Always separate, never interfere. Grisella has always plays by the Dweller laws. Until she meets Wilhelm Grimm and discovers the beautiful stories he creates. When the sickly author asks for her help, she can't resist the call of his tales and the lifelike characters she meets within them. Fascinated and immersed in the world she's supposed to be helping, Gris has to be careful or she'll lose her grip on reality... - Bittersweet Beginning is book one of the Grimm's Dweller series, a heart wrenching fantasy journey inspired by Grimm's fairy tales.

Loss and impermanence are inescapable, part of the warp and weft of our lives. They are essential to love, to growth, and to art. And yet, too often, we do not acknowledge loss, let alone honour the experience of it. Illuminating, thoughtful, and deeply necessary, Susan Cain's new book will help us to name and value the experience of loss, pointing the way toward ways of being and rituals that help us to accept it rather than bury it. Blending memoir, reportage, and social science, it will reveal that joy and loss exist in equilibrium; that vulnerability, or even a melancholy temperament, can be a strength; and that embracing our inevitable losses makes us more human and more whole.

Hudson Avery gave up a promising competetive ice skating career after her parents divorced when she was fourteen years old and now spends her time baking cupcakes and helping out in her mother's upstate New York diner, but when she gets a chance at a scholarship and starts coaching the boys' hockey team, she realizes that she is not through with ice skating after all.

Sage Czinski is trying really hard to be perfect. If she manages it, people won't peer beyond the surface, or ask hard questions about her past. She's learned to substitute causes for relationships, and it's working just fine . . . until Shane Cavendish strolls into her math class. He's a little antisocial, a lot beautiful, and everything she never knew she always wanted. Shane Cavendish just wants to be left alone to play guitar and work on his music. He's got heartbreak and loneliness in his rearview mirror, and this new school represents his last chance. He doesn't expect to be happy; he only wants to graduate and move on. He never counted on a girl like Sage. But love doesn't mend all broken things, and sometimes life has to fall apart before it can be put back together again. . . .

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos Williams's Spring and All and William H. Gass's On Being Blue. Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly entertaining, Eros is an utterly original book.

It is a collection of poems and short essays intended to inform or encourage young women, although not limited to that age

From her seminal Eros the Bittersweet (1986) to her experimental Float (2016), Bakkhai (2017) and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2019), Anne Carson's engagement with antiquity has been deeply influential to generations of readers, both inside and outside of academia. One reason for her success is the versatile scope of her classically-oriented oeuvre, which she rethinks across multiple media and categories. Yet an equally significant reason is her profile as a classicist. In this role, Carson unfailingly refuses to conform to the established conventions and situated practices of her discipline, in favour of a mode of reading classical literature that allows for interpretative and creative freedom. From a multi-praxis, cross-disciplinary perspective, the volume explores the erudite indiscipline of Carson's classicism as it emerges in her poetry, translations, essays, and visual artistry. It argues that her classicism is irreducible to a single vision, and that it is best approached as integral to the protean character of her artistic thought. Anne Carson/Antiquity collects twenty essays by poets, translators, artists, practitioners and scholars. It offers the first collective study of the author's classicism, while drawing attention to one of the most avant-garde, multifaceted readings of the classical past.

In a world plagued by betrayal and deceit, Daisy's life takes a dark turn after the tragic loss of her mother. Forced to endure the cruelty of her stepmother and stepsister, she finds solace in the unwavering support of her neighbor, Ethan. But just as she's about to embark on a new chapter with Ethan, Daisy's world is shattered once again. Awakening on a mysterious island, Daisy discovers she's been thrust into a chilling predicament. Alongside countless other women, she is subjected to physical examinations and awaits an unimaginable fate as the chosen one to become Alpha's Breeder for Gabriel Stone, a wealthy and dangerous werewolf. Determined to resist her captor's desires, Daisy's defiance only seems to deepen Gabriel's fascination with her. As their relationship takes an unexpected turn, Gabriel begins to fall in love with Daisy, enthralled by her spirit and strength. But Daisy remains resolute in her mission to escape, willing to risk it all for her freedom. In a desperate bid for liberation, Daisy seizes an opportunity to strike back, but the shocking truth behind her family's deception exposes her to a whole new level of danger. Grasping for a lifeline, Daisy discovers she carries the precious gift of life within her a child who becomes her sole reason to fight back and reclaim her inheritance. Enter Gabriel, hope glimmering on the horizon. Daisy strikes a deal with the enigmatic Alpha. Promising him their child and marriage, Daisy implores Gabriel to help her regain everything that had been taken from her. With conspiracies, conditions, and their hearts hanging in the balance, Daisy and Gabriel embark on a treacherous journey of love, revenge, and redemption. Will Gabriel choose to stand by Daisy's side and honor her plea? Can Daisy outwit her treacherous family and reclaim her rightful place? In a world where betrayal lurks at every corner, their love will be pushed to its limits, as the duo navigates the realms of power, lust, and ultimately, salvation.

Despair: The Beginning is the first installment of a book series. Jason Dunston, lead protagonist is a smart, yet whimsically clumsy actuary working for a Math and Science institution. Him and his girlfriend, Amber, live together and everything in his life seems well. But everything changes when during an argument a bullet storm breaks through their living room window, killing Amber. Now Jason, along with is best friends, Michael and Lina, go on the search to find her killers. They say that the past can come back to haunt you, but no one could predict it would come like this.

The Flames of Love and Revolution… It is Czarist Russia, 1914. Karena Peshkev dreams of escaping her family’s country estate and attending medical school. But each year, as she watches her hopes of being accepted to the Imperial College of Medicine slip further away, she much content herself with working alongside her mother, the village’s Jewish midwife. On a visit to her cousin’s sumptuous mansion, Karena gets a taste of Russian high society–and meets Colonel Alexsandr Kronstadt. Their attraction is immediate, but they can never act on it. Alex is meant for Karena’s cousin, the general’s daughter, a superior match politically and socially. But when the accusations of Bolshevik conspiracy tear her family apart, Karena and her mother flee to St. Petersburg. The Okhrana–the Russian secret police–are convinced Karena is a Bolshevik traitor, in league with the rebel party’s leader. Certain she is guilty of murder and assassination, they’re determined to hunt her down. Alex risks his career and his life to protect her from afar, but will it be enough? Will he find her in time to save her from false accusations–and declare his love? Vibrant with historical detail and richly woven themes of danger, romance, and God’s faithfulness, The Midwife of St. Petersburg is an eloquent tale portraying the beauty and madness of a country that is about to change forever.