Derek Landy
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Valkyrie and the skeleton mage, Skulduggery Pleasant, try to foil a plot set in motion fifty years before to find and open the gate that will allow the Faceless Ones to return to this reality.
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When the evil Baron Vengeous escapes from prison, Detective Skulduggery Pleasant and his apprentice Valkyrie Cain have just two days to recapture him or the Baron's creature, the Grotesquery, may summon the Faceless Ones back to their world.
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror it certainly wasn't fiction. Pursued by evil forces, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead sorcerer ..."--Back cover.
4) Mortal coil
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"The blonde girl with the black lips turned to Valkyrie. 'We know,' she said. 'We've seen the future. We know you're going to kill the world!'" Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back -- just in time to see their whole world get turned upside down. With Valkyrie struggling to protect her dark secret, Skulduggery and the gang are more vulnerable than ever, just as a plague of body-snatching Remnants are released upon the world!
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume Book 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
The eighth instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe – and the follow-up to 2012's number-one bestseller, Kingdom of the Wicked... War has finally come. But it's not a war between good and evil, or light and dark – it's a war between Sanctuaries. For too long, the Irish Sanctuary has teetered on the brink of world-ending disaster, and the other Sanctuaries around the world have had enough....
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 9
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
To find Darquesse before she can destroy the world, Skulduggery Pleasant gathers together a team of soldiers, monster hunters, and criminals.
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Magic is a disease. Across the land, normal people are suddenly developing wild and unstable powers. Infected by a rare strain of magic, they are unwittingly endangering their own lives and the lives of the people around them. Terrified and confused, their only hope lies with the Sanctuary. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are needed now more than ever. And then there's the small matter of Kitana. A normal teenage girl who, along with her normal...
8) Dark days
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 4
Language
English
Description
"He's dead. She's still in high school. But together they're going to save the world. Skulduggery is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension. There is no official plan to save him. But Valkyrie's never had much time for plans..."--Back cover.
9) Bedlam
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 12
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
While Valkyrie is off trying to recover her sister's lost soul, it is up to Omen Darkly to be the hero and save thousands of innocent people.
10) Death bringer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that's a good thing. The catch? They don't need her any more because they've found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death. And that's a very, very bad thing ...
11) Until the end
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 15
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The second cycle of the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series comes to a thrilling end. You are not ready... The Faceless Ones have returned to our universe. The bad guys have won. With the end of everything just days away - and no longer able to rely on Valkyrie Cain - Skulduggery must make allies of enemies if he's going to stand any chance of saving what's left of the world. And just when things are looking their bleakest, they...
12) Midnight
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 11
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back in their most gripping story yet, as book 11, Midnight, picks up where Resurrection left off - and runs. For years, Valkyrie Cain has struggled to keep her loved ones safe from harm, plunging into battle - time and time again - by Skulduggery Pleasant's side, and always emerging triumphant. But now the very thing that Valkyrie fights for is in danger, as a ruthless killer snatches her little sister...
13) Seasons of war
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 13
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The thirteenth thrilling novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, SEASONS OF WAR will test the Skeleton Detective and Valkyrie like never before... War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror. It is here that Valkyrie will have to fight the hardest - not only against the...
14) Resurrection
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 10
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"The skeleton detective is coming back to life... again! It's the tenth, triumphant novel in the Skulduggery Pleasant series, and it will rearrange your world. A lot has changed. Roarhaven is now a magical city, where sorcerers can live openly. Valkyrie Cain has been out of action for years, recovering from the war against her alter-ego Darquesse, which nearly destroyed her and everyone else. Some things never change though: bad people still want...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
A shot of Skulduggery action. It isn't easy to take over the world. First you need the scheme. Then you need the muscle. Then you need to come up with a system for ruling six billion people and keeping them from revolting. It takes a certain kind of man to take over the world. Scaramouch Van Dreg, however, is not that man. But he has one thing going for him. He has his arch enemy, Skulduggery Pleasant, chained up in his dungeon, and the only person...
16) Dead or alive
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 14
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Billions of lives will be wiped away in a final, desperate search for the Child of the Faceless Ones -- she who is destined to bring about the return of humankind's ancient overlords. To prevent this, Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain have one last - terrible - option: the assassination of Damocles Creed. With protests stirring in the magical city of Roarhaven, with riots and revolutions on the horizon, Valkyrie must decide who she wants to...
Author
Publisher
Forma Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Swedish
Description
Skelettdetektiven Skulduggery Pleasant och hans protegé Valkyrie har i uppdrag att skydda en person från lönnmördare, när Kvarlevorna plötsligt tar sig ur sitt fängelse. Dessa onda andar tar kroppar i besittning, lägger beslag på sina värdars minnen och suger i sig deras personlighet. Med sådana fiender kan Skulduggery, Valkyrie och deras trogna vapendragare inte ens lita på varandra längre. I synnerhet inte när Valkyrie döljer en
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Series
Captain America/Iron Man volume 1
Language
English
Description
Two of the greatest Avengers of all unite! A government agent turned Hydra provocateur stages a daring breakout on her way to prison, and the escape attracts the attention of both Captain America and Iron Man! When Steve Rogers and Tony Stark realize they both have a connection to the slippery fugitive, they team up to track her down - only to discover she's not the only player on the board with big plans and sinister motives. What have the two Avengers...
Author
Series
Black Order volume 1
Language
English
Description
They are the scourge of the Avengers, the Cull Obsidian - Thanos' most feared warriors! Now the ruthless Black Order has been dispatched by the Grandmaster to destabilize a burgeoning empire - but as big and as bad as they are, there is always someone bigger and badder. Isn't that always the way? You go to assassinate an emperor, he turns the tables, and suddenly a very simple mission gets a whole lot more complicated - and the man called Nova shows...
Author
Series
Falcon and Winter Soldier volume 1
Language
English
Description
A tale of two Caps! An office of dead government agents. A gifted new killer. Two ex-Captain Americas. When a dramatic attempt on the life of Bucky Barnes reunites him with Sam Wilson, the old friends are plunged headlong into a race to uncover the new leader of Hydra before a mass-casualty event announces the terror group's resurgence to the world! The clock is ticking - but who is the Natural, and how did he beat Sam and Bucky so easily? It's a...