"Learn how to pressure can your favorites with [Benson's] step-by-step instructions and try out some of the delicious recipes—you won't be disappointed!" —Jerry James Stone, award-winning YouTube chefNothing says "home sweet home" like a pantry filled with homemade relishes, veggies, meats, and stews. If you're ready to preserve some of your favorite foods in your own kitchen, Pressure Canning for Beginners is the perfect place to start. This complete begi...

**Buffy fans will go wild!SHE WAS TARA ON BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.Now she’s the author of Ace’s hottest new series— killer novels featuring Calliope Reaper-Jones, who doesn’t want to be daddy’s little girl anymore...**View our feature on Amber Benson’s Death's Daughter.Calliope Reaper-Jones so just wanted a normal life: buying designer shoes on sale, dating guys from Craig’s List, web-surfing for organic dim-sum for her boss......

First in a “spellbinding”* series about a coven of witches living in L.A., from Amber Benson, author of the Calliope Reaper-Jones novels.Unbeknownst to most of humankind, a powerful network of witches thrives within the shadows of society, using magic to keep the world in balance. But the witches are being eliminated—and we will all pay if their power falls…When Lyse MacAllister’s great-aunt Eleanora, the woman who raised her, becomes deathly ill, ...

*The Spirit and the Song:*Pneumatological Reflections on Popular Music explores pertinent pneumatological issues that arise in music. It offers three distinct contributions: first, it asks what, if anything, music tells listeners about God’s Spiritedness. Can the experience of music speak to human spiritedness, the world’s transcendentality, or a person’s own self-transcendence in ways nothing else does or can? Second, this book explores how the Spirit functions within, and even d...

“Who better to raise teens’ awareness of mental illness and health than the YA authors they admire?” —Booklist (starred review)“[A] much-needed, enlightening book.” —School Library Journal (starred review)Your favorite YA authors including Ellen Hopkins, Maureen Johnson, and more recount their own experiences with mental health in this raw, real, and powerful collection of essays that explores everything from ADD t...

Want to know how to use inter dimensional scissors? Or what to bring to a centaur's party? Find out in this jam-packed guide featuring Star, Marco and the people, monsters and worlds they encounter on their adventures. This guide features hilarious information and full-color images. Not to mention Princess Pony Head's tips for getting smoky eyes when you're behind bars.

Calliope Reaper-Jones is Death's Daughter. She owes a debt to Cerberus, the three headed dog that guards the gate's of hell-a debt that involves a trip to Purgatory, Las Vegas, ancient Egypt, and a discount department store that's more frightening than any supernatural creature she'll ever encounter.

Noh, a slightly eccentric girl whose father is constantly traveling, moves in with her aunt, a teacher at the gothic New Newbridge Academy. The Academy has a strange, storied history but Noh feels right at home there. She’s startled to meet several other kids while investigating an old, burned-out dormitory on the far end of campus, especially since the teachers keep telling her that no students reside at the school during the summer. Soon, Noh discovers that these other students are actua...

In the second Witches of Echo Park novel, one coven must keep the world in balance and stand against a rising darkness.Lyse MacAllister did not step into an easy role when she took over as master of the Echo Park coven of witches after her great-aunt Eleanora’s death. As she begins to forge the bonds that will help her lead her sisters, she struggles to come to terms with her growing powers. And she soon faces a deadly new threat. A group of fanatics intent on brin...

In the third in the “spellbinding” (Seanan McGuire) series from the author of the Calliope Reaper-Jones novels, magic has been loosed upon the world—and the consequences could destroy all of humanity, magical and non-magical alike...Lyse MacAllister used to be like everyone else—blissfully ignorant of magic, of the dire battles being fought in shadows and secrecy. But that was before her great-aunt Eleanora died, leaving her in control of the Echo Park coven; befor...

Meet Amber Benson's "authentically original creation" (Locus)...My name is Calliope Reaper-Jones (Callie to my friends). I’m Death’s Daughter and—as of very recently—the (reluctant) head of my father’s company, Death, Inc.I was gradually learning how to be a businesswoman. Had the power suits and shoes down, though the day to day was slow going. Then I was blindsided by Enemies Unknown and sent off to I-don’t-know-where. Not a good thing.No...

Calliope just wants to make it big in the Big Apple like any other working girl. But Callie is also Death's Daughter, no matter how much she tries to stay out of the family business. And now her older sister has made a deal with the Devil himself to engage in a hostile takeover of both Death Inc. and Heaven-once they get Callie out of the way.