[ "My name is Chione," she replied, feeling the truth of the words as they fell from her mouth. The syllables had aligned themselves on her tongue before she even knew to think them, as they always did when she entered this form. Something clicked into place. "Although I am not a who, but a what." ] In a land that has been covered in snow and ice, a girl wanders from town to town. She doesn't remember anything about her past, or who she is, except for the little powder compact in her pocket. Inside the trinket slumbers a magic as ancient as the land itself. When the girl is forced to use her power and recall her name, she is ambushed by a boy who remembers her - as his biggest enemy.

In the wintry woods of Terrace, British Columbia, four boys make a troubling discovery: their cabin has been broken into. In order to survive, they venture to the site of Jimmy Egan's burnt-down cabin to retrieve his stove. As eerie events take place, they find themselves on a journey that leaves them forever marked by 'Jimmy Egan's Stove.'

This poetry collection follows a journey through self-doubt, love that shouldn't be, and learning to accept life the way it is.

In "To Live, To Die", the author invites the readers to dive into his world of illusions and his voyage in search of human destiny. Each page in this book is a window into the realm of his spiritual exploration.

Time stands above all. Humanity forgets. History, no matter how important, fades away. In its midst two souls are waiting - one who cannot die, and one who cannot stay. Their meetings are brief, their journeys long inbetween, and soon they realise that there might be no way out of a deathless existence. In the centuries of their harship, guided merely by their belief in one another, only one question remains: What is the prize to killing an immortal?

With a single kiss, a young maid saves her beloved from the Snow Queen’s icy imprisonment. When splinters from an evil troll’s magic mirror get into the heart and eye of Kai, he is tricked into accompanying the Snow Queen to her palace, and only the innocence and kindness of Gerda’s heart can save him. The inspiration for Frozen, Hans Christian’s Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” is one of the most beloved fairy tales in history. HarperPerennialClassics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Few people cherish the earthy smell after a heavy downpour. Others declare even slightly cloudy skies a disaster, long before a single drop of water softly rolls down their face. Most people I know complain about those cozy grey days that come with the most refreshing, crisp air you could ever breathe. And so does Kai. As if hating something you cant change makes it any better. Or does it?

"It is the most beautiful sight. The red on white." Yearning for the Red is a collection of dark and sorrowful short stories and poems. In this book, Venus grants life yet not freedom. A Paperboy goes missing in the other world and returns silent and changed. Two soldiers hope to make it through the cold darkness, having given up on killing half-gods. Paper will be burned, forgetting how easily the world can go up in flames. And young artists sacrifice everything for art, passion, and the love of their revenant muse. Though different, every character is yearning for the red: the red sun, the red moon, the red beauty, the red blood and the red flames. All are anticipating the end of their world and ache for immortality.

On the 6th of June, 2024, time stopped. The Earth stopped rotating, birds froze in the sky, and humanity was turned into countless still-lives commemorating the acts of sleeping, eating, working, dying. The world was plunged into silence. Yunathan, seemingly without a reason, became the lonely watchman condemned to roam the motionless planet. He has terrible deeds on his tally; but if his psyche doesn't crumble, this solitary confinement might hold the key to redemption.

Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer stories—the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside this central American myth in a compelling new way that only a novelist can achieve. The people whose dreams, courage, terror, ingenuity, and fate we share are James Frazier Reed, one of the leaders of the Donner Party, and his wife and four children—in particular his eight-year-old daughter, Patty. From the moment we meet Reed—proud, headstrong, yet a devoted husband and father—traveling with his family in the "Palace Car," a huge, specially built covered wagon transporting the Reeds in grand style, the stage is set for trouble. And as they journey across the country, thrilling to new sights and new friends, coping with outbursts of conflict and constant danger, trouble comes. It comes in the fateful choice of a wrong route, which causes the group to arrive at the foot of the Sierra Nevada too late to cross into the promised land before the snows block the way. It comes in the sudden fight between Reed and a drover—a fight that exiles Reed from the others, sending him solo over the mountains ahead of the storms. We follow Reed during the next five months as he travels around northern California, trying desperately to find means and men to rescue his family. And through the amazingly imagined "Trail Notes" of Patty Reed, who recollects late in life her experiences as a child, we also follow the main group, progressively stranded and starving on the Nevada side of the Sierras. Snow Mountain Passage is an extraordinary tale of pride and redemption. What happens—who dies, who survives, and why—is brilliantly, grippingly told.