And so act like me: every now and then turn off the light and let the shadow that creeps towards you reach you. Listen to what it has to say.

The poem One Hour Before the Dawn, Rod Walford's moving tribute to women, won widespread acclaim when it achieved first place in an international poetry competition in 1999. Now, for the first time in print, you can enjoy over 50 of Rod's insightful works in one collection. The selected poems span a wide variety of subjects and emotions ranging from love and sensuality to humor, philosophy and nature. This collection of semantic artistry is sure to establish a standard of excellence for generations of poets to come. From childhood memories to love lost and regained, Rod finds a way to touch every reader's heart and soul.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Hour Before the Dawn" by W. Somerset Maugham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

It wasn't supposed to turn out like this. We had a storybook romance. So why am I hiding in a shelter for battered women? Especially since he never hit me. The worst part is worrying about my daughter. Does she know she still has a mommy? Does she have any idea how much I love her? And will I ever see her again? Before the Dawn is the gripping story of a mother sludging her way through the trauma of a turbulent marriage to reclaim the sense of self she lost at some point along her confusing past. Journey to Orchard Grove, where real believers face real struggles and come face to face with the God whose plans are far more glorious than what the mortal mind could ever imagine. Is your God too small? Read Before the Dawn today.

Fifteen-year-old Karinas life has changed dramatically in the last year. After losing both her parents in an airplane accident, she is now living in a facility known for using adventure education to turn troubled adolescents into responsible adults. As Karina and other students enter Devils Icebox, a mazelike cave with a bad reputation for taking the lives of early explorers, they hope to experience a day of challenging spelunking. Instead, they soon are summoned by local authorities to rescue other spelunkers trapped insidebefore it is too late. As the thrill and excitement of cave exploration transforms into a living nightmare, Karina makes a fateful decision that results in the death of a child. In the aftermath, she seeks escape from the emotional trauma and nightmares that plague her by traveling to Hawaii, where she hopes to heal while studying volcanoes. But when Karina connects with a terminally ill child whose last wish is to see a volcanic eruption, she has no idea her world is about to tumble toward disaster. In this captivating tale, a teenager puts her own life on the line in a perilous race against timeand flowing lavain a desperate attempt to change a course of tragic events.

The explosive prequel to the hit TV series. Never-before-told tales of action and adventure revealing the early days of Dark Angel! Los Angeles, 2019. Large sections of Tinseltown are in Richter-scale ruins in the aftermath of the Pulse and a devastating earthquake. Surviving among a ragtag pack of street kids, agile as a cat, and an expert thief, Max steals from the rich and gives to Moody, her mentor in crime and leader of the gang. But with no real family to speak of, Max longs for her missing “brothers and sisters” from Manticore, the covert agency with a sinister history of militaristic manipulation and control. By chance, Max sees a news story on TV about a dissident cyberjournalist in Seattle, known to everyone as “Eyes Only.” The police are searching for his accomplice, a young rebel whose image flashes on the screen. Max immediately recognizes Seth, one of her Manticore siblings. She mounts her motorcycle and hightails it north. What she rides into is an elaborate web of betrayal, greed, revenge, and selfless heroism that will only further fuel her quest to uncover the secrets of her past—and seize hope for the future. . . .

Seventeen year old Abby can’t shake the darkness that continues to haunt her since her escape from the Hunterz. She can’t let it go. Questions continue to circle. Questions no one will answer. Who are they, really? Why do they hate the wolves so much? The answers could be found in a young boy named, Sam. He may be from the Hunterz, but he smells of wolf. Derek wants to believe her, and tries to help, but Abby still hasn’t learned how to accept help from others. Her relationships with her mother and father continue to deteriorate, but Derek is a puzzle. Some days he’s exactly what she wants and others he is all that she despises. Being a shifter isn’t as simple as she thought it would be. The wolf part is easy. It’s the human side that needs a little work.

Before the Dawn is an epic adventure about James, a shy teenage misfit who one day is pulled from his world, where he’s ignored, bullied and forgotten, into another world where he’s needed, celebrated and respected. Set in Terrain, a fantasy world similar to Earth but populated with mythical creatures and human-like Terrainians, Before the Dawn is part fantasy-adventure and part coming-of-age story – with great descriptive elements, original characters and a well-developed narrative – that follows James as he attains magical powers and combats the horrible menace of the Overseers. Along the way he meets wonderful new friends and quickly grows up to be a Master in his own right. The first novel in a trilogy, Before the Dawn is an original young adult fiction novel that will be thoroughly enjoyed by anyone who loves the fantasy or science fiction genre.