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At 17, on his first adventure as a mercenary, sailors pitch Shadowhelm off a boat because they think he is a witch. About to drown, a fae rescues him when he agrees to find the fae's pup in exchange for his life. But once on land, Shadowhelm finds himself the target of two evil sorcerers - one who is driven mad by ghosts from his past. Can Shadowhelm prove himself a mercenary, or will a sorcerer's demons kill him first?

Millions of employees attend some type of training or learning event during their tenure. Unfortunately, only 10 to 30 percent of what they learn will actually be applied in their work, presenting a situation referred to as a learning transfer problem. In Are You Making Money for Your Hive? authors Karie Holton and Elwood Holton illustrate how businesses can make learning really work to get real results.

Procrastination is a problem that almost everybody in the world faces at one point or another. Some people learn how to overcome it by forming good habits, and others suffer for years by constantly putting things off. This program was created to walk you through the steps necessary to break free from the shackles of procrastination and skyrocket your accomplishments to levels you never thought possible.

A war is coming, the outcome of which will decide the fate of the entire planet. The Sirujians have gathered, ready to execute the final act of their devastating invasion, one that threatens to eliminate the struggling remnants of the human race once and for all. Yet for the first time in history, all mankind stands united, and though weakened, willing to fight to the end.

Luke Jeffers is a student at Brafferton Community College in Fort Christanna, Virginia. Like any other college guy, he dreams about Amy, his grade-school crush, and finds time to party on the weekends while struggling to make his meager budget pay his bills. But unlike anyone else, Luke has discovered the secret Department of Defense Application for Remote Kinetics that unlocks a whirlwind of shocking events, and changes Luke's life direction forever.

Bobby (Bruiser) Parker is bored with his day to day job at Kelly Security. He should have known better than to wish for something to get him out of the office. His wish was quickly answered. Bruiser and his elite protection team are given the task of keeping a murder witness alive until the killers are caught. It should be a simple enough task for a group of former Special Forces and government agents. The killers, however, have other ideas as well as inside information.

This book uses acronyms and a positive attitude to shape how you set and reach your goals, increase a sense of happiness in your life, and add more exercise and peace. The main acronym used throughout the book is WORK: willpower, overcoming, relationships, and kinetics. Learn about yourself while discovering work as your talent, and see how that talent comes in handy throughout every aspect of your life. Not only will this book allow you to grow a sense of awareness of the world around you, but you will take the time to learn how the world works in ways you can understand.

Virginia Collins is not what she appears to be. By all outward appearances the successful uptown psychiatrist is just another beautiful dame who hires a private investigator to find her missing husband: a weird little man who makes fancy umbrella drinks and dresses like something out of an old gangster movie. Collins hides her real motives, along with her tragic past, in order to win the affections of Raffy Rheinhardt, a cynical PI with an equally tragic history; a long forgotten shared incident resulting in damaged psyches and dead bodies.

Discover the world of stock investing in this short comprehensive beginner's guide! To put it simply, you’re going to go through a "101 course" on stock market investing. This book will teach you the essentials that you need to know before you decide to invest in the stock market and even though you won't become a professional investor overnight, this book will undoubtedly seek to give you the knowledge that you need in order to help you shorten your learning curve.

Success and wealth are perhaps two of the most elusive things on this planet. Countless people wish to be wealthy and are constantly doing a variety of things to achieve that wealth. Are you one of these people? Have you purchased your share of lottery tickets, or done anything else in your life that promised the wealth and success you have hoped for? What if you found out that there's no way success can be given to you?

This chapter-level audiobook can change the way you listen to BigShots - mostly businesspersons with a snapshot or two of politicians - as they pontificate for public consumption and personal gain. You'll recognize the spin, that dastardly polite euphemism for lies that the advertising/PR folks coined years ago to anoint their profession with a bit of undeserved dignity. In the process, you might gain a more realistic grasp of what's going on around you and how your mind is being manipulated, aka brainwashed.

As the fate of the planet lies in the hands of two scientists, Dr. Vinsant and Dr. Maak develop their own opinions on what the end should hold. One scientist's loyalty to an experiment reinforces the idea of letting science take its course, while the other's love and compassion towards the planet consumes him.

Jon is a grade school student who has a part-time job at a labratory where they experiment with animal DNA. When he hears that one of the scientists needs a tray full of samples, Jon runs to get it, trying to show how helpful he can be. In his haste he spill the contents of nine cups of animal DNA and the contents mix together. Sure, it was an accident, but the results make for an amazing discovery.

You have a chance to audition for the lead guitar position in Ricky Nelson's band. You have the experience, you just bought a new Fender Telecaster and you are ready to make the big time. But be careful what you wish for, you just may get it.

The Crucifixion is a modern American myth reframing the Old Testament in terms of the flight of African Americans from the Deep South during the Great Migration and the New Testament as the struggle for meaning in the modern, urban America. It is the story of a young man who is lost and alone, and must return to the city of his birth to find his place in the world.

Have you ever wondered why that smarmy sales guy won't quit, even when it's obvious to both of you that you're not buying what he's selling? Have you ever made a snap judgment about someone's character - only to find out that you were completely wrong? I live in California yet work for Celebrity Magician Criss Angel in Las Vegas. Needless to say, I find myself flying three to four times per week. Those who fly know. This collection of short stories set on airplanes will let you see the strangers around you in an entirely new light - and what you learn just might surprise you.

Pietro, a young man, has never killed: something rare for the corrupt city of Peregoth and totally alien to the tropics of Molkoro, where circumstances will soon take him. In the sweltering jungle, his purity has become a commodity to the ettin invaders and their lord, the dark Vexor. But how long can his innocence last in a godless land?

This story originally appeared in Mindflights Magazine in Sept. 2008.

The City on the Rock is dying. It rests on Salan, Captain of the Tower Guard, to find out why.

It's Halloween night and a werewolf is loose in downtown Chicago. Can the police stop this creature before the body count stacks up?

Leadership happens within the setting of a group, it includes affecting others, it is a procedure, and it involves objective achievement and the objectives are shared by leaders and their followers. The very demonstration of defining leadership as a procedure proposes that leadership is not a characteristic or trait with which just a couple of certain individuals are enriched with during childbirth. Characterizing leadership as a procedure implies that leadership is a transactional occasion that happens between leaders and their followers.