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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"The twins of prophecy have been split. Nicholas Flamel is near death. John Dee has the swords of power. And Danu Talis has yet to fall. The future of the human race lies in the balance--how will the legend end?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Discovering hidden writings by Queen Elizabeth I's astrologer that made shocking predictions for the modern world, documentary producer Lucy King races throughout England, France, and New York to decipher clues leading to a fated lost treasure.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
After his death, John Dee, a polymath from Renaissance Europe, is placed in suspended animation by his alien confidant, Dyckson. When humanity is about to create a weapon that will destroy all civilization in 2099, Dyckson wakes Dee to help stop Armageddon.
7) The magician
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to seek Gilgamesh.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.
10) The warlock
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Josh has chosen to side neither with his twin sister Sophie nor with the Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel, but rather to fight alongside Dr. John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare, while the immortal Machiavelli and Billy the Kid follow the Elders' plans to set loose the monsters of Alcatraz on San Francisco and trigger the end of the humani race.
Author
Series
Routledge library editions. Alchemy volume 2
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Author
Series
Agents of the crown novel volume 3
Publisher
Leopoldo & Co/Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The "lively" (The New York Times) Agents of the Crown series continues with this thriller about Queen Elizabeth I's advisor John Dee in a race to save the Empire with the help of a mysterious manuscript that offers global power. With rumors of the end times swirling, philosopher and astronomer John Dee travels to Prague in an effort to prevent one of Catherine de Medici's seductive ladies-in-waiting from luring the Holy Roman Emperor into a crusade...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When several of the queen's maids of honor are found dead, rumors of black magic abound. Elizabeth calls upon her personal astrologer, John Dee, and Giordano Bruno to solve the crimes. While Dee turns to a mysterious medium claiming knowledge of the murders, Bruno fears that something far more sinister is at work.
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
Author
Series
Agents of the crown volume 1
Publisher
Leopoldo & Co/Atria
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A man who will become the original MI6 agent protects England and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I from Spain's nefarious plan to crush the Age of the Enlightenment. After centuries locked in an endless cycle of poverty, persecution, and barbarity, Europe has finally emerged into the Age of Enlightenment. Scientists, philosophers, scholars, and poets alike believe this to be a new era of reason and hope for all. But the forces of darkness haven't completely...
16) The queen's men
Author
Series
Agents of the crown volume 2
Publisher
Leopoldo & Co, Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Agents of the Crown returns with this riveting novel following the original MI6 agent as he is assigned a dangerous mission to recreate a weapon from antiquity. As she travels through Waltham Forest, Queen Elizabeth I is ambushed by masked gunmen who leave her carriage riddled with holes before disappearing into the night. The Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham, is tasked with finding the perpetrators, about whom they know precious...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Summoned by William Cecil to address dangerous questions about Elizabeth I's legitimacy, royal astrologer John Dee teams up with Robert Dudley to retrieve the bones of King Arthur, a mission that is complicated by magic, a first love, and a complex plot against the queen.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Stumbling into a strange antiques shop where an enigmatic clerk asks her to open a vintage silver box, New York City jewelry designer Garet James unleashes a centuries-old prophecy tied to her true identity as the latest in a family of women who have been killed by an evil force.