Debuting on the New York stage, Zara is unprepared — for Eli, the girl who makes the world glow; for Leopold, the director who wants perfection; and for death in the theater. Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to the visionary director Leopold Henneman, to play her dream role in Echo and Ariston, the Greek tragedy that taught her everything she knows about love. When the director asks Zara to promise that she will have no outside commitments, no distractions, it’s easy to say yes. But it’s hard not to be distracted when there’s a death at the theater — and then another — especially when Zara doesn’t know if they’re accidents, or murder, or a curse that always comes in threes. It’s hard not to be distracted when assistant lighting director Eli Vasquez, a girl made of tattoos and abrupt laughs and every form of light, looks at Zara. It’s hard not to fall in love. In heart-achingly beautiful prose, A. R. Capetta has spun a mystery and a love story into an impossible, inevitable whole — and cast lantern light on two girls, finding each other on a stage set for tragedy.

Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to director Leopold Henneman, to play a dream role in Echo and Ariston, the Greek tragedy that taught her everything she knows about love. When the director asks Zara to promise that she will have no outside commitments, no distractions, it's easy to say yes. But are the deaths at the theater accidents, or murder, or a curse that always comes in threes? When assistant lighting director Eli Vasquez, a girl made of tattoos and abrupt laughs and every form of light, looks at Zara it's hard not to fall in love.

Newbery Honor Book New York Times Bestseller This impassioned, uplifting, and virtuosic tour de force from a treasured storyteller follows three children, in three different times and places, whose lives mysteriously intersect. Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each, in turn, become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting a brother, holding a family together. And ultimately, pulled by the invisible thread of destiny, their suspenseful solo stories converge in an orchestral crescendo. Richly imagined and masterfully crafted, Echo pushes the boundaries of genre, form, and storytelling innovation to create a wholly original novel that will resound in your heart long after the last note has been struck.

True story of a police sniper who shoots and kills a woman who is about to shoot another police officer.

Addison Smith lived a life of crazy dreams that haunted her sleep and bled into her waking life. But after waking up a few months ago in the hospital and being told she was asleep and in a coma the whole time, Addison has a lot of questions. An unexpected guest comes to stay at the Smith house, bringing with her even more questions and a hidden past. The answers to all of Addison's troubles lie within the dreams of dreamers before her and some old diaries. This time Addison wants answers. Relive the past. Repeat the history. Echo the dreams. Echo is the second book in The Illusion Trilogy.

' Echoes of Love ' Must I be Shakespeare to express our pure love one which was definitely greater than life, our elixir our magnum opus, transcendental and everlasting We had it so good, enjoying each other seductively best friends and lovers, or frivolous lovers and friends difficult to say what was first, or rather both at once Our love was the Sun splashing us most brightly and the shimmering stars at fully luminescent nights sending us ethereal kisses of genuine love incessantly Our love were beautiful people smiling at us warmly wishing us all the goodwills there are in the world and we ourselves, fully united in each other as one Everything was in place, rightfully and blissfully godly flawless rivers of honey, seas of boundless beauty biodiversity serving us as we doing our best for her But when you went unexpectedly one day away with no goodbye at all, not even a word of farewell it was the end of the world for me, Hamlet alike Stars crashed down on Earth the next moonless night and I was swept fast away by raging tides of the sea a castaway on the ocean, in its full and ghostly storm I was myself a vulnerable bottle with a message inside saying I love you till the end of the world and beyond the bottle filled with the tears of my despair, your lover And the scintillating echoes spread across the world like the Brazilian tango on the Copacabana beach just a walking distance from charming Rio de Janeiro The echoes and echoes, and echoes, and echoes like the Argentinian tango in elegant Buenos Aires like the sparkling Parisian tango of truthful lovers The echoes of tangoes, tinkling, hissing and ringing whistling, buzzing, rattling, whizzing, jingling like bells gorgeously dynamic on the streets and in ballrooms The echoes never ending, in the breezes of winds blowing ecstatically across vast lands and continents and under the rhythmic and pulsating symphonic skies One had impression one saw mysterious Amazons on wild galloping horses, with manes like wings seeming to fly in the air but these were just echoes Echoes of love, passion, desires and ethereal dreams but above all of the thundering iridescent tangoes the tangoes of love, dreams which came true, of life The rhapsodic tangoes in every corner of this world Oh, long live love, long live tangoes of love ! May dazzling echoes spread you across the world !! Love yourselves to your best, dear amaranthine lovers spread your sensual love to every single individual This world must become a planet of love, now !! Dance in the various tangoes, whirling tangoes Not only Argentinian tangoes but also salon tangoes English tangoes, NeoTango, all the tangoes there are Forget the sorrows of daily life, the ups and the downs Give in into the rhythms of hilarious music and dance and you shall see your loved one is back in your arms Oh, play us angels music of Chopin and Mozart play to the echoes of love

' Heroes of Tiananmen ' Heroes, you who had given your lives for China you believed in, your China one of justice, dignity, free of misrule in the embrace of the Heavenly sky Heroes, you the students who believed China can be free, democratic as elsewhere in the Free World in the embrace of worldwide liberty Heroes, you on the Tiananmen Square crashed down brutally on the 4th of June with assault rifles and tanks, lots of blood and against all human values dear to humankind Heroes, unforgettable, forever to last together with your Goddess of Freedom which lasted only a few days before being demolished Goddess of Freedom, the sister of the Statue of Liberty !! Heroes, you who fought for a new China despite of some people saying disturbingly China can never be democratic, no chance On the contrary, democracy is for all !! Heroes, you the scintillating Soul of China who believed firmly and determinedly no nation can be denied liberty, freedoms and dignity Your soul, Soul of China is on the march !! Heroes, you the students of Tiananmen revolution the one of 1989 which moved hearts of the entire nation, eternal hearts of love Yes, freedom, love and brotherhood shall win one day ! Heroes, you were brutally crashed down on one early morning, at a peaceful dawn with your blood and lives taken away You're the monument of free China to come !! Heroes, they used tanks and army against you while you wanted just freedom innocently and dignity for every single individual Your cause is not dead, your cause is alive, more than ever !! Heroes, your '89 Heavenly Democracy Movement is written down in history of China Kept in the soul of the nation forever, the Soul of China written down in China's chapters as finest ever Heroes, you shall be the winner in the end and the Goddess of Freedom shall return to her rightful place on the Tiananmen Square both, under the bright Sun and the shimmering stars Heroes, know it the entire Free World tributes you You're part of the great family of nations who chose for freedoms, liberty and dignity You're written down in the annals of the world !!