A collection of delicious anecdotes of a life spent on stages and film sets across the world—from Peter Hall’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre to The Sound of Music—from one of our greatest actors.Christopher Plummer’s magnificent book recounts the wild adventure that was his life, stretching from a privileged childhood in Canada to the glorious, star-studded New York of the fifties to a sensational career in film appearing in some of our most beloved classics. ...

The world of Eclipsera is no longer breaking.It is being remade.In the aftermath of the Sanctuary's awakening, Serenya and Avarith walk the realms as guardians of balance-mending storms, calming fractured lands, and guiding a world on the edge of collapse. But peace does not come as easily as they had hoped.The world is changing.Storms linger where they should pass. Shadows move with intention. And across the realms, fear begins to spread faster than balance...

Long before the realms were torn apart, balance held the world together.Princess Serenya receives a divine vision beneath a twilight sky where stars fall into a lake of glass. Chosen by the gods, her spirit awakens as a blue fox of living light-the mark of the guardian destined to protect the ancient Eclipsera Stone, a relic that keeps the forces of the world in harmony.But darkness is already searching for the Stone.Determined to find the hidden Eclipsera Sanctuary...

The universes once turned in perfect harmony, bound together by the radiant Eclipsera Stone. But when the dark lord Avarith and his Draconis Order shatter that balance, worlds begin to crumble and fade. Princess Serenya, eternal guardian of the Stone, is overpowered, transformed into a crystal-bound fox, and silenced-her whispers echoing only in dreams. From across broken realms, unlikely heroes begin to rise. Kaelen, a young wanderer, Lysera, a gifted seer, and others yet untested mus...

A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of our greatest actors.Plummer tells how “this young bilingual wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten, tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big bad world of theatre, not from the streets up but from an Edwardian living room down,” and writes of his early acting days as an eighteen-year-old playing the lead in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.We see his g...

Authoritative reference making piezoelectric materials technology more accessible by crossing the boundary between fundamental materials physics and applied engineeringPiezoelectric Materials provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, an important class of smart materials which are useful as both actuators and sensors, covering materials, properties, and devices, including case studies of example applications. In addition to providing the underlying...

#1 New York Times best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anthony Doerr brings his“stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) to selecting The Best American Short Stories 2019. Doerr and the series editor, Heidi Pitlor, winnow down twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.**Read by a full cast including:Kevin R. Free

Balance is breaking-and the road only gets stranger.Fresh from their first victories, Kaelen, Lysera, Darek, Kaelorin, and Ravyn ride into lands where the world itself has rules. Lantern eels spell warnings across moonlit rivers. The Verdant Labyrinth opens and closes like a living mind. Thunder walks the plains in bright spears. High on the Cliff of Bells, time rings wrong-because a silver-helmed general has taught the hours to misbehave.Guided by the faint whispers of the...

With the realms still fractured and hope burning in fragile embers, the journey of the rope of five comes to its final test.Armed with four shards of the Eclipsera Stone, Kaelen, Lysera, Darek, Kaelorin, and Ravyn climb beyond familiar roads into impossible skies: riding the starlit Gloamrail, crossing drifting sky-islands ruled by cruel gravity, braving frozen echo-caves where their own doubts speak back, and ascending the Starbone Step toward the Obsidian Spire itself. Each new r...

In 1827, Arthur Gordon Pym stowed away on the brig Grampus, set for the South Seas. Thus, begins a saga of mutiny and butchery, recapture of the vessel by a loyal few, subsequent shipwreck and sufferings, and deliverance.