*** 100% of the UK profits for this book are being donated to the BBC's Children In Need charity***When Ryan and his sister Nicole meet their new neighbours Jasmine and Billy they have no idea how their lives are about to change.They discover a street they never knew existed; Moonglow Avenue, a street that can only be accessed after dark and by those with a feel for magic.Soon they find themselves fighting vampires and getting tangled up in the business of witches and werewolves. But their greatest danger lies outside of Moonglow, in the real world.When a young werewolf cub is captured by a greedy television reporter it is up to the kids to mount a rescue and make sure that no one ever finds out about the secrets of Moonglow Avenue. Moonglow Avenue is a tale of Adventure and Magic for boys and girls, ages 8-12
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal • An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction • ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction • Wall Street Journal’s Best Novel of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book of the Year • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Slate Best Book of the Year • A Christian Science Monitor Top 15 Fiction Book of the Year • A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year • A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year • A Buzzfeed Best Book of the Year • A New York Post Best Book of the Year iBooks Novel of the Year • An Amazon Editors' Top 20 Book of the Year • #1 Indie Next Pick • #1 Amazon Spotlight Pick • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A BookPage Top Fiction Pick of the Month • An Indie Next Bestseller "This book is beautiful.” — A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review, cover review Following on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon. Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American Century,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive.
Ryan, Jasmine, Billy and Nicole return to Moonglow where they have made friends amongst the unusual residents. Everything is going well until the good witch , Sapphire, is poisoned.After a spot of time travelling and spending some time as ghosts, the kids discover who is to blame for this horrible crime and soon find themselves up against their most difficult enemy yet.Is there a traitor among them? Jasmine discovers that she can't rely on magic all the time while Ryan finds out that there is more to strength than just a good weapon.
Ryan, Jasmine, Billy and Nicole are enjoying some quiet times at last in Moonglow. That all changes When Voltan, an all powerful warlock, shows up in town and this time it’s not only Moonglow but the whole world that is in danger. Now the kids need to use all of their skills if they are going to fight the greatest threat the world has ever known. Jasmine discovers another side of her magic as she sets out on a quest to create a new spell. Billy must learn from an unusual teacher. Ryan will fight his toughest foes yet. And Nicole surprises everyone with her new powers. But will it all be enough to beat..... The Warlock of Moonglow ? The Warlock of Moonglow is the third in the Moonglow Trilogy.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “astonishing” debut novel, about a son’s struggle to find his own identity and integrity (The New York Times). Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere. Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn’t want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art; mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn; and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father’s mobbed-up world. A New York Times bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was called “astonishing” by Alice McDermott, and heralded the arrival of one of our era’s great voices. This ebook features a biography of the author.
Casey Parker is having the time of her life leaping in and out of books through her uncle's magical bookshop, Moonglow's, when she finds a strange little black book with her name listed in it. Uncle Walt's name is there too, along with his life story and that of every other owner the bookshop has ever had. As Casey and Uncle Walt begin to investigate the mysterious rhymes contained in the book, Uncle Walt becomes permanently trapped in a book and it's up to Casey to find a way to free him. Throughout her journey to free Uncle Walt, Casey faces untold dangers in fantastic locations, from the lost city of Atlantis to ancient Egypt to medieval England, and even to a pirate utopia called Libertalia. She must search for a protective amulet, the all-powerful Moonstone, and ultimately the Sword of Destiny, which she'll need in the final battle to break the spell that's holding her uncle captive. But, even with the guidance of a mystical fortune teller in the real world, will Casey be brave enough to fight this evil force on her own? Or will her uncle remain trapped in Atlantis forever? The Sword of Destiny is the sequel to Midnight at Moonglow's, which won the Writer's Digest Mark of Quality award and an honorable mention in the Los Angeles Book Festival
David and Abby hoped to live simply, but were confronted by other-world influences that radically changed their expectations, plans, ideals, and perceptions.
