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THE DALEMARK QUARTET

Book 1
: Cart and Cwidder

Book 2
: Drowned Ammet

Book 3
: The Spellcoats

Book 4
: The Crown of Dalemark

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Cover art © 2012 by Paul O. Zelinsky

Cover design by Sylvie Le Floc'h

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Power of Three

Copyright © 1976 by Diana Wynne Jones

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Jones, Diana Wynne.

Power of Three

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“Greenwillow Books.”

Summary: The curse of Orban spreads bad luck to the rest of the Otmounders, the Giants, and the Dorig until three Otmounder children are born with Gifts.

ISBN 0-06-623743-2—ISBN 0-06-447359-7(pbk.)

EPub Edition © JANUARY 2012 ISBN 9780062200815

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First Harper Trophy edition, 2003

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