A whirlwind romance from the  New York Times  bestselling authors of  Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. *  “I’ve left some clues for you. If you want them, turn the page. If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.”* 16-year-old Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on her favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. Dash, in a bad mood during the holidays, happens to be the first guy to pick up the notebook and rise to its challenges. What follows is a whirlwind romance as Dash and Lily trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations all across New York City. But can their in-person selves possibly connect as well as their notebook versions, or will their scavenger hunt end in a comic mismatch of disastrous proportions?

Two strangers, six weeks, the social experiment says the odds are in their favor, Violet and Lane might just prove them wrong. To say Lane Cooper simply broke my heart is letting him off easy. Our breakup was one for the ages complete with roaring shouting matches, eviscerated feelings, and the hostile exchange of belongings via our best friends. Of course I did my part in the aftermath and unfollowed him on all social media sites as the ultimate kiss off. I don’t want Lane anywhere near my radar ever again. Violet Hathaway was the love of my life until the night we unraveled faster than a second-hand sweater. I wasn’t going to enroll in Dexter Houston’s social experiment that’s shaking up the campus but in the name of research, and given the fact my coach coerced the entire team to sign up, I’m in for whatever sin Dexter throws our way. But when my assignment consists of confronting an ex in front of a live audience I have serious regrets for ever penning my name on the dotted line. And working to reconnect for weeks afterwards? Not happening. But if Vi isn’t backing down then neither am I. And at exactly seven o’ clock in the University auditorium, Violet and I are going to get one last moment in the sun. Here’s hoping I don’t get burned. I’m still not over the first fire we walked through. From the NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling author, Addison Moore— Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books, "...easy, frothy fun!"

“Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us.”—Hilary Mantel Simonides of Keos lived during the fifth and sixth centuries BC, a fertile period for the arts, when myths were being acted out and verse had just begun to be written down. In this evocative portrayal of Simonides, the poet is learning to master his craft and secure fickle patrons, and his travels place him at the scene of many central historical events. This fact, along with his friendship with gallivanting, brilliant Anakreon, makes him a perfect guide to the age. The Praise Singer is faithfully grounded in history, with all the immediacy of Mary Renault’s acclaimed novels of the ancient world, offering an unforgettable portrait of such events as the Persian invasion of Ionia, the reign of Pisistratos in Athens, and the fall of Hippias and Hipparchos.

Irish author and playwright Sebastian Barry has created a powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war.In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side.  Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.

This collection of the early works of Jane Austen uniquely displays the emerging talent of a brilliant and observant young woman. Completed before Austen was fifteen, the works are astonishing in their maturity. Blending the exuberance of youth with the sharp wit and devastating social criticism of her later novels, Love and Friendship is a collection not to be missed.

On the dunes west of Bruges, two-year-old Ydette is found wrapped in a blanket and taken back to live in a small grocer's shop. Opposite the shop live the wealthy van Roeslaere family and their son, Adriaan, a spoilt boy, plagued by ugliness. With overtones of Beauty and the Beast, their romance matures as they grow up together and learn what should truly be valued in life.

The Primary 7's of Campie Primary School (Musselburgh, Scotland) have come together to create a fantastic collection of short stories. If you're interested in adventure, fantasy and imagination then be sure to read this epic book.WARNING! This is a Zed Lab Experiment!"The legacy" description: The death of Simona in a tragic accident in the summer of 2006, seems to have no other explanation that a trivial distraction to the guide. But her husband Roberto is not entirely convinced. After a terrible dream and a strange call, his suspicions are a below. You will indeed alive Erika, an old friend of the victim, who he says he is aware of his important secret. In reality Erika is aware of the minimum part of a terrible truth that has its roots in 1400, in a village of the modenese shocked by the mass at the stake of a woman accused of being a witch. Thanks to a last testimony that Simona had left fearing its own to be killed, and that Bob found himself with the help of Erika, her daughter Cristina discovers all the details of a absurd destiny, the inheritance that from the past came up to her and it threatens to destroy it. But, as her mother, she too will choose the path of rebellion.

Daytime TV's first and only new hot e-zine: Weekly summary of soap opera's hottest news, stories, humour, gossip, blind items, fearless predictions, top stars/stories/couples/characters to watch, snark galore, review and analysis.INSIDE OUR SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE — CATCHING UP WITH…. BOBBIE EAKES A YEAR AFTER AMC’S MURDER ! WHY AGNES NIXON IS STILL DEVASTATED OVER AMC’S CANCELLATION; HOW ABC “DISSED” DAYTIME; HOW SHE FEELS ABOUT SUSAN FLANNERY’S DAYTIME EXIT; WOULD SHE RETURN TO B&B; HER MEMORIES OF DARLENE CONLEY; HER NEW PROJECTS; IS MACY ALIVE?, AND THE UPCOMING MARTIN FAMILY HOLIDAY PARTY/REUNION — Casting Exclusive: Four “New” Roles on B&B, DAYS and Y&R! Details Inside! — UPDATE: FIND OUT IF THE DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS ARE AIRING IN 2013! — DAYS: Brady and Kristen Have Sex! — CLAIM: IS TONY GEARY BLOCKING GENIE FRANCIS’S GH RETURN? — Is Y&R Recasting Chance? Plus: Tricia Cast On Her Y&R Future Only In UNCENSORED! Exclusive: Inside Y&R’s Toronto Tea! —LARRY HAGMAN DEAD AT 81! HOW DALLAS WILL CONTINUE — Exclusive: Deidre Hall On How She Feels About Working With Eileen Davidson Again! — WHAT’S FAILING RIGHT NOW ON THE Y&R STORY FRONT — Is Darin Brooks Returning to DAYS? — ONE LIFE’s ROBIN STRASSER QUITTING TWITTER? — Exclusive: Katherine Kelly Lang: Emmy Update! Plus: Is She Toronto-Bound? — IS GH IN DANGER AGAIN? ABC DEVELOPING A REALITY SPIN-OFF OF GH! — Prime Suds: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST’S Kristin Kreuk Is All Grown Up! Exclusive Interview Inside! — LAST WEEK REVIEWS! — Casting Coach! SOAP PORN! UNCENSORED Quotes Of The Week!

A companion short story to Playing with Matches. Katharina Ackermann's diary entries marking the turn of WW2, and her heart for the boy heading for battle.It is 2012. A new year, and a new era of counter-terrorism. Magnet Securities, the largest private security firm in America, leads the fight against rising domestic terror groups in the country. But do their methods make them better than the very people they hunt?Project 6 is an interactive short story. Take on the role of agent 6, a Magnet Securities operative ordered to take out terrorists who have stormed LAX. Mission discretion is yours alone. How the mission proceeds, and how it ends, is up to you.Requires Amazon Kindle or Mobi for reader input to work.

Legend Upon the Cane is the tale of the courageous chief of the Natchitoches Indians and the French explorer, Louis de St. Denis. It follows their adventures in early 18th century Louisiana and culminates in 1714 where together they establish the oldest settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, Natchitoches.Legend Upon the Cane is the tale of the courageous chief of the Natchitoches Indians and the French explorer, Louis de St. Denis. Travel along with Chief Natchitos on this legendary and historic adventure as he leads his tribe from the banks of the Sabine River to the lush area of the Cane River, where he meets the French explorers, led by Louis de St. Denis. Then, travel with them to the bayous of South Louisiana and Lake Pontchartrain where his tribe must flee to escape a terrible famine. It is a foreign land where they must learn to adapt, but also must learn to live alongside an unfamiliar tribe, the Acolapissa. Soon, they will face the ultimate challenge in an epic battle to win their freedom and bravely escape to their homeland. Upon their historic return in 1714 with the French settlers, they establish the oldest settlement of the Louisiana Purchase, Natchitoches.

A collection of poems about rabbits, vicars and soiled bandages,A New Tale from the Award-Winning Author of Cloak of Shadows When a word is whispered... Abigail Thorne hears voices. Well, one voice repeating one word over and over again. Soft and sweet with the promise of power, it calls to her. The twelve year old has no idea that the tender little word is a catalyst that serves to reveal a world hidden to most humans. Abbey has yet to discover that following the word’s call to its origin will change the course of her life forever. Abbey and her mother don’t have much, and depending on the day, sometimes they don’t even have a roof over their heads. She wants more out of life than just wondering where her next meal is. So she shouldn’t be wasting her time daydreaming about going on a selfish quest, should she? Does she have the strength to leave behind what little she has? Will she have the courage to break through the illusions surrounding her and lift the cloak of shadows?

It’s Volume 4 of TIW shorts! The fourth collection and possibly the last of totally pointless exactly 500 Challenge and exactly 200 Weekend Quickie flash fiction stories/scenes word nonsense (plus a few specials, relays, newsflashes from the TIW blog and collaborations) to entertain you while doing whatever you do when reading.It’s Volume 4 of TIW shorts! The fourth collection and possibly the last of totally pointless exactly 500 Challenge and exactly 200 Weekend Quickie flash fiction stories/scenes word nonsense (plus a few specials, relays, newsflashes from the TIW blog and collaborations) to entertain you while doing whatever you do when reading. For myself, it was a long and tricky half year in The Iron Writer. Through troubles and difficulties, there was always the TIW Challenge waiting for me.I hope you enjoy these short snippets just as much as I enjoyed writing them, and thanks again to Brian and all the other Iron Writers for allowing me into their community…I wouldn’t.

A young airman with Asperger’s, summarily discharged from military duty and plagued by mental health issues, becomes homeless and has frequent encounters with the law. Through his exploits, he inadvertently provides the inspiration for a popular TV show and becomes the hope of the poor and downtrodden in Seattle, Washington.Life is tough. It's especially challenging if you were born to a drug-addicted mother, spent years shuffling between foster homes, barely recognized for your world-class classical pianist ability, and struggled everyday with Asperger's Syndrome. Finding it difficult to hold down employment or maintain a meaningful relationship, James, who would later come to be known as Commoner, was destined to spend many years living a life of homeless destitution. A glimpse of hope arrives when a police officer, sympathetic to his plight, gives him a break for the many troubles he gets himself into. Commoner, his life and struggles forming the base for a popular network cartoon show, becomes the champion of the poor and neglected although, being homeless, is unaware of it. Plagued by his own demons, will Commoner finally fall prey to a society that marginalizes him in a big way?

Ever Montgomery suffered the ultimate betrayal by the one man who she should have been able to count on for anything. It has left her hurt, jaded and incapable of forming relationships, but it also means that she can spot a liar a mile away. These traits are earning her a reputation as a reporter with a keen nose for a good story and a complete understanding of the extreme power of the written word. Lincoln Caldwell, is the hot goalie for the New York Rangers. At twenty-four and a rising star, he works hard and he plays even harder. He's gorgeous and carefree--the ultimate charmer. Ladies fall at his feet and the single life has never been lived the way Linc Caldwell does it. When Ever publishes an article about Linc containing information that she received off the record, she finds herself on the receiving end of the athlete's fury. Rather than basking in the glory of exposing Linc as a shameless user of women, she finds herself at his mercy when he demands and receives retribution. Required by her editor to trail Linc for six weeks, Ever is forced to look at the real Linc Caldwell. And she just might find that she has misjudged him.