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The petty, vicious gods demand that Bib the sorcerer lure his friend, the young king, into a losing war. Bib thinks he’s clever enough to arrange things so that the king is defeated yet keeps his throne - and his head. But the king won’t listen until Bib crushes some traitors for him. Faced with rebellious nobles, mystical killers, and allies he can’t control, Bib finds that cleverness needs a sword and some vicious magic to back it up. Because if he fails, the gods have torture, death, and even destruction beyond death waiting for him. They may even point and laugh.

Discover a fresh perspective on ADHD and unleash your true potential. In Superpowered, you will not only gain a deeper understanding of the unique strengths that can manifest in the ADHD brain, but also unlock practical strategies to harness those strengths and channel you creativity to thrive.

It is August 1899, and Thomas Edison proclaims his most amazing invention yet: the Spirit Phone Model SP-1. At nearly the same time, a cocksure young mage named Aleister Crowley inexplicably teleports into the home of Edison's archrival, renowned inventor Nikola Tesla.

Bib has retreated home, wracked with grief. After dooming his own daughter, he’s unwillingly dragged into a conflict with the demonic son of the God of War. And though he saves his town from the petulant deity, his tragic miscalculation allows the sadistic fiend to make off with a hoard of kids.

As two of the members heal in hiding, a new, ageless pair of enemies—the mysterious Archange and witchy Hellcat Kate, powerful beyond anything the Riders have thus far imagined—emerges from the mists, spreading chaos in their wake! The key to their defeat seems to lie in an arcane bejeweled hand and the infamous Hole in the Wall hideout of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid—if the Riders win the race through...the mists of time!

Three close friends dream of the sea, sailing ships, and dragons in a tale of belief, trust, and faith.

This is the ultimate traffic nightmare - city-wide gridlock! In this savagely satirical view of the near future, vehicular traffic in Los Angeles finally loses its liquidity, transforming into slow-moving slush, then finally hardening into sun-baked mud. With cars and trucks and buses paralyzed across 100 miles of freeway parking lot, the city grinds to a painful stop - or does it? Plus, a bonus story: "Afternoon with a Dead Bus" - a bizarre urban fantasy that only Hugo and Nebula Award winner David Gerrold could write.

The Seven Victories of the Divine Child is a thought-provoking spiritual guide which introduces real-life, practical, and proven universal wisdom tools which can be used to overcome the seven battles we all come face-to-face with throughout our lives. By shining a light on common myths and misconceptions that many people have accepted for centuries, this step-by-step guide provides answers we've been searching for regarding our soul's purpose, forgiveness, and finding inner peace to name a few.

You know the drill. Rub the magic lamp and a genie appears, promising to grant you three wishes. But the wishes always have a trap in them. What happens when a Hollywood lawyer draws up the contract? This notorious little short by the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author David Gerrold ("The Trouble With Tribbles" episode of Star Trek) is a delicious tale of well-deserved revenge.

Bib’s semi-retirement from killing for the gods isn’t going so well. So when he’s asked to help an angry 12-year-old girl with out-of-control powers, he embarks on a quest hoping for some redemption. But as Bib takes his sassy young charge under his wing, a voyage to the temple almost ends in disaster after a deadly ambush.

If you have been struggling financially and have been faithful in your walk with the Lord, but continue to struggle day in and day out, then there is a door that has not as yet been opened to you. The principles in this book will guide you to use the right key to unlock your financial blessings.

What if you knew that God really "gets it" about you? What if you could get it about God? How could you know? What if there were a belilevable answer - an answer with actual evidence - about where you will be on the day you die? What if the goal of the Christian life isn't "being good", or even "going to heaven when I die"? What if avoiding all suffering is a bad idea? What if there were more to say about suffering than "make it go away!"

Tired of marriage books that leave you with more questions than answers? Check out Fight-Proof Your Marriage by pastor, author, and life-coach, Jonathan Hoover.

Beyond Anger Management: Master Your Anger as a Strategic Tool is an easy-to-understand guide that picks up where typical anger management books end. It explains what your anger is and why you have it and shows you how to identify and master your anger. Beyond Anger Management: Master Your Anger as a Strategic Tool empowers you to apply your anger as a strategic tool to improve your life and your relationships.

Welcome to Mackurd. When the Collapse made the simple things complicated and the complicated things man-eating monsters, most people ran around like sissies and got eaten. This is not the story of those people. This is the story of unlikely heroes kicking undead pelvises and shooting monsters before their names become an issue, all while trying to keep the squad mascot from stealing all the beer. It's a short story of the Collapse, set in the world of the Black Year Series.

Riders Where There Are No Roads is the first full novel in the Riders of the Weird West series. There's roping, riding, an interdimensional badass, shootouts, demon cowboys, a dragon, a pickup that's really a horse (or is it the other way around?) and a mystical biker/cosmic marshal who might just be orchestrating it all!

Are you hosting a volunteer from Workaway, HelpX, Volunteers Base, or another work exchange service? This short audiobook will help you figure out what you want from a work exchange while avoiding issues and problems. You'll learn strategies for recruiting, screening, preparing for arrival, and working effectively with your volunteers, including support and supervision. This audiobook even guides you on how to wrap up the experience.

Forbes editor John Tamny uses entertaining stories from sports, movies, popular culture, and famous businesses to demonstrate the basic principles of economics. The Rolling Stones, the Dallas Cowboys, and Paris Hilton become examples of good and bad tax policy. The Godfather, Gone With the Wind, and The Sopranos reveal the downside of antitrust regulation while the Michigan Wolverines' 2007 loss to Appalachian State explains why regulations often fail to achieve their intended purposes.

In an era where we are bombarded by a thousand advertisements each day, what makes a business stand out in the mind of its potential customers? What makes you different from your competitors? Too many business owners and entrepreneurs have fallen victim to the "bells and whistles" mentality and end up wasting their time, money, and focus on fancy marketing to sell their mediocre products and services. They forget what is most important: being remarkable.

Snake oil salesman Dr. Darius Darke and other "legends" of the Old West are called upon to fight a band of brain-eating bandits in a three-dimensionally-challenged box canyon. This story is a prequel to David Bain's full-length weird Western novel Riders Where There Are No Roads. David Bain is the author of Death Sight, the first novel in the Will Castleton psychic detective series, Gray Lake: A Novel Of Crime And Supernatural Horror and several short story collections.