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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...

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...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

New York, Paris, San Francisco – back in their heydays, these cities were outrageously fun for gays and artists. Berlin was the forgotten ghetto, but post-war and post-wall, Berlin has become Europe's queerest city. In Naked Love Berlin, experience the city through the lives of four gay and bisexual men as they learn that the party's only fun when earned.Kay is a Canadian with a corporate job. He struggles for a fabulous European life, but fabulous and monogamous are uneas...

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...

In Hollywood, every pavement star tells a story. Not all of them shine.Wannabe actor Kyle Macdonald is down on his luck. Working as a supply teacher in an inner-city Birmingham school, he's single again at 28 and sleeping in his childhood bedroom beneath a 'Hard Candy' Madonna poster.He gets a call claiming he drunkenly married top Hollywood director Aaron Biedermeier in Vegas six years ago. Rather than panic, he sees a golden ticket to fame and the life he...

A Medal of Honor recipient looks back at his own service in the Vietnam War—and ahead to America’s future.Jack Jacobs was acting as an advisor to the South Vietnamese when he and his men came under devastating attack. Wounded, 1st Lt. Jacobs took command and withdrew the unit, returning again and again, saving fourteen lives—for which he received the Medal of Honor.Here, Col. Jacobs tells his stirring story of heroism, honor, and the personal code by which ...

The original version of the Grimms' tales in English for the first time—in an acclaimed, illustrated editionWhen Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since ...

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