In the long-awaited and highly-anticipated third installment of the Amazon bestselling Scion Saga Series, Carly abandons her innocence to progress into a mature young adult. Amidst a succession of changes, an unlikely ally will not only reveal the origin of the Descendants, but also the Iksha's. Believing the Iksha has been their worst enemy for a millennium, the Descendants discover a more lethal force. Specular will unveil a realm of history, exposing secrets, confirming truths, breaking old bonds, and forming new ones.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐AMAZON #1 BESTSELLING SERIES⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Scion Saga Series doesn't disappoint. Split Adam flawlessly resumes the Scion Saga with Adam struggling to pick up the pieces of his youth after having lost both his biological and adoptive fathers. Unbearable nightmares, Carly's grief, the stress of being hunted by the Iksha, and various teen woes all plague him. Weighing so heavily on his mind, seemingly causing it to fracture. In an effort to save him, Carly leaves in search of answers. When she returns with the cure, it's beyond what anyone could've expected -- forcing Adam to face a part of himself that he never thought he'd live to see.

Adam and Carly reach adulthood, discover their true origins, and set out to change the fate of their universe.

How do we know we are real and not just some character in an elaborate game? In the virtual world of Saga, Ghost is a fifteen-year-old airboarding anarcho-punk, with no past, no memories, only a growing realisation of her own strange abilities. But who is she really and why is she becoming embroiled in a battle with the warped leader of Saga -- the Dark Queen? How have Erik and Cindella Dragonslayer fared since their adventures in Epic? And what happens if you dare to reach outside your world, or to question your identity? Is that simply the road to madness, death and destruction? Praise for Epic , Cindella Dragonslayer's first adventure: 'The most important Irish novel of the year.' Sunday Independent See the thrilling video trailer created for Saga by the US publisher, Viking Children's Books:

Vladimir Nabokov, bilingual writer of dazzling masterpieces, is a phenomenon that both resists and requires contextualization. This book challenges the myth of Nabokov as a sole genius who worked in isolation from his surroundings, as it seeks to anchor his work firmly within the historical, cultural, intellectual and political contexts of the turbulent twentieth century. Vladimir Nabokov in Context maps the ever-changing sites, people, cultures and ideologies of his itinerant life which shaped the production and reception of his work. Concise and lively essays by leading scholars reveal a complex relationship of mutual influence between Nabokov's work and his environment. Appealing to a wide community of literary scholars this timely companion to Nabokov's writing offers new insights and approaches to one of the most important, and yet most elusive writers of modern literature.

Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fresh and wide-ranging study, he uses the figure of the ghost to offer a new understanding of the status of the image in Roman art and visual culture. Tracing the shifting practices and debates in antiquity about the nature of vision and representation, Crowley shows how images of ghosts make visible structures of beholding and strategies of depiction. Yet the figure of the ghost simultaneously contributes to a broader conceptual history that accounts for how modalities of belief emerged and developed in antiquity. Neither illustrations of ancient beliefs in ghosts nor depictions of afterlife, these images show us something about the visual event of seeing itself. The Phantom Image offers essential insight into ancient art, visual culture, and the history of the image.

As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition-The compilation and translation of this volume have given us a great deal of such pleasure; we hope the reader will share some of the fun we felt when ransacking the