His Dark Materials: Once Upon a Time in the North -- Philip Pullman

<b><b><i>HIS DARK MATERIALS </i>IS SOON TO BE AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, JAMES McAVOY, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA <br></b></b><br>In this prequel episode from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials universe, Lee Scoresby--Texan aeronaut and future friend to Lyra Belacqua--is just 24 years old, and he's recently won his hot-air balloon in a poker game. He finds himself floating North to the windswept Arctic island of Novy Odense, where he and his hare daemon Hester are quickly tangled in a deadly plot involving an oil magnate, a corrupt mayoral candidate, and Lee's longtime nemesis from the Dakota Country, a hired killer with at least twenty murders to his name. <p/>It's only after Lee forms an alliance with one of the island's reviled armored bears that he can fight to break up the conspiracy in a gun-twirling classic western shoot out--and battle of wits. A glimpse for Pullman fans into the first friendship of two of the most beloved characters in the His Dark Materials trilogy: Lee Scoresby and armored bear Iorek Byrnison. <p/><b>Don't miss Philip Pullman's epic new trilogy set in the world of His Dark Materials </b><br><b>** THE BOOK OF DUST **</b><br><b><i>La Belle Sauvage</i></b><br><b><i>The Secret Commonwealth</i></b><br><br><b>Author:</b> Philip Pullman<br><b>Publisher:</b> Yearling Books<br><b>Published:</b> 09/05/2017<br><b>Pages:</b> 144<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.20lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.50h x 5.10w x 0.40d<br><b>I