The companies that win aren’t the ones with the best product, but the ones that make every buyer move now**—not later.**Stop losing to buyer indecision and stalled conversations, and instead learn how to create urgency, transforming hesitation into momentum that drives faster deals and bigger wins.In Creating Urgency, Steven Mark Kahan draws on decades of experience helping startups scale to billions in va...

Dacker Lloyd has spent forty-three years selling tourists on the legend of the Moon Jackalope: blue and violet rabbits with antlers and a history only he seems to remember. Now his roadside taxidermy shop is being repossessed, and he has one problem bigger than bankruptcy—what to do with a building full of unsold monsters.When a crater opens beside the neighboring Haverty farm, Dacker sees a solution. He dumps his collection, Robert Haverty fills the hole, and everyone gets on with...

Dracula is dead. Now his three vampire daughters must inherit the living kingdom he built—and decide whether they can save it without becoming him.For centuries, Drevanor has been more than Dracula's castle. It is a vast, living kingdom—a refuge for humans, monsters, outcasts, and supernatural beings that have nowhere else to go.Now its ruler is dead.And Drevanor is beginning to fail.Ancient defenses falter. Gates obey comma...

Bellweather, 1994. Chrissy Trapper is twenty-two, bored out of her mind, and very good at running Video City—when she isn't arguing with inanimate objects, sketching strange handmade dolls, eating Burger Bunker with the clerk next door, or finding new ways to irritate Future Video's self-appointed executive.Then a battered old VHS tape moves when it shouldn't.One of Chrissy's regular customers begins wasting away after repeatedly watching an obscure horror movie called ...

A vivid portrait of the day-to-day experience in the public asylums of nineteenth-century England, by the bestselling author of Broadmoor Revealed.Life in the Victorian Asylum reconstructs the lost world of nineteenth-century public asylums. This fresh take on the history of mental health reveals why county asylums were built, the sort of people they housed, and the treatments they received, as well as the enduring legacy of these remarkable insti...

One of the most exciting and innovative hobbies you have never triedDo you want a new set of skills that will produce incredible art? Do you want to grow yourself as a person by engaging in a creative new talent? Do you love the smell of a campfire while you're working? If yes, then welcome to woodburning!Perhaps you've never heard of it, but are curious to learn something new? Or maybe you have some experience, and are searching for a book to take your ski...

In Wilstrom, monsters have teeth worth killing for.Across a frozen frontier of isolated towns, dangerous roads, strange trades, and supernatural creatures, monster ivory has become a fortune waiting to be cut from the right jaws. Professional hunters have turned the work into an industry. They have specialized weapons, expensive equipment, and a disturbing talent for knowing exactly where the monsters will appear.Jak Bitters wants little to do with any of i...

"A fascinating insight into the country's most famous asylum for criminals" which reveals Victorian England's care and management of the mentally ill (Your Family Tree).On 27 May 1863, three coaches pulled up at the gates of a new asylum, built amongst the tall, dense pines of Windsor Forest. Broadmoor's first patients had arrived.In Broadmoor Revealed, Mark Stevens writes about what life was like for the criminally insane, over one hundred years ago...

Welcome to the first of three incredible volumes of haiku and senryu compiled by Cendrine Marrouat and David Ellis from Auroras & Blossoms.Feast your senses on a unique collection that is moving, thought-provoking, inspirational, hauntingly beautiful and deeply insightful.This anthology is a delightful showcase of superbly crafted poetry that is extremely easy to get into but handsomely rewards the reader with each subtle nuance and twist. It is like spending time with love...

AJL 2024 Judaica Reference & Bibliography Awards Honorable MentionThe late Steven Lowenstein was a brilliant social historian who, after retiring from his academic position at the University of Judaism, toiled for years—and up to his final days—to complete this monumental book, which is the definitive demographic history of German Jewry. Lowenstein took the research of Hebrew University demographer Professor Osiel Oscar Schmelz and brought it to life in the daily l...

They say art is an expression. For Steven Revland, art has been his salvation. A recovering drug addict and alcoholic, he has overcome numerous obstacles in his life, including childhood ADHD, dyslexia, and Tourette's syndrome. But what he lacked in formal education, he made up with passion and grit. For nearly fifty years, he has been working as an artist, and he is still designing and creating with the same passion he exhibited at the start of his career. And it is his passion that inspi...

Six, horrific and asinine tales by Mark Steven Nordlund. Descend a spiraling staircase of cheek-clenching, cockamamie weirdness as a teddy bear is forced to watch his wife cheat at his funeral, a gang of feral houseplants eats an idiot cat and two, suburban witches set Halloween on fire using cursed, vomit-inducing baked goods. Miniature mermaids are captured and tortured, a middle-aged ghost hunter breaks into a house to steal a ham sandwich and a giant, frog-alien ferociously defecates o...