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Kyrien’s ascendancy from a prisoner of war to the trusted “Fool and Advisor to the God-King” has been the stuff of storybooks. He owes his dramatic reversal of fortune to Vaerain, the God-King himself. Kyrien’s life in the capital city is blessed with fame, riches, and a beautiful young family.But when a group of unknown conspirators kidnaps his son, his charmed world collapses. The people holding his son have one demand, which they believe Kyrien is in a unique position to grant—t...

In the sleepy halfling village of Halfass, Tim the wizard has perfected the art of doing absolutely nothing. However, he soon finds out that even the best posts don’t last forever.The Wizard Tim tells the story of how a lazy, pie-loving wizard named Tim, and his trusted halfling assistant Julie, lose all they hold dear and are forced to step outside of their comfort zones, to endure the most arduous and physically exhausting quest they could ever imagine.Packed wit...

Robin Hood has a new name—the Vispilio, a thief by night. But does he seek justice...or vengeance?Antony Bronson has never known his past—as far as he knows, he's the second son of his father Bron and has lived an unremarkable life in the village of Barnswood, other than a fateful fall from a tree that caused him to lose memories. But when rumors of a lost prince—the Prince Adrian who was supposed to have died in an act of war ten years before—begin to surface among the kingdom of ...

In the years between the two world wars, the Jewish community of Poland—the largest in Europe—was the cultural heart of the Jewish diaspora. The Jewish Workers’ Bund, which had a socialist, secularist, Yiddishist, and anti-Zionist orientation, won a series of important electoral battles in Poland on the eve of the Second World War and became a major political party. Many earlier works on the politics of Polish Jewry have suggested that Bundist victories were ephemeral or attributable to ou...

Kamanar leads a team of six misfits on a suicide mission. Monstrosities, flesh-eating rodents, and mutated bugs are only a few of the abominations they must face. As twists and extreme conflicts shatter the group, multiple POVs allow each member to tell their side of the tale—until every thread is tied together in a dramatic conclusion.Book 1, The Longer Path, begins this epic quest, while Book 2, The Legend Of Broken Fingers, shi...

The award-winning author and Medal of Honor recipient shares an insider's history of bootcamp that's "authentic, entertaining, and often funny as hell" (Corporal Brian Dennehy, Ret.).Every American fighting man and woman share one thing in common: they have all survived basic military training. Basic tells the story of that training. Col. Jack Jacobs and co-author David Fisher recount the funny, sad, dramatic, poignant, and sometimes crazy history of how Am...

After his mother dies, Tim Daniels must graduate from veterinarian school, find a job, pay-off his loans, keep his girlfriend content, and try to keep his head…all while removing a designer purse from a dog’s stomach. Just another Tuesday morning…Anxiety has always been Tim’s annoying friend. Embarrassing him in middle school, preventing him from taking chances, but lately, Tim’s friend has become a looming enemy. Faced with the loss of his mother and the stressors of medi...

The history of the Frankfurt School cannot be fully told without examining the relationships of Critical Theorists to their Jewish family backgrounds. Jewish matters had significant effects on key figures in the Frankfurt School, including Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal and Herbert Marcuse. At some points, their Jewish family backgrounds clarify their life paths; at others, these backgrounds help to explain why the leaders of the School stressed the significa...

The rules for law and order create boundaries for civil co-existence. Ideally, the rule of law provides the backdrops for individuals, families, and companies to grow and thrive. Breaking these rules puts civil order at risk. And while murder is the Big Daddy of crimes, codified ordinances across municipal divisions, counties, states, and countries show the nearly endless ways there are to create mayhem.For your puzzle solving pleasure, Mysteries to Die For presents: Anything but M...

Featuring 14 songs in this audiobook of Harp and the Lyre, let the music play as the story unfolds.Tech giant Lyre storms Earth Rishona with a groundbreaking, futuristic device. Harp appears mysteriously. It’s time to face the music.Introducing Nash, Owen, Viona, Ezra, and Liberty. Bound by banter, ball dramas, bad skin, backlash, bullying, and blind love, these five teens and their friends know the universal rule: be attached to a device or be det...

A special agent with a secret. A detective with a score to settle. Can they come together in time to stop a demon given untold power by the greed of millions?Archangel: The Book of Mammon is the first book in a new urban fantasy thriller series that features ancient conspiracies, high-tech threats, action-packed combat sequences, and compelling characters in unique situations.If you liked The Da Vinci Code, The Dresden Files, or

For more than half a century, San Francisco Seals baseball was a fertile source of future major league players, with a legacy firmly grounded in the annals of Pacific Coast League baseball. Paul and Lloyd Waner, Ping Bodie, Earl Averill, William Kamm, Ferris Fain, Harry Heilmann, Smead Jolley, �Lefty� O�Doul, Frankie Crosetti, the DiMaggio brothers (Joe, Vince, and Dom), Larry Jansen, and others all launched their careers as Seals. From 1903 to 1957, the Seals were the toast of the town, o...