"When feared Yankees slugger Cliff Bullard goes barnstorming around the northeast, offering $10,000 to any local pitcher who can strike him out, Professor Childermass and Johnny Dixon get a sneaky idea. There’s a local legend about a crackpot inventor who once built a robot capable of throwing a baseball 110 MPH, and the professor thinks that if they find the machine, they can win Bullard’s prize. They discover the rusted old monstrosity in an abandoned workshop and put it back together, piece by piece. But when they screw in the robot’s eyes and it comes to life, they realize they have made a terrible mistake.
As soon as it’s activated, the robot attacks, trying to kill Johnny and the professor. Was it made to be a killing machine, or have its circuits been corroded? To save the town and get a crack at the $10,000, Johnny and the professor will have to tame the steel beast."
"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, a tall, skinny misfit of a wizard, lives in the South Kingdom—a patchwork of feuding duchies and small manors, all loosely loyal to one figurehead king. Along with his necromancer friend Roger Bacon, who has been on a quest to find a mysterious book, Prospero must flee his home to escape ominous pursuers. Thus begins an adventure that will lead him to a grove where his old rival, Melichus, is falsely rumored to be buried and to a less-than-hospitable inn in the town of Five Dials—and ultimately into a dangerous battle with origins in a magical glass paperweight.
With a unique blend of humor and darkness, it remains one of the most beloved tales by the Edgar Award–nominated author also known for the long-running Lewis Barnavelt series."
"Le livre qui a inspiré le film événement !
Entrez dans un lieu hors du temps... Quand, à la mort de ses parents, Lewis va habiter chez son oncle Jonathan, il s'attend à rencontrer quelqu'un d'ordinaire. Mais Oncle Jonathan et sa voisine, Mme Zimmermann, sont tous les deux des magiciens ! Lewis est ravi... au début. Puis il se met lui-même à faire de la magie et il ressuscite par mégarde l'ancienne propriétaire de la maison, Serenna Izard. Or Serenna et son mari ont autrefois caché dans les murs de la maison une horloge, une horloge qui a le pouvoir d'anéantir l'Humanité tout entière... Et seuls les Barnavelt peuvent l'arrêter !
Ce livre audio est interprété par une voix humaine, dans le respect des engagements d'Hardigan."
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