Inga, a "valued asset" of the Academy, strains against her cage, battles for scraps of respect, sneaks tiny moments to be herself.Having built a secret sanctuary, her soul survives, for as long as she can keep it secret, shrouded, masked. Meanwhile, tribes of barbarian foreigners squabble and brawl with the city guard, stumbling ever closer to riots and slaughter, and Inga is right in the middle of it.Action, drama, Gaslamp Fantasy: return to the Artifice Academy, and see w...

The artifice academy is a crucible of difficulty and isolation, where children are forged into greatness, or shatter into madness and failure. Inga and her friends return in this tale of struggle and cunning. The Masters move them about like playthings, but Ebberis has other plans...

If the face in the mirror is a monster, do you kill it? Jack’s life of quiet kindness is interrupted by vivid nightmares of a secret world of magic and monsters. When a woman from the other life shows up, he wonders if he’s going mad, or if reality is only a thin veneer over mayhem and death. A battle looms, between who he is and what he could be. Can Jack escape the secret conspiracy? Or is he the source? If you like dark Urban Fantasy and struggles for good in a morally ambiguous world, ...

How I Lost My Cotton-Picking Mind is a poignant and evocative exploration of the challenges and triumphs faced by Elijah Porter Jones, a poor black boy growing up in the culturally rich yet complex city of Charleston, South Carolina-the Historic Negro Country. It is a coming-of-age narrative that delves into the inextricable tapestry of race, class, gender, and identity, unraveling the consequences of a family's vault of secrets that span a lifetime for the descendants of sharecroppers. El...

Improve Your EQSuccess as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than big ideas and dedication. With threats of burnout and rejection at nearly every turn, the entrepreneurial journey is riddled with obstacles—but the staff, experts, and voices of Entrepreneur want you to know you're not alone.Entrepreneur Voices on Emotional Intelligence brings you real-world strategies to help you get brutally honest with yourself and boost your emotional intelligence....

Path of Blood tells the gripping and horrifying true story of the underground army which Osama Bin Laden created in order to attack his number one target: his home country, Saudi Arabia. His aim was to conquer the land of the Two Holy Mosques, the land from where Islam had first originated, and, from there, to reestablish an Islamic Empire that could take on the West and win. Thomas Small and Jonathan Hacker use new insider evidence to expose the real story behind the Al Qaeda. Far from th...

Keep your gods close and your monsters closer...Police Chief Delaney Reed thinks she knows all of Ordinary, Oregon's secrets. Gods on vacation, lovelorn ghosts, friendly neighborhood monsters? Check.But some secrets run deeper than even she knows. To take down an ancient vampire hell-bent on revenge, she will have to make the hardest decision of her life: give up the book of dark magic that can destroy them all, or surrender her mortal soul.As she weighs her options...

Alone in the throng of competition and cruelty, with nothing but guts, is defiance enough to ascend above the ordeals of the Artifice Academy?Mad science, friendship and betrayal, Black Sand, politics: the Artifice Academy is a hard place: every moment a lesson, every lesson a trap. Inga dares to hope, walking a tightrope of isolation between failure and madness.

Write About Now includes interviews with zombie whisperer Max Brooks, The Nightingale author Kristin Hannah, designer Betsey Johnson, #1 New York Times bestselling author David Grann and so much more.When Jonathan Small began interviewing bestselling writers for his podcast Write About Now, he didn't anticipate how moved and inspired he'd be hearing their origin stories. He wasn't alone, as listeners wrote to tell him it was thei...

Healthcare practitioners spend years training and practicing to be great clinicians, but many in private practice wake up one day realising they also need to be an effective business owner to create success. Over time they notice that their practice is running them rather than the other way round, finding themselves feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, unfulfilled and unhappy.ELEVATE was written for allied health practice owners finding themselves in this very position. Written by fello...

Whether at work or at home, success is something we strive for in all aspects of our lives. And while there are a number of obvious things you should be doing in order to achieve your goals and reach success, there are also some not-so-obvious ones. Entrepreneur Voices on the Science of Success offers data and research-backed tools and tactics for both business and personal achievement from entrepreneurs and small business owners including Tim Ferris, Brian Tracy, and Reid Hoffman...

Elections are not just about who casts ballots – they reflect the citizens, parties, media, and history of an electorate. Fighting for Votes examines how these factors interacted during a recent Ontario election.The authors begin by examining the province’s political culture and history. They then delve deeply into the campaign by exploring three lines of enquiry that help define representative democracy: How do parties position themselves to appeal to voters? How is infor...