The Dark is Rising (The Dark Is Rising #2) By Susan Cooper

The Dark is Rising (The Dark Is Rising #2) By Susan CooperIt's Midwinter's Eve, the day before Will's eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. This will be a birthday like no other. Will discovers that he has the power of the Old Ones, and that he must embark on a quest to vanquish the terrifyingly evil magic of the Dark. The second novel in Susan Cooper's highly acclaimed Dark is Rising sequence.

It soon becomes clear that there is one last puzzle to solve

and the thirteen texts of the “Principal Upanisads”—which comprise this volume—form a series of philosophical discourses between teacher and student that question the inner meaning of the world

This mesmerizing profile of an insecure

Case was the sharpest data thief in the matrix--until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system

he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical

Threatened from within and without the city

The book traces Elon Musk's life from his childhood up to the time he spent at Zip2 and PayPal

from bestselling author Pema Chödrön

a chicago born Gaudiya Vaishnava guru

Ijoriya is the story of Madhes

as well as interviews with those at the margins

But a lingering question remains: Will the former mermaid be able to escape her curse