Previews of other books to read</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b><b><b><i>*****?Just announced! The long-anticipated new work from Mr. Pullman???</i>THE BOOK OF DUST??<i>?will be published as a work in three parts?? with the first volume to arrive in October 2017! *****</i><br></b></b><br>The modern fantasy classic that <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> named an ??All-Time Greatest Novel?? and <i>Newsweek </i>hailed as a ??Top 100 Book of All Time.?? Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach.</b><"yra is rushing to the cold?? far North?? where witch clans and armored bears rule. North?? where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North?? where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.<br><br>Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is <i>Lyra</i>: a savage?? a schemer?? a liar?? and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want.<br><br>But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help on of them will be to betray the other...<br><br>A masterwork of storytelling and suspense?? Philip Pullman's award-winning <i>The Golden Compass</i> is the first in the His Dark Materials series?? which continues with <i>The Subtle Knife</i>?and <i>The Amber Spyglass.</i><br><br><b>A #1 <i>New York Times</i>?Bestseller</b><br><b>Winner of the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction</b><br><b>Published in 40 Countries</b><br><br>"the best juvenile fantasy novel of the past twenty years." --<i>The Washington Post </i><br><br>"Very grand indeed." --<i>The New York Times<br><br></i>"Pullman is quite possibly a genius." <i>--Newsweek<br></i></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>Some books improve with age--the age of the reader?? that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic?? at times heart-wrenching novel?? <I>The Golden Compass</I>?? a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even be"appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua?? a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing?? people there each have a personal <I>daemon</I>?? the manifestation of their soul in animal form. For another?? hers is a universe in which science?? theology?? and magic are closely allied: <blockquote> As for what experimental theology was?? Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was conce