Violins, pipes and cellos,Orchestras, choirs and solos,Songs to remember,Songs to forget,Songs to unmake the universe...And songs to put it all right.Have a seat in the Chamber of Music. These thirteen stories will take you to distant lands of faerie lords, lovelorn angels, plucky skyship pilots and plague-ravaged scavengers. They will guide you through our dark histories, our heartbreaks, our losses and revenges; our triumphs, escapes, recoveries...

This richly illustrated book introduces the subject of optimization to a broad audience with a balanced treatment of theory, models and algorithms. Through numerous examples from statistical learning, operations research, engineering, finance and economics, the text explains how to formulate and justify models while accounting for real-world considerations such as data uncertainty. It goes beyond the classical topics of linear, nonlinear and convex programming and deals with nonconvex and ...

"The Desecrator" is an original short story from the Draegaran Empire, by bestselling author Stephen Brust. This is a tale of the Hawklord Daymar, and of a particular Morganti blade. Vlad Taltos fans will enjoy new insight into Stephen Brust's fantasy series.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Kat knows she's running when she buys the old ranch on a whim, but is she running from her old life, or to something more... something that calls to her as she lies in bed, listening to the howling, prairie wind?Because aside from the secret she can't seem to forget, the ranch holds a mystery of its own. The scratching in the attic above her bed... a box of keepsakes of a heart-broken cowboy... the nagging idea that death isn't the end of love, but perhaps, a new beginning... The s...

Here are five first books for fledgling readers that offer the enjoyment of a good story along with the thrill of accomplishment that comes from independent reading. Written in short, easy phrases with carefully selected vocabulary and plentiful illustrations, each book helps youngsters achieve success as they have fun. The series follows three friends who love to share stories. In each book, one is reminded of a well-known story: Little Red Riding Hood in It's Not...

First a soldier and then a diplomat, Juberi now spends his solitary days on a single ambition: trying to resurrect the phoenix, which has been extinct for centuries. He's not pleased when he is obligated to attend a public ceremony in memory of an elderly friend and former colleague. But at the ceremony Juberi meets the friend's beguiling son, Desen. Despite being from a markedly different culture, Desen has much to offer. But after decades of denying his own desires, Juberi fears there is...

Four short stories of cosmic horror, unpleasant stalkers and the occasional punchline. A disturbed young man uses a zombie apocalypse to get closer to the object of his affections. A peeping tom stares through the wrong window and gets more than he bargained for. A haunting melody draws a man into a creepy library and to the brink of insanity. A creature of the night makes an unlikely friend. Four snapshots of varying darkness.

'The beautifully quirky title of Karen Armstrong’s first collection of poetry maps the final journey of a friend who is dying of cancer. These poems capture the warmth of unselfish love; of a relationship despite trying circumstances. A pact between two friends where one shares the burden vicariously as the other faces debilitating illness and inevitable death.' - Peter F. Pike, Managing Editor, FreeXpresSion'With unpretentious simplicity and directness, Karen Armstrong co...

Lady Luck was sweet on him, mines would fail beneath his heavy, stumbling shoes, bullets ricochet off his thrawn helmet, and sabres merely part his hair or crack one of the finger-thick lenses of his glasses. Every war, no matter the outcome, Will survived

Royalty Note: 20% of the royalties will be donated to an LGBT organization in my community.***An old high school in a dying neighborhood. It's ruled by two wolf-packs: the Dragons and the Monarchs. Masked at night, by day there is no sign or symbol to mark their allegiance. But still the students know who to fear—the instincts of terrified prey scenting prowling predator.Two friends, fifteen, too old for boys, too young for men, no ...

****same amazing poetic story just with a new look****We wish to live so beautiful and true,Like that of a fairytale creature.Without knowing what they go through,To be such an idolized feature.Most stories are not like these tales,That we wish to change lives with.They would too cry and wail,If they were not but a myth.Here are the tales,...

They say life is short. They didn't mention eternity is spent in a void, clawing at souls who jumped the queue.Darren Hobson writes against the grain, delivering a poetic vision where language is mutilated, love is a chaotic, claw-marked battlefield, and nuclear history casts a shadow over your every move. From the terrifying logic of alien massacres on a desolate shore to the paranoid comfort of writing in solitary confinement, this collection drags the reader through the most unc...