They defeated the darkness... but evil always creeps back in. Thanks to Daniel, Mary and Josef the town of Echtberg is now free from the powerful vampire who ruled over it for hundreds of years, but as a wave of dark magic driven attacks are unleashed on the town trust between factions is in short supply. Despite his leading role in freeing the town, Daniel's magical abilities lead to suspicion and outright hostility leaving him battling the fear...

An instant New York Times bestseller, Dan Lyons' "hysterical" (Recode) memoir, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best book about Silicon Valley," takes readers inside the maddening world of fad-chasing venture capitalists, sales bros, social climbers, and sociopaths at today's tech startups.
For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession—until one Friday morning when he received...

A memoir of life inside the tech bubble by a writer and co-producer for "Silicon Valley" describes how, after losing his magazine writing job, he took a position with a tech company rife with cultish millennials, absent bosses, and venture-capital amenities.

"You can tell them that you love them, you can tell them that you're going to keep them safe, you can tell them all these things, but it takes them years to really believe that that's actually what you're doing. They have no trust. They can't trust themselves, let alone trust anybody else."- Denise, Adoptive Mother This video examines issues encountered by parents, including foster parents, adoptive parents, or family members who are caring for a...

A Universe DisruptedBook 2 of Intersecting WorldsThey thought they were done with the parallel universe. But it wasn't done with them.Billy Boustany had the adventure of a lifetime. Now, all he wants to do is to go back to the amazing universe he discovered. But the power brokers over there warned him to stay away and keep his mouth shut.At the same time, Diyami Red Hawk, an idealistic young man from that universe has connected with Billy's daughter...

The Western narrative of world history largely omits a whole civilization. Destiny Disrupted tells the history of the world from the Islamic point of view, and restores the centrality of the Muslim perspective, ignored for a thousand years.
In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as it looks from a new perspective: with the evolution of the Muslim community at the center. His story moves from...

A searing portrayal of a mother's anguish over the sudden hemorrhagic stroke of her son, devoted father of two young girls, rendering him a quadriplegic in the prime of his life. An intimate glimpse of a world shattered by stroke, in which each poem not only illuminates, but reimagines life with hope and acceptance. Any parent, who has watched a beloved child struggle with a medical disaster, or suffering intractable drug dependency will easily recognize...

Summary of Dan Lyons's Disrupted is a memoir about Lyons's experiences as a middle-aged career journalist who takes a job in marketing at a startup. For years, Lyons wrote for Newsweek about technology and was well-known for starting a popular satirical blog about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. At age 51, he lost his job in the magazine's downsizing. He started looking for another job right away to support his young children and his wife, who had just...

"For nearly two decades, pundits have been predicting the demise of higher education in the United States. Our colleges and universities will soon find themselves competing for students with universities from around the world. With the advent of massive open online courses ("MOOCS") over the past two years, predictions that higher education will be the next industry to undergo "disruption" have become more frequent and fervent. Currently a university's...