Lissy is desperate for a car of her own, and her savings account is almost there. When her mother offers a paid internship at her company planning their big holiday gala, Lissy jumps at the chance. Unfortunately, this means she has to work with the local Christmas tree farm run by the family of someone she never wanted to see again in her life-Lee Jensen, the guy who made a fool out of her two years ago at a holiday party.Now she has no choice but to partner up and stay professiona...

A thousand years ago, the Irish gods battled a fearsome enemy in their magical homeland, the Otherworld. The war ended in devastation, sealing the portal to the Otherworld and leaving the Morrigan—the goddess of death and battle—trapped on earth. Now her seventeen-year-old daughter, Rosaleen, is able to get through the portal where she’ll have gods and monsters to fight, a kingdom to liberate, and a mother to please. This is the challenge she was bred for and the last thing she needs is th...

2021 SPARK Award Winner, Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI)2021 NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite in Young Adult FictionWhen Blue Mancini's mother picked her name, it ended up being a self-fulfilling prophecy.A year ago, Blue's brother, Jack, was involved in a car accident that killed the father of Blue's classmate, Maya Rodriguez. The fallout is now affecting Blue as Maya returns to school determined...

The recent death of her father has upended J.J. Ashford's life, granting custody to her estranged mother, and moving her halfway around the world to an island owned by the secretive, high-security biotech company that her parents co-founded. To make things even worse, J.J. suffers from night terrors and since arriving on the island they've become a horrifying nightly ordeal.Trapped in nightmare battle scenarios with a group of soldiers, she soon realizes these are more than random ...

Award-Winning Author L.E. DeLano tells her own story of writing perseverance. She'll share all she's learned about the craft since she signed that first book contract, won that first literary award, and landed that film option. You'll find chapters on:Plot outlining (using a fluid grid system)Character development and world buildingTheme, tone, and voiceGripping openings, escalating action, conflict, and final resolutionDrafting and editingL....

Based on 14th Century Scandinavian actual events, The Folkungs --Sweden's royal family--is a generational saga interwoven with jealousy, conspiracy, rivalry, treason, regicide, exorcism, paganism, torture, witchcraft, shamanism, Falconry, folklore, power struggles, and deeply touching love stories.It begins at Nykoping Castle, Sweden, 1291. King Magnus is dead and his three young sons--Birger (eleven), Erik (nine), and Valdemar (eight)--await the arrival of the appointed Regent of ...

Victor Hugo's Ninety-Three is a grave and impassioned historical novel set during the French Revolution's most violent phase, the Reign of Terror and the Vendée uprising. In this illustrated edition, the visual accompaniment heightens Hugo's dramatic contrasts: republican idealism and royalist loyalty, public justice and private mercy, history as thunderous spectacle and intimate moral trial. Written in a grand Romantic style, the novel combines political reflection, melodramatic intensity...

The Blind Musician is a psychologically acute novella about Pyotr, a boy born blind into a provincial Ukrainian estate, whose inward life is shaped by sound, touch, deprivation, and longing. Korolenko combines realist observation with lyrical prose, using music as both motif and philosophical problem: can art redeem suffering without evading it? Situated within late nineteenth-century Russian realism, the work extends the tradition's moral inquiry into disability, perception, class, and sp...

Only his memories can save her…A great primal power has risen. The Queen of Flesh and Fire has become the Primal of Blood and Bone—the true Primal of Life and Death. And the battle Casteel, Poppy, and their allies have been fighting has only just begun. Gods are awakening across Iliseeum and the mortal realm, readying for the war to come.But when Poppy falls into stasis, Cas faces the very real possibility that the dire, unexpected consequences of what she ...

Bow Before Your Queen Or Bleed Before Her...From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes book three in her Blood and Ash series.She's been the victim and the survivor...Poppy never dreamed she would find the love she's found with Prince Casteel. She wants to revel in her happiness but first they must free his brother and find hers. It's a dangerous mission and one with far-reaching consequences neither drea...

Is Love Stronger Than Vengeance?A Betrayal...Everything Poppy has ever believed in is a lie, including the man she was falling in love with. Thrust among those who see her as a symbol of a monstrous kingdom, she barely knows who she is without the veil of the Maiden. But what she does know is that nothing is as dangerous to her as him. The Dark One. The Prince of Atlantia. He wants her to fight him, and that's one order she's more than happy to obey. He may have taken her, ...

Is Love Stronger Than Vengeance?A Betrayal...Everything Poppy has ever believed in is a lie, including the man she was falling in love with. Thrust among those who see her as a symbol of a monstrous kingdom, she barely knows who she is without the veil of the Maiden. But what she does know is that nothing is as dangerous to her as him. The Dark One. The Prince of Atlantia. He wants her to fight him, and that's one order she's more than happy to obey. He may...