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The Magnificent Seven meets The Wind in the Willows in this action-packed fantasy adventure from Daniel Polansky, The Builders. A missing eye. A broken wing. A stolen country. The last job didn't end well. Years go by, and scars fade, but memories only fester. For the animals of the Captain's...

He had been the governor for nine hours, and two of those hours had been a nap. Edmund Hale was a mid-tier game designer in Toronto. He died on a Tuesday. He woke up on a Wednesday in someone else's body, in someone else's coat, in someone else's office, holding someone else's seal of authority over a sun-blasted British outpost called Saint Caro. The fort is undermanned. The garrison is half drunk. The treasury is a polite fiction. Three pirate captains want the harbor. A French squadron wants the island. A tax commissioner from London wants Edmund's head on a writ.

Kairon is a system clerk that finally gets his own city charter. So he does what any good bureaucrat would. He reads the entire Terms of Service, identifies a loophole, and exploits it. Unfortunately doing so ended up calling down a pillar of hellfire that roasts him, all his villagers, and everything else within a league alive. Now he's a demon that's got ten confused imps, a tower with a giant floating eyeball, and a rudimentary system that raises buildings through rends in reality.

Joseph Fort Newton's work The Builders (1914) is regarded as a masterpiece on the subject of Freemasonry. It delves into the ancient past to identify the roots of the organization. Newton suggests that it derives from the Roman Collegia, a society of master builders and architects.

An outstanding classic in Masonic literature offering the early history of Freemasonry and an exposition of the faith of Masonry.

ll things must end. Welcome to the final Deathless novel. The builder Yoggoth has arrived in our Solar System, but his goal is not to conquer our world. He has locked the sun in a Yoggothian Sphere designed to siphon our star of all power. Earth is hurled into darkness, denied the lifegiving heat of our sun, even as Yoggoth's fleets move upon our world. Our heroes, led by Blair, Liz, and Isis, must deal with the new winter before they can even hope to oppose them.

As the West struggles against attempts to destroy it from within and without, key lessons in resilience from its Jewish parent can enable both Christianity and civilization to survive. Western civilization is facing a critical moment. Foreign enemies sensing its weakness are circling. Internally, the West is being consumed by division, decadence, and demoralization. The October 7 attack on Israel presented it with a choice between civilization and barbarism—a challenge the West has failed. But this damaged society is far from lost if it takes advice from an unexpected source. Western ...

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the...

When Benjamin's latest conquest revealed herself to be from another world, he couldn't believe it. But her crazy revelations didn't stop there. She said that Benjamin was the reincarnation of the Forgotten Ruler, a supreme being with an empire that once spanned an entire continent. Now, he's traveling to that fantasy world with one goal in mind: rebuilding his empire, one monstrous offspring at a time. Move over Sauron, Benjamin Davies is the next dark lord of fantasy.

The Lords of elves, dragons, and dwarves are brandishing their blades for what will be the largest war in continental history… for it is known a Bael walks the Nine Realms once more. Skálda Branwright races to take her dragon south to escape a continental hunt. But when the ruthless Order of...

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Two years ago, I pushed him away just as his lips touched mine for the first time. I got so much into my own head, into my own fears, that I pulled away. With two simple devastating words 'I can't,’ I changed everything. I walked away from Silver Pine, and from the one man who made staying feel dangerously real, dangerously permanent. Nate Cosgrove doesn’t chase what leaves, even if it leaves him with a broken heart. Instead, he builds, he fixes, he stays. Now I am back in Silver Pine for a restart of the project that brought us together. I am forced to face the one thing I never ...

Book 1. Start here if new. From the Bestselling Author P.S. Power comes an exciting adventure that will change the world. Tor Baker is no ordinary boy. Hailing from a humble background in the deep woods, Tor has been granted a special scholarship from the king to study magic, and he's determined to make the most of it. But when he finds himself entangled in a web of secrets and schemes that have been building for years before his birth, Tor must rely on all of his magical skills and cunning to save himself and the kingdom. With intrigue, danger, and a hint of romance, this story will keep ...

Bestselling and award-winning author Mason Deaver’s adult romance debut follows a journalist in a dead-end job who agrees to teach his disastrous blind date how to be a better boyfriend. Readers will delight in this sweet and steamy queer romance with trans representation! Eli Francis is stuck...

In The Builders, humanity’s greatest war begins with a mystery: an enigmatic object discovered in Earth’s oceans. For Kimberly "Kim" Pinkerton, a brilliant missile guidance expert, this event pulls her into a web of intergalactic intrigue. She joins a team of specialists to decode the builders’ technology—an ancient network known as the grid that connects the galaxy’s civilizations.

In Israel and Civilization, syndicated columnist, legal scholar, and popular commentator Josh Hammer makes a righteous case that the key to the prosperity of the West is the flourishing of the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel. Hammer’s uplifting offense is our best defense against the enemies of the Jewish people, the Jewish state, and all the West. As Hammer makes clear, manifesting the promise of Israel requires action by the United States and its allies.

When Henry Folsom is isekaied into a small island surrounded by endless sea, he's given the rare Harbormaster class, built for managing ships, shaping trade routes, and transforming a dying settlement into a thriving power. The problem? His new island is beyond decrepit: broken docks, a...

A killer prowls the sands of the unfinished Great Pyramid, and only one man can stop him. Hemi, Egypt’s brilliant Grand Vizier, has dedicated his life to engineering the magnificent pyramid for his beloved cousin and Pharaoh, Khufu. But when Hemi’s closest friend is found murdered, the bonds of trust between the cousins begin to unravel, threatening the very foundation of their grand project. As the body count rises around Khufu’s Great Pyramid, Hemi must confront the ghosts of his past and unearth long-buried secrets. Amidst the turmoil, an unexpected challenge arises in the form of ...

Senior level superintendents on projects should be the chief people officers (CPO) of their teams. This position does a less physical work and more mentoring of others doing the work. In fact, while most entry level superintendent positions execute work, senior leaders lead, organize, and build teams. This book is about building remarkable teams that build remarkable projects. To do this, you must have three key things: a multiplier leader, a strong team, and a strenuous performance target, goal, or milestone. With these three in place, any team can win! This book will help you become the ...

Delving into a world once shrouded in mystery, this investigative report provides a fascinating account of the annual meetings of the world's most powerful people, The Bilderberg Group. Since first meeting in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands, The Bilderberg Group has been comprised of prime ministers, presidents and the wealthiest CEOs of the world, all deliberating the economic and political future of humanity.