Leigh Riley is three weeks away from her high school graduation when she's suddenly crushed by a truck. She may be dead, but her education is far from over. Seventeen-year-old Leigh is inducted into the School for Spirits, where she learns how to be a spirit guide for mortals.Leigh meets Alyx, her rebel roommate who just doesn't care about the spirit guide stuff. Then Leigh develops a massive crush on an absurdly hot Archangel named Jophiel. Finally, she is assigned to a veteran in...

No one craves an escape more than Alice Carradine. Six years ago, her future was stolen by an unexpected accident. Now a quadriplegic, Alice is confined to bed and mired in depression.Her saving grace is the "The Darker Ages," a complex virtual world that offers its players a chance at a new life. In this virtual reality, Alice escapes into the body of Princess Arienne, whose life is infinitely more thrilling. As Princess Arienne, Alice gets to experience the fantastical medieval a...

In this “journey of spiritual transformation” (Publishers Weekly) award winning author Rabbi Alan Lew follows the practices and rituals of the Jewish High Holy Days and guides readers through heartbreak, contemplation, and re-birth.There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, leav...

Rain Black is the only Indian in St. John's Creek, a rustic settlement in the American Midwest. Despite being the town's only schoolteacher, he's seen as an outsider, and he's no stranger to prejudice. Rain's world revolves around Lily, his ailing niece. He can't imagine life without her, but Lily's days are numbered, and he knows it.Set, a runaway from the Pleiades star cluster, crashes her spaceship on Rain's property. Set is a shapeshifter who can morph into human form, and that...

The Fellestan army, led by the enigmatic Black Knight, mows down every village in its path. One such village is Silverton, where Kelizabeth "Kizzy" Sundir spends her days as a barmaid, serving drinks and scrubbing counters. When she isn't a barmaid, Kelizabeth is the caregiver of her blind, disabled mother.News of the Fellestan invasion has her village in an uproar, and when Kelizabeth volunteers to join the militia, her bravery is met with chuckles. However, she is approached by a...

When the girl of his dreams is captured by the Sheriff of Nottingham's deputies, Will Scarlet desperately wants to save the day. But he fails. Utterly.Will is rescued by a mysterious man named "Little John," who urges him to get a closer look at his face. Little John is actually Will's absent Aunt Josephine, who is now living as a man.Little John introduces Will to Robin of Locksley, the half-Saracen daughter of the deceased Earl of Locksley. Will is smitten with her, but h...

He can't decide if he wants to kiss her... or kill her.To become a dark wizard, Anshan Hedi must kill five humans. No one ever told him he couldn't target the terminally ill. He decides to take the lives of people who are already suffering, even if his fellow wizards disapprove.Hedi meets Amaria, a young cancer patient who draws him into her world. He's supposed to take her life... but what if she takes his heart instead?This book includes ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.’In first-century Judea, Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur is falsely accused of assassinating a Roman governor, and sentenced to life as a galley slave. His fortunes are reversed when he saves the captain’s life and he returns, determined to seek his revenge against those who have brought misfortune to both...

Called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century," Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ was a best-seller in the 1880s, eclipsing the sales of Uncle Tom's Cabin and, later, Gone With the Wind to become the best-selling American novel of all time. The story recounts the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a fictional Jewish prince from Jerusalem, who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the 1st century and becomes a charioteer and a...

Ashleigh is a rare beauty, sought after every man who meets her. When she happens upon a supposedly magical urn, she--Wait, scratch that. She's not the star of this story, I am, and I'm not a beauty. Ashleigh was a good girl, but I've read too many stories about babes and beauties. This one is about ME, a half-orc, a homely girl, and owner of a failing pub. I've given up the mercenary life, and I'm glad for that. Adventuring's not for me.A random encounter puts me back in t...

Between 1907 and 1911, the United States was hit by the longest period of sustained terrorism in its history. Of more than 200 bombings that were carried out during this period, the most shocking was the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building on the morning of October 1, 1910, which killed twenty-one people.Deadly Times tells the fascinating story of the bombing, the search to apprehend the bombers, the issues that polarized the nation, and the dramatic tria...

The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a likeness to a caterpillar crawling from the south to the north. Standing on its red-and-white cliffs, and looking off under the path of the rising sun, one sees only the Desert of Arabia, where the east winds, so hateful to vinegrowers of Jericho, have kept their playgrounds since the beginning. Its feet are well covered by sands tossed from the Euphrates, there to lie, fo...