Glass Slipper Reviews: Anticipated Books Contest

Posted by admin on March 15, 2010

… The Hollow - Jessica Verday; Hush, Hush - Becca Fitzpatrick; Need - Carrie Jones; Obernewtyn - Isobelle Carmody ; The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddor; Fallen - Lauren Kate; Dragonfly - Julia Golding; To Catch a Pirate - Jade Parker …

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Obernewtyn – Isobelle Carmody (#1 Obernewtyn)

Posted by admin on March 13, 2010

Obernewtyn does not feel like a first book, or even as though it was written by a teenager.

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Steph Bowe's Hey! Teenager of the Year: Raised By Books: A Guest …

Posted by admin on March 12, 2010

People who were really writers were magical beings with names like Isobelle Carmody and Mem Fox and Garth Nix. They weren’t called Kate. They didn’t live just west of a town of less than 4000 people (just passed the milk factory, …

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Inspired

Posted by admin on March 10, 2010

It was Isobelle Carmody who first named this for me. In a workshop of hers I attended back in 2006, she said we all have questions that drive us as writers, and each novel is an attempt to answer them

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I think I have to admit ACOS is over

Posted by admin on March 9, 2010

Still, the possibility that that will end up unfinished for similar reasons does bother me.

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this is my haus - a day of pale skies, and a real kiss

Posted by admin on March 8, 2010

Also, I should mention that I’m currently RATHER OBSESSED with the Obernewtyn books by Isobelle Carmody . Image and video hosting by TinyPic. I’m all for promoting Australian young adult fiction, of course, but this series is really and …

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Wesley and the Cupcakes :: 50 Book Challenge Update #1

Posted by admin on March 6, 2010

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urgh..post office guy…

Posted by admin on March 5, 2010

Okay, so a while back I ordered Obernewtyn since I cant get it at Borders cause Isobelle Carmody is an Austrailian author and all and not very big here even though shes big in Austrailia. So it was supposed to come last Friday, …

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My Reading.

Posted by admin on March 2, 2010

I am reading books by Isobelle Carmody . The girls were given her Little Fur Series which we have all really enjoyed and when I was searching for some fiction that might entice me back into reading for pleasure I decided I’d look her up …

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Dystopian February Wrap-Up

Posted by admin on March 2, 2010

Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody . Parable of the Sower by Octavia E.

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    Ashling - Isobelle Carmody - New Book 3 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles Paperback Get other Isobelle Carmody books here The powerful farseeker Elspeth Gordie is sent to Sutrium seat of the totalitarian council that rules the Land to seal an alliance between the secret Misfit community at Obernewtyn and rebel forces. The journey takes her far beyond the borders of the Land across the sea and into the heart of the mysterious desert region of Sador. e will need help to destroy the weaponmachines. But before her dark quest can begin Elspeth must learn the truth of her dreams: she must understand why the Beforetimers destroyed their world ... About the Author Isobelle Carmody Isobelle Carmody began more.....science fiction book
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    The Keeping Place - Isobelle Carmody - New Book 4 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles Paperback Get other Isobelle Carmody books here After a kidnapping Elspeth Gordie and the Misfits are forced to join the rebellion against the oppressive Council using their extraordinary mind powers. But Elspeth must also seek out clues left by the long-dead seer Kasanda vital to her quest to destroy the Beforetime weaponmachines. One clue is lost in the past forcing Elspeth to travel the Dreamtrails stalked by a terrifying winged beast with the cat Maruman as her guide and guardian. Only there can she learn more of the Beforetimer Misfits and their enemy Govamen. Gradually Elspeth realises that her quest is inti more details.....science fiction book
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    The Stone Key- Isobelle Carmody - New Book 5 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles Paperback Get other Isobelle Carmody books here There was a great crash and wood splintered... I had a brief glimpse of a group of Herder priests bald and robed peering at me and then the sundered remnants of the locker door were torn aside and a rough hand reached in to hail me out by the hair. A Hendra captain stared into my face with eyes that burned with a fanatical fire above a thin nose and a lipless slash of a mouth... 'You will die in great pain and very slowly mutant ' said the Hendra master. When Farseeker Guildmistress Espeth Gordie sets out from Obernewtyn to travel to Sutrium at the end of Wintertime she q find out more.....science fiction book
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    The Farseekers - Isobelle Carmody - New Book 2 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles Paperback Get other Isobelle Carmody books here Since their takeover of Obernewtyn the secret community of Misfits has flourished protected by their remoteness. Led by Elspeth Gordie whose extraordinary powers set her apart even among her Misfit friends an expedition sets out to rescue a powerful Misfit in a distant part of the Land. Only she knows the enormity of their task. But for her is yet another challenge as she must fulfil her vow to find and dismantle the dormant deathweapons left by the Beforetimers. From the Book Roland shook his head decisively. 'I can do nothing to hasten the healing Elspeth. If you rest find out more.....science fiction book
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    Obernewtyn - Isobelle Carmody - New Book 1 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles Paperback Get other Isobelle Carmody books here Many years into the future the world has been ravaged by a great nuclear holocaust that later was known as the Great White. Only small and remote areas were spared. Some city-dwellers lived this holocaust and poured from their citites to farms mostly suffering from radiation poisioning. They were slaughtered by farmers so the farmers could protect their families and livestock. This was known as the age of chaos. Soon the farmers realised that they did not escape the holocaust without any negative repercussions. Mutations in man and beast were high. A totalitarian Council wa more details.....