Holding companies are tools. Used well, they organize liquidity, liability, succession, and operational clarity across a private balance sheet. Used poorly, they become vanity theater: beautiful charts, confused banks, and structures that own your calendar.The Holdco Handbook is Raymond Hall, EA's operational brief for UHNW principals, family office operators, and next-generation stewards who need decision support (not permission theater). Hall applies the same Smart Asset versus V...

Shirley Holmes and Janie Watson have been best friends since high school, and now they own a detective agency together.The Holmes and Watson Detective Agency has a reputation for finding lost pets and finding people who skip out on the local bail bondsman. The girls wish for something more exciting, something they can skin their teeth into.Brock Melbourne has moved to Vienna, Virginia, after losing his wife and children in a tragic fire six months ago.Eight-year-old...

Rivalries ignite into heated romance, lost lovers seek second chances, and friendships turn to something more in these 12 stunning Romantasy stories.Including brand-new stories from beloved and bestselling authors including Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Kelley Armstrong, Alexis Hall, L. R. Lam, and more.Tumble head-over-heels for these 12 gorgeous Romantasy stories from bestselling and beloved authors.A pair of harried servants try to roma...

Continuing the work in Orthodox Saints of the British Isles, this book is a compendium of the lives of over 300 of these inspiring and historic Orthodox men and women. These saints were not only key figures in the development of the Church; they are an intrinsic part of the fabric of the history of the entire Western world.

**‘**Warlock shows us that what is called society, with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh’ Thomas PynchonA renowned gunslinger tries to impose law and order in an anarchic frontier boomtown, in this masterly WesternThe taste and smell of Warlock was not merely that of its dust, but the taste of apprehension, the smell of fear and anger like a dangerous animal snarling and stinking in its cage . . .

A groundbreaking account of how politics and economics have interacted in Western democracies over the past eighty yearsHow do capitalist economies change over time? And what political consequences follow? In Governing Growth, Peter Hall traces the interactions between politics and economics in Western democracies over the past eighty years, identifying a series of profound shifts in the political economies of Europe and the United States. Hall develops th...

Corvus Thorne is a reclusive witch who values her quiet forest sanctuary—and her solitude—above all else.Princess Phaedra Golding is an endlessly cheerful, slightly accident-prone knight who loves people and weaves mystical stories into everyday life.When Phaedra accidentally crashes through Corvus’s poor door, the grumpy witch wants nothing more than to send the sunshine knight packing. But in a land of waning magic, the unlikely pair find themselves bound together by the ...

"A tender, beautifully told true story about a soul‑deep connection that arrives without warning and lingers long after loss. As I read it, I found myself feeling the author's grief, hope, and quiet moments of recognition in my own heart.What moved me most was the way she describes a bond that doesn't end with death — how love can continue to show up in small, unexpected ways. It's reflective, emotional, and left me thinking about the people who have touched my life in the same way...

Why do miracles seem so distant? Why does faith, even sincere and desperate faith, so often appear to produce nothing but silence and disappointment? These are not comfortable questions, but they are the questions Franklin Hall dares to ask in this electrifying work of spiritual confrontation published in 1947. Drawing directly from the words of Jesus himself, Hall points to an answer that is as unsettling as it is transformative. The problem, he argues, is not God's reluctance to act. The...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.This 1st volume contains the following 50 works...

They carried the dead on their shoulders. They carry them still.In Somewhat Difficult to Put into Words, award-winning author Anthony Hall Seed delivers a searing collection of short stories and short plays that plunge readers into the chaos, confusion, and quiet devastation of war. From a grainy film of an unknown soldier's final defiant smirk before execution to the brutal reality of the 1968 Tet Offensive, these pieces pull no punches. Young men, drafted before they are ready, a...

A thief turned spy must unravel an assassination plot against the fae prince by disguising herself as a princess competing for his heart in this entrancing romantasy by USA Today bestselling author Julie Hall.For nineteen years, Rowan has fought to survive: first on the streets scavenging for scraps, then bound by a decade-long contract to a corrupt master. She longs for freedom but spends her days stealing from the highborn to pay off her servitude.