LoginOnce Upon a Time in the North: His Dark Materials (David Fickling Books)
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In this new prequel episode from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials universe, Lee Scoresby--Texan aeronaut and future friend to Lyra Belacqua--is just 24 years old, and he's recently won his hot-air balloon in a poker game. He finds himself floating North to the windswept Arctic island of Novy Odense, where he and his hare daemon Hester are quickly tangled in a deadly plot involving oil magnate Larsen Manganese, corrupt mayoral candidate Ivan Poliakov, and Lee's longtime nemesis from the Dakota Country: Pierre McConville, a hired killer with at least twenty murders to his name.
It's only after Lee forms an alliance with one of
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Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Release date: 8 April 2008
ISBN-10 : 0375845100 | ISBN-13: 9780375845109
Release date: 8 April 2008
ISBN-10 : 0375845100 | ISBN-13: 9780375845109
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