A princess born of fire and flames. A half-blooded prince who longs to return his land to its former glory. Two of the royals are joining their realms through marriage the eve after the summer solstice, but the other realms aren't happy about it. As a result, the rulers of the summer and fall realms are frantic to unite their two realms in a similar alliance. There's only one problem- the king of the summer realm doesn't want the other realms to find out why he's kept his daughter hidden away in a tower for most of her life. As the rulers of the summer and fall realms negotiate an arranged marriage between their heirs, a powerful Phoenix gem goes missing, Princess Amber of the summer realm discovers powers that stem from the original Phoenix, and Prince Aiden of the fall realm must decide between a magic that can either save his land or the princess of the summer realm. Can Amber and Aiden find a way to use their gifts to help each other and bring rebirth to their realms before the summer realm is destroyed? Can they truly bring beauty from ashes?

A Lost Princess. A Mysterious Box. A World full of Unhappily Ever Afters. It's been a year since Queen Erianna and Crown Prince Gabriel were married after the Summer solstice. The Lord of Darkness promised that everyone's happy stories wouldn't last, and that promise has been coming true in each of the realms. Key members of the realms have gone missing. Lines between light and darkness have been blurred. Loyalties are being called into question. It seems like everyone's stories have been turned upside down, and Prince Aiden of the Fall realm has discovered a secret about his past that could either restore or destroy his realm. The fate of the realms hang in the balance, and one person’s choice could change everything. Can the royals of the Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer realms find a way to destroy darkness for good, and set their kingdoms right before the Fall equinox? Join Erianna, Brinn, Gabriel, Julianna, Darien, Aiden and Amber as they all must band together to save their realms from the pending darkness that's threatening to take over their world. Everyone has a choice–Which side will you choose?

Since Hegel, the idea of an end of art has become a staple of aesthetic theory. This book analyzes its role and its rhetoric in Hegel, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, and Heidegger in order to account for the topic's enduring persistence. In addition to providing a general overview of the main thinkers of post-Idealist German aesthetics, the book explores the relationship between tradition and modernity. For despite the differences that distinguish one philosopher's end of art from another's, all authors treated here turn the end of art into an occasion to thematize and to reflect on the very thing that modernism cannot or should not be: tradition. As a discourse, the end of art is one of our modern traditions.

Selah Cross's normal, quiet life is thrown into disarray and chaos when she meets Dylan Kinkaide. A rare artifact that was connected to her parents' death resurfaces after fifteen years and could be the key to saving the museum she works at. When the artifact goes missing and the museum director ends up dead, Selah and Dylan must set off to find the artifact and prove her innocence while unearthing secrets from the past- not to mention the unexpected feelings for each other that they are reluctant to explore. As different parts of Selah's life come into question, she has to figure out what she truly believes in and where the heart of her faith truly lies. This adventure takes her on more than just a journey to find missing truth. It also takes her on a journey of the heart. Join her and Dylan as they seek after the true Heart of God.

Why is justice fair? Why are so many people pursuing spirituality? Why do we crave relationship? And why is beauty so beautiful? N. T. Wright argues that each of these questions takes us into the mystery of who God is and what he wants from us. For two thousand years Christianity has claimed to answer these mysteries, and this renowned biblical scholar and Anglican bishop shows that it still does today. Like C. S. Lewis did in his classic Mere Christianity, Wright makes the case for Christian faith from the ground up, assuming that the reader is starting from ground zero with no predisposition to and perhaps even some negativity toward religion in general and Christianity in particular. His goal is to describe Christianity in as simple and accessible, yet hopefully attractive and exciting, a way as possible, both to say to outsides ÔYou might want to look at this further,Ö and to say to insiders ÔYou may not have quite understood this bit clearly yet.Ö

Transfigurements develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. Sallis exposes new layers in their texts and theories while also marking their limits. By doing so, his aim is to show that philosophy needs to attend to art directly. Consequently, Sallis also addresses a wide range of works of art, including paintings by Raphael, Monet, and Klee; Shakespeare’s comedies; and the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, and Tan Dun. Through these interpretations, he puts forth a compelling new elaboration of the philosophy of art.