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This was in the Yearling box set edition of The Subtle Knife. It doesn't seem to be included in earlier editions of the appendices. It reads:

>Elaine and the boy
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>The biggest wrench, the greatest sorrow, the most desperate hope, the deepest guilt. I could have made Paradisi cut through in to my own world, and gone home. But we find ourselves pitched into great battles not of our own making, and we cannot turn aside. I must go on. I shall never see my son grow up, never look at his face and feel pride and joy, never see him becoming the man I wish him to be. I could have gone back to them, but then I would not have been the man my son would wish me to be. ~~Neither of us will be ever~~ What must be must be. As for Elaine, ~~the dearest joy~~ ~~there is nothing~~ ~~Elaine cannot begin to~~ I cannot speak.

Can anyone who owns the entire set in this edition confirm whether there's additional material in the other books, too? Here are the full appendices as I transcribed them from an earlier edition.

Ah, yes. You‘ll find your answers in Markus Zusak‘s book I‘m the messenger.

*Ed Kennedy (...), nineteen. Cab driver. No real career. No respect in the community. Nothing. (...) there were people everywhere achieving greatness. Well Ed - what have you really achieved in your nineteen years?'

This all changes one day when Ed stops a bank robbery. He begins to receive playing cards in the mail with addresses and names on them. Ed has messages to deliver. The tasks are not easy but it might just turn out that Ed is not as ordinary as he thought he was , and soon he will learn that greatness comes in all shapes and sizes.*

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some book covers don't make that much sense until you read the book. in this book, there is a disease that when you get it you detonate and blood goes everywhere, so that the disease can spread. this is an amazon link where you can see the cover

its a really simple deisign, but looks really good

Is it this: I haven’t read the whole series so I don’t know if the main character goes back to his own time in each book. He does travel through a portal (I think in the first book it’s a hill in a bog) and end up on an island during the blitz where he finds a mansion full of kids who have powers. The rest of the series, I believe, is them trying to find other “time bubbles”.

https://www.amazon.com/Miss-Peregrines-Home-Peculiar-Children/dp/1594744769/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=miss+peregrine%27s+home+for+peculiar+children&qid=1600449186&sprefix=miss+pe&sr=8-5

I just finished "This Mortal Coil" by Emily Suvada. You can find the description of it here:
https://www.amazon.com/This-Mortal-Coil-Emily-Suvada/dp/1481496336

It's my second favorite book of all time.

They're really cool illustrations! In case you missed my edit, there's another version called The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, where famous authors have written stories to accompany the illustrations: https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Harris-Burdick-Fourteen-Introduction/dp/0547548109

IDK what you're looking at but I'm seeing ~$22USD for the trilogy on Amazon.

But yes, it should be available at any large bookstore or library.

I really like Darren Shan's Procession of the Dead series which I read a while back and his vampire series (preteen books, but they're pretty emotionally deep and interesting anyway), but right now I've been reading this book that I thought was going to be stupid but is actually really good. It's called Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. My mom bought it for me and I started reading it to humor her, thinking it was going to be one of those books about a girl that's "not like all the other girls" but it turned out so far from my first impression.

Feel like branching out? Trickster's Choice gets written off as kids' stuff, but it's much more sophisticated than most of Tamora Pierce's books. Plus, spies and coups in a fantasy Malaysia, and one main perspective to work from. Plus quips. Lots of quips.

I absolutely loved I Am The Messenger by Markus Zuzak (2005). The main character ends up "finding himself" faced with a very unique problem, and it's not at all based on a certain philosophy. It's quite light hearted.
Steven Galloway's (2009) The Cellist of Sarajevo was also fantastic. It's told from multiple (fictional) characters' viewpoints as they survived during the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s, which inevitably leads to a lot of introspection from each one. It's less about "finding themselves" but that element is certainly there.

Daughter of the Lioness by Tamora Pierce?

http://www.amazon.com/Miss-Peregrines-Home-Peculiar-Children/dp/1594744769

http://www.amazon.com/Amulet-Samarkand-Bartimaeus-Trilogy-Book/dp/0786852550

First two off the top of my head. Both of the main characters are guys and they are both fantasy-ish. Good luck.

Have you seen The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales , it's got 14 famous authors writing short stories about the original Chronicles.

I'd probably pay him in baby seal blubber to put on his meteor alloy armor and compel a movie studio to produce The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, al-fucking-ready!

Yeah, well done. I worry that philosophic might be a lost cause but like you I try to entertain and enlighten the untold hordes of lurkers. The Dark Matter of /r/atheism :)

Speaking of: I just finished His Dark Materials. Very captivating and entertaining read, highly recommended!

If getting people to see Christianity in an atheist light is a mission for you, I'd like to similarly recommend the trilogy His Dark Materials. Captivating fantasy novel, a children's story for adults (but Amazon rates it 12+). More in Wikipedia. It's 1076 pages, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and had trouble putting it down to go to sleep and work.