The Book Of Dust Volume One: La Belle Sauvage
by Philip Pullman
Buy on AmazonNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of His Dark Materials to expand on the story of Lyra, “one of fantasy’s most indelible heroines” (The New York Times Magazine). Don’t miss Volume II of The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth! Malcolm Polstead and his daemon, Asta, are used to overhearing news and the occasional scandal at the inn run by his family. But during a winter of unceasing rain, Malcolm finds a mysterious object—and finds himself in grave danger. Inside the object is a cryptic message about something called Dust; and it’s not long before Malcolm is approached by the spy for whom this message was actually intended.…
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"Compassionate, smart, and suspenseful, La Belle Sauvage is a worthy companion to Philip Pullman’s splendid His Dark Materials saga. In the first of three planned volumes, the baby Lyra is hidden from a would-be kidnapper by Malcolm, an innkeeper’s son, and the kitchen girl, Alice, who set out across flooded Oxford by canoe in a adventure on the river Thames."
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