Welcome back to The Kept, a way-stop where magical objects, creatures, and entities hideout or wait for the rest of their story to unfold. The Keeper is also tasked with holding things for others—including the goddess Hecate—whether he likes it or not. What possible trouble could an old silk top hat cause?In 1835, after the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Pandora “Andi” Alden faces an impossible choice: surrender her future to a marriage of convenience or make a dangerous b...

Bound by an ancient entity called "The Balance," The Keeper's existence is dedicated to maintaining the tenuous equilibrium of power in the supernatural world. His shop, The Kept, is a store house for magical items and information to be placed into the right hands at the right time in accordance with The Balance. Supernatural beings can also find their way to The Kept, for refuge or asylum. When The Keeper rescues a mermaid left for dead, he brings her back to The Kept for her protection. ...

Welcome back to The Kept, a way-stop where magical objects, creatures, and entities hideout or wait for the rest of their story to unfold. The Keeper is also tasked with holding things for others-including the goddess Hecate-whether he likes it or not. What possible trouble could an old silk top hat cause?In 1835, after the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Pandora "Andi" Alden faces an impossible choice: surrender her future to a marriage of convenience or make a dangerous b...

Bound by an ancient entity called "The Balance," The Keeper's existence is dedicated to maintaining the tenuous equilibrium of power in the supernatural world. His shop, The Kept, is a store house for magical items and information to be placed into the right hands at the right time in accordance with The Balance. Supernatural beings can also find their way to The Kept, for refuge or asylum. When The Keeper rescues a mermaid left for dead, he brings her back to The Kept for her protection. ...

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BoomArang is something that always comes back to you. When the wind blows, toss up a round wooden toy and wait for its long swirling return, deepened with happiness, thats why its always like a boomArang.

Red Is the New Black challenges the assumption that the Democratic Party is a girl's best friend.Red Is the New Black takes an in depth look at the major policy issues affecting all of us to unveil the core values that best empower today’s women. It turns out that if we focus on values instead of arguing over ideas, there’s a whole lot of common ground upon which women of all viewpoints can agree. Entrepreneur, media commentator, and former White House National Security Council Dir...

America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations.In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, offer both a wake-up call and a call to collective action. They analyze the four challenges we fac...

From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it.Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income in...

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smith takes us across America to show how seismic changes, sparked by a sequence of landmark politic...

The #1 New York Times bestseller about putting America back in the lead by the former US senator and presidential candidate.In No Apology, Mitt Romney asserts that American strength is essential—not just for our own well-being, but for the world's. Nations such as China and a resurgent Russia threaten to overtake us on many fronts, and violent Islamism continues to be a threat. In the face of such challenges, America need not apologize for its libe...

From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which politicians are more beholden to the influence of business lobbyists than to the voters who electe...