Vera: 664 books

Acting in Musical Theatre remains the only complete course in approaching a role in a musical. It covers fundamental skills for novice actors, practical insights for professionals, and even tips to help veteran musical performers refine their craft. Updates in this expanded and revised second...

Breath in Action looks at the significance of breath to human life - not just the simple fact that if we stop breathing, we die, but also the more subtle ways in which our breath interacts with our voice and our being. Written by experts in vocal and holistic practice, the book is divided into four sections:...

Screen Saviors studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood movies—by white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another color. This collaboration by a sociologist and a film critic, using the new perspective of critical "white studies," offers...

Eric is 15 and he lives alone. He parties when he likes, he eats what he likes, he does what he likes: he is quite free to make his own choices... One night, one decision changes his life, in the Twinkling of an Eye. You can choose, you can see - but you can’t run from Fire...

Meet a faerie who seeks true love and gets more than he bargans for. Lily-Ann is Lilith's daughter who is obsessivly trying to find the perfect suitor for her. Lily-Ann finds her own suitor behind Lilith's back. And finally, meet Raven who meets a mysterious Edward in an old family...

This powerful book explains the debilitating effects of social anxiety and the development of the disorder, emphasizing the need for a resolution of this disorder and identifying common but unhelpful coping mechanisms as well as true methods to change and live life unafraid of social situations. •...

The world is broken… A dark Goddess rises. A mortal maiden must stop her. COBWEB FOREST (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book Three) is the third and final book of the intricate epic fantasy flavored by Renaissance history and the romantic myth of Persephone, about death’s ultimatum to the world. Percy...

Contains the following complete novels: Cobweb Bride (Book One) Cobweb Empire (Book Two) Cobweb Forest (Book Three) ". . . Nazarian writes clean and true prose . . ." --Publishers Weekly "Set in an alternate Renaissance Europe, this series opener by Russian-born...

In a world where no one can die, she alone can kill... COBWEB EMPIRE (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book Two) is the second book of the intricate epic fantasy flavored by Renaissance history and the romantic myth of Persephone, about death’s ultimatum to the world. Now that she’s Death’s...

A far future "dying earth" science fantasy tale about identity, erotic desire, flying water and a mystery... "This is science fiction the way that Jack Vance's Dying Earth books are science fiction." — Charles de Lint "... believable character development,...

Think _your_ high school experience was Hell? Vampires, werewolves, mummies, ghouls... and brickhead idiot students. Welcome to Grant-Williams High. (Includes Two Adventures in One Volume) HELL WEEK AT GRANT-WILLIAMS HIGH: (Grant-Williams High: 1st Adventure) If...

"The Witch Who Made Adjustments" is a humorous and deeply heartwarming fantasy novelette of a witch who may not be as "terrible" as she seems -- a witch who came into a turn-of-the-century town, just a few days before Halloween, and changed the lives of the entire populace, and especially young Tommy, a hardworking boy, and his impoverished family.

The Compass Rose universe -- an ancient milieu where places have no names, cities spring forth like bouquets in the desert, gods and dreams walk the scorching sands in the South, ice floats like mirror shards upon the Northern sea, islands that do not exist are found in the East, death chases a thief...

The young girl lived in a big stone house with ivy-covered walls and with old men and women who were all her kin. When she was a very tiny little girl, she remembered adult faces looking down at her as she lay in her crib, warm wrinkle-framed eyes of tired aunts and grandmothers and cousins...