What if your father was Death? As in the Death? What if he went missing? After three weeks her father’s absence is having serious consequences. Without a Death to cut mortal tethers, sightings of shades and ghosts are starting to crop up. The Black Council is no help and Alex is left to find her father on her own. Dodging child protective services, Alex travels to another world, accidentally dragging along her arch nemeses from school. To complicate matters she discovers she has powers of her own, one of fire and one of death. To survive in a world of vampires and sorcery she must learn to use her powers - but one causes unbearable pain and the other is slowly turning her into a an undead.

What if your father was Death? As in the Death? What if he went missing?After three weeks her father's absence is having serious consequences. Without a Death to cut mortal tethers, sightings of shades and ghosts are starting to crop up. The Black Council is no help and Alex is left to find her father on her own. Dodging child protective services, Alex travels to another world, accidentally dragging along her arch nemeses from school. To complicate matters she discovers she has powers of her own, one of fire and one of death. To survive in a world of vampires and sorcery she must learn to use her powers - but one causes unbearable pain and the other is slowly turning her into a an undead.

I will find you again, my flames. I will chase you through time. I will search relentlessly until I find my fire reflected through your eyes. Jaya, A gifted survivor since childhood, married with all the dreams a girl thinks for. But she didn’t know from which burning pyre she was being saved in the past and was now waiting for her in its severe form. She found her flame at the moment when she thought that now she couldn’t go on, but she kept moving and fought against all the odds. Asti Singhal, A magazine journalist! Enthusiastic and focused on working on human interest stories. She was a loving and caring daughter who was the single hope of her aging mother. Destiny hit her calm life in such a way that she lost and found her multiple identities. Keshav Jha, A successful entrepreneur! Calm, sophisticated, and easy to love and laugh person. Fate played against him, and he lost valuable persons from his life. He was now fighting against his guilt and darkness. They planned their life accordingly, but life had other plans for them. Their path crossed, and they witnessed the Phoenix Rising From The Ashes.

Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse.

Reeling from the aftermath of Cassie's death, they find themselves trying to survive in a tumultuous world filled with more enemies than friends. Struggling through the rage consuming him, Devon must come to terms with the fact that the woman he loved has died. He has little time to deal with his grief though as The Elders want them dead, the Halflings are still running free, and the missing children have become the focal point of concern. On a mission to rescue the children, they set out on a journey from New York to Canada that will forever alter the course of their lives and make them realize that sometimes what rises from the fire may be something even more dangerous and deadly. That it may, in fact, be the death of them all. The final installment of The Kindred Series. This is a young adult fictional story that includes some language, violence, and sexual situations.

In an age when the supply of gasoline to feed this modern American society has become both more expensive and more scarce questions are being pondered. Inquires like, How can a modern society scale back its dependence on gasoline as a motive source?' Are there genuine alternative power sources?' Are they the answer to a growing crisis?' Recent announcements of hybrids like those from Honda, Toyota, and Ford have really brought attention to this issue. Hybrids that use both gasoline engines and electric motors. Really, though, alternative power sources have been around for as long as the automobile has been. The battle between and among the steam car, the electric and the gas car was fought out in the first couple of decades of the twentieth century. This book explores the ins and outs of that battle. A struggle from which the gasoline car emerged completely victorious. To such an extent that steam cars and electric cars virtually disappeared from the scene for many decades. We will look over all three alternatives, exploring their advantages and disadvantages. We will also look over the obstacles to the steamers and the electrics. Barriers that still exist to a certain extent. Handicaps that caused their disappearance in the first place.

Here are more great topics and sample book club sessions to help you start a book club and keep it going! Chapters in this volume cover humor, families, social issues, folklore and mythology, sports, magazines, picture books as art, censorship, the Internet, middle school readers, gender bias, booktalks, and the arts. For each genre, the authors offer a general overview, discussion questions, a bibliography, resources for further reading, and appropriate Web sites. If you want to promote literacy and involve parents in the reading program, you'll love this book and its companion, The Reading Connection.