2nd hand Books

Novels in good condition for sale. Books are not folded, creased or torn.


Title: Crooked
Author: Laura and Tom McNeal
Publisher: Dell Laurel-Leaf

SERIAL NO.: PN 001

Synopsis: Clara Wilson has a sinking feeling. Her parents are fighting again. Her best friend has ditched her. And she doesn't know what to do about her crush on Amos MacKenzie, now that he's famous. Amos MacKenzie is suddenly popular ever since the accident. As if that weren't strange enough, his mom had him baptized, out of the blue. His milkman dad is guarding a secret. And Clara Wilson, Melville Junior High's resident Brainette, his started turning more heads than just his. Charles and Eddie Tripp learned at an early age how to frightened people. And the cruel, crafty Tripp brothers have just set their sights on Clara and Amos.

Price: S$11





Title: Midnight for Charlie Bone
Author: Jenny Nimmo
Publisher: Egmont Books Ltd

SERIAL NO.: PN 002

Synopsis: Charlie doesn't want to believe it. He can hear people in photographs talking. What's happening to him? Why now? His horrible aunts are delighted with his new talent. They have plans for him... The way Charlie's life is about to change, he'll be lucky to live till Christmas.

Price: S$10






Title: Piratica II
Author: Tanith Lee
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books

SERIAL NO.: PN 003

Synopsis: Return to Parrot Island. Artemesia Blastside, 17. Position: the most admired pirate in England. Partner: Handsome Felix Phoenix. Enemy: Little Goldie Girl, a Monster. Heart set on winning back Lost Treasure Beyond the War-Torn Seas.

Artemesia Blastside has dodged the gallows and married her true love. But life ashore is too tame for a pirate queen, so she jumps at the chance to go to sea again. England is at war, and the government wants Art to use her talents against the French. Naval war is horrific, and her arch-nemesis is bent on revenge. What price is Art willing to pay for her life of freedom.

Price: S$6





Title: Wicked: Legacy
Author: Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie
Publisher: Simon Pulse

SERIAL NO.: PN 004

Synopsis: Holly Cathers and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole. are college students who are also the last descendants of the medieval witches of the House of Cahors. Forming a new coven, they ally themselves withe the forces of light and set out to end the vendetta that has ruled and ruined their family's history for centuries. Holly has traveled to England to save her imprisoned cousin Nicole and her soul mate, Jer, who is a member of the House of Deveraux, the Catherses worst enemy. But following dangerously on her heels is Michael, Jer's father and head of the Deveraux coven, who is looking to derive ultimate power from a witch consort. Now Holly learns that her uncle and her mother's best friend are in grave danger, and that she must enter the Nightmare Dreamtime and battle demons and other forces of darkness in order to save them. But can Holly successfully fight these horrors and safely return home?

Price: S$8





Title: The Vampire Lestat
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Futura

SERIAL NO.: PN 005

Synopsis: Lestat: A vampire - but very much not the conventional undead, for Lestat is truly alive. Lestat is vivid, ecstatic, stagestruck and in his extravagant story he plunges from the lascivious stews of the 18th century Paris to the Rome of Augustus and the Britain of the Druids, form the demonic Egypt of prehistory, to fin-de-siecle New Orleans, to the frenetic 20th century world of rock superstardom - as pursued by the living and the dead, he searches across the world and time for the secret of his own dark immortality.

Price: S$2.50





Title: The Star of Kazan
Author: Eva Ibbotson
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books

SERIAL NO.: PN 006

Synopsis: Annika lives as a servant at a grand house in Vienna, a glittering city famous for its great emperor and the exquisite white horses of the Imperial Riding School. Her life there would be perfect but for the mystery of her real mother. For, as a newborn baby, Annika was found in a church and no one knows where she came from. But everyday, her mind swirls with dreams of a beautiful mother finally arriving to claim her.

Price: S$8.50





Title: The Rope Maker & Angel Isle (1 Set)
Author: Peter Dickenson
Publisher: Delacorte Press

SERIAL NO.: PN 007

Synopsis:
The Rope maker : For 19 generations, the comfortably prosperous Valley has been tucked away from the outside world kept safe by powerful enchantments. When these powers begin to weaken, however, it's up to Tilja and her grandmother Meena, along with their companions, Tahl and his grandfather Alnor, to journey forth in search of a magician powerful enough to protect their home once again. In the course of this pilgrimage, Tilja who has recently and heartbreakingly learned that she possesses not a jot of the hereditary magic that would entitle her to inherit her beloved family homestead comes to understand more about the unique and valuable gift she does possess.

Angel Isle (Sequel to The Rope Maker) : Once the 24 most powerful magicians in the Empire pledged to use their magic only to protect the people. But the promise that bound them has now corrupted them. They have become a single terrible entity with a limitless desire for domination. Only the Ropemaker may be able to stop them, but he has not been seen for over 200 years. Into this dangerous world come Saranja, Maja, and Ribek. They seek the Ropemaker so that he might restore the ancient magic that protects their valley. It is the task they were born to, but now it seems there is far more than the valley at stake should they fail...

Price: S$25