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...