Live Sagas

Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and fans alike fell in love with the voice of 99-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature. Lucy married at the turn of the 20th century, when she was 15 and her husband was 50. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood.

When Sia Mason lost her twin sister Mia in a car accident, she thought the grief would define the rest of her life. Years later, the truth crashes into her world with shattering force: Mia isn’t gone. She has been remade as a demon, bound to Hell itself. Determined to save her sister’s soul, Sia steps into a hidden world of dragons, paladins, and magi. Ancient orders wage silent wars, and the balance between Heaven and Hell is always on the edge of collapse.

Darren Shan and his best friend, Steve, get tickets to the Cirque du Freak, a wonderfully gothic freak show featuring weird, frightening half human/half animals who interact terrifyingly with the audience. In the midst of the excitement, true terror raises its head when Steve recognizes that one of the performers - Mr. Crepsley - is a vampire! Steve confronts the vampire after the show finishes - but his motives are surprising!

A MASSIVE collection of EIGHT vampire mysteries by #1 Amazon bestselling author, J.R. Rain, including: MOON DANCE (Vampire for Hire #1) Six years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire. Now working the night shift as a private investigator, Samantha is hired by Kingsley Fulcrum to investigate the murder attempt on his life, a horrific scene captured on TV and seen around the country. But as ...

The Boy Who Would Live Forever has a sense of wonder and excitement that will satisfy those who loved Gateway and will delight new listeners as well. In Gateway, long after the alien Heechee abandoned their space-station, Gateway (as humans dubbed it) allowed humans to explore new worlds. The Heechee, alarmed by the alien Kugel whose goal was to destroy all organic lifeforms, had already retreated to the galactic core, where they now lived in peace.

In modern-day Belgium, the vampire Gon has kidnapped a ruthless murderer. Lukas Jaeger is a cunning sociopath, a monster in the guise of a man. Lonely and fascinated by his hostage's inhumanity, Gon strikes a deal with the seductive serial killer: his life story in exchange for the mortal's vile tales. So long as Gon is intrigued, his captive lives on.

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own...

This is the saga of the immortal Gon, a 30,000 year-old vampire. The first volume of his memoirs recounts his mortal life in prehistoric Germany alongside his male companion, Brulde, and his two wives, the Neanderthal Eyya and his Cro-Magnon mate, Nyala. It details the fearsome events that lead to his transformation from man to undying monster.

The war with the System is over. The world it left behind is anything but safe. Twenty years after the Genesis event, New York City is a vertical jungle of neon vines, mana-storms, and monsters that learned to hunt in three dimensions. At the top of the Helix Tower, Marcus Shaw—the Sun King turned planetary admin—holds the bio-punk metropolis together with sheer will, a living World Tree, and a dynasty that once broke gods. Below him, in the Third Year Wing of Spellbound Academy, his daughter is failing to live up to the legend carved into every trophy case. Maya Blackthorne was ...

April 1964. A pharmaceutical cover-up pushes William Nolan to an impossible choice: implicate himself in a murder he did not commit, or lose his family. In the weeks that follow, a drug with terrible side effects gets pushed to market prematurely, causing the suffering of thousands around the world. Three generations later, Jordan Nolan wants nothing to do with his hometown or his last name.

Ricominciare è sempre possibile. È un’arte, un cammino spirituale alla portata di tutti, che può articolarsi in sei giorni, proprio come quelli della Creazione. È questo il messaggio che Fabio Rosini vuole trasmettere con un libro ricco di speranza. Per ricominciare dobbiamo accettare che ogni fine non è che l’inizio di qualcos’altro, il dono di qualcuno diverso da noi. Don Fabio Rosini, sacerdote romano dal 1991, è stato parroco e incaricato della pastorale interna per i dipendenti della RAI. Collabora con Radio Vaticana, Famiglia Cristiana e L’Osservatore Romano.

Crutch, Abagail, the marines, and a ship full of Ironborn make their desperate escape from William Wyld and his half-dead army in Ironbay. But what waits for them in the ocean, and can they make it to Papageenar alive? Even if they make it to Papageenar, can they convince the Narafi cannibals deep in the jungle to share their spirit keeper's closely guarded secrets with Damen, the rightful king? Can they get the magic they need to fight Wyld or are the Ironborn hiding in the sewers of Ironbay doomed to be food for his half-deads? And what horrible surprise with the power to kill everyone ...

Strange sounds. Unexplained footprints. Gut-wrenching encounters in the dead of night. This is no campfire tale. This is the gripping, TRUE story of a man who encountered a species that wasn’t supposed to exist. Are you ready to believe? You’ll never look at the woods the same way again. Get it now.

The third book in beloved and bestselling Anna Jacobs' Lancashire-based Ellindale saga Lancashire, 1932 Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie, scrimping and saving to get by. But after she suffers a violent asthma attack, the doctors say she must move to the...

The war of guns and magic is over. Now the universe wants to audit the result. For twenty years, Marcus Shaw and the Dynasty have tended the garden—healing the Rot, turning New York into a solarpunk beacon, and building a world where magic is as natural as breathing and war is only a memory. But a sun can’t live in a house of wood. Marcus has become too powerful, a living fusion core whose very presence is melting the ley-lines he swore to protect. To stay is to burn the life he loves. Exiled by necessity, the King leaves the garden for the void. At the edge of Saturn’s rings, ...

For fans of The Vampire Diaries, Twilight and The Hunger Games! Over 200,000 copies sold in the series! More than 1,200 worldwide 5-star reviews! The epic saga of vampires and werewolves - and a love unlike any other. Josiah Reign is a lover and a fighter, and now he's building his own Mani army to take on Krull for a future battle of epic proportions. Old and new loves reveal themselves as Josiah comes to terms with his destiny. Struggling to keep old friendships alive, Josiah finds himself in an underground, immortal, mixed martial arts fight club fighting for his life and the lives of ...

Every shelf has a secret. Every story has a reckoning. Bonnie thought she understood chaos. Between cursed cookbooks, collapsing shelves, and companions who never quite follow the rules, she’s learned to survive the unpredictable. But when the Archive pulls her away from Earth and into a new library not of this Earth, she must endure trials where science fiction and speculative fiction demands its voice be heard—and Bonnie will have to decide what kind of story she belongs to. The spiral has carried her this far, but the reckoning ahead will change everything.

Navigating lesbian life? From tackling Lesbian Bed Death and strap-ons to handling workplace microaggressions and discovering your second family, Helen Scott, your lipstick femme in chief, is here to lead the way to Gay Town. Dive into this part-memoir, part-guide, and embrace the the highs and lows of navigating lesbian life in the modern world. Candid, wise, bold and hilarious - it's time to reclaim the L in LGBTQ+.

The basic initial storyline premise focuses on a lonely boy who spends most of his childhood sitting alone on a park bench. However, after performing a few random acts of kindness, his life begins to head in a direction that he could have never imagined in his wildest dreams. That unlikely lonely boy would end up building a giant family dynasty that changes the lives of everyone in his entire community, and beyond. He shows us that even the most common and disadvantaged among us can take certain actions in life that result in dramatic life-changing results.

Sigrid ventures into the realms of Madness to confront Vodo, and her agent, the furry terror...