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(0)D. M Cornish
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Orphan Rossamünd Bookchild has been sworn into the Emperor's service as a lamplighter—his duty to light the lamps along the Emperor's highways and protect travelers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. But he's found it no easier to fit in with the lamplighters than he ever has—always too small and too meek. His loneliness continues no matter how hard he tries to succeed.
But when a haughty young girl, a member of...
But when a haughty young girl, a member of...
Author
Series
Monster blood tattoo volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Growing up at Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, Rossamünd Bookchild–a boy with an unfortunate name–has led a life sheltered from the dangers of the world. But this all changes the day the man with the strange red-and-pale-blue eyes recruits him into the service of the Emperor. Rossamünd has been drafted into the ranks of the Half-Continent's "lamplighters"–soldiers who protect the empire's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Rossamund is now the personal servant - the factotum - of the Branden Rose, the most renowned monster-hunter in all of the Half-Continent. But despite the Rose's power and influence as a Peer of the Empire, powerful forces move against them both, intent on capturing Rossamund and destroying Europe in the process. This final volume of The Foundling's Tale is full of the suspense and lush world building that have made D. M. Cornish one of the most
...4) Foundling
Author
Series
Monster blood tattoo volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having grown up in a home for foundlings and possessing a girl's name, Rossamünd sets out to report to his new job as a lamplighter and has several adventures along the way as he meets people and monsters who are more complicated that he previously thought. Includes glossaries and maps
5) Lamplighter
Author
Series
Monster blood tattoo volume 2
Publisher
Firebird
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
As Rossamünd starts his life as a lamplighter on the Wormway, he continues his fight against monsters, making friends and enemies along the way, but questions about his origins continue to plague him
6) Factotum
Author
Series
Monster blood tattoo volume 3
Publisher
G.P Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Accused of being a monster instead of human, Rossamünd Bookchild looks to monster-hunter Branden Rose for help, but powerful forces are after them both, believing that Rossamünd holds the secret to perpetual youth