Starting a remodeling business is easy. Surviving it? That's the real challenge.Most contractors enter the industry with grit, skill, and a dream—but within five years, many are burned out, buried in debt, or simply gone. This guide is your lifeline. It's built for the remodeler who's in the trenches, trying to price jobs right, manage crews, and stay sane while building something that lasts.Written by bestselling author and veteran contractor Mark McDonald...

College guides written by students for students.St. John's University Students Tell It Like It IsThis insider guide to St. John's University in Queens, NY, features more than 160 pages of in-depth information, including student reviews, rankings across 20 campus life topics, and insider tips from students on campus. Written by a student at St. John's, this guidebook gives you the inside scoop on everything from academics and nightlife to housing and the meal plan. Read both...

Mark McDonald, the author, grew up from early childhood hearing the telling and retelling of the factual events he now relates to his readers in his novel The Song of the Mockingbird. He has heard many of these stories while staying in the house built by his great-grandfather where the people who make his story come to life actually lived.Come; explore the worlds of Jeb Carter and Elizabeth Archer, whose love seems destined to bring to fruition of all their dreams and desires. Endu...

Mark McDonald, a veteran war correspondent and former prize-winning reporter with The New York Times, has called his new novel "asymmetric journalism," a new and original genre that melds real-time reporting with literary fiction.A bright and privileged young American, Micah Ford, is battered by the great tragedies of modern America. He loses his mother, a nurse, to AIDS. His father is killed on 9/11, and a grandfather dies in Katrina. A girlfriend is murdered in a hate-crime in th...

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, LA-based psychiatrist Mark McDonald grew increasingly concerned by the negative mental health effects he witnessed among his patients—and Americans nationwide. These negative effects—stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, domestic violence, suicidal ideation—were all directly traceable to the climate of fear being stoked by public health authorities and irresponsibly amplified by national media. These fears in turn drove a hysterical overreaction from go...

Psychiatrist Mark McDonald diagnoses our country as suffering from a mass delusional psychosis, driven by a pandemic of fear in response to COVID-19.As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, LA-based psychiatrist Mark McDonald grew increasingly concerned by the negative mental health effects he witnessed among his patients—and Americans nationwide. These negative effects—stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, domestic violence, suicidal ideation—were all directly traceable to the climate...

On the heels of Dr. Mark McDonald’s bestselling book United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis, the acclaimed author and psychiatrist follows up with a practical, personal, twelve-step recovery program to defeat fear addiction worldwide.The pandemic of fear continues to grip our world long past the clinical effects of COVID-19. Many people cannot let go of the fear fueling the Mass Delusional Psychosis which has plagued millions since early 2020....

The pandemic of fear continues to grip our world long past the clinical effects of COVID-19. Many people cannot let go of the fear fueling the Mass Delusional Psychosis which has plagued millions since early 2020. In his latest book, Freedom from Fear, Dr. Mark McDonald applies his well-honed psychiatric acuity to the undiagnosed epidemic of fear addiction. Just like a drug, fear becomes an unhealthy mental and emotional dependency that must be broken. In Freedom from Fear,

Androvia will fall.The delegation sails to a secretive empire to end the threat of invasion. A race thought lost to the world prepares to emerge from ancient history to search for the fulfillment of prophecy. The Theocon conspires to destroy a revolutionary cult. Monarchs and commoners alike discover the world is broken.Jon Crawford barely survived the ethereal's latest attack, and now he needs to find Darcy Fletcher. Celio and Hanor volunteer to follow Baron Canol on a per...

"How many will die?"Monarchs send their reluctant armies to invade a former ally accused of assassination, inciting war, and plotting to invade neighbors. The mighty Jalonian empire deals with insurgents for the first time in two thousand years. The most powerful nation in Androvia prepares to execute the final stages of a strategy years in the making.Common folk risk execution to challenge Theocon doctrine. Baron Canol leads a multinational force across the peninsula to th...

Who will fall next?Jon Crawford, Darcy Fletcher, and their friends see a prophecy unfolding before their eyes. International plots and conspiracies evolve and entangle them, raising the stakes for powerful enemies from two worlds that seek their deaths and the destruction of the relics they carry.An abomination is created to overcome the band’s defenses. Specifically designed with elements from the ethereal, the rampaging creature stalks the party under the guise of champio...

PATHS UNCERTAIN, DESTINATIONS UNKNOWN.Captured after his mentor's death, Jon Crawford must escape a ruthless war to fulfill his promise to return two powerful relics, all while being hunted by the infamous Aridane Knights.Darcy Fletcher searches for someone in power to hear her chilling testimony of international conspiracy, not realizing the continent's most notorious assassin has been contracted to kill her.Sar Celio Berganza, a classically trained arcanist, disco...