A closed-in community isolated from an outside world with which it long ago lost all contact. Everything, even the air that they breathe, is self-contained but all is not well. The people of Refuge are ruled with a rod of iron by an the Archdeacon and are subject to a rigid religious discipline.One man amongst them begins to question the very foundations of their world. Refuge is breaking down and the Chosen need to break out into the wider world.Luc seeks the Portal through ...

Two graduating high school students become friends, one girl from India named Tanvi has a unique talent. The other is an extremely smart student named Anthony. The end up befriending an elderly woman named Gwen who is a retired teacher, and form a common bond. By chance they discover they can solve crimes. The police discover their abilities and ask them to solve difficult mysteries. As time passes, their reputation increases and their studies in college draw the two closer and they fall i...

Own Your Tech Career: Soft skills for technologists is a guide to taking control of your professional life. It teaches you to approach your career with planning and purpose, always making active decisions towards your goals.SummaryIn Own Your Tech Career: Soft skills for technologists, you will:Define what “success” means for your careerDiscover personal branding and career maintenancePrepare for and c...

SummaryLearn SQL Server Administration in a Month of Lunches is the perfect way to get started with SQL Server operations, including maintenance, backup and recovery, high availability, and performance monitoring. In about an hour a day over a month, you'll learn exactly what you can do, and what you shouldn't touch. Most importantly, you'll learn the day-to-day tasks and techniques you need to keep SQL Server humming along smoothly.Purchase of the...

In the old days, trades were kept alive by Masters, who took on and trained apprentices into journeymen, who became Masters in their own right. We've lost that in most ways, but there's no reason you can't resurrect the approach for our modern times. Learn to achieve and recognize your own success, so that you can become a Master to someone else. This book covers my approach to Mastery, in a hope that it will inspire you to find your own path, and begin a generations-long tradition of help...

Poor Clara. On the one hand, things are going well: she’s aced her Math final, and school’s almost out for the year. Dad’s hanging in there with contract jobs, Mom’s helping make ends meet by cleaning other people’s homes, and they’ve at least got a roof over their heads. Vegas isn’t the nicest place in the summer, but it’s no worse than the half-dozen other places she’s lived in her short life.But on the other hand, she has no friends. Everyone at school is either diffident or a bu...

Leadership is fundamentally a tool for making a difference in the affairs of someone or something. Progress is the result. However, you are not afforded the opportunity to change anything externally without unlocking what’s embedded and preprogrammed within you. With that said, you have been exposed to many experiences in your life and career. We can’t un-experience what we have experienced just like we can’t unknow someone we’ve known. We often mimic someone else's behavior allowing ourse...

The book is an autobiography about a young man who stumbled upon employment with a company over twenty-nine years ago, which changed the course of his life. He also shares with you the lessons he learned from his great-grandmother, work experience, and executive coach. The book is not a self-help guide, master keys to success, or answers to every encounter that you will experience in business. Heres what you can expect: honest dialogue on his experience in retail and the lessons he learned...

The Beatitudes are gifts to the church to share with the world. Yet, some Christians either do not know them or hesitate to practice them. This book asks, are such teachings relevant today? Would they work if we tried them? Can they make any real difference in the world? We must try to keep these goals for living in the world. Do we live in a world of righteousness, justice, and peace? Has seeking secular authority helped the church remake the world? Blessed Living is a book that compares ...

SummaryPowerShell in Depth, Second Edition is the go-to reference for administrators working with Windows PowerShell. Every major technique, technology, and tactic is carefully explained and demonstrated, providing a hands-on guide to almost everything an admin would do in the shell. Written by three experienced authors and PowerShell MVPs, this is the PowerShell book you'll keep next to your monitor—not on your bookshelf!Purchase of the print book...

Deciding your life is worth living after losing almost everything can be the greatest challenge in a person's life. This is the story of someone making that decision. How does life go off the rails for people who devote their lives to the work of God and helping other people meet the challenges of their lives? It is easier than most people imagine. How do people rebuild their lives? Answering this question is difficult. Many people do, however, and that means there is hope for every person...

When you’re the son of an infamous serial killer, the police will always see you as a suspect...Ariana and Damon thought it was bad enough that their home burned to the ground. But when bodies are unearthed on their property, the police pin them as suspects — and their world turns upside down.Damon has always been haunted by his father’s past, but more than ever before, being Cal Jones’s son is an even bigger burden to bear. Worse yet, his wife is getting d...