Everyone knows the legend of the Minotaur. But that's all it is to them - a myth. And even then, the myth only tells the tale of a monster slain by a hero. Has anyone bothered to ask the supposed monster for his side of the story? Of course not. And I should know. I am that "monster." I am Asterion, The Minotaur, and the first of my kind. And this is my story. You can decide for yourself who the monster truly is.

Get ready to make the biggest jump of your career.The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity. But you're ambitious. You want to cross that chasm. And your organization needs you to cross it in order to join its bench of stars who will lead with empathy and humanity and ground the organization's strategies in a meaningful, mission-driven, and purposeful way.The Lea...

It’s Carole’s birthday, and The Saddle Club is planning an extra-special celebration. They’re having their first boy-girl party, which will include a romantic moonlit hayride!When snooty Veronica diAngelo hears about their plans, she assumes she isn’t invited. And now Veronica is determined to wreck the party – and steal one of The Saddle Club’s boyfriends! Will Carole’s birthday be ruined?

When Stevie Lake injures herself and can’t ride for a while, the other two members of The Saddle Club, Carole Hanson and Lisa Atwood, make a pact of friendship not to ride until Stevie has recovered. To seal the pact, they decide that if the vow is broken by any of them, they’ll have to ask stuck-up Veronica diAngelo to join their club. That will keep them out of the saddle for sure.But can three horse-crazy girls really stay away from horses and riding for more than a day? Find ou...

Ever since strange Troy became a stable hand at Pine Hollow, Carole has been feeling spooked. Troy’s scary story about a phantom horse has made her wonder about Starlight. Could her beloved bay horse really be possessed by an evil spirit that appears once every thirteen years? He’s been acting so strange! Soon Carole’s dreams are filled with images of a red-eyed Starlight, snorting, rearing, pawing, and ready to turn on his owner!

When a fatal equine virus breaks out at a nearby stable, The Saddle Club has to endure forty-five days of waiting and worrying about whether the disease will reach Pine Hollow. Then Carole realizes that one of her favorite horses may already be infected, and she decides to take matters into her own hands and hide the horse. Can Carole protect Pine Hollow? Or will she discover that there is nothing she can do to keep her worst nightmare from becoming reality?

The three members of the Saddle Club - Carole, Lisa, and Stevie - are the best of friends, bonded by their special love of horses. Now they're together on the long-awaited Mountain Trail Overnight. They are having such a perfect time that nothing - not even Veronica, the richest and snobbiest girl at the stables - can spoil their fun. But the impossible does happen. A tragic accident, caused by Veronica's carelessness, makes Carole lose the one thing she loved most in the world. Is her gri...

Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today’s Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotismNamed a best book of 2018 by Library JournalIt used to be that politics and sports were as separate from one another as church and state. The ballfield was an escape from the world’s worst problems, top athletes were treated like heroes, and cheering for the home team was as easy...

A bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large.Whether the issues are protest, labor, patriotism, or class division, it is clear that professional sports are no longer simply fun and games. Rather, the industry is a hotbed of fractures and inequities that reflect and even drive some of the most divisive issues in our country. The nine prov...

Carole, Stevie, and Lisa, the three members of the Saddle Club, are totally devoted to horses - and to each other. But for Carole, it seems as if there's not much she can count on except riding and the friendship of the Saddle Club. Ever since her mother died, Carole has urged her dad to go out on dates. But now she's afraid that he's getting serious about a woman whom she isn't ready to think of as a stepmother. Meanwhile, Carole's getting the last thing she needs: unwanted attention from...

When Veronica diAngelo, a rider at Pine Hollow Stables, discovers that her stirrup leathers have been cut before a hunter jumping exhibition, everyone assumes that practical joker Stevie Lake had something to do with it. After all, Stevie recently served her friends pancakes made out of plaster of Paris, and it’s a well-known fact that Stevie and the rest of The Saddle Club can’t stand Veronica.But would Stevie try to sabotage another rider – and risk injuring her valuable Arabian?...

After fourteen years being forced to serve the Order, Rían Fáidh is finally sent on his last mission before gaining his freedom, only to find a trap waiting for him. Unwilling to let one of their most talented mages go, the Order sends their personal assassin, the Mage Reaper, to dispose of Rían. Meanwhile, Toua is a healer on the run from the cartel the Order sold him to in order to pay off his brother's debt. When he reunites with Rían again, pulled together by forces outside their contr...