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The world stands on the edge of catastrophe. Nether looms ready to swallow reality whole, while Disgardium spirals into chaos. Ancient powers stir from their slumber, threatening the delicate balance between worlds. Scyth returns from his exile in the beta-world more powerful than ever before, emerging as the last hope for salvation. He must battle through the final Demonic Games, unveil the secrets of ancient races and forgotten gods, and somehow unite former enemies against a common threat.

Few business leaders in the world have applied Lean strategy as successfully as Art Byrne has - and none has the ability to explain how to do it with such succinctness and clarity. Byrne has successfully implemented Lean strategies in more than 30 companies in 14 different countries. In The Lean Turnaround, this legendary business leader shares everything he has learned during his remarkable career and shows how anyone can achieve similar results.

Unity is strength, but the path of a hero is often traveled alone, especially when friends, comrades and allies have been lost. The weight of responsibility is overwhelming, and there is so much at stake that one might feel compelled to howl at the moon Geala. Unfortunately, this moon is nowhere to be found in the Nether, Inferno or Purgatory, nor can it be seen through the leaden acid clouds of Terrastera or beneath the twisted dome of the continent of Meaz.

Jaleh Swann, a business journalist hot on the trail of an auditor who was mugged and killed, lands in the hospital just one day after her Portland apartment is ransacked. When Jaleh’s sister, Raziah, reaches out to an old friend for help, Dez has no choice but to answer. The Swann sisters have been pulled into a dizzying web of cover-ups and danger. At the center lies an insidious Oregon-based tech corporation, Clockjack, which has enough money and hired guns to silence just about anyone—including this rag-tag trio.

My father, Oliver L. Brown, for whom Brown v. Board of Education is named, was a proud member of a group of a few hundred people, across the country, who took risks by taking a stand for what they believed. He died in 1961, just seven years after the case, so he didn't live long enough to know that Brown would become the foundation on which so much of this country's civil and human rights initiatives would rest. Brown v. Board became important for every citizen, not just African Americans.

Dez Limerick is a retired mercenary, previously known as The Gatekeeper—the man who opened doors that others wanted shut. He's checking out sunny California when his hotel suddenly falls under attack. In the wrong place at the right time, Dez stops a meticulously planned scheme to kidnap Petra Alexandris, the daughter of a major military contractor. While helping her uncover a secret plot buried within her father's company, Dez exposes a conspiracy that becomes more sinister at every explosive turn.

There is something quite special about this fine collection of tales of terror from the Sceptered Isle, each and every one crafted in the dead of the night by twisted, fevered minds, who have brought crawling and slithering to life the darkest denizens of the blackest shadows to terrify those brave souls amongst you who are brave enough to listen...

A Terrifying Anthology of 18 tales of horror! The fourth installment of our bestselling anthology series continues in the unrivaled tradition of rip-roaring, top quality tales of terror from the very best independent horror authors writing today!

A deadly pathogen is missing from a clandestine US lab. The government is staying silent about the breach, even as they assemble a task force to track it down. Worse, other nefarious groups are searching for it too.

Words from my heart to yours

In the shadowy world of covert operations, Carly Fletcher and Bo Harris were presumed dead, a convenient fiction crafted by the CIA. But the truth was far more complex. Relocated to Europe under the guise of witness protection, they believed themselves safe, ready to carve out a new life. Fresh revelations emerge, crushing the hopes of a new start. Before long, they come to the grim realization that the individual who inflicted so much pain, is once again pursuing them.