A hidden book discovered in a battered sea chest sweeps Lucas into the saga of a young woman traveling the Silk Road to the land of the Kazakh. Orphaned in England with few prospects, Verity is employed as a governess by the British ambassador to that fierce country. While Verity writes of her destined encounter with the powerful Khan, Lucas grapples with his brother and their lifelong rivalry as he manages their grandmother's legacy. Verity's fabled red hair draws the king's notice with fateful consequences through generations. Once a vagabond musician, Lucas now faces the same timeless questions Verity poses: questions of passion, magic, chance, and the truth of the heart.On Pandora's wedding day Zeus, the king of the gods, gave her a gift. It was a golden box decorated with jewels and precious pearls, but Zeus told Pandora she must never open the box, never. One day, unable to resist the temptation, Pandora sat down with the golden box and opened the lid just a crack. Out of the box flew all the troubles of the human world---hunger and fear, sickness and death. Pandora slammed the lid shut again, but all human grief and trouble already escaped into the world. Only one thing remained the box and didn't escape: Hope.Unfolding in alternating chapters, the lives and voices of Verity and Lucas are interwoven across time.

The winding road of fate unfolds ... In the last days of the Silver Age, the tyrant god Zeus takes whatever and whomever he wants with impunity. He has already torn Pandora from one home and now he threatens to destroy another. When he turns his wrath upon Atlantis, Pandora flees with the Titan Prometheus. Despite her bitterness, Pandora finds a friendship she never imagined possible. But Zeus is not done with Prometheus, and what Pandora will face next will make all she has endured pale in comparison. But Pandora has considerable gifts of her own, not least her cunning mind. When Zeus binds Prometheus, Pandora swears to turn all those gifts toward bringing Zeus down and saving her one true companion.

I thought my life was perfect, but then I learned it was all a lie. My name is El, and I live in a quiet southern town where the most exciting thing that happens is Friday night football and the Harvest Moon Festival. That is...until I learn that the three women who raised me have been lying to me all my life. I thought I was an orphan. I thought my aunts loved and respected me enough to always tell me the truth. I was wrong. Dead wrong. A month before my eighteenth birthday the truth of my birth, of my whole existence, came crashing down all around me, destroying everything I thought I knew about my life. Not only is my mother alive, but she's the mythical Pandora. You remember her. She's the one who opened the box Zeus gave her and unleashed chaos into the world. Supposedly, I'm the savior that three other worlds I didn't even knew existed are counting on to rescue them. There's just one problem. I can only save one of them. A champion from each of these troubled worlds are coming to my home so I can choose one to marry. Whoever I pick, gets to not only save their world but also have me as their wife. The battle to win my heart won't be easy for them, if my aunts have anything to say about it. They'll all have to participate in a tournament that will challenge not only their physical strengths but also their ability to charm me into falling in love with them. I don't want this responsibility. I don't want to save one world while dooming two others. There has to be a way out of all of this, but the evil forcing this choice on me...the one who has waited a millennium for me to finally come of age to participate in this game...is my own brother, and he won't take no for an answer. He's chaos unleashed, and I'm the only one who can stop him.

A searching critique of the structural changes currently taking place in the scientific community, showing that managerial considerations now threaten to crowd out the creative element in science.

* A classic story retold and illustrated for a new generation of readers

Story from Greek mythology, retold by Henriette Barkow and illustrated by Diana Mano. Bilingual English-Vietnamese edition. In Vietnamese/English. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Essays by Mistress Raven, Richard August and Mistress Delilah.

Included in this collection are vols. distributed as well as published by White Wolf Pub.

King Midas's greatest wish is to be the richest king in the land, but when his wish is granted, he realises it isn't his heart's desire after all. But is it too late to change? And Pandora's excessive curiosity causes trouble beyond her worst nightmares. This set of accessible Greek Myth retellings has clear type is well-illustrated.

A unique introduction to Greek mythology in the form of a hinged box containing an assortment of colorful items--marvels of paper engineering--includes a pop-up Trojan horse, a Hercules board game, a booklet, and much more. BOMC & QPB.