When a woman's severed leg is delivered to Robin Ellacott, her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, looks into his past to determine who is responsible.
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, *The Casual Vacancy* is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.
A collection fairy tales for young wizards and witches, with each story followed by observations on Wizarding history, personal reminiscences, and information on the story's key elements by Hogwarts headmaster, Albus Dumbledore.
Wizard and the Hopping Pot --
Fountain of Fair Fortune --
Warlock's Hairy Heart --
Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump --
Tale of the Three Brothers.
Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind.
The protective charm that has kept him safe until now is broken. But the Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything he loves. And he knows he can’t keep hiding.
To stop Voldemort, Harry knows he must find the remaining Horcruxes and destroy them.
He will have to face his enemy in one final battle.
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See also:
- [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: 2/2][2]
[1]: https://www.jkrowling.com/book/harry-potter-deathly-hallows/
[2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17922343W/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_Chapters_20-36
One summer night, when Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shriveled, but he will not reveal why.
Rumours and suspicion spread through the wizarding world – it feels as if even Hogwarts itself might be under threat.
Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark: could there be a Death Eater amongst them?
He will need powerful magic and true friends as, with the help of Dumbledore, he investigates Voldemort’s darkest secrets.
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Preceded by: [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix][1]
Followed by: [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows][3]
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Contains:
[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [3/4]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27299760W)
[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [4/4]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27294904W)
[1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13716955W/Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix
[2]: https://www.jkrowling.com/book/harry-potter-half-blood-prince/
[3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82586W/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows
After the Dementors’ attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry knows he is about to become Voldemort’s next target.
Although many are denying the Dark Lord’s return, Harry is not alone, and a secret order is gathering at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces.
Meanwhile, Voldemort’s savage assaults on Harry’s mind are growing stronger every day.
He must allow Professor Snape to teach him to protect himself before he runs out of time.
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This work has also been published in multiple volumes. See:
- [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: III](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17937113W/Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix_Chapters_17-23)
- [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: IV](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17915213W/Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix_Chapters_24-30)
[1]: https://www.jkrowling.com/book/harry-potter-order-phoenix/
The fourth book in the Harry Potter franchise sees Harry returning for his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, along with his friends, Ron and Hermione . There is an upcoming tournament between the three major schools of magic, with one participant selected from each school by the Goblet of Fire. When Harry's name is drawn, even though he is not eligible and is a fourth player, he must compete in the dangerous contest.
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Contains:
- [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 2/4](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17910198W/Harry_Potter_and_the_Goblet_of_Fire._2_4)
