Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl


Author : Eoin Colfer
Publisher :
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ISBN : 9783548603209
Pages : 239 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (63 users)

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Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. With two trusty sidekicks in tow, he hatches a cunning plot to divest the fairyfolk of their pot of gold.


Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl


Author : Eoin Colfer
Publisher : Penguin UK
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ISBN : 0141971037
Pages : 112 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (141 users)

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A stunning graphic-novel adaptation of the megaselling Artemis Fowl. This adaptation of his genre-busting, award-winning novel Artemis Fowl has been a labour of love for lifelong graphic novel fan Eoin Colfer, and Andrew Donkin. Art by Giovanni Rigano and colour by Paolo Lamanna. Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories. These fairies are armed and they're dangerous. Artemis thinks he's got them just where he wants them, but then they stop playing by the rules . . . Reads like the fastest, punchiest comic strip you've ever come across - Daily Telegraph Artemis is a brilliant creation - Anthony Horowitz Fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek, with some laugh-out-loud jokes. Smart and page-turning - The Sunday Times Eoin Colfer is the bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series, Half Moon Investigations, The Supernaturalist, Airman and The Legend of . . . books. His brilliant new series, WARP, is out now. Eoin lives with his family in Ireland. www.eoincolfer.com Andrew Donkin is an enormously experienced graphic novelist and the author of over forty books for adults and children, including Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight for DC Comics.


Artemis Fowl: Books 5-8

Artemis Fowl: Books 5-8


Author : Eoin Colfer
Publisher : Penguin UK
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ISBN : 0141356405
Pages : 1216 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (141 users)

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Artemis Fowl is the teenage child genius and most powerful criminal mastermind in history! He continues his devastating international crime spree, pursued all the time by Captain Holly Short of the Lower Elements Police Force. This eBook bundle includes the final four titles in the compelling Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer: The Lost Colony, The Time Paradox, The Atlantis Complex, and The Last Guardian. As the series comes to its conclusion, the entire human race is in grave danger. Who will lead the fight to save the world from total destruction?


Artemis Fowl - The Ultimate Quiz Book

Artemis Fowl - The Ultimate Quiz Book


Author : Jack Goldstein
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
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ISBN : 178234313X
Pages : 60 pages
Rating Book: 4.8/5 (782 users)

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This excellent quiz book contains 250 questions to test the knowledge of any Artemis Fowl fan. From questions any old human should know all the way through to trivia that would test Artemis himself, this is a fantastic way to enjoy the world of the fairy people even more. With easy navigation between each question and answer section and questions on a whole host of characters, you are sure to enjoy this fantastic quiz. Play it yourself or test your friends!


Artemis Fowl Files, The (Sp 04 edition)

Artemis Fowl Files, The (Sp 04 edition)


Author : Eoin Colfer
Publisher : Disney-Hyperion
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ISBN : 9780786856787
Pages : 212 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (856 users)

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Two original short stories, plus puzzles, interviews with characters, and other writings that unlock secrets of the Artemis Fowl books, which feature a twelve-year-old evil genius and his dealings with fairies and other magical beings.


The Fiction Gateway

The Fiction Gateway


Author : Suzanne Eberlé
Publisher : Aust Council for Ed Research
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ISBN : 0864318804
Pages : 178 pages
Rating Book: 4.6/5 (864 users)

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In this guide, two experienced school librarians provide a selection of books for librarians, teachers and parents. The Fiction Gateway is an essential resource that supports individual, group and social reading program and provides an instant guide to matching children's interests with suitable reading material.


Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction

Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction


Author : Geoff Hamilton
Publisher : Infobase Learning
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ISBN : 1438140657
Pages : 1031 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (438 users)

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Provides information on American authors and their works who have been ignored by most literary guides.


Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 Stories

Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 Stories


Author : Malorie Blackman
Publisher : Penguin UK
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ISBN : 1405924128
Pages : 592 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (45 users)

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Twelve bestselling authors, twelve Doctors, twelve brilliant adventures in time and space for all Doctor Who fans! This collection features all twelve original Doctor Who eshort stories, covering each of the twelve Doctors and written by a selection of wonderful children's authors.


Doctor Who: A Big Hand For The Doctor

Doctor Who: A Big Hand For The Doctor


Author : Eoin Colfer
Publisher : Penguin UK
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ISBN : 1405912057
Pages : 40 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (45 users)

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Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord. London, 1900. The First Doctor is missing both his hand and his granddaughter, Susan. Faced with the search for Susan, a strange beam of soporific light, and a host of marauding Soul Pirates intent on harvesting human limbs, the Doctor is promised a dangerous journey into a land he may never forget...


Fantasy Fiction

Fantasy Fiction


Author : Frances Sinclair
Publisher : School Library Association
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ISBN : 1903446465
Pages : 116 pages
Rating Book: 4.0/5 (93 users)

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Handbook of fantasy fiction for teachers, librarians, parents and guardians and children themselves in which to find many titles of fantasy fiction that they like, or may be tempted, to read. Includes groups such as classic fantasy, comic fantasy, Arthurian, dark fantasy, animals and dragons.


The Forever Man (W.A.R.P. Book 3)

The Forever Man (W.A.R.P. Book 3)


Author : Eoin Colfer
Publisher : Penguin UK
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ISBN : 0141361107
Pages : 320 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (141 users)

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You can't outrun your own history . . . Still trapped in Victorian London, FBI agent Chevie Savano is determined to help her friend Riley find his long-lost brother. But the WARP wormhole has other ideas . . . Pulled two centuries into the past, Chevie and Riley find themselves in the village of Mandrake. Under siege from prowling monsters that have escaped from the wormhole, the village's only protector is the sinister Witchfinder - a man with a hidden past and deadly powers. With Chevie branded a witch and sentenced to be burned at the stake, can Riley thwart the Witchfinder's plans before he destroys them all?


The Hangman's Revolution (W.A.R.P. Book 2)

The Hangman's Revolution (W.A.R.P. Book 2)


Author : Eoin Colfer
Publisher : Penguin UK
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ISBN : 0141341785
Pages : 384 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (141 users)

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The Matrix meets Oliver Twist! WARP: The Hangman's Revolution is the second book in a major new series by Eoin Colfer, the bestselling author of Artemis Fowl. F.B.I. agent Chevie Savano is trapped in a nightmare future. Unless she can return to 19th-century London and change the course of history, millions will die. Luckily she has Riley the boy magician and a Victorian gangster with lovely hair to help her battle two crazed villains, who have brought the military technology of the future back in time - with potentially disastrous consequences. The stakes are higher than the hangman's noose and only Chevie can save the day. Assuming she can avoid being killed by a couple of psycho warrior-nuns first . . . 'Colfer has the ability to make you laugh twice over: first in sheer subversive joy at the inventiveness of the writing, and again at the energy of the humour' - Sunday Times 'Readers mourning the end of the Artemis Fowl series can take heart...the time-bending WARP series is an all-out blast.' - Publishers Weekly


Ancient Women in Modern Media

Ancient Women in Modern Media


Author : K. S. Burns
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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ISBN : 144388121X
Pages : 145 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (443 users)

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While the role of women in western society has changed since the time of the great classical eras of Greece and Rome, the heroines of ancient myth remain just as potent to modern audiences as they were for their original creators. Regardless of genre or medium, these women of antiquity retain their power to reinforce, challenge, or outright shatter popular beliefs about the attributes, limitations, and social roles of women. This collection of eight essays examines the legacy of the heroines of antiquity in a variety of contexts, from the page to the stage to the screen, in order to understand why Helen of Troy, the Amazons, and their fellow ladies of myth have remained such vital figures today, and how they have evolved to retain and increase their stature. The contributors to this volume adopt an array of perspectives in order to do justice to the rich legacy of mythic women. These authors hail from three different continents and specialize in multiple disciplines, including Classical Studies, English, and Gender Studies. These diverse approaches make this book applicable to scholars with a wide variety of skills and interests, and ensure the topic a multifaceted treatment in the tradition of the humanities.


Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl


Author : Eoin Colfer
Publisher :
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ISBN : 9783471772515
Pages : 239 pages
Rating Book: 4.7/5 (772 users)

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Artemis Fowl, 12-jähriges Wunderkind, nutzt seine überragende Intelligenz, um an das Gold der Unterirdischen zu kommen, mit dem er das Familienvermögen aufbessern will. Von einer Heilerin, einer Fee mit magischen Fähigkeiten, erpresst er die Herausgabe eines streichholzgrossen Buches, dem er die auf äGnomischä verfassten Lebensregeln des Erdvolks entnimmt.


Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction

Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction


Author : Meghan Gilbert-Hickey
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
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ISBN : 149683383X
Pages : 280 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (496 users)

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Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Kathryn Strong Hansen, Elizabeth Ho, Esther L. Jones, Sarah Olutola, Alex Polish, Zara Rix, Susan Tan, and Roberta Seelinger Trites Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of color are represented in YASF, how they contribute to and participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF. This collection also examines how race and racism are discussed in YASF or if, indeed, race and racism are discussed at all. Essays explore such notable and popular works as the Divergent series, The Red Queen, The Lunar Chronicles, and the Infernal Devices trilogy. They consider the effects of colorblind ideology and postracialism on YASF, a genre that is often seen as progressive in its representation of adolescent protagonists. Simply put, colorblindness silences those who believe—and whose experiences demonstrate—that race and racism do continue to matter. In examining how some YASF texts normalize many of our social structures and hierarchies, this collection examines how race and racism are represented in the genre and considers how hierarchies of race are reinscribed in some texts and transgressed in others. Contributors point toward the potential of YASF to address and interrogate racial inequities in the contemporary West and beyond. They critique texts that fall short of this possibility, and they articulate ways in which readers and critics alike might nonetheless locate diversity within narratives. This is a collection troubled by the lingering emphasis on colorblindness in YASF, but it is also the work of scholars who love the genre and celebrate its progress toward inclusivity, and who further see in it an enduring future for intersectional identity.


The Reluctant Assassin (WARP Book 1)

The Reluctant Assassin (WARP Book 1)


Author : Eoin Colfer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Release Date :
ISBN : 0141341777
Pages : 304 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (141 users)

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It all began with the FBI and WARP (Witness Anonymous Relocation Programme). Hiding witnesses in the past to protect the future - until now . . . Riley is a Victorian orphan, hurtled into the twenty-first century and on the run from his evil master . . . Albert Garrick, the terrifying assassin-for-hire pursuing Riley through time, along with . . . Chevie Savano, the FBI's youngest and most impulsive special agent. As Garrick relentlessly hunts them down, Riley and Chevie face a desperate race to stay alive and stop Garrick from returning to his own time - armed with knowledge and power that could change the world forever.


Discourses of Home and Homeland in Irish Children’s Fiction 1990-2012

Discourses of Home and Homeland in Irish Children’s Fiction 1990-2012


Author : Ciara Ní Bhroin
Publisher : Springer Nature
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ISBN : 3030733955
Pages : 248 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (3 users)

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In the context of changing constructs of home and of childhood since the mid-twentieth century, this book examines discourses of home and homeland in Irish children’s fiction from 1990 to 2012, a time of dramatic change in Ireland spanning the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger and of unprecedented growth in Irish children’s literature. Close readings of selected texts by five award-winning authors are linked to social, intellectual and political changes in the period covered and draw on postcolonial, feminist, cultural and children’s literature theory, highlighting the political and ideological dimensions of home and the value of children’s literature as a lens through which to view culture and society as well as an imaginative space where young people can engage with complex ideas relevant to their lives and the world in which they live. Examining the works of O. R. Melling, Kate Thompson, Eoin Colfer, Siobhán Parkinson and Siobhan Dowd, Ciara Ní Bhroin argues that Irish children’s literature changed at this time from being a vehicle that largely promoted hegemonic ideologies of home in post-independence Ireland to a site of resistance to complacent notions of home in Celtic Tiger Ireland.