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Archer's Goon

Believing is Seeing:
Seven Stories

Castle in the Air

Dark Lord of Derkholm

Dogsbody

Eight Days of Luke

Fire and Hemlock

Hexwood

Hidden Turnings:
A Collection of Stories Through Time and Space

The Homeward Bounders

Howl's Moving Castle

The Merlin Conspiracy

The Ogre Downstairs

Power of Three

Stopping for a Spell

A Tale of Time City

The Time of the Ghost

Warlock at the Wheel and Other Stories

Wild Robert

Witch's Business

Year of the Griffin

Yes, Dear

THE WORLDS OF CHRESTOMANCI

Book 1
: Charmed Life

Book 2
: The Lives of Christopher Chant

Book 3
: The Magicians of Caprona

Book 4
: Witch Week

Mixed Magics:
Four Tales of Chrestomanci

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1

(Contains books 1 and 2)

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 2

(Contains books 3 and 4)

THE DALEMARK QUARTET

Book 1
: Cart and Cwidder

Book 2
: Drowned Ammet

Book 3
: The Spellcoats

Book 4
: The Crown of Dalemark

Credits

Cover art © 2003 by Willam O'Conner

Cover design by Karin Paprocki

Cover © 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

Copyright

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AUNT MARIA
Copyright © 1991 by Diana Wynne Jones All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Aunt Maria / by Diana Wynne Jones

p.  cm.

“Greenwillow Books.”

Summary: While visiting and caring for Great-aunt Maria, Mig and Chris discover that their “helpless” relative has frightening powers.

ISBN 0-06-623742-4—ISBN 0-06-447358-9 (pbk.)

EPub Edition © JANUARY 2012 ISBN 9780062200761

[1. Great-aunts—Fiction. 2. Magic—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.J684B1 1992

77-3028

[Fic]—dc20

CIP

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The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume I and Volume II

The Chrestomanci oversees the magic in all the worlds. Omnibus editions of the first four novels featuring Diana Wynne Jones's most beloved characters. Contains
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With the help of Christopher Chant, can Conrad figure out who is pulling the possibilities and putting his world at risk … and also stay ahead of his dark fate? A Chrestomanci Book.

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Dark Lord of Derkholm

When Derk is chosen to play Dark Lord, he is forced by the sinister Mr. Chesney to turn his country estate into a castle lit by baleful fires, manifest himself as a nine-foot-tall shadow, and lead his minions in a battle against the forces of good.

Year of the Griffin

At Wizard's University, Wizard Derk's griffin daughter Elda and her fellow first-year students encounter tyrannical tutors, boring lectures, and truly terrible refectory food.

Dogsbody

Sirius, immortal Lord of the Dog Star, is outraged when he is falsely accused of murder and banished to Earth. There he must live—and die—in the body of a dog unless he can retrieve a mysterious celestial weapon and thereby clear his name.

Fire and Hemlock

Polly tries to reconcile her two sets of memories and discover the truth behind her friendship with musician Tom Lynn in time to

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Hexwood

Through her window, Ann watches person after person disappear through the gate of Hexwood Farm. Then strangeness spreads from Earth right out to the center of the galaxy.

The Homeward Bounders

After Jamie discovers that mysterious beings are manipulating worlds in an elaborate game, they send him bouncing from world to world—until he tries to use their own rules to defeat them.

Howl's Moving Castle

When the Witch of the Waste turns Sophie into an old woman, Sophie finds refuge in the floating castle of a mysterious man. People and things are never quite what they seem in this entrancing fantasy.

Castle in the Air

Abdullah was content with his daydreams until the day a stranger sold him a magic carpet. This fast-paced fantasy is full of djinns, wizards, a floating castle, kidnapped princesses, and two puzzling prophecies.

The Merlin Conspiracy

Roddy, Nick, and Grundo come together from different worlds in an attempt to unseat the false Merlin of Blest, who threatens the very structure of all worlds.

A Tale of Time City

A girl evacuated from London during the Blitz is kidnapped to Time City in the far distant future, where she must help save both Time City and all of human history.

The Time of the Ghost

A nameless protagonist doesn't know why she's invisibly floating through the buildings and grounds of a half-remembered boarding school. Then, to her horror, she encounters the ancient evil that four peculiar sisters have unwittingly woken—and learns she is the sisters' only hope against a deadly danger.

Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories

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