Medusa's never been lucky in love. To save others from her deadly curse, Medusa's vowed to live alone. Oliver, son of Poseidon, follows the call of his soul. That is until Athena blocks his path and offers love at a cost. He agrees without thinking. Now, he's wandering earth blind. As the fates spy, Medusa comes face to face with a blind demigod who forces her to admit her own needs. Will Medusa risk her heart on Oliver and rise above her curse? Will Oliver find true love? Or will one glance strike him dead, leaving Medusa in the hands of the gods? Find out if the gods can be merciful in this Greek Mythological Romance.

Gorgon. Killer. Monster. Victim. Survivor. Protector. Medusa breathes new life into an ancient story and echoes the battle that women throughout millennia have continued to wage.

The daughters of Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon are linked in more than one way… You'd think the daughter of Zeus would be used to being overlooked… well, you’d be right. Sirena’s also considered a wild child with few f*cks to give. And she’s lived her life as she pleases except for one small detail. That she’s been in love with Theo for so long it hurts when she sees him. But she has a prophecy to think about. One that states either her or her other cousin will destroy the world, now that Avalon is cleared, it’s all on her or Maya. Theo, the son of Apollo, with the gift of visions. He’s kept his distance from Sirena, but he’s done waiting. He’s had a vision of them together in a forest where her life is at risk. He may not be the strongest fighter, but he knows how to hold his own and he’ll do everything possible to keep Sirena safe. The swords are sharpened and fingers itch for a fight as one god threatens Sirena’s life. Will monsters be unleashed or is Sirena not the daughter the prophecy spoke of?

The first definitive edition in English of writings by poet, painter, pickpocket-plagiarist, and consummate anti-artist Francis Picabia, one of Dada's leading figures. Poet, painter, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence, Francis Picabia was a defining figure in the Dada movement; indeed, André Breton called Picabia one of the only “true” Dadas. Yet very little of Picabia's poetry and prose has been translated into English, and his literary experiments have never been the subject of close critical study. I Am a Beautiful Monster is the first definitive edition in English of Picabia's writings, gathering a sizable array of Picabia's poetry and prose and, most importantly, providing a critical context for it with an extensive introduction and detailed notes by the translator. Picabia's poetry and prose is belligerent, abstract, polemical, radical, and sometimes simply baffling. For too long, Picabia's writings have been presented as raw events, rule-breaking manifestations of inspirational carpe diem. This book reveals them to be something entirely different: maddening in their resistance to meaning, full of outrageous posturing, and hiding a frail, confused, and fitful personality behind egoistic bravura. I Am a Beautiful Monster provides the texts of of Picabia's significant publications, all presented complete, many of them accompanied by their original illustrations.

This sci-fit thriller about a rogue starship servant has “mysteries around every corner. . . . the end product is just as fantastic as one would hope” (Los Angeles Times). My name is Oichi Angelis, and I am a worm. They see me every day. They consider me harmless. And that’s the trick, isn’t it? A generation starship can hide many secrets. When an Executive clan suspects Oichi of insurgency and discreetly shoves her out an airlock, one of those secrets finds and rescues her. Officially dead, Oichi begins to rebalance power one assassination at a time and uncovers the shocking truth behind the generation starship and the Executive clans. “Readers will be riveted.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “The first book in the Medusa Cycle does not disappoint.” —RT Book Reviews “A chilling tale of class warfare in deep space.” —Booklist “An enticing start to a new space opera .” —Library Journal “One of the best generation starship novels.” —SF Revu “The worlds . . . both physical and virtual, are richly detailed and gorgeously imagined.” —Kirkus Reviews “Disturbing, exciting, and frankly kind of mind-blowing.” —Annalee Newitz, author of Autonomous

Examines images of horror in Victorian fiction, criticism, and philosophy. Focusing on the recurring metaphor of Medusa’s head, The Medusa Effect examines images of horror in texts by Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, and a series of Victorian artists and critics writing about aesthetics. Through nuanced and innovative readings of canonical works by Freud, Nietzsche, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, A. C. Swinburne, and George Eliot, Thomas Albrecht demonstrates the twofold nature of these writers’ images of horror. On the one hand, the analysis illuminates how the representation of something seen as horrifying—for instance, a disturbing work of art, an existential insight, or a recognition of the fundamental inaccessibility of another person’s consciousness—can serve a protective purpose, to defend the writer in some way against the horror he or she encounters. On the other hand, the representations themselves can be a potential threat—epistemologically unreliable, for instance, or illusory, deceptive, fundamentally unstable, and potentially dangerous to the writers. Through a psychoanalytically informed literary analysis, The Medusa Effect explores crucial ethical and epistemological questions of Victorian aesthetics, as well as underexamined complexities of the mechanisms of Victorian literary representation. “ an elegant study in rhetorical analysis.” — Victorian Studies “Thomas Albrecht brings a radically different approach to aesthetics—psychoanalytic and poststructuralist rather than historicist—in The Medusa Effect.” — Studies in English Literature

The Furies is a psychologically complex, dark and twisting novel about loss, obsession and the deep tragedies that can connect us to each other even as they blind us to our fate, from the bestselling author of A Thousand Ships After losing her fiancé in a shocking tragedy, Alex Morris moves from London to Edinburgh to make a break with the past. Formerly an actress, Alex accepts a job teaching drama therapy at a school commonly referred to as "The Unit," a last-chance learning community for teens expelled from other schools in the city. Her students have troubled pasts and difficult personalities, and Alex is an inexperienced teacher, terrified of what she's taken on and drowning in grief. Her most challenging class is an intimidating group of teenagers who have been given up on by everyone before her. But Alex soon discovers that discussing the Greek tragedies opens them up in unexpected ways, and she gradually develops a rapport with them. But are these tales of cruel fate and bloody revenge teaching more than Alex ever intended? And who becomes responsible when these students take the tragedies to heart, and begin interweaving their darker lessons into real life with terrible and irrevocable fury? Published in the UK under the title The Amber Fury. "Steady pacing paired with well-timed foreshadowing and fully realized characters make this one compelling from the beginning. Fans of Donna Tartt's The Secret History (1992), Erin Kelly's The Poison Tree (2011), and Tana French's The Likeness (2008) will likely enjoy the new perspective Haynes' conversational style offers to similar material." —Booklist