REVISED AND UPDAT ED WITH NEW RESEARCH INTO EQ AND PERSONAL AND CAREER SUCCESSWhat is the formula for success at your job? As a spouse? A parent? A Little League baseball coach or behind the bench of a minor hockey team?What does it take to get ahead? To separate yourself from the competition? To lead a less stressful and happier existence? To be fulfilled in personal and professional pursuits?What is the most important dynamic of your makeup? Is it...

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As the youngest of eight, Barty has always felt overlooked and left out. And that's especially bothersome when you're a wizard in 1895 Boston! But 13-year old Barty has a special talent: he can out-duel anyone. In fact, he's the "fastest draw in the east" and so he dreams of so much more, of becoming hte most talked-about wizard of all time. Only like all 13-year olds, the path to greatness is fraught with obstacles and challenges. From escaping the wizard authorities to battli...

In this issue, Jake wakes up from his encounter with the lanky man and heads out to watch the Halloween revelry only to find that he hasn't woken up at all. He's in a terrible dream in which everyone is frozen. Cars, people, everything. Only it's not really a dream. He's crossed over to the spirit world and finds himself face-to-face again with the vampire...and three vampire hunters.

In this issue of Barty the Kid, Barty escaped the Mechanics Wizard Academy only to find himself in another prison...and with a strange young wizard, Liam, who grabbed onto Barty as he tumbled down the stairs into darkness. Stolen wand in hand, Barty and Liam attempt to find their way out only to make a horrible discovery: they are trapped beneath the streets of Boston in "Old Boston." Set upon by the Warden's agents, Barty looses Liam only to find himself face-to-face with a horde of ang...

In this issue, Barty returns home to find the Lady and her entourage waiting. Planning to throw him into the Tower for the rest of his life, Barty flees with the intent of taking the Wizarding Lines to Colorado. But closed by the Lady and the authorities, Barty is forced to find other means and ends up another victim of the Wizard Thief.

In this issue of Barty the Kid, Barty's capture by the Wizard Thief ends at a strange location. Figuring his certain demise, he finds himself instead the reluctant guest of a wizard academy run by the Mechanics and their automatons. Barty soon discovers, though, that he's not there to learn magic but to practice it by bringing the Mechanics' creations to life.

Follow Jake as he battles Vampires, Werewolves, the undead, and powerful spirits in a sinister half-world between ours and the spirit world. Learn how thousands of years ago, the Egyptians opened gateways to the spiritworld to bend powerful entities to their wills...and how an innocent, 6-year old boy undid it all in a single night. With the world approaching chaos and humankind's darkest nightmares prowling the streets, Jake must fight with the mystic and spiritual warriors of the Order...

In the sixth issue of Barty the Kid, Liam has killed Barty with a special spell. But not out of cruelty. He has done so as a trick to bring him back upstairs so that after reviving him, Barty can get his wand and attack the Warden. But while Liam carried Barty upstairs, Bart Sr. comes down...into Old Boston. And only after the ghosts realized that he has freed him by ripping the hole in the ceiling do they tell him where Barty has gone and agree to help him get to the stairs. Resurrected by L...

In this issue of Jake: Vampire Hunter, in the aftermath of his hair-raising experiences with the vampire, the wraith, and the strange other world, Jake finds himself the target of the Order who wishes to Ordain him in the ongoing war against the spirit world. But the ritual doesn't go as planned and Jake wakes up, creating results that the three council members could never have foreseen.

In this issue of Barty the Kid, Bart Sr. battles the necromancer in a back street of Boston while searching for his son. Employing an unorthodox spell, Bart Sr. defeats him...and reveals Old Boston below. At the same time, Barty has agreed to help the ghosts in Old Boston destroy the anti-magic field so that they can be returned to the parents. Unfortunately, Liam must kill him to do it.

In this issue, Jake is on his way to get assigned when he's intercepted by an old, well-dressed man who agrees to lead him to the "assignment" room. During the walk, Jake finds out a host of information about the world he's in...and what he's been dragged into. Once in the assignment room, he learns more from a Class 3 spirit and gets pulled into his assigned door to destinations unknown.