The Subtle Knife, Philip PullmanThe spellbinding sequel to The Golden Compass, the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "Top 100 Book of All Time," continues the epic adventure, catapulting readers between worlds, and toward a devastating discovery. Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Willa boy on the run, a murderera worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul eating Specters stalk the streets and

"An extraordinary achievement

"most of them dead and quite a few of them French

intense and has a momentum as irresistible to the reader as the moral danger that first enchants

artistic truthfulness and conventional decency - and about those implacable practitioners who live with the consequences of sacrificing one for the other

” – Bill Gates

I hope the reader will be indulgent toward the extreme dispersion of themes

Steve is never condescending or callous

Written in short chapters for busy people

these small acts of resistance demonstrate the unconquerable power of the human conscience and prophesy an increasingly open political future for China

Jean Godin

a gifted teen grappling with the chaos of Tourette’s

In the bestselling tradition of espionage novels by John LeCarre and Alan Furst