Let's Booktalk: V for Vendetta, the graphic novel by Alan Moore, David Lloyd (illustrator)

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 "Remember, remember the 5th of November"

Violence, fear, hatred, conformity.

"The gunpowder treason and plot"

A man's vendetta, a young girl's reformation. They will live to overthrow a government that rules through malice, fear, and cruelty.

"I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason, should ever be forgot."

More than a man, more than a mission, more than a vendetta.

Let's Booktalk: Bad Unicorn by Platte F. Clark

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Unicorns are beautiful, majestic, graceful, and pure. Princess is anything but that kind of unicorn. Princess, also known as the Destroyer, is a cruel and fearsome unicorn with a carnivorous appetite. Bored with the everyday diet of frobbits and hunting in the land of Magrus. She has enlisted her wizard Magar to help her reach the realm of Techrus where she can feast on human flesh and bones to her heart's delight.

Meanwhile, in Techrus, Max Spencer is trying to survive middle school. Unbeknownst to him he is in possession of a powerful book from Magrus called The Codex of Infinite Knowability. The book is being searched for by the wizards of Magrus, and they will send Princess to Techrus for this book in exchange for an all you can eat buffet of human.

Max along with his friends Dirkster and Sarah will learn there is more to being a teenager than just avoiding bullies and bad grades. They will enter a world where unicorns eat meat, dragons transform into cowboys, and one of them will learn they are the Codex.
lost descendent of the wizard who wrote the

Let's Booktalk: Eragon by Christopher Paolini

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Eragon lives in Palancar Valley of Alagaesia. Daily life for Eragon is helping his family to run the farm and haggling with traders for a good price. Yet, fate will intervene when Eragon is given a strange blue stone.

"Suddenly a crack appeared on the stone. Then another and another. Transfixed, Eragon leaned forward...Standing in front of him, licking off the membrane that encased it, was a dragon."

Saphira is a beautiful blue dragon. She and her dragon rider Eragon will grow, learn, and fight together in the coming battle against the evil Galbatorix. Galbatorix is proclaimed king of Alegaesia, and the reason dragon riders and dragons had become all but extinct.

Is the age of the dragon rider returning? Will Eragon and Saphira be able to do what must in order to defeat Galbatorix? All that is known for sure is that Eragon's story is only the beginning of the Inheritance Cycle.