| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
633 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The book of dust ; volume two |
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Pullman, Philip, 1946-
Book of dust ; v. 2.
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| Note |
Sequel to: La Belle Sauvage. |
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The second of three parts. |
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This book features characters from the author's previous trilogy, His Dark Materials, and takes place about ten years after those stories--adapted from author's note. |
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"A Borzoi book." |
| Contents |
Moonlight and bloodshed -- Their clothes smelled of roses -- Left luggage -- The college silver -- Dr. Strauss's journal -- Mrs. Lonsdale -- Hannah Relf -- Little Clarendon Street -- The alchemist -- The Linnaeus room -- The knot -- The dead moon -- The zeppelin -- The Café Cosmopolitan -- Letters -- Lignum vitae -- The miners -- Malcolm in Geneva -- The professor of certainty -- The furnace man -- Capture and flight -- The assassination of the patriarch -- The Smyrna ferry -- The bazaar -- The Princess Cantacuzino -- The Brotherhood of This Holy Purpose -- The Café Antalya -- The Myriorama -- News from Tashbulak -- Norman and Barry -- Little stick -- Hospitality -- The dead town. |
| Summary |
Twenty-year-old college undergraduate Lyra is once again thrown together with Malcolm Polstead, now a professor, after Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, receive secrets from a dying man about a daemon-haunted city and the origins of Dust. |
| Subject |
Belacqua, Lyra (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction.
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College students -- Juvenile fiction.
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Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction.
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Familiars (Spirits) -- Fiction.
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Belacqua, Lyra (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
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Fantasy.
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Thriller -- Suspense.
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Crime & Mystery.
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Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)
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Adventure stories (Children's -- Teenage)
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Fantasy -- Epic.
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Action & Adventure -- Survival Stories.
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YOUNG ADULT FICTION -- Literary.
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Secrecy. (OCoLC)fst01110644
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Familiars (Spirits) (OCoLC)fst00920134
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College students. (OCoLC)fst00867976
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Belacqua, Lyra (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00829990
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Fantasy. (OCoLC)fst00920687
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Belacqua, Lyra (Fictional character) -- Fiction.
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Demonology -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Young adult fiction.
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Young adult works. (OCoLC)fst01726790
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Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726489
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Fantasy fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726607
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Adventure stories.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Science fiction.
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| Added Author |
Wormell, Christopher, illustrator.
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| Added Title |
Book of dust. Volume two, The secret commonwealth |
| ISBN |
9780553510669 (trade) |
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0553510665 (trade) |
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9780553510676 (lib. bdg.) |
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0553510673 (lib. bdg.) |
