Shimmerdark

Xylia is used to suffering. Shipwrecked on a swampy, rocky island, she's spent seven years fighting to stay alive. Survival is particularly challenging in the Connected Lands for the sun sinks below the horizon for a month at a time, and during that long, cold darkness, vicious creatures roam the world. The only reason Xylia has lasted this long is because she can summon Shimmerlight, an energy that can be shaped and controlled.Yet when Xylia is finally rescued, her suffering doesn't end. She was once the heir of the Great Drae, a powerful energy summoner, and because the Great Drae thought Xylia died, she's selected a new heir. Xylia is determined to get her old job back. Unfortunately, that means reuniting with her estranged family, battling monsters, and uncovering the Great Drae's secrets-secrets that will forever change Xylia's understanding of herself and her world.

Create timeless looks that will give you confidence and make you radiant with internationally-renowned makeup artist Robert Jones in Makeup Makeovers in 5, 10, 15, and 20 Minutes. This step-by-step guide to realistic, everyday makeup for the woman on the go contains makeup techniques for every occasion, starting with the five-minute morning-makeup for work, more refined style for important meetings that can be done in the office, quick and stylish looks for after-work drinks, hot and sassy styles for when readers are late for their dates, and even elegant evening styles for women who have the time but not the energy or need to spend hours on their look. Top-of-the-field makeup artist Robert Jones shows you which tools to use, how to conceal blemishes, and how to emphasize certain features, such as eyes and lips. You'll discover how to quickly and efficiently transform your appearance in stunning and remarkable ways, no matter what the occasion and in an incredibly short amount of time.

The War of the Spider Queen begins here. While their whole world is changing around them, four dark elves struggle against different enemies. Yet their paths will lead them all to the most terrifying discovery in the long history of the drow and set them on a quest to save not only Menzoberranzan but the entire dark elf race from Dissolution...

Set in medieval Venice, this captivating fairy tale retelling by award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli explores belonging, beauty, and the transformative power of love through the eyes of a teenage girl. Dolce has grown up hidden away on an island in a lagoon. She is a giant, a freak, tormented by everyone but her loving mother. She spends her time learning the valuable secret of making mirrors. Following a tragedy, Dolce swims away and lands on an island where people see her as normal, even beautiful. Marin, a kind widower, and his little daughter bring Dolce to live with them in their grand palazzo. Eventually, Dolce and Marin marry. She secretly continues to make mirrors, not realizing that quicksilver endangers her . . . and so evil begins in innocence.

In just three years, CEO Robbie Case has grown Core Communications, a data technology company, from 30 people to over 5,000. Now a $20 billion company made legendary by its sudden success, Core is based on a technology no other company can come close to copying, a revolutionary breakthrough known as “drawing blood from a mainframe.” And Robbie, its 35-year-old CEO, is acclaimed worldwide for his vision, leadership and wealth. Except that all of it is based on a lie. The technology doesn’t work, the finances are built on a Ponzi scheme of stock sales and shell corporations, and Robbie is struggling to keep the company alive, to protect the friends who work for him and all that they’ve built. Each day, Robbie tries to push the catastrophe back a little further, while his employees believe that they are all moving closer to “grace,” the day their stock options vest, when they will be made rich for their faith and loyalty and hard work. The details of the lie are all keyed into a shadowy interface that Robbie calls Shimmer, an omniscient mainframe that hides itself, calculates its own collapse, threatens to outsmart its creator and to reveal the corporation’s illegal, fragile underpinnings. Shimmer is the story of a high-tech crusade nearing its end. The shell game Robbie has created is finally running out of room. And Robbie is the only one who knows or who has a chance to make things right. Or is he? A breathless debut novel that charges the atmosphere with suspense and surprise and delivers complex characters you can root for in spite of their flaws, Shimmer is Robbie’s race against the truth.

Nothing in this world is free, except poetry so come on aboard this free journey into this poets mind, he will introduce you to his poems that are carved from his memories and fantasies, every poem found in this free e-book is a preview of what can be found in his two paperback books. This is just a free taste to tingle your taste buds and have you begging for more Is it only an optical illusion? this is why the pieces of the puzzle are shattered and the boundaries between the poetical world and that of hard-lined writers of classical romances are blurred, he teases you with tales of fantasy and stories of dancing cats, his wild imagination takes you on an adventure that never seems to end. This upcoming indie poet continues to surprise us with his imagination and depth of writing and has continued to write deep and darker over the last years, every struggle becomes a verse and every war becomes a poem.

This collection of essays by dancers, scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural studies, literature, and architecture explores Irish-German connections through dancein choreographic processes and on stage, in literary texts, photography, dance documentation, film, and architecture since the 1920s.