The fifteen articles in this volume highlight the richness, diversity, and experimental nature of French and Francophone drama before the advent of what would become known as neoclassical French theater of the seventeenth century. In essays ranging from conventional stage plays (tragedies, comedies, pastoral, and mystery plays) to court ballets, royal entrances, and meta- and para-theatrical writings of the period from 1485 to 1640, French Renaissance and Baroque Drama: Text, Performance, ...

The weak aren't always as weak as they seem.Never trust anyone without a gift. That's the motto of fifteen-year-old Lizzie Nelson, a wharf rat in a Restoration London much like our own. The other rats call her "Lucky Lizzie," even though her parents are dead, her brother Daniel is missing, and there's a price on her head. But her gift, seeing the future, has saved her life.It's 1662, Charles II rules, and in this England, only children develop supernatural powers c...

Harriet Montgomery’s life in London seems perfect from the outside, but beneath the surface, something is stirring. Haunted by vivid dreams and strange sensations, and reeling from her fiancé’s betrayal, Harriet walks away from everything she thought she wanted.Drawn to the sleepy village of Brindlewood, where hearth fires glow and old magic lingers in the air, Harriet uncovers a secret her family buried long ago. She is the heir to a powerful witch lineage, her gifts bound by love...

The hunters from the Roaring Bears’ tribe are away, and when they return they find their camp invaded by the fierce Crow’s Claw warriors.Their people are overpowered and held captive, but one young person, Ekri, manages to escape with a guide, Norak, and they set off to seek help from their friends in other tribes.With courage and deception, will they be able to outwit the notorious Crow’s Claw before it is too late and the Roaring Bears are destroyed?

WWII Berlin. Freyja Bremer, a patriotic museum assistant, marries Kaspar Voigt, an ambitious SS scholar, to protect her father. Yet she is unaware her husband is instrumental in Himmler’s twisted quest for Aryan supremacy.As she strives to safeguard the priceless Priam’s Treasure from air raids, Freyja falls in love with Darien Lessing, an archaeologist who exposes the moral decay beneath the Regime’s myths. Her awakening drives her into perilous resistance – aiding a Jewish doctor...

What would your life look like if you stopped waiting for permission to live it?In this powerful and practical guide, Lizzie shares her raw, unfiltered journey from approval-addicted people pleaser to a woman who trusts her gut and lives unapologetically. From uprooting her family from an off-grid paradise in Australia to chasing her dreams in the Scottish Highlands, Lizzie reveals how breaking free from society's rules can transform your life. If you’ve ever felt ...

Dying was just the beginning…I know the truth of what I am. A rare and dangerous supernatural that was believed to be hunted to extinction.But now what?On one hand, I have the three men who love me and a chance at a future with them. My shy shifter. My royal vampire. And my dangerous half-breed.On the other hand, I have my father and the mysterious group he belongs to. With them, I have a chance to find out everything, every answer to every ...

The year is 1621: a time of paranoia following the English Reformation. In London’s Newgate prison, Elizabeth Sawyer, the mother of eleven children, lies shackled in her cell. Denounced as a witch by her woodland neighbours and condemned to death by the court, Elizabeth has one last chance to make her peace with this world. By way of confession, she tells the prison chaplain three stories about her life.Chaplain Goodcole at first responds with revulsion. Like the court he condemns ...

When Zeta’s father is killed, she and her brother, Finn, together with Zeta’s pet wolf, Kuba, are forced to flee across the country to seek sanctuary with their mother’s birth tribe. On this perilous journey they have to learn to outwit their pursuers and put into practice all their hunting skills and knowledge of the land. Will they survive the journey and be accepted by their mother’s tribe? And can they save their friend Arden from certain death?Set in 7000BCE around the middle ...

“What a treat. An all-star cast with one thing in common: they worked with David Wood. And just for us he’s brought them to life again – and so vividly – in this irresistible memoir of his ‘brushes with Hollywood'." Gyles BrandrethIn this memoir, actor and writer David Wood recalls his ‘brushes with Hollywood’, notably being kissed on the lips by Elizabeth Taylor as midnight struck on his 22nd birthday; playing Richard Burton

A secret guild. Three irresistible guardians. A sinister evil that seeks her power.Luna has run from the shadows for as long as she can remember, hiding from the darkness chasing her all her life. A threat that killed her parents to capture her. Tired of running, of not having anywhere to call home, she casts a spell to send the demon hunting her back to hell.Oops. Bad move. An ancient guild detects her magic and intercepts her. They want her power and give...

A secret guild. Four men vying for her heart. A decision that will change everything.Once a snake, always a snake, huh? No matter how much Luna tries to prove herself, everyone will always blame her for the invasion of Nightfire Academy and theft of a dangerous spell book.Well, to hell with them. Luna hasn't got time to convince them otherwise, juggling her studies, magic practice, three handsome guardians, and a mysterious stranger that she can't stay away...