The fate of a kingdom rests on two brothers who have never met.When fifteen-year-old Garren is torn from Earth and transported to the world of Pandoris, he discovers that everything he believed about his family is only part of the truth. A mysterious prophetess places him in the care of King Mitchell Varson and introduces him to Gabriel—the prince of Surlon...and Garren's brother.The two boys could not be more different.Gabriel is a political prodigy, raised to rule...

If you want to meet a vampire, go to a hospital.Gerome was desperate when he met Madeline, desperate enough to make a deal with a vampire. His grandmother was dying. The bills were crushing. So, when his beautiful benefactor offered him money in exchange for blood, he didn't ask questions.He became a Familiar.In Gerome's world, not all vampires kill. They don't forever feed on the innocent. Some vampires prefer to make deals. Madeline is ancient, meticulous, and ter...

A miracle from hell.Ninety-year-old Maggie Stone is dying of cancer, and she wants more time.When a brilliant but unstable doctor offers Maggie a new body and a second chance at life, it sounds like a miracle of modern science—a transfer of consciousness, a perfected synthetic vessel, engineered immortality.Maggie awakens young and strong. She'll have more time with Ray. More time with her children. But as Maggie discovers that a second chance at life might be more ...

The Vampire Wants Him Back.Gerome Never Dreamed He’d Want Her Too.Nancy took the saying “till death do us part” a little too seriously when she became a vampire.Gerome tried to keep his wife away from Madeline.He failed.Now Nancy is undead, and he must stop her from becoming just like his regal and manipulative former master.But Madeline isn’t finished “helping” him.She calls in a friend—John...

Possession is a long con.As Maggie Stone struggles to understand her new world, she quickly realizes that demons aren’t the only creatures manipulating mankind. Vampires not only exist but also have an entire social order, and one of the most powerful vampires on earth has done something uncharacteristic: she’s let a newborn feed on her, accidentally giving this young woman unspeakable power but no control. Since Maggie’s body is synthetic, John Pinkerton decides to use her to lure...

The Beat Movement was one of the most radical and innovative literary and arts movements of the 20th century, and the history of the Beat Movement is still being written in the early years of the 21st century. Unlike other kinds of literary and artistic movements, the Beat Movement is self-perpetuating. After the 1950s generation, headlined by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, a new generation arose in the 1960s led by writers such as Diane Wakoski, Anne Waldman, and ...

The Historical Dictionary of Romanticism in Literature provides a large overview of the Romantic Movement that seemed at the time to have swept across Europe from Russia to Germany and France, to Britain, and across the Atlantic to the United States. The Romantics saw themselves as inaugurating a new era. They frequently referred to themselves or their contemporaries as Romantics and their art as Romantic. From the early stirrings in Germany, to the last decade of the eighteenth century in...

The fate of a kingdom rests on two brothers who have never met.When fifteen-year-old Garren is torn from Earth and transported to the world of Pandoris, he discovers that everything he believed about his family is only part of the truth. A mysterious prophetess places him in the care of King Mitchell Varson and introduces him to Gabriel—the prince of Surlon...and Garren's brother.The two boys could not be more different.Gabriel is a political prodigy, raised to rule...

When the earliest filmgoers watched The Great Train Robbery in 1903, many of them shrieked in terror at the very last clip when one of the outlaws turns directly toward the camera and fires a gun, seemingly, directly at the audience. The puff of smoke was sudden and it was hand colored so that it looked real. Today, we can look back at that primitive movie and see all the elements of what would evolve into the Western genre. Perhaps it is the Western's early origins-The Great ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.If you want to meet a vampire, go to a hospital.Gerome was desperate when he met Madeline, desperate enough to make a deal with a vampire. His grandmother was dying. The bills were crushing. So, when his beautiful benefactor offered him money in exchange for blood, he didn't ask questions.He became a Familiar.In this dark urban fantasy, not all vampires kill. They don't forever feed on the innocent. Some vampires...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A miracle from hell.Ninety-year-old Maggie Stone is dying of cancer, and she wants more time.When a brilliant but unstable doctor offers Maggie a new body and a second chance at life, it sounds like a miracle of modern science—a transfer of consciousness, a perfected synthetic vessel, engineered immortality.Maggie awakens young and strong. She'll have more time with Ray. More time with her children. But as Maggie...

When in 1902 Owen Wister, a member of the Eastern blueblood aristocracy and friend of novelist Henry James, became a best-selling novelist with the publication of The Virginian, few readers would have guessed that a new kind of American literature was being born. While Owen Wister was enjoying his success, Edwin S. Porter in New Jersey was filming the first cinema Western The Great Train Robbery, which would usher in a new era both of movies in general and of Western movi...