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For Evereska, the last elven refuge on Faern, it’s a battle for survival. For the Chosen of Mystra, it’s a potent rival for their goddess’s dominion over magic. For the human realms of Faern, it’s a permanent shift in the balance of power. For a lost race of powerful archwizards, it’s a flying mountain they call home. From the author of The Summoning, Beyond the High Road, and Death of the Dragon (with Ed Greenwood), the Realms-shaking Return of the Archwizards series continues!

Jeff the Game Master returns in Manipulating Magic, a unique spin on the LitRPG genre, not just providing the perspective of the players, but also of one of those mystical, magical, all-powerful GMs we all dream of being.

Als ich Elisabeth Creed aus den Fängen ihres alten Bosses rette und ihr einen Job in meiner Firma gebe, ist das kein Akt der Großzügigkeit. Ich habe einen Plan. Sie soll bei einer Spendengala versteigert werden - als Lockvogel für meinen wichtigsten Kunden. Doch was als kalkulierte Strategie beginnt, gerät schnell außer Kontrolle. Denn Miss Creed ist faszinierend. So faszinierend, dass ich riskiere, nicht nur den Deal zu verlieren, sondern auch ein Geheimnis zu offenbaren, das mich hinter Gitter bringen könnte. Es gibt nur eine Möglichkeit: Ich muss mich von ihr fernhalten.

We never know when panic and anxiety will grip us, but there is a way out. You don't have to live this way anymore. Troy Maxwell shares his personal experience in an intimate story of tragedy and growth as he walks you through how to make it out if the Panic Room.

Hall had thought he knew everything about the game, but he’s finding every day that things are different in this new, broken version of Sky Realms Online. There are new game elements, new enemies, and even new locations. After just barely surviving his first boss fight, Hall finds himself in one of those new locations. He's become the lord of a ruined and isolated village called Skara Brae, deep in the middle of hostile territory. Hall and his companions must make the long trek to the city of Silverpeak Keep for much-needed supplies, or they'll risk losing everything.

This 2017 Academy of Podcasters Award Winning TV and Film discussion looks at the world of Raymond Reddington and all his criminal exploits on Sony Pictures Television’s hit show, The Blacklist. With weekly episode analysis, in season interviews from Megan Boone and the cast, as well as discussions with the crew and creator Jon Bokenkamp himself, Troy and Aaron make this the one place for post show theories and analysis including thoughts from YOU! What are you waiting for? Subscribe today before you end up on The Blacklist!

Day in and day out, I was reminded of what I was: a subject, a mere guinea pig to a bunch of insatiable lab tests. These scientists were trying to break me, recondition me, control me. I had no idea that my life would succumb to this, a mysterious phenomenon in need of experimentation. Because humans feared what they couldn’t understand, and I happened to be a powerhouse in my own right, a supernatural prodigy. But one day, after almost twenty years, I escaped, leaving nothing behind but ashes and acid rain.

Starting for the first-place Cubs and hitting a career high of .274, for the first time in his life, Mickey Rawlings is feeling comfortable enough to buy furniture. But it is a time of mixed blessings; ominous battles are brewing at home and abroad. On the homefront, Major League baseball may be suspended for the duration of the war, anti-German sentiment is running high, and Mickey's best friend - a rookie named Willie Kaiser - has just been shot right on the diamond.

Confronting Oppression explores the issues and lessons that emerge from letters people who have experienced oppression write to their oppressors. This exploration covers how the combined powers of storytelling and letter writing can be leveraged to create compelling personal narratives that empower people to take a stand against injustice. Real stories contained in real letters written by real people who have been subjected to real acts of oppression offer the potential for highly impactful and empowering real learning experiences. In America, marginalized people experience oppression through ...

Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine has provided four edgy stories about heroism, each exploring emotional dimensions uncommon in this or any other genre.

On November 10, 1975, the General Assembly of United Nations passed Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism a form of racism. Afterward, a tall man with long, graying hair, horned-rim glasses, and a bowtie stood to speak. He pronounced his words with the rounded tones of a Harvard academic, but his voice shook with outrage: "The United States rises to declare, before the General Assembly of the United Nations, and before the world, that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act."

hen armies of evil rise up from the seas around Faerûn, no one is safe. A young mage battles at the side of Khelben Arunsun to defend the city of Waterdeep. A merman struggles to fulfill his desperate mission to reach the Sea of Fallen Stars.Twelve all new stories by such Forgotten Realms stars as Mel Odom, Ed Greenwood, Elaine Cunningham, Troy Denning, Lynn Abbey, and Clayton Emery

The new president selected the most knowledgeable people for his cabinet, disregarding personal loyalty. These individuals pretended to back his objectives and policies. After the war ended, members of Lincoln’s cabinet rejected his reconstruction plan and plotted his assassination.

From Laura Prepon, star of Orange Is the New Black, and integrative nutritionist Elizabeth Troy comes an exciting 21-day plan combining the latest in food science with ancient dietary wisdom to shed stubborn weight for good and achieve overall wellness.

On a cold night in December 1956, two young girls mysteriously vanished after a night at the movies on the Southwest Side of Chicago, beginning one of the greatest searches to ever take place in the history of the city. Three weeks later, the bodies of the two lost girls, Barbara and Patricia Grimes, were found on the side of a secluded, snow-covered road, miles from where they disappeared. The discovery of their battered corpses created one of the greatest unsolved mysteries to ever baffle post-war America. Where had the girls been for the past three weeks?

Eric McCaffrey is very good at VRMMORPGs; he's played most of them, but the lack of funds is starting to affect his ability to play popular games. It's time to move on to something more...obscure. Battlegrounds Online is the only game of its kind. A VRMMOFPS. A military warfare game so realistic that it scares away most players daring enough to try it.

Hall had hoped things would finally start to settle down. He should've known better. He's been trapped within the new version of Sky Realms Online for months. Mostly at peace with it, he's started to make a new life within the game world. He's found a woman to love, the NPC Druid Leigh, and a village to call home. Skara Brae is still mostly ruins but he now has friends and citizens to help rebuild. But he's still missing many of the resources needed.

Endorsed by a noted 9/11/2001 World Trade Center North Tower survivor, Dr. Troy Clark's exhaustive research enlightens us to little-known epic findings, heroes, and miracles of all 9/11 events. You always knew there was more to the public 9/11 stories. Was 9/11 an inside job? Key eyewitness accounts, top-secret-class testimony, archived investigative journalism, scrutiny of official government reports, and foreign in-depth root sources lend more eye-popping clarity to the undiscovered truth.

Una guía para vivir sin ansiedad con ayuda de la terapia de aceptación y compromiso. De vez en cuando ocurren cosas terribles, lo que puede provocar una gran ansiedad. Descartados los métodos pseudocientíficos, ¿qué podemos hacer? La ansiedad es parte de la vida. Este libro enseña a aceptar que existen cosas buenas y malas, centrarnos en el presente y comprometernos con nuestros valores más profundos. Una terapia conocida como ACT, muy cercana al estoicismo

¡Aprende cómo pasar de la nada a un millonario de 8 cifras! Aumenta la riqueza de ingresos pasivos a través de la inversión inmobiliaria. Únete a Troy mientras usa su historia de fracasos menores y éxitos importantes subrayando su enfoque paso a paso para ingresar y tener éxito en uno de los mercados empresariales más dinámicos y poderosos del mundo: el mercado de inversión inmobiliaria de EE.UU.