After Steven George met and mastered his dragon, he and Madam Selah Welinska traveled together for seven years as he continued to trade Once Upon a Time stories with those he met. Now the King has summoned Steven and Selah has declined to accompany him. The Principality of Rich Reach has been beset by a Terror! No one knows what it is or where it is located, so the King has summoned Steven to find and master his terror as he did his dragon. What is Steven to do, but what he has always done...

Erin is stranded in a new town after a short and bitter divorce and waits tables in a diner where she meets the man of her dreams; but Preston is a socially inept recluse constantly on guard against gold diggers. When Erin inadvertently becomes his personal assistant, a comedy of errors ensues that throws the two together--and threatens to tear them apart.

Tall skinny Jackie is a fresh high school graduate, still in her cap and gown when she is given the keys to her grandfather's 1968 Ford Fairlane 500 Fastback 390. Jackie, her 25-year-old Aunt Misty, and her dog Roadkill jump in the car and take off following an old fashioned TripTik map into an alternate dimension. In this alternate dimension, Jackie is a Warrior Wizard encountering robbers, mountain monsters, ogres, rival clans, obstreperous customs officials, a stowaway princess, an adop...

In an alternate timeline America, societal classes have been well-defined and maintained. The ten classes are not based on wealth, position, or heredity. They are based on each individual's character and proclivities as demonstrated to his or her teachers. Most of Liam Cyning's acquaintances seem pleased with their classification, even victorious. But on his eighteenth birthday Liam is told he has been designated as part of the Leader class and he doesn't know what to do.He is furt...

At Santa Cruz Central High School, they called them the misfits, the outcasts, the weirdos. But most of us knew them as the Lost Boys....Miller Stratton is a survivor. After a harrowing childhood of poverty, he will do anything it takes to find security for himself and his mom. He's putting all his hopes and dreams in the fragile frame of his guitar and the beauty he creates with its strings and his soulful voice.Until Violet. No one expects to meet the lov...

IT’S TIME TO DISCOVER AUTHORITYIn this insightful book, you will find the collective wisdom of 15 international thought leaders, scattered across three continents and multiple industries, as they share their best strategies for building influence and authority. Covering everything from video and print media to social media and consulting, AUTHORITY lets you inside the minds of experts who have built their own authority and helped countless others do the sa...

Music education today requires an approach rooted in care and kindness that coexists alongside the dismantling of systems that fail to serve our communities in higher education. But, as the essayists in Sound Pedagogy show, the structural aspects of music study in higher education present obstacles to caring and kindness like the entrenched master-student model, a neoliberal individualist and competitive mindset, and classical music’s white patriarchal roots. The editors of this v...