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More spirits! More skills! More foes! More battles! The Fringe Wilds are howling! Having recovered from their previous adventure, Blair Blackenskiff and his allies set off, excited to meet the Major Spirit, Merceid, once more and finally recruit her. They need to travel, train, and tame as they cross the perilous Fringe Wilds once more. This time, however, another force of dangerous Prospects lurk behind the scenes. The curtain rises on this, the early stages of the first major conflict of the First Phase!

Emory doesn't have it easy. With constant comparisons to her dead sister, she dreads her family, even when she loves them. However, there's something she hates even more than being compared to her sister: or rather someone. Miles. Miles lost the love of his life to childbirth, leaving him with a daughter to care for. Brooklyn, the daughter he didn't know he could ever love so much that her safety was the most important thing to him. He would do anything to keep her safely by his side.

The Three Bucket Leadership Framework helps leaders understand and overcome disengagement in their teams and organizations. This book is divided into two sections. Part I introduces the Three Buckets—All In, All Out, and The Middle—and shows how our spending of time and energy shapes our level of engagement. It also explores how individual habits and cultural forces lead people into disengagement, and how leaders must take responsibility for their teams’ engagement.

A half millennia ago, Siolene’s enemies took everything from her, including, they thought, her life. Against all odds, she survived in cryo stasis, and thanks to the pirate captain who rescued her, she built a new family and a new life as Queen of Ajen. But old enmities die hard, and when the lives of her children are threatened, there is only one choice left for her: Siolene must trust in her found family, in her husband, and in his enigmatic fixer as they return to face the enemy on his own ground. It may cost her everything she’s built, but Siolene cannot fail.

Caledin knew he could never go home. Two decades after losing his family to Zhretennais saboteurs, the former Ajenite naval officer made his living as a pirate, prowling the shipping lanes and picking off rich Zhretennais merchant vessels. For the most part, he’s content, and he tells himself often that the Free Ship Rampart and his crew are all the family he’ll ever need again. But then the Rampart stumbles upon a strange lifepod deep in the black nothingness of space. And against all the odds, the occupant in stasis—a girl named Siolene with ancient, royal DNA—is still alive.

When a surprise inheritance brings Olive Adams to Cape Cod to live in her aunt's old house, she finds her fortune shifting like the sands. Can she navigate a new life in the welcoming but mysterious house? As a dangerous hurricane barrels up the coast, Olive struggles to save the land next door from destruction as she waits for her new love to return.

Journey to Oz, a faraway land of magic, mayhem, and danger in this fantastical trilogy by L. Frank Baum. The Library Congress calls this “America’s greatest and best-beloved homegrown fairytale,” and the stories will spark the imagination and wonder as you enter the wondrous Land of Oz. This collection includes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the most well-known of the Oz stories; The Marvelous Land of Oz, following the adventures of a young boy named Tip exploring an Oz post-Dorothy; and Ozma of Oz, where Dorothy Gale is whisked away to a land called Ev.