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After his parents and the others in Longlight are killed in a raid, fifteen-year-old Roan struggles to reconcile his feelings of rage and his old pledge to peace, soon finding that his life has a purpose he never could have guessed--and that the destruction of his homeland had one as well.

Orphan Meg Finn's soul becomes the object of a battle between the demonic and the divine after she is killed in an accidental explosion while attempting to rob an elderly manand arrives in the afterlife to find the tally on her good and evil deeds is dead even.

Richard Cypher, Seeker of Truth, has succeded in throwing the vile Darken Rahl into the underworld, but the battle is not over yet as Rahl continues to wield his sinister power through a rip in the viel to the underworld, threatening to unleash the ultimate evil upon the world above.

Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.

As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.

A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name after a series of fantastic adventures.

Contains four stories about the origins and destiny of genetically engineered Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, a young man who may be the military genius Earth needs in its war against an alien enemy; includes the original "Ender's Game.".

While sick in bed with cancer, Lucien begins making journeys to a place in a parallel world that resembles Venice, Italy, and he becomes caught up in the political intrigues surrounding the Duchessa who rules the city.

A group of American scientists descend to the ocean floor to investigate a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall, and three hundred years old. What will they find?.

When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.