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  • The Stone, the Cipher, and the Shadows
    Brad Strickland / John Bellairs
    A flu epidemic ushers in a plague of dark magic in this spooktastic mystery featuring teenage sleuth Johnny Dixon from The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost.   Though forty miles away, Duston Heights is not safe from the flu that’s raging through Boston. When Johnny Dixon’s grandmother falls ill, he’s sent to live with his neighbor to avoid infection. So many locals are getting sick ...
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    18,53 €

  • The Drum, the Doll, and the Zombie
    Brad Strickland / John Bellairs
    A young sleuth and his professor friend fight voodoo, black magic, and a hungry zombie horde . . .   The drum is small, no bigger than a plastic cup, and decorated with sun-bleached bones. It is a token from the island of St. Ives, whose voodoo cults are infamous around the world, and it is one of the most dangerous objects Johnny Dixon has ever held. When he raps the little dr...
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    16,99 €

  • The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt
    John Bellairs
    A clever young man and an eccentric professor search for a missing fortune, in this spooky adventure full of “marvelous surprises” (Publishers Weekly)   H. Bagwell Glomus built an empire out of cereal. In the 1920s, his Oaty Crisps were the most popular breakfast in the United States, and Mr. Glomus was the wealthiest man in the little town of Gildersleeve, Massachusetts. But h...
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    16,94 €

  • The Chessmen of Doom
    John Bellairs
    In a thrilling adventure, a young sleuth and his professor friend are challenged to solve a riddle and win a fortune   Professor Roderick Childermass may be the strangest person Johnny Dixon has ever met, but compared to his brother Peregrine, the professor is practically normal. Peregrine is a born trickster, and when he knows his death is near, he sends a letter promising the...
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    17,01 €

  • The Curse of the Blue Figurine
    John Bellairs
    A boy sneaks into an old church to confront a mad ghost in this adventure by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls   It’s the 1950s when Johnny Dixon’s mother dies, his father goes to fight in the Korean War, and he goes to live with his grandparents. Although life in a new house is strange, Johnny’s “Grampa” listens to his favorite ballgames, takes him on long walk...
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    16,85 €

  • The Hand of the Necromancer
    Brad Strickland / John Bellairs
    In a Massachusetts town, an evil wizard is about to come back from the dead and a young hero must fight to stop him . . .   In the days of the Salem witch trials, the sleepy hamlet of Duston Heights had just one practitioner of the dark arts: the notorious necromancer Esdrias Blackleach. As the fever for witch hunting reached its terrible peak, Blackleach was accused of using p...
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    16,94 €

  • The Secret of the Underground Room
    John Bellairs
    A young hero and his professor friend set out to save a priest from a ghost, in this novel by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls   Aside from the eccentric Professor Childermass, young sleuth Johnny Dixon’s best friend may be Father Higgins, the kindly priest at the local church. When Higgins is transferred to the congregation in the tiny town of Rocks Village, J...
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    15,18 €

  • The Spell of the Sorcerer’s Skull
    John Bellairs
    A bookish boy searches for his missing best friend in this spooky tale by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls   On a country lane in snowbound 1950s New Hampshire, a car goes skidding off the road. Professor Childermass and Johnny Dixon escape unscathed, but their car is stuck, and they are forced to walk into town. Johnny doesn’t mind. A curious young man, he has...
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    16,94 €

  • The Trolley to Yesterday
    John Bellairs
    A “spooky[,] spine-tingling” time travel adventure that takes a boy and his eccentric professor friend to the mysterious Byzantine Empire (Publishers Weekly) . . .   [Description] Johnny Dixon is worried about Professor Childermass. The professor has always been an odd duck, but lately his behavior has been positively bizarre. He’s been talking to himself and stalking down the ...
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    17,83 €

  • The Face in the Frost
    John Bellairs
    A fantasy classic by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls—basis for the Jack Black movie—and “a writer who knows what wizardry is all about” (Ursula K. Le Guin).  A richly imaginative story of wizards stymied by a power beyond their control, A Face in the Frost combines the thrills of a horror novel with the inventiveness of fairy tale–inspired fantasy.   Prospero,...
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    17,78 €

  • The Bell, the Book, and the Spellbinder
    Brad Strickland / John Bellairs
    Hidden away in the local library, a sorcerer’s book casts an evil spell in a novel by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls   Johnny Dixon and his best friend Fergie are whiling away a rainy day at the Duston Heights library when Johnny asks a screwy question: “What’s the last book in the library?” After Johnny goes home, Fergie decides to find out. There, under num...
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    15,19 €

  • The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost
    Brad Strickland / John Bellairs
    A young man fights to save his father from a spirit’s curse in the epic finale to a series starring “a terrific hero” (The New York Times)   The sea is calm, the air is fresh, and the bobbing boat feels like a living creature underneath Johnny Dixon’s feet. Johnny hardly ever sees his father, who trains Air Force pilots in Colorado, and their annual Florida fishing trip is the ...
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    17,01 €