Build your business, build your wealth, and protect both with this tactical road map to entrepreneurial success.The steps to build a business are rarely clear. Trying to recruit the right talent, explode within your niche, or just stay profitable can feel as if you're constantly spinning your wheels and going nowhere. You need an edge from someone who has been there.In this game-changing book, entrepreneurial innovator Scott Becker with Grace Lynn Keller sh...

A memoire and autobiography as well as comment upon his generation his own life experience typifies the current definition of author and artist and 'Boomer'. Someone who has lived through numerous changes in social outlook and the technology that was developed to support it. A multifaceted tale of contemporary political perspectives that comes in counterpoint to life experiences by way of timelines both past and present from the point of view of a less than average Midwestern American view...

History, in any world, is shaped by those precious few bearing great influence, be it from wealth, charisma, or strength. But not all those with such power ever expected to wield any, much less a kind which could be described as magic. Phileina, a humble servant to a greater good, wishes nothing more than to live out peaceful days with her best friend. Yet a part of her yearns for something more, something holy laws forbid. After taking up arms for his country, Davin now holds a hoe, as we...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Together in one volume—the first three books in the world’s most beloved science-fiction series!DRAGONFLIGHTOn a beautiful world called Pern, an ancient way of life is about to come under attack. Lessa is an outcast survivor—her parents murdered, her birthright stolen—a strong young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge. But when an ancient threat reemerges, Lessa will rise—upon the back of a g...

Can the Crystal Shard be destroyed at last?Drizzt is determined to destroy the evil Crystal Shard, and seeks out the help of the scholar-priest Cadderly. But instead, his worst fears are realized, and Crenshinibon falls into the hands of the dark elf mercenary Jarlaxle and his unlikely ally Artemis Entreri.The Silent Blade is the book that brought Drizzt back to the Realms, and was a New York Times best seller on its initial release--and has been in print ...

New York Times-bestselling author Mercedes Lackey takes readers on a thrilling sword and sorcery adventure with this first installment in the Mage Winds epic fantasy series!With high magic lost and darkness looming over Valdemar, the heir to the throne must find a way to awaken her powers . . .High magic had been lost to Valdemar centuries ago when the lost Herald-Mage gave his life to save the kingdom from destruction by dark sorc...

FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD • The second novel in the legendary and magical New York Times bestselling series featuring dragons, adventure, romance, and heroism, from Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Anne McCaffrey“Pern was one of the first fantasy worlds I fell into, and I am forever grateful.”—Leigh Bardugo, author of Ninth HouseLessa and her golden queen dragon may have given their world a fighting chance against t...

Princess Elspeth returns to fight for her home in this thrilling third installment in the Mage Winds epic fantasy series from New York Times-bestselling author Mercedes Lackey.No longer the willful novice of Winds of Fate, Princess and Herald Elspeth has completed her magical training. She returns to her homeland with her beloved partner Darkwind. Will they be strong enough to confront the magical evil that is threatening their land?Ne...

Princess Elspeth hones her fledgling mage powers in this thrilling second installment in the Mage Winds epic fantasy series from New York Times-bestselling author Mercedes Lackey.With the protective barrier set so long ago over Valdemar crumbling, and with the realm imperiled by the dark magic of Ancar of Hardorn, Princess Elspeth, Herald and heir to the throne, has gone on a desperate quest in search of a mentor.Now, as she trains her powers at th...

“[McCaffrey is the] master of the well-told tale.”—Chicago Sun-TimesAs long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread, the deadly silver strands that fell from the sky. In exchange for sanctuary in the huge stone fortresses, the people tithed to their Lord Holders, who in turn supported the dragonriders, Pern’s greatest weapon against Thread. But not everyone on Pern was protected. Some, like Jayge’s trader clan, simply...

A dark threat faces the world of Erdas in this riveting new saga from the New York Times bestselling series.**A heart-pounding new adventure from the New York Times bestselling series.**In the world of Erdas, every child must discover if they will summon a spirit animal, a rare and incredible gift. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan were rare even among those few. They summoned legendary animals--brave guardians who were reborn to protect their world.Now more of the...

A rip-roaring journey to Theros begins in this thrilling epic fantasy novel set in the Magic: The Gathering universeIn a realm where mortals are the unwitting pawns of temperamental gods, the planeswalker Elspeth charts her own fate. Wielding a divinely forged sword, Elspeth’s heroics attract the unwanted attention of vengeful, jealous deities.After surviving an attempt on her life by the sun god Heliod, an even more colossal battle awaits her. If Elspeth c...