Book I: Embers Beneath a Broken God is a dark reimagining of the author's original series, The Crystal Fox Saga, recast as the opening volume of The Ashfall Requiem Trilogy, a grim epic fantasy about broken gods, wounded heroes, and the terrible cost of restoring a shattered world.The world is dying by inches.Crops fail beneath sickened skies. Shrines crumble in forgotten villages. Beasts twist into corrupted things, cities drown ...

The world was broken before Kaelen ever touched the shards.After the devastating trials of the first war, Kaelen and his companions carry three fragments of the shattered Eclipsera Stone - and the wounds earned in taking them. But victory has not healed the world. It has only revealed how deep the fracture runs.Beyond the Shattered Steppe lie realms warped by the remaining Dragon Generals, each ruling over a broken law of existence. In the Verdant Labyrinth, life itself has...

The universes once turned in perfect harmony, bound together by the radiant Eclipsera Stone. But when the dark lord Avarith and his Draconis Order shatter that balance, worlds begin to crumble and fade. Princess Serenya, eternal guardian of the Stone, is overpowered, transformed into a crystal-bound fox, and silenced-her whispers echoing only in dreams. From across broken realms, unlikely heroes begin to rise. Kaelen, a young wanderer, Lysera, a gifted seer, and others yet untested mus...

Long before the realms were torn apart, balance held the world together.Princess Serenya receives a divine vision beneath a twilight sky where stars fall into a lake of glass. Chosen by the gods, her spirit awakens as a blue fox of living light-the mark of the guardian destined to protect the ancient Eclipsera Stone, a relic that keeps the forces of the world in harmony.But darkness is already searching for the Stone.Determined to find the hidden Eclipsera Sanctuary...

Balance is breaking-and the road only gets stranger.Fresh from their first victories, Kaelen, Lysera, Darek, Kaelorin, and Ravyn ride into lands where the world itself has rules. Lantern eels spell warnings across moonlit rivers. The Verdant Labyrinth opens and closes like a living mind. Thunder walks the plains in bright spears. High on the Cliff of Bells, time rings wrong-because a silver-helmed general has taught the hours to misbehave.Guided by the faint whispers of the...

The world of Eclipsera is no longer breaking.It is being remade.In the aftermath of the Sanctuary's awakening, Serenya and Avarith walk the realms as guardians of balance-mending storms, calming fractured lands, and guiding a world on the edge of collapse. But peace does not come as easily as they had hoped.The world is changing.Storms linger where they should pass. Shadows move with intention. And across the realms, fear begins to spread faster than balance...

The world was never meant to be ruled.For centuries, the Eclipsera Stone held reality in fragile harmony-fire and stillness, growth and decay, time and shadow bound together in living balance. At its heart stood Serenya, the First Guardian, chosen to protect what could never be controlled.But balance has a cost.After witnessing the endless suffering of a world left to chance, Avarith-once Serenya's closest ally-has reached a final, irreversible conclusion:Ba...

A collection of delicious anecdotes of a life spent on stages and film sets across the world—from Peter Hall’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre to The Sound of Music—from one of our greatest actors.Christopher Plummer’s magnificent book recounts the wild adventure that was his life, stretching from a privileged childhood in Canada to the glorious, star-studded New York of the fifties to a sensational career in film appearing in some of our most beloved classics. ...

In 1827, Arthur Gordon Pym stowed away on the brig Grampus, set for the South Seas. Thus, begins a saga of mutiny and butchery, recapture of the vessel by a loyal few, subsequent shipwreck and sufferings, and deliverance.

A rollicking, rich portrait of a life. And what a life! By one of our greatest actors.Plummer tells how “this young bilingual wastrel, incurably romantic, spoiled rotten, tore himself away from the ski slopes to break into the big bad world of theatre, not from the streets up but from an Edwardian living room down,” and writes of his early acting days as an eighteen-year-old playing the lead in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.We see his g...

With the television hits The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy, and movies like The Flamingo Kid, Beaches, Pretty Woman, and The Princess Diaries under his belt, Garry Marshall was among the most successful writers, directors, and producers in America for more than five decades. His work on the small and big screen delighted audiences for decades and has withstood the test of time.In My Happy Days in Hollywood, ...

""A memoir as finely crafted as one of Lithgow’s performances.""—Steve MartinEmmy Award-winner John Lithgow presents a charming, witty, and revealing memoir about his family, his work, and his life in Drama—an intimate story of insights and inspirational reflections from one of America’s most beloved actors. Lithgow pays tribute to his father, his greatest influence, and relives his collaborations with renowned performers and directors including Mike Nichols, Bob Fo...