He was hoping, while his fingers drummed in unison with the beat of his verse, that this last play at least would rouse enthusiasm in the pit. The welcome given its immediate predecessors had undeniably been tepid. A memorandum at his elbow of the receipts at the Globe for the last quarter showed this with disastrous bluntness; and, after all, in 1609 a shareholder in a theater, when writing dramas for production there, was ordinarily subject to more claims than those of his ideals.

In a matter of months, Corin be able to return home and leave his miserable days in the temple behind him. He's tired of lazy priests, and of stories of demon shadows that move of their own volition. Then Corin starts to see things, the priests begin to act strange, and he begins to wonder … is he losing his mind, or are the shadows more than they seem?Corin is nearly done with his term amongst the priests. In a matter of months, he'll be able to return home and leave his miserable days in the temple behind him. He's tired of lazy priests and tired of stories of demon shadows that move of their own volition.Then Corin starts to see things, and the priests begin to act strange, and he begins to wonder … is he losing his mind, or are the shadows more than they seem?

Another fantastic adventure in NY TIMES bestselling author Chris d'Lacey's dragon saga! In the thrilling third book in Chris d'Lacey's popular series, David Rain is faced with a perilous task. ICEFIRE's evil sibyl Gwilanna is back, this time determined to resurrect the dragon Gawain on the ice cap of the Tooth of Ragnar. Can David and his friends stop her before it's too late?

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.Being a Fury is more than just a job for Jasmine and this time the job's harder than expected. She's stuck in a cat suit and competing against another demon for the same soul. To top it off, the soul's owner is the reason Daddy Dearest is mad at her. Now she has to choose between revenge or completing her assignment. What's a Fury to do?Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Being a Fury from Hell is more than just a job for Jasmine. It's what she is and if you ask her, she'd say she's the best at it, too. This time, though, the job’s harder than expected.To start with, she's stuck in a cat suit and no one takes a cat serious.Her assignment also clashes with another's. There's a retrieval demon in the area and it turns out they are after the same soul.To top it off, the soul's owner is the reason Daddy Dearest is mad at her. Now she has to decided between revenge for herself or finishing her assignment. What's a furry, um, Fury cat to do?

Donuts with Dad is a story about elementary-school popularity and gladiators.Seventeen-year-old Heidi Cruise has one chance at freedom, but it involves breaking the law and completing Savage Run, a grueling, male-only obstacle course program.Nicholas Volkov has one goal: to make sure when he becomes president over the hierarchical society of Newland that he doesn't follow in his tyrannical father's footsteps.After Heidi registers for the program, Nicholas discovers that she's a girl. Being a rebel in his own right, Nicholas doesn't turn her in, but decides to help in any way possible.Heidi struggles through the obstacle courses in Savage Run. Physically and emotionally drained, it is only during downtime between events that she's able to make sense of her world and get a little closer to the secretive Nicholas.But with the threat of death constantly barreling down on her, and with menacing contestants looming around every obstacle, she realizes the chances of her getting killed are far greater than her chances of surviving and attaining her freedom.Savage Run 1: Phase 1Savage Run 2: Phase 2Savage Run 3: Phase 3 and the conclusion of Savage RunWhat readers are saying:Nail-biting, action packedIf anyone is hesitant to read this book....Don't be.....It's an awesome read! You don't know what you missing! Loved it! Please hurry with the next book!OMG! I need more!A death defying YA series you can't put downAn On-Edge Thriller, From Start To Finish!Fantastic readAmazing book. Get it now!A Must read!Stunning!Action-packed, great plot, amazing charactersBest book since Hunger games and divergent!Couldn't put it down. The next big book craze is right hereNon-stop action, great characters, bloody good storyI went into the book thinking it was going to be some sort of 'Hunger Games' wannabe, but oh, I was so pleasantly surprised!Honestly, this is one of the best reads I've read in a while.A Gripping TaleTypical of EJ Squires' novels she wastes no time in grabbing our attention with the main driver of the story suggested in the first paragraphs:' Biking up the same mile-and-a-half long asphalt hill is so much harder when I know that at the end of the journey I'll either be an outlaw, or I'll be dead. The quality of the story is excellent on many levels - adventure, gender identity issues, apocalyptic threats, and most of all, as simply brilliant writing. EJ Squires is a growing master of this genre and certainly an author who deserves a very large audience.This futuristic novel by EJ Squires had me thinking about three well-loved fierce heroines of our time - Hua Mulan (Ballad of Mulan) & Katniss Everdeen (Hunger Games) and Lisbeth Salander (Girl With Dragon Tattoo). I admit, at first I thought this was another Hunger Games in the making, but I was mistaken when I found myself immersed from the first chapter to the last.Savage Run is a book for all readers. Those looking for romance and friendship, a tell tale heart of loss and love and regret. It also keeps those in need of elements of danger, adventure, and heroic duties flipping pages to find out what happens to their beloved main character and the villains she finds herself pitted against. Definitely get your hands on a copy of Savage Run today.

This is the story of Kahira, a young girl with an ancient and proud lineage. She meets strange new friends who stay with her, moving with her toward her destiny. They battle different species of deadly warriors and creatures just to survive. Her new power is frightening! Will she learn to control it and use it to help her fulfill her destiny?Come to a planet a trillion miles away from Earth and watch a story become a legend. This is the story of Kahira, a young girl with an ancient and proud lineage.Early in life, she knows love of her parents and grief at their loss. She meets strange new friends who stay with her, moving with her toward her destiny. They battle different species of deadly warriors and creatures just to survive, always protecting each other and moving forward...Kahira is born with new abilities that she must learn to use and control as she grows. Step by step, she learns of her own destiny.Will Kahira accept her destiny? Will her destiny reveal truths to her as she moves slowly towards it?Come live the exciting adventures with Kahira and her friends! Learn the hidden truths of "Kahira's Destiny."

The Pied Piper has a supernatural ability to catch rats. He’s a vampire. It’s a good living until an unpaid bill in Hamelin and his revenge--kidnapping the kids and turning them into vampires--backfires and he has to flee Europe with his kids. Jack follows in his father’s footsteps. Until the Piper’s girlfriend sparks a fight between father and son. Jack must decide what he'll sacrifice for love.The Pied Piper is known for his supernatural ability to catch rats. Of course. He’s a vampire. Rats, bats, wolves, and humans fall prey to his command. It’s a lucrative living until a payment dispute with a small-town German client in 1284 and his revenge--kidnapping the town’s children and turning them into vampires--escalated into a territorial battle with Count Dracula, forcing the Piper to flee Europe with a few of his children.Seven hundred years later in Manhattan, Jack follows in his father’s footsteps. It’s a good living: the number of rats in New York City is no joke. When the Piper’s girlfriend, an animal rights activist, threatens Jack’s business in a scheme to get the Piper out of pest control, the Piper and Jack fight for control. And Jack must decide what he’ll sacrifice for love.

Born under the 13th sign, she dances as entrancingly as the serpent, he creates venomous potions.She becomes the citizens’ darling, he the elite’s secretive aid to wielding power.Her love is reserved for her art. His finest concoction poisons the mind against those you love.So, just how much will he give her to make her his?When one civilization ends, another one profits. The wealthiest and most prestigious races from the galaxy join together in an attempt to earn slice of the pie, but for Spanlet, profit means nothing compared to the survival of his people. Tasked with finding a new home for his people, Spanlet must withstand much more than he bargained for. Will he arrive home victorious, or let his people die? Faced with annoyances and problems on all sides, he needs to find the perfect home for his people before someone else does.

Musty the badger is an adventurous creature who loves digging new chambers in his family's home. One day when some playful cubs drive him deep into some long unused chambers, he discovers ancient evil; secrets of the stone circle which sits on the land above his family's sett.This enigmatic collection of poems explores and equates the boundless possibilities of life and death and delves into each intricate inexplicability of survival. Parekh's roving philosophical eye brings the unconquerable richness of life to the fore and yet at the same time explicitly highlights the veracity of 'death' as the absolute certainty of every existence. The poet joyously celebrates the occasions of both life and death with equal panache in each poetic stanza sewn with the uncanny mysteries of this Universe. The poems within immortalize both life and death as the ultimate victories and the two most contrastingly amazing and divine sides of creation. Catapulting the reader to the threshold of ultimate ecstasy; they bring about an impromptu twist with the closure of breath and what lies beyond. This charismatically woven collection of poetic verse would equally enamor the narcissist as well as the simple humanitarian to the core.This book is a humble attempt to enlighten the readers with the equality of life and death-and to live in both of them to the most unparalleled fullest. Embracing only the religion of humanity, as the Lord has commanded every living being on earth. You cant die in life and cant live in death-each of these components are irrefutably equal in every respect and should be worshipped with due obeisance.

The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Cyrano De Bergerac team up to rescue Napoleon's wife.When the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte is kidnapped by the mysterious Man in the Iron Mask, whom can he trust to get her back? The Broken Bards of Paris! What three men, despite deformity and unrequited love, will unite to become a trio of heroic troubadours? The Broken Bards of Paris! When France is in peril, who will sing the songs, fight the throngs, and right the wrongs? The Broken Bards of Paris! Join Cyrano De Bergerac, Quasimodo the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Erik the Opera Ghost in their first daring ensemble adventure! With special appearances by Voltaire, Joan of Arc, and Napoleon himself!

She's a mortal with dark powers... After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person's darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude...until creatures of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress call to the world's most infamous vampire... He's the Prince of Night... Vlad Tepesh inspired the greatest vampire legend of all—but whatever you do, don't call him Dracula. Vlad's ability to control fire makes him one of the most feared vampires in existence, but his enemies have found a new weapon against him—a beautiful mortal with powers to match his own. When Vlad and Leila meet, however, passion ignites between them, threatening to consume them both. It will take everything that they are to stop an enemy intent on bringing them down in flames.

While the warlike and merciless Aenir wreak havoc upon the territory outside the mountain stronghold of the clans, Sigarni, the Hawk Queen, arrives in a parallel version of her own universe through a gate in space and time. Taliesen, last of the gatekeepers, has no idea why she has come. But he knows that heroes are needed and grants her passage into the ravaged land. Only Caswallon–loner, warrior, and thief–realizes the true extent of the danger and the mayhem that his people will come to face. As Taliesen tries to discover Sigarni’s purpose, Caswallon must attempt to unite the clans to overcome their greatest peril. From the Paperback edition.

Nola O’Grady is sick and tired of psychic squid-images following her everywhere, waving their tentacles and generally making nuisances of themselves. She and her partner, Ari Nathan, have a dangerous job on their hands, hunting down two criminals who have escaped into another level of the multiverse, the San Francisco of Terra Six. Terrorists have turned parts of that city into a deathtrap—religious fanatics, yes, but from what religion? Nola suspects that the Peacock Angel Chaos cult lies behind the bombings and mass murders. As she gathers evidence, she finds herself face-to-face with part of her own personal past that she’d prefer to bury forever. And by the way, just who is it that keeps trying to kill her?

A gritty, romantic modern fairy tale from the author of Break and Gone, Gone, Gone. Be careful what you believe in. Rudy’s life is flipped upside-down when his family moves to a remote island in a last attempt to save his sick younger brother. With nothing to do but worry, Rudy sinks deeper and deeper into loneliness and lies awake at night listening to the screams of the ocean beneath his family’s rickety house. Then he meets Diana, who makes him wonder what he even knows about love, and Teeth, who makes him question what he knows about anything. Rudy can’t remember the last time he felt so connected to someone, but being friends with Teeth is more than a little bit complicated. He soon learns that Teeth has terrible secrets. Violent secrets. Secrets that will force Rudy to choose between his own happiness and his brother’s life.