For a century, the nations of Jerdun and Lyond have been at each other's throats. Princess Alienor is a proud woman of Jerdun, and King Thomas of Lyond should have been her hated enemy. Yet from her first meeting with the foreign king, she cannot deny the tender connection between them. After a brutal ambush leaves them stranded in a strange land together, the two decide to face the many perils of the journey back home united. But as suspicious allies only-love is out of the question. When danger strikes at them on the road, Alienor immediately regrets hiding her feelings. A sorceress with...
For a century, the nations of Jerdun and Lyond have been at each other's throats. Princess Alienor is a proud woman of Jerdun, and King Thomas of Lyon...
For as long as Freddy can remember, there's been something odd about her family. Secret conversations she isn't supposed to hear, separate bedrooms for her parents, and a terrible fear in her father's eyes that she doesn't understand. She used to worry her parents were on the edge of divorce. If only... Then a strange boy--mysterious but irresistible--comes to her town. Supernatural danger follows him everywhere, and the closer Freddy gets to her crush, the weirder her life becomes. She finds herself sucked into a perilous world of feral fairies, feuding pantheons of ancient gods, and a...
For as long as Freddy can remember, there's been something odd about her family. Secret conversations she isn't supposed to hear, separate bedrooms fo...
Lady Kathryn's father sends her to court to find a husband, but being penniless and disinterested doesn't bode well for her success. Bored by the petty intrigues of court, her frustration and loneliness are eased when the king charges her with the care of his newest acquisition: a wolf he and his hunters have recently captured. What the king doesn't realize is his remarkable pet was once Gabriel, his favorite knight, cursed into wolf form by an unfaithful wife. The beast's uncanny intelligence and human-like behavior convince Kathryn that he is more than what he seems. Resolving to help him,...
Lady Kathryn's father sends her to court to find a husband, but being penniless and disinterested doesn't bode well for her success. Bored by the pett...
Hermann Lotze, the German philosopher, in his magnificent Microcosm, argues that the idea of a transmigration of souls remains a dream of the fancy, nor has anyone yet succeeded in giving it a higher moral significance for the order of the universe.
The ethical leverage of the doctrine of reincarnation is immense. Its motive power is great. It reveals as magnificent a background to the present life, with its contradictions and disasters, as the prospect of immortality opens up an illimitable foreground, lengthening out the horizon of hope. It binds together the past, the present and the...
Hermann Lotze, the German philosopher, in his magnificent Microcosm, argues that the idea of a transmigration of souls remains a dream of the fancy...
By the sea, by the dreary sea There stands a youthful man, His frame is throbbing with doubt's agony, His lips move sadly and wan. Oh, solve me Life's enigma, ye waves, The torturing riddle of old With which the mind of humanity raves, Whose answer is never told; The mystery hidden from hoary sage, From soldier, saint, and king; From wisest heads in every age, Weary and languishing For light upon the misty road. Tell me, what am I? Whence came I, whither do I plod? Who dwells in the blazing sky? The billows murmur ceaselessly, The wind speaks night and day, Calm and cold sing the stars on...
By the sea, by the dreary sea There stands a youthful man, His frame is throbbing with doubt's agony, His lips move sadly and wan. Oh, solve me Life's...
