Ellen Schreiber (Author), rem (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition. She is the author of the first two books about Celeste and Brandon, Once in a Full Moon and Magic of the Moonlight, as well as Teenage Mermaid, Comedy Girl, Vampire Kisses, Vampire Kisses 2: Kissing Coffins, Vampire Kisses 3: Vampireville, Vampire Kisses 4: Dance with a Vampire, Vampire Kisses 5: The Coffin Club. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. Vampire Kisses: Blood Relatives, Volume I. Ellen Schreiber was an actress and a stand-up comedienne before becoming a writer.
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where she’s been walking the deck with first-class passengers, like her aunt and uncle. This time, Sam is having recurring dreams about the Titanic. But having survived one curse, she never thought she’d find herself at the center of a new one. Samantha Mather knew her family’s connection to the infamous Salem Witch Trials might pose obstacles to an active social life. The Titanic meets the delicious horror of Ransom Riggs and the sass of Mean Girls in this follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller How to Hang a Witch, in which a contemporary teen finds herself a passenger on the famous “ship of dreams”-a story made all the more fascinating because the author’s own relatives survived the doomed voyage. Following each entry is an enlightening afterword that provides a refreshing look into Butler's writing process and that helps to clarify what excites and motivates this exceptionally talented writer. Here, too, is ``Crossover,'' Butler's first published story, which deals with the ghostly by-products of hopelessness and drudgery. ``The Evening and the Morning and the Night'' concerns genetic disorders, personal responsibility and pheremones ``Near of Kin'' takes a sympathetic look at a dysfunctional family and ``Speech Sounds,'' another Hugo winner, depicts a near-future society in which a virus has nearly destroyed people's ability to communicate. ``Bloodchild'' (which won both a Hugo and a Nebula ) is a compelling and horrifying novella combining a love story between a human and an alien with a coming-of-age tale it is, as Butler puts it, a ``pregnant man'' story. Two essays round out the volume: one an inspirational piece about making writing a habit, the other a more personal reminiscence about what it's like to be poor, female, black-and to persist in the writing of SF anyway. ``I hate short story writing,'' Butler admits in her preface not surprisingly, then, there are only five tales here, ranging in date from 1971 to 1983. Collected in this slim volume is the entire output of short fiction from the pen of MacArthur Award winner Butler (Parable of the Sower). Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism by Devon, Molly Miller, Philip and a great selection of related books.
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Jacob will go to unthinkable lengths to win Katerina, even if it means competing with Hephaestion, a murderer sheltered by the prince. But she doesn't account for her first love… Katerina must navigate the dark secrets of court life while keeping her own mission hidden: kill the queen. A time when cities burn and, in their ashes, empires rise.Īlexander, Macedon’s sixteen-year-old heir, is on the brink of discovering his fated role in conquering the known world, but finds himself drawn to a newcomer… Legacy of Kings (Blood of Gods and Royals, 1) Paperback by Eleanor Herman (Author) 262 ratings Book 1 of 4: Blood of Gods and Royals See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 16.70 Other new, used and collectible from 1. Imagine a time when the gods turn a blind eye to the agony of men, when the last of the hellions roam the plains and evil stirs beyond the edges of the map. Weaving the fantasy appeal of Game of Thrones with the shocking details of real history, New York Times bestselling author of Sex with Kings Eleanor Herman reimagines the greatest emperor the world has ever known, Alexander the Great, in book one of the Blood of Gods and Royals series. A laudanum addict and lesser novelist, Collins flouts Victorian sensibilities by living with one mistress while having a child with another, but he may be the only man on Earth with whom Dickens can share the secret of…ĭrood. And at the core of that ensuing five-year nightmare is…ĭrood… the name that Dickens whispers to his friend Wilkie Collins. When Dickens descends into that valley to confront the dead and dying, his life will be changed forever. All of the first-class carriages except the one carrying Dickens are smashed to bits in the valley below. On June 9, 1865, Dickens and his mistress are secretly returning to London, when their express train hurtles over a gap in a trestle. 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