to a wizard with only one spell, an ogre who cries a lit, and a very sarcastic budgie? Welcome to Muddle Earth. A place where anything can happen - and usually does.
11) Fergus Crane
Author
Series
Far-flung adventures volume 1
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
12) Corby Flood
Author
Series
Far-flung adventures volume 2
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
While traveling with her family aboard the S.S. Euphonia, eight-year-old Corby Flood accidentally attracts the murderous attentions of five men, clad in bowler hats, called the Brotherhood of the Clowns as she investigates the mysterious singing coming from the ship's hold.
Author
Series
Knight's story volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
An unbonded knight traveling as a "free lance" meets more than his share of trouble when he signs on with Lord Big Nose to recover a crown from the Lake of Skulls.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 4
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Apprenticed to the Most High Academe of Sanctaphrax, a floating city of scholars, gossip, and treachery, fourteen-year-old Quint runs increasingly dangerous errands, which eventually bring him to a place of gruesome monsters that threaten his life and those of his friends.
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1955, as the tightly contested hockey season was coming to an end, the star of the Montreal Canadians was suspended by the president of the league, setting off a huge riot in the streets of Montreal. This riot added to the sparks of the political revolution in Quebec that led to the rise of the separatist movement, which still flourishes today.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jean Hansen is an experienced city transplant who takes a job at a Down's syndrome institution and befriends Reuben, one of the boys afflicted with the disease. Reuben latches on to Jean, to the dismay of Dr. Matthew Clark, the head of the institution. He feels that Jean's affection for Reuben will disturb the other children, prompting him to separate the pair.
18) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Alone at his fantastic estate known as Xanadu, 70-year-old Charles Foster Kane dies, uttering only the single word Rosebud. So ends the odyssey of a life, and begins a fabulous tale of the rise to wealth and power, and ultimate fall, of a complex man.
19) Kiss me deadly
Series
Criterion collection volume 568
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
While driving down a lonely road late one evening, Hammer picks up a beautiful blonde hitchhiker, dressed in nothing but a raincoat. At first, Hammer assumes that the incoherent girl is an escaped lunatic; his mind is changed for him when he and the girl are abducted by two thugs. The men torture the girl to death as the semiconscious Hammer watches helplessly. He himself escapes extermination when the murderers' car topples off a cliff and he is...
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