The journey continues After passing through the portal in Couplet Canyon, Michael Smith finds himself surrounded by strange and unusual sights. A circus tent. A mustached ringleader. A posse of carnival folk. And worst of allhe is forgetting. As the memories of his family fade, as images of Lillian and Mya wear away to nothing, as fearful thoughts of Bartlebug slowly leak from his mind, Michael remains trappedsomewhere; and new threats arise. A mysterious figure from Lillians past. Two identical twins from Earth. A silver-haired man with the name Allcraftso continue the journey with Michael and Mya as they toil to vanquish the forces trying to tear them apart, the forces trying to resurrect the Twinning, the forces bent on one ultimate and sinister goal. The sun goes down just over there So pass into Twilight if you dare

What if this world had a twin? In the boy's bathroom at Levi Middle School, Michael Smith finds solace from his own problems and fears in the solitude of the last stall, but for this young boy, today is the day everything changes. Michael disappears from the school and finds himself under a deep blue sky sitting in an endless field of crimson roses face to face with a young girl and his own destiny. Adventure, battles, enemies and surprises await Michael on the path that lies before him. So join Michael on his thrilling journey through Serafina-the Earth's twin world-as he fights a sinister force threatening both worlds-along with his own family-and discover the dark secrets and incredible powers of The Twinning.

Two years have passed since the fall of the Cerulean School and the return of Lucas Allcraft. Mya VanVargott. A powerful Fabricantress searching for a way to save both her world and her brother. Michael Smith. A powerful Magican whose choices have led him down a path from which, perhaps, he cannot return. Serafina. Earths twin world-now at the brink of destruction. The epic third and final verse of The Twinning trilogy concludes with sinister twists and unexpected turns as Michael, Mya and all those who have shared in their journey come face to face with an ultimate and terrifying truth.

Know some twins, or expecting to? This twinspired collection pairs poems and pictures in a lighthearted salute to the many twins among us. Old twins, new twins, famous twins, not-at-all-alike twins, side-byside twins, let's play twins, not-yet twins, mirror twins — all kinds of twins! — come together in a collection of original poems by two of our most celebrated authors for young people: J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen. From a wave and a wink to a twin switcheroo, from a rocket to the moon to the old woman who lived in a shoe, these poems and mini facts, whimsically illustrated by Sophie Blackall, will leave even singletons with a twinkle in their eyes. Here is the perfect book to share with the twins in your life — and everyone who loves them.

What makes two? All sorts of things. A bicycle's wheels. A bluebird's wings. And twins, as you can plainly see, Are just as two as two can be. This brightly illustrated board book is a buoyant, bouncy ode to the joys of twindom. Perfect for children who are twins, and just as perfect for children who aren't!

This volume offers the first theoretical and experiential translation of Napo Runa mythology in English. Michael A. Uzendoski and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy present and analyze lowland Quichua speakers in the Napo province of Ecuador through narratives, songs, curing chants, and other oral performances, so readers may come to understand and appreciate Quichua aesthetic expression. Guiding readers into Quichua ways of thinking and being--in which language itself is only a part of a communicative world that includes plants, animals, and the landscape--Uzendoski and Calapucha-Tapuy weave exacting translations into an interpretive argument with theoretical implications for understanding oral traditions, literacy, new technologies, and language. A companion websiteoffers photos, audio files, and videos of original performances illustrates the beauty and complexity of Amazonian Quichua poetic expressions.

The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit text, consisting of over one thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities of the Vedic tradition. Orally composed and orally transmitted for several millennia, the hymns display remarkable poetic complexity and religious sophistication. As the culmination of the long tradition of Indo-Iranian oral-formulaic praise poetry and the first monument of specifically Indian religiosity and literature, the Rigveda is crucial to the understanding both of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian cultural prehistory and of later Indian religious history and high literature. This new translation represents the first complete scholarly translation into English in over a century and utilizes the results of the intense research of the last century on the language and the ritual system of the text. The focus of this translation is on the poetic techniques and structures utilized by the bards and on the ways that the poetry intersects with and dynamically expresses the ritual underpinnings of the text.