"Now in hardcover for the first time, featuring all-new illustrations!"--Publisher website

"Originally published in paperback and in different form in the United States by WaterBrook, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House LLC, in 2009"--Title page

Includes bibliographical references.

The lone Fendril -- Room eight of The Only Inn (Glipwood's Only Inn) -- Two plans -- Appropriate words from Ubinious the Whooned -- A traitor in the trees -- The gully rim -- Monsters in the hollow -- A thorn of contempt -- The Gargan Rockroach -- The mighty River Blapp -- The end of the road -- Thunder, spray, and stone -- Miller's Bridge -- The last tower -- A song for Nugget the Brave -- The jewels and the dragons -- An ally in Dugtown -- Old wounds and new healing -- Ouster Will and the First Books -- In the Hall of Lamendron -- Podo's nightmare -- The Stranders of the East Bend -- Growlfist the Strander King -- Quick hands and quicker feet -- Tackleball in the fog -- Along the river road -- A bruise on the back of the land -- O Anyara! -- T.H.A.G.S. in the Strander Burrow -- Sneem's last words -- In the Alley of the Roundish Widow -- Ronchy McHiggins makes a discovery -- The Sundering -- A watcher in the shadows -- The hags and the ragmen -- An odious arrangement -- Into the mouth of the monster -- Bright eyes in a dark place -- Esben Flavogle, the factory tool -- The coffin -- Four apples and a plan -- A nefarious bargain -- Three days in darkness -- Mountains and shackles -- The fate of Sara Cobbler -- The Strander burrow -- A change of heart -- The cages -- The fortress of the Phoobs -- The witch's nose -- The Song of the Ancient Stones -- The Bomnubble and the Lake of Gold -- A grimace of Snickbuzzards -- The Ice Prairies -- The surrender of Artham Wingfeather -- Two kinds of shame -- Bumblebees and old bones -- Gammon's bargain -- The transformation -- Secrets in the snow -- The Battle of Kimera -- Ancient anger -- Hulwen's trophy -- And the sea turned red -- The final voyage of Podo Helmer -- Appendices. A passage from the First Book, as translated in Kimera by Oskar N. Reteep and Nia Igiby Wingfeather -- Ouster Will, a traditional Hollish children's rhyme -- "Peet's Castle" from the sketchbook of Kalmar Wingfeather -- A rendering of the whistleharp that belonged to Madia, Queen of Anniera, from the sketchbook of Kalmar Wingfeather -- Readers guide -- About the author.