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The Ropemaker(Reprint)
(Ropemaker Series)
by Peter Dickinson, Ian P. Andrew
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2003 by Delacorte Books For Young Readers
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-73063-1, ISBN: 0-385-73063-2

"Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest s power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. Tilja is the youngest of four brave souls who venture into the Empire together to find the mysterious magician who can save the Valley. And much to her amazement, Tilja gradually learns that only she, an ordinary girl with no magical powers, has the ability t ..."






Skeleton-in-Waiting(Reprint)
A Crime Novel (Princess Louise)
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 154 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
ISBN-13: 978-1-4976-8442-3, ISBN: 1-4976-8442-0

"A New York Times Notable Book: CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson revisits an alternate British monarchy, ensnaring his imagined royal family in a dark conspiracy of kidnapping, politics, scandal, and murder Britain's beloved Princess Louise is a grown woman now, married to commoner Piers Chandler and enchanted by their infant son, Davy. While visiting a certain Mrs. Walsh-a mysterious old woman claiming to be a royal relation, a Ro ..."






Earth and Air
Tales of Elemental Creatures
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Big Mouth House
ISBN-13: 978-1-61873-038-1, ISBN: 1-61873-038-X

"In these collection, you will find stories that range from the mythic to contemporary fantasy to science fiction. You will find a troll, gryphons, a beloved dog, the Land of the Dead, an owl, a minotaur, and a very alien Cat. Earth and Air is the third and final book in a trilogy of shared collections connected by the four classical elements. It follows previous volumes Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits and Fire: Tales of Elemental Spir ..."






Death of a Unicorn(Reprint)
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2013 by Small Beer Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-61873-040-4, ISBN: 1-61873-040-1

"“Peter Dickinson is my own chosen demigod in the pantheon of crime fiction.”—Laurie R. KingFor best-selling author Lady Margaret, the past is no longer a pleasant memory. Her first lover's mysterious death and the seeming inevitability of her inheriting the family's stately home are cast in new light by secrets unwillingly revisited. The first in a series of reprints of Peter Dickinson's mysteries, this classic British mystery will win ..."






Eva(1st Edition)
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1990 by Laurel Leaf
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-440-20766-5, ISBN: 0-440-20766-5

"THIRTEEN-YEAR OLD EVA wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma . . .But there is something, Eva senses, that she’s not being told. There is a price she must pay to be alive at all. What have they done, with their amazing medical techniques, to save her?Book Details:Format: PaperbackPublication Date: 10/1/1990Pa ..."






Earth and Air
Tales of Elemental Creatures
by Peter Dickinson
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Big Mouth House
ISBN-13: 978-1-61873-058-9, ISBN: 1-61873-058-4

"In these collection, you will find stories that range from the mythic to contemporary fantasy to science fiction. You will find a troll, gryphons, a beloved dog, the Land of the Dead, an owl, a minotaur, and a very alien Cat. Earth and Air is the third and final book in a trilogy of shared collections connected by the four classical elements. It follows previous volumes Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits and Fire: Tales of Elemental Spir ..."






Fire(Reprint)
Tales of Elemental Spirits (Firebird Fantasy)
by Robin Mckinley, Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by Firebird
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-241945-8, ISBN: 0-14-241945-1

"Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson, the team behind Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, collaborate again to create five captivating tales incorporating the element of fire. In McKinley?s ?First Flight,? a boy and his pet foogit unexpectedly take a dangerous ride on a dragon, and her ?Hellhound? stars a mysterious dog as a key player in an eerie graveyard showdown. Dickinson introduces a young man who must defeat the ..."






King and Joker
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2006 by Felony & Mayhem
ISBN-13: 978-1-933397-37-5, ISBN: 1-933397-37-3

"The monarchy is not what it used to be. King Victor II may be the grandson of Queen Victoria, but political and economic realities have intruded even on Buckingham Palace, where family breakfasts center on proposals for tightening the household budget and the King, a licensed physician, fumes at Parliament's refusal to permit him to practice medicine for fear of lawsuits. Nor has royal dignity been spared. A practical joker has invaded ..."






Some Deaths Before Dying(1st Edition)
by Peter Dickinson
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1999 by Mysterious Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-89296-696-7, ISBN: 0-89296-696-3

"The New York Times Book Review calls multiple-award winner Peter Dickinson "a stylist of subtle brilliance". Always surprising and incisive, the author of The Yellow Room Conspiracy and dozens of other unique novels returns with his first new book in five years; and proves again that in his masterful hands, powerful drama and devastating secrets can be found at the heart of even the smallest mysteries.For nearly her whole life, through ..."






The Kin-Suth's Story Signed Copy
by Peter Dickinson, Nenad Jakesevic
Paperback, 211 Pages, Published 1998 by Putnam Pub Group
ISBN-13: 978-0-399-23327-2, ISBN: 0-399-23327-X

"PETER DICKINSON was born in Africa, within earshot of Victoria Falls. ... a village sixty miles from London with his wife, Newbery Medalist Robin McKinley. ..."






The poison oracle(1st Edition)
by Peter Dickinson, Stanislaw Fernandes
Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 1977 by Avon
ISBN-13: 978-0-380-01662-4, ISBN: 0-380-01662-1






The Blue Hawk(Reprint)
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media Teen & Tween
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-1493-9, ISBN: 1-5040-1493-6

"In an ancient kingdom, a boy and his hawk challenge the gods All his life, Tron has been destined to join the priests who rule his strange desert kingdom. When the old king grows sick, a ritual is called for to restore his health: the sacrifice of a blue hawk, the symbol of the god Gdu. For the first time, Tron is chosen to take part in the ritual. Just before the bird is sacrificed, the young priest notices that its eyes are cloudy. Th ..."






The Changes Trilogy
The Devil's Children, Heartsease, and The Weathermonger
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 434 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media Teen & Tween
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-1476-2, ISBN: 1-5040-1476-6

"Three dystopian novels by an award-winning author that imagine a world where humankind has suddenly and violently rejected modern technology. Something has gone very wrong in England. In a tunnel beneath Wales one man opens a crack in a mysterious stone wall, and all over the island of Britain people react with horror to perfectly normal machines. Abandoning their cars on the roads and destroying their own factories, many flee the citie ..."






The Last Houseparty(Reprint)
A Crime Novel
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
ISBN-13: 978-1-4976-8447-8, ISBN: 1-4976-8447-1

"In this gripping novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, the survivor of a manor-house crime delves into the past to solve a mystery At the elegant English manor known as Snailwood, tourists come daily to hear decades-old gossip about the second wife of the sixth earl. Zena was a remarkable young woman whose scandalous reputation has been dimmed neither by time nor by her bizarre death. In the 1930s, Zena was the star of a noto ..."






Hindsight(Reprint)
A Crime Novel
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
ISBN-13: 978-1-4976-8445-4, ISBN: 1-4976-8445-5

"In this brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a writer looks back on his past and discovers the memory of a murder that needs to be solved It's been forty years since Paul Rogers spent a night at St. Aidan's Preparatory School in Sussex and he believes he has forgotten nearly everything that happened there. When a biographer asks the now-middle-aged novelist about his youth, it triggers memories that Rogers th ..."






The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 210 Pages, Published 2015 by Open Road Media Mystery & Thri
ISBN-13: 978-1-5040-0485-5, ISBN: 1-5040-0485-X






Emma Tupper's Diary
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2014 by Big Mouth House
ISBN-13: 978-1-61873-063-3, ISBN: 1-61873-063-0

"Emma is spending the summer with her Scottish cousins--who are wonderful material for her attempt to win the School Prize for most interesting holiday diary. The cousins, lofty Andy, reserved Fiona, and fierce Roddy, are experimenting with their grandfather's dilapidated old mini-submarine to see if they can find a monster in the family loch. "Emma Tupper's Diary" is a sometimes terrifying, sometimes broadly hilarious adventure novel in ..."






Water(Reprint)
Tales of Elemental Spirits
by Robin Mckinley, Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2004 by Firebird
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-240244-3, ISBN: 0-14-240244-3

"What magical beings inhabit earth?s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer- people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar?s Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. These six tales from the remarkable storytellers Robin Mc ..."






Tulku(Updated)
by Peter Dickinson
Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 1996 by Corgi
ISBN-13: 978-0-552-52812-2, ISBN: 0-552-52812-9

"A thirteen-year-old boy escapes from slaughter by the Boxers in China and joins forces with an English botanist and her escort, traveling with them to Tibet where the power of Buddhist monks transforms the lives of all of them."






Music Education in Crisis
The Bernarr Rainbow Lectures and Other Assessments (Classic Texts in Music Education)
by Peter Dickinson, Boydell Press
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2013 by Boydell Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-880-7, ISBN: 1-84383-880-X

"There is no question that music education is in crisis today. The place of music in the national curriculum is controversial; there have been cuts in the provision of individual lessons; and there have been severe reductions in government funding, with more planned. This book, containing the first five Bernarr Rainbow Lectures, makes an important and timely contribution to the debate on music education. Baroness Warnock brings the persp ..."



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