Lorne Atwater's magic is rotting him from the inside out. In the modern witch city of Veil, where magic blooms like flowers in the shadow of a sentient forest, Lorne's deadly nightshade makes him an outsider.Curse Crafters are already despised, but Lorne's blighted magic is growing unstable. If anyone learns how dangerous he is, Lorne will lose more than his magic; he'll lose his life. So, Lorne cuts all ties and hides under a mask of perfection as...

"Emmi Chae has always existed concurrently with her past selves."Emmi keeps her paradox in perfect balance—soothe her angry inner teenager—distract the anxious self of her tween years—give her inner child time to play.But a vision of Emmi on her deathbed changes everything she thought she knew about protecting her system and Emmi will have to decide what parts of herself to destroy to escape the death she fears most.Multiplicitii is a suspe...

Simple Natural Eco Beauty describes how you can use just 10 natural and easily bought ingredients to make over 140 environmentally friendly skin and hair products at home. These quick and easy to create recipes, many of which use only two or three ingredients, will provide you with a range of sustainable beauty products whilst being kind to the environment and your pocket. As healthy and safe alternatives to commercial beauty products, the ideas in this book will also contribute to minimal...

**THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive, one breath at a time, with a foreword by the Dalai Lama**While traveling in Laos on a winding mountain road, the bus that award-winning photojournalist Alison Wright was riding in collided with a logging truck. As she waited fourteen hours for proper medical care-in excruciating pain, certain she was moments from death, she drew upon years of meditation practice and concentrated on every b...

In 2011 @stephenfry, actor, comedian, writer and famed alumnus of Cambridge University, tweeted:‘No! No! Say it ain’t so – not Fitzbillies? Why I tweeted a pic of one of their peerless Chelsea buns but a sixmonth ago.’Recession had driven the legendary Cambridge bakery into bankruptcy and it had shut its doors. Alison Wright and Tim Hayward read Stephen's tweet:Alison: ‘Did you see the tweet?’ Tim: ‘I did. Terribly sad. Awful how places like...

An extraordinary spiritual memoir about the will to survive … one breath at a timeAlison Wright covered humanitarian issues with her camera until her own life was nearly cut short during a horrific bus accident with a logging truck on a remote jungle road in Laos. Suffering from excruciating life-threatening injuries, she drew upon her years of meditation practice, concentrating upon each breath, believing it to be her last.Wright’s memoir, Learning to ...

For anyone who has ever wanted to take an acting class, "this is the best book on acting written in the last twenty years" (David Mamet, from the Introduction).This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the Actor is written for any actor who has ever experienced the frustration...

William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner's legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor.Esper worked closely with Meisner for seventeen years and has spent decades developing his famous program for actor's training. The result is a rigorous system of exercises that builds a solid foundation of acting skills from the ground up, and that is flexible enough to be applied to ...

Ever think Scrooge had it right before the ghosts ruined his life? Meet Aidan O'Conner.At one time he was a world-renowned celebrity who gave freely of himself and his money without wanting anything in return...until those around him took without asking. Now Aidan wants nothing of the world—or anyone who's a part of it.When a stranger appears at his doorstep, Aidan knows he's seen her before…in his dreams.Born on Olympus as a goddess,...

What if you did something when you were six that would change the course of your lifea?only you didna??t know it? Thata??s what happened to Jake. Now 13, he finds himself an unwilling participant in an ancient war between light and dark, against vampires, werewolves, and powerful spirits in which he must restore the balance between the real and the spirit world before all of humanity is lost.

Remember the faery stories you were told as a child? Tales of tiny, magical, winged beings and elves, wicked witches and goblins. Demons . . .What if one day you found out they were true? What if, when you became an adult, you discovered they were all based on fact? What if you met the fantasy and it was all so very real?That's what happened to Thom Kindred. The wonders were revealed to him. But so were the horrors, for not far behind the Good, there always lurks the Bad. A...

A delightfully depraved collection of classic Zombie Christmas carols, like "I Saw Mommy Chewing Santa Clause", "We Three Spleens", and more.Fresh brains roasting on an open fire . . .Yes, Christmas is on its way—and all the little boys and ghouls are dreaming of stockings filled with candied eyes and bleeding body parts. You'd better watch out! Santa Claws is coming to town—and he knows who's been naughty, who's been naughtier . . . and who'll taste best wit...