The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545577179
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458

Book Description
The second installment in the all-new series from the masterful, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater! Ronan Lynch has secrets. Some he keeps from others. Some he keeps from himself.One secret: Ronan can bring things out of his dreams.And sometimes he's not the only one who wants those things.Ronan is one of the raven boys - a group of friends, practically brothers, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy. The path to Glendower has long lived as an undercurrent beneath town. But now, like Ronan's secrets, it is beginning to rise to the surface - changing everything in its wake.Of THE RAVEN BOYS, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY wrote, "Maggie Stiefvater's can't-put-it-down paranormal adventure will leave you clamoring for book two." Now the second book is here, with the same wild imagination, dark romance, and heart-stopping twists that only Maggie Stiefvater can conjure.

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545469791
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379

Book Description
An all-new series from the masterful, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater! Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her.His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul whose emotions range from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher who notices many things but says very little.For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She doesn't believe in true love, and never thought this would be a problem. But as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore.

Greywaren (The Dreamer Trilogy #3)

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338188410
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
The majestic conclusion to Maggie Stiefvater’s Dreamer Trilogy. This is the story of the Lynch family. Niall and Mor escaped their homeland for a new start, and lost themselves in what they found. Declan has grown up as the responsible son, the responsible brother--only to find there is no way for him to keep his family safe. Ronan has always lived on the edge between dreams and waking... but now that edge is gone, and he is falling. Matthew has been the happy child, the brightest beam. But rebellion beckons, because it all feels like an illusion now. This world was not made for such a family--a family with the power to make a world and break it. If they cannot save each other or themselves, we are all doomed.

Dream Thieves

Author: Rick Renner
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN: 1606837737
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
The Path From Dream to Fulfillment Seldom Follows a Straight Line Doubt, fear, and time can claw away at your confidence, stealing the dream God placed in your heart. Unexpected obstacles, with about-face twists and turns, can bump you so far off your expected path that you begin to question the validity of that dream. You may even be tempted to give up hope that you can ever become the person you see when you close your eyes. But if you yield to the pressure of these dream thieves to abandon your dream, you will forfeit your unique destiny. Furthermore, you will rob yourself of the fulfillment that only your destiny can bring. Every Dream Is Targeted by a Thief. Are You on Guard? In his revised and updated classic, Dream Thieves, Rick Renner exposes the thieves that come to oppose and rob every single dream no matter how big or how small that dream may be. Rick also reveals the strategies that every person with a dream must adopt to ensure the fulfillment of his or her dream. Rick explains that every God-given dream has a significant purpose, leading ultimately to a specific destination. That s why dream thieves show up early and repeatedly along your journey to shift your focus from opportunities to obstacles. Their goal is to overwhelm and intimidate you until you re either immobilized and stuck or moving in a direction that s ineffective. These thieves will challenge your call, doubt your dream, and question your capacity to deliver on the vision that consumes you until eventually the fire in your heart flickers and fades away. Obstacles Can Become the Catalyst To Reach Your Goal! But when you understand the significance of the journey toward your dream, you ll discover that a hindrance can actually further your progress. When you know how to respond to the dream thieves that oppose you to refute instead of run from them they can actually provide a service to help you become the person you need to be in order to fulfill your destiny. You can you must fulfill your unique purpose in life by walking in your God-ordained calling. Too many abandoned dreams litter the road of life. Don t let your dream be one of them.

Blue Lily, Lily Blue

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407143220
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
The third book in the mesmerizing RAVEN CYCLE quartet from bestselling author, Maggie Stiefvater. Fans of the SHIVER trilogy will love this new quartet!

The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, Book 4)

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545860350
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426

Book Description
The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater. All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love's death. She doesn't believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore. In a starred review for Blue Lily, Lily Blue, Kirkus Reviews declared: "Expect this truly one-of-a-kind series to come to a thundering close."

Call Down the Hawk (The Dreamer Trilogy, Book 1)

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338188356
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Raven Boys, a mesmerizing story of dreams and desires, death and destiny. The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming - they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives - they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. . . .

Opal (a Raven Cycle Story)

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338306642
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43

Book Description
An enchanting story from Maggie Stiefvater featuring Opal, Ronan, and Adam from her bestselling Raven Cycle, taking place after the events of The Raven King.

Dream Thieves

Author: Rick Renner
Publisher: Teach All Nations
ISBN: 9781880089095
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Readers will learn how to identify and defeat dream thieves - the people and circumstances that keep Christians from fulfilling their divine destiny A great book for those who are discouraged, tired, or burned out in their ministry or their walk with the Lord.

Risuko

Author: David Kudler
Publisher: Stillpoint Digital Press
ISBN: 1938808339
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Samurai, assassins, warlords -- and a girl who likes to climb A historical coming-of-age tale of a young girl who is purchased away from her family to become an assassin. Can she come to terms with who she must be? Though Japan has been devastated by a century of civil war, Risuko just wants to climb trees. Growing up far from the battlefields and court intrigues, the fatherless girl finds herself pulled into a plot that may reunite Japan -- or may destroy it. She is torn from her home and what is left of her family, but finds new friends at a school that may not be what it seems. One of the students — or perhaps one of the teachers — is playing the kitsune. The mischievous fox spirit is searching for… something. What do they want? And what will they do to find it? Magical but historical, Risuko follows her along the first dangerous steps to discovering who she truly is. The first volume of the Seasons of the Sword series! Can one girl win a war? Kano Murasaki, called Risuko (Squirrel) is a young, fatherless girl, more comfortable climbing trees than down on the ground. Yet she finds herself enmeshed in a game where the board is the whole nation of Japan, where the pieces are armies, moved by scheming lords, and a single girl couldn't possibly have the power to change the outcome. Or could she? Historical adventure fiction appropriate for teen readers As featured in Kirkus, Foreword, and on the cover of Publishers Weekly! Tight, exciting, and thoughtful... The characters are nicely varied and all the pieces fit into place deftly. -- Kirkus Reviews Risuko is an artfully crafted novel that evokes a heavy sense of place and enchantment.... Risuko's development and evolution are fascinating to watch in this powerful and relentless coming-of-age adventure. -- Foreword Reviews (spotlight review) Vividly portrayed, flush with cultural detail, and smoothly written. -- BookLife