Hell hath no fury, like a goddess scorned...OK, so I accepted Kronin’s call to defeat the Forgotten Gods and save the earth.But don’t thank me yet. Just because I’m on the job doesn’t mean it will be easy—even with the Gladius Solis at my side and the power of Carcerum coursing through my veins.The problem is that the Forgotten aren’t your run of the mill villains. They’re, well...gods. Which means they’re violent, powerful, and crafty ...

For twenty years after World War II, the United States was in the grips of its second and most oppressive red scare. The hysteria was driven by conflating American Communists with the real Soviet threat. The anticommunist movement was named after Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, but its true dominant personality was FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who promoted and implemented its repressive policies and laws. The national fear over communism generated such anxiety that Communist Party members and...

The gods are real...and they’re assholes.Thousands of years ago, ancient deities fought a civil war that nearly destroyed the earth. They were defeated by a great warrior—and banished to spend eternity beyond the reach of the humans who once served them.Their war is raging once again.And once again, it will require a great hero to save humanity.Unfortunately for humanity, I’m that hero.My na...

The Big Sleep (1939) introduces Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's definitive private detective, into a Los Angeles of blackmail, pornography, gambling, and aristocratic decay. Its plot, famously labyrinthine, matters less than the moral atmosphere it discloses: a modern city where wealth conceals corruption and language becomes a weapon of survival. Chandler transforms the hard-boiled detective story into a literary art, fusing terse dialogue, baroque metaphor, and a knightly code of hono...

Vampires are overrunning my city.The FBI is on my tail.And the god of darkness wants to meet with me.Just another day in the life of a hero. Luckily, this time, I’m not alone.God in the Darkness is the explosive conclusion to the first arc of The Forgotten Gods Series. Follow Vic Stratton and her team of powerful allies as they struggle to save this world from the evil gods who want nothing more than to rul...

Marlowe's Mysteries – Noir Detective Classics gathers the essential atmosphere and moral architecture of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe stories: rain-slick streets, compromised wealth, bruised idealism, and a detective whose wit is both shield and scalpel. Written in Chandler's hard-boiled yet lyrical prose, these narratives transformed crime fiction from puzzle-making into social diagnosis. In the literary context of American noir, Marlowe stands between romantic knight-errant and mode...

The Board and Superintendent Handbook: Current Issues and Resources is a practical guide for both board members and superintendents. The book includes contributions from experienced and new superintendents and board members on a wide range of topics that boards and superintendents must navigate together successfully in order to move districts in a positive direction for students, staff, parents, and communities.

Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters reflects the work of a select group of researchers, scholars, and practitioners in higher education assessment with the goal of identifying strategies that assist senior campus leaders as they respond to the challenges of a changing economic landscape and political climate. The contributors, experts in the field, bring to the forefront key issues relevant to advancing assessments in higher education-principles that culminate in impr...

Breaking out of FBI lock up nearly got me killed, but that’s nothing compared to getting off this damn island.The gods have descended on New York, and all hell has broken loose.Apparently, they have big plans for the weekend, but I have a feeling it doesn’t include taking in a Broadway show. With three gods angling for control and the Forgotten battling it out on every street corner, I want nothing more than to save as many souls as possible and ge...

Book three of The Riftwar LegacyThe final instalment of Feist’s spellbinding Krondor adventure. Now in a brilliant new livery.‘Feist writes fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination’ – Washington PostA drop in the ocean?A raid upon the high seas signals an attack of unprecedented magnitude by the forces of darkness. For the holiest of holies, the Tear of the Gods has been lost ...

Book Two of the Riftwar LegacyContinuing on from Feist’s bestselling Riftwar Saga comes a spellbinding adventure. Now in a brilliant new livery.‘Feist writes fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid – imagination’ Washington PostFresh back from the front, another foe defeated, Prince Arutha arrives to find all is not well in Krondor. A series of apparently random murders has brought an eerie quie...

“Feist constantly amazes.”—SF Site“Feist has a command of language and a natural talent for keeping the reader turning pages.”—Chicago Sun-TimesThe Chaoswar—the fifth and final Riftwar—is in full, explosive swing in Raymond E. Feist’s A Crown Imperiled, the second book in the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling fantasist’s monumental saga of courage, conflict, and bitter consequence. Once again, Midkemia, the author’s brilliantly c...