The City of Ember
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  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407049274
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

The City of Ember

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Paperback
1 Mar 2005
EBook
1 May 2010
Audiobook
25 May 2004
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The film tie-in edition to this gripping and intriguing thriller set in an all-too-possible future. Now a major blockbuster starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins and Liz Smith.

Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked - but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all - the lights are failing. Soon Ember could be engulfed by darkness-But when two children, Lina and Doon, discover fragments of an ancient parchment, they begin to wonder if there could be a way out of Ember. Can they decipher the words from long ago and find a new future for everyone? Will the people of Ember listen to them?
  • Published: 1 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407049274
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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About the author

Jeanne DuPrau

THE CITY OF EMBER is the debut novel from an exciting new American writer, Jeanne DuPrau. Having been a teacher, an editor and a technical writer, Jeanne DuPrau now writes full-time. She lives in California.

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Praise for The City of Ember

Intriguing

John Lloyd, The Bookbag
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