Sarah Moon

Princess Octavia and Prince Sirius set off on their official survey of the castle town. All the while, they brace for an attack by anti-royalists. In truth, Octavia is doing everything she can think of to create an opportunity for them to strike! She hopes to prove Klifford’s loyalty by his response to such threats. Rather than being a nuisance, Octavia’s scheming might be exactly what they need. Her efforts reveal hidden agendas, family secrets, and lost memories—with all clues pointing to enemies among those closest to the royals.

Mylene has it all: She’s the daughter of nobility, she boasts incredible aptitude with magic and the blade, and she possesses striking vermilion-tinged locks that signify she has been chosen by God. Yet this elegant warrior hides a shocking secret—inside her lurks the soul of the strongest mercenary in history, Savage Fang. In his past life, Savage Fang cut down countless foes of superior ability for his employers with nothing but cunning and strength. Now reborn as Mylene, this former sellsword will use her past experience and newfound powers to shape the world as she sees fit…even if she has to get her aristocratic peers involved along the way!

Just as things finally seemed to be settling down, the malicious god Mephisto launched an attack on the Academy, turning Ard’s companions into his puppets. The climactic final battle kicks off with the Demon Lord facing down his hated enemy! Does he stand a chance all on his own?

On the way back from visiting the Bronson Company, Connie is nearly kidnapped but saved in the nick of time by Aldous. Realizing just how much danger she’s in, she tries to keep Kate at a distance…but it’s all for naught when Kate is taken and a threatening blackmail letter arrives! Connie leaps into action to save her friend, but she’s not the only one on the move, as Amelia Hobbes and the merchant Vado both have their own plans…

The night of the junior ball ended with a well-earned victory, and the sun rose on a princess...under house-arrest?! Prince Sirius has Octavia on lockdown for endangering herself and Klifford detained on suspicions of orchestrating Sil’s carriage accident. It is Octavia’s turn to defend her guard, but can she prove his innocence in time? Danger is around the corner—the antiroyalists aren’t done with her yet!

Octavia finally meets Rust, the top candidate to be her fake boyfriend! But for some reason, his oddly familiar face triggers her awful memories of being reincarnated. As she cries on the chest of her bodyguard Klifford, she finally decides to confront her past...

After coming face-to-face with her most haunting memories and staining her bodyguard Klifford's uniform with tears and snot, Princess Octavia barely has time to collect herself before she's dragged into an anti-royalist plot! Even worse, her brother's lover Sil, who she accompanied to the ball, has gone missing. She'll have to trust her masked potential (fake) boyfriend Rust—a notorious opponent of the crown—to guide them to where Sil is, but what will they find when they reach him?

Determined to change her fate, Princess Octavia sets out to the junior ball to find her (fake) boyfriend! But is she prepared for the events that will unfold...starting from before she even gets to the ball!? The only one she can rely on is her bodyguard Klifford...

NOW IN PAPERBACK! New England Book Awards Finalist Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best ABC Group Best Books for Young ReadersQueer coming-of-age middle-grade novel about trust, forgiveness, and self-discovery. "Original, funny, rueful, and most of all, real,Middletown is an engrossing tale told by a deeply likeable tough cookie." -Emma Donoghue, award-winning author ofRoom Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters, and they are also the only family each can count on. Their dad has long been out of the picture, and their mom lives at the mercy of her next drink. When their mom lands herself in enforced rehab, Anna and Eli are left to fend for themselves. With no legal guardian to keep them out offoster care, they take matters into their own hands: Anna masquerades as Aunt Lisa, and together she and Eli hoard whatever money they can find. But their plans begin to unravel as quickly as they were made, and they are always way too close to getting caught. Eli and Anna have each gotten used to telling lies as a means of survival, but as they navigate a world without their mother, they must learn how to accept help, and let other people in. Sarah Moon has crafted a thoughtful portrait of the Queer middle-grade experience.

It’s time for the junior ball and Princess Octavia is on the hunt for her potential lover! Nothing’s ever simple for her, of course. Along the way, she has a run-in with her older brother's partner, Sil and she's still working out the kinks in her relationship with her bodyguard and escort for the ball, Klifford. All Octavia wants to do is find a piece of happiness in this life, not confront memories from the one she left behind!

Thirteen-year-old Eli likes baggy clothes, baseball caps, and one girl in particular. Her seventeen-year-old sister Anna is more traditionally feminine; she loves boys and staying out late. They are sisters, and they are also the only family each can count on. Their dad has long been out of the picture, and their mom lives at the mercy of her next drink. When their mom lands herself in enforced rehab, Anna and Eli are left to fend for themselves. With no legal guardian to keep them out of foster care, they take matters into their own hands: Anna masquerades as Aunt Lisa, and together she and Eli hoard whatever money they can find. But their plans begin to unravel as quickly as they were made, and they are always way too close to getting caught. Eli and Anna have each gotten used to telling lies as a means of survival, but as they navigate a world without their mother, they must learn how to accept help, and let other people in.

The story of a sensitive, gifted African American girl who tells us with mordant humor what it feels like to spend every day wishing so hard that you could fly away from it allSparrow has always had a difficult time making friends. She would always rather stay home on the weekends with her mother, an affluent IT executive at a Manhattan bank, reading, or watching the birds, than play with other kids. And that's made school a lonely experience for her. It's made LIFE a lonely experience. But when the one teacher who really understood her -- Mrs. Wexler, the school librarian, a woman who let her eat her lunch in the library office rather than hide in a bathroom stall, a woman who shared her passion for novels and knew just the ones she'd love -- is killed in a freak car accident, Sparrow's world unravels and she's found on the roof of her school in an apparent suicide attempt. With the help of an insightful therapist, Sparrow finally reveals the truth of her inner life. And it's here that she discovers an outlet in rock & roll music...

Life-saving letters from a glittering wishlist of top authors. If you received a letter from your older self, what do you think it would say? What do you wish it would say? That the boy you were crushing on in History turns out to be gay too, and that you become boyfriends in college? That the bully who is making your life miserable will one day become so insignificant that you won't remember his name until he shows up at your book signing? In this anthology, sixty-three award-winning authors such as Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Jacqueline Woodson, Gregory Maguire, David Levithan, and Armistead Maupin make imaginative journeys into their pasts, telling their younger selves what they would have liked to know then about their lives as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender people. Through stories, in pictures, with bracing honesty, these are words of love and understanding, reasons to hold on for the better future ahead. They will tell you things about your favorite authors that you never knew before. And they will tell you about yourself.

Sarah Moon is a contemporary photographer of international renown. A former model, she has taken award-winning photos for such magazines as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Nova. The images she has created for several brands, among them Chanel, Comme des Garçons and Cacharel, all share her poetic sense of place and personality. This publication, which includes an example of Moon’s cinematic work on a DVD, is a personal memoir in pictures, evoking her life, friends and fantasies. Distinguished writers – Dominique Eddé, Ilona Suschitsky, Magali Jauffret, Alain Fleischer and Robert Delpire – provide commentaries on her work in still and cinema photography, drawing out her thoughts on colour, contemporaries, influences and, in her own words, her unique approach to her subject. This is an unparalleled celebration of the vision of a gifted and individual photographer.