Vanessa's sixteenth birthday is comign up. While most girls would be thrilled at the prospect, Vanessa dreads beign one year closer to making the most important decision of her life. Now she is beginning to doubt everything she holds true--her firends, her relationship with Micahel, and even her identity. Then she meets Hector, who is more exciting and dengerous than anyone else she knows. Through him , she learns about a side of herself that she never knew existed. . .

LIZABET They called her the Blood Countess. From her home in the Carpathian Mountains, she enjoyed pleasures so profane no human could even imagine them. Even now, centuries later and an ocean away, the old ones cross themselves at the mention of her name. And she will happily show them true fear now that she is reunited with the golden-eyed girl, the beauty the Dark One promised would be her most faithful pupil and servant... CHLOE She knows her name, but she can't remember anything else from her past. Her only memories are of Lizabet, feeding in the darkness. But ever since meeting Johnny, she knows she must stop Lizabet's depraved cruelty...no matter what the cost.

Four guys living in Los Angeles: A rock star, a rebel, an artist, and a shaman. Like most students at Turney High School, they're just trying to survive. But for these four--Renegades on the run from the sinister world of Nefandus--survival means learning how to control their powers and fulfill their destiny as The Sons of the Dark

The Demon's Daughter (Prabhavati-pradyumnamu) is a sixteenth-century novel by the south Indian poet Pingali Suranna, originally written in Telugu, the language of present-day Andhra Pradesh. Suranna begins with a story from classical Hindu mythology in which a demon plans to overthrow the gods. Krishna's son Pradyumna is sent to foil the plot and must infiltrate the impregnable city of the demons; Krishna helps ensure his success by having a matchmaking goose cause Pradyumna to fall in love with the demon's daughter. The original story focuses on the ongoing war between gods and anti-gods, but Pingali Suranna makes it an exploration of the experience of being and falling in love. In this, the work evinces a modern sensibility, showing love as both an individualized emotion and the fullest realization of a person, transcending social and cultural barriers. The translators include an afterword that explores the cultural setting of the work and its historical and literary contexts. Anyone interested in the literature and mythology of India will find this book compelling, but all readers who love a good story will enjoy this moving book. Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have provided an elegant translation that will serve well the contemporary reader who wishes to encounter a masterwork of world literature largely unknown in the West.

This new edition includes numerous printed Sanskrit texts and works and three Indian journeys the author had undertaken. All the words are arranged etymologically and philologically with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages.

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