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WINNER "Fantasy - General" American Fiction Awards 2023 (Daniel Scratch, book 1) WINNER "Fantasy" Indie Book Awards (Daniel Scratch, book 1) "...Jones has created something new, compelling, beautifully written, and somewhat reminiscent of Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)...An engrossing, well-written, and original story; readers will be eager for the next installment." – Kirkus Reviews "Adult and teenage fans of thoughtful fantasy will love exploring this beautifully described world of arcane powers. This meditative look at power will engage readers who like their fantasy ...

I've been teaching technical topics to adults for more than two decades, and I've been writing and designing instructional materials for almost that long. Throughout the time, I always tried to learn more about how people learn, and how I could be a better and more effective teacher. It wasn't always easy, because apart from a great deal of trial-and-error, there weren't a lot of resources that I could comprehend or make use of. Too many books are either written by academics for academics, or by academics - in the most condescending tones possible - for mere mortals. Well, this is the book ...

Clara's people—witches—are on the run. The Paladins' centuries-old war against witches and magic has neared an apex, and they're quickly gaining the upper hand. Suddenly armed with "holy relics" of uncertain origin, they're taking down magical Anchors, kidnapped witches, and made life in the Ordinary world generally unsafe for people of magic. Many witches have retreated to Underhill, the ancestral home of the Fae, where witches are building new towns and villages and regretfully leaving the Ordinary behind. Clara, a few of her friends from school, and her parents and their team of ...

WINNER "Fantasy - General" American Fiction Awards 2023 (Daniel Scratch, book 1) WINNER "Fantasy" Indie Book Awards (Daniel Scratch, book 1) “…Jones has created something new, compelling, beautifully written, and somewhat reminiscent of Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)…An engrossing, well-written, and original story; readers will be eager for the next installment.” – Kirkus Reviews Collecting the first three books of stories of witchkind: Daniel Scratch, Master of the Tower, and The Fifth Axis. The world’s greatest powers are collected into six Axes: Sky, Earth, ...

Bob Constantine (no relation to the other Constantine you may have heard of) is a down-on-his-luck exorcist-for-hire. Nondenominational. He roams from town to town, from city to city, inexorably drawn to the homes, businesses, and even places of worship that have become temporal homes for terrifying, malevolent spirits. Poltergeists. Screaming Mimis. Apparitions. Banshees. You see, Bob is one of the rarest of humans: a necropath, with the talent to see and communicate with the spirits of the dead. And demons, obviously. Demons are real, by the way. Bob should know, as he’s had once ...

FINALIST Best Fantasy • Feathered Quill Book Awards Meet Samantha Godsdotter—Sam, to her friends—a mercenary recently retired from Sasha’s Vixens. Sam’s seen her last battle, and she’s ready for. . . something else. She’s not sure what, but on a trip around Lake Evendiam, she rides into a small, oddly fortified village named North Pointe Common Towne. The proprietor of its pub, the Broken Claw, gives her a warm, friendly greeting—and then starts to act just a little odd. Turns out Sam may have found her stopping point, in a place where she’ll develop warm new friendships, ...

Discover a captivating world through four interconnected stories in this unique novel. Each tale follows a different main character, yet together, they weave a rich, unified world. Experience diverse perspectives and intricate plots that come together to reveal a larger, compelling narrative. This book offers a seamless blend of individual stories and an expansive setting, creating an immersive reading experience that ties each character and storyline into one fascinating tapestry.

In the old days, trades were kept alive by Masters, who took on and trained apprentices into journeymen, who became Masters in their own right. We've lost that in most ways, but there's no reason you can't resurrect the approach for our modern times. Learn to achieve and recognize your own success so that you can become a Master to someone else. This audiobook covers my approach to Mastery, in a hope that it will inspire you to find your own path and begin a generations-long tradition of helping others achieve their success.

When the ancient Under Hill home of the Fae is infected with the Rot, they're left with an unpleasant choice: Die in one last, great stand, or escape to the Human world. A world they once knew, but where they no longer belong. A modern world, where Cold Iron surrounds and poisons magical beings.

After thousands of years, the Fifth Axis—the primal force of Creation and Beginnings—has been Forged. But now Aron, the newly minted Adherent of the Fifth, goes on a spree of destructive and dangerous Creation, starting unstoppable storms, earthquakes, and other disasters. Daniel Scratch, Adherent of the Sixth Axis of Death and Endings, must stop him. But Daniel’s own powers have become erratic and unreliable, leaving him breathlessly traveling the world in an attempt to stop Aron, discover his motivations, and protect the world. This epic conclusion to the Adherents of the Axes ...

Finley's job just seems to become harder and harder. Having saved the Order of Some from itself, he and his friends must now confront the harsh reality: the Veil is falling, and humans are becoming more and more aware of witchkind and their magic. They're left with a straightforward, impossible task: cover everything up and return things to the way they were, or watch their world fall apart as the humans reintroduce their deadly Hunts. This gripping conclusion to The Order of Some trilogy also wraps up the modern stories of witchkind series, fully connecting all six books as well as the ...

Finley’s in a pretty good place in life. He’s on his last year at Disemstoke’s, one of the Great Schools of witchkind. He’s got a great set of friends, including best-friend-forever Arcadia. He even knows he’s about to be offered a place in one of the school’s prestigious and rare post-graduate programs. His family’s proud of him, and he’s even showing signs of runewright talent, the uncommon aptitude for being able to understand and reconstruct spells in the magic, diagrammatic language of his people. But suddenly, just as he’s teetering on the brink of adulthood with ...

Finley is weary. The Order of Some has been inundated with human inventions and innovations, all things that threaten to make humans less dependent on witchkind's secret magic, and Finley has been traveling the world putting a stop to them. And now, to add to his fatigue, he's been saddled with an apprentice who has highly-placed relatives, and who is absolutely incompetent with her magic. And... he's beginning to lose a little bit of his faith in the Order. Some of the inventions he's been sent to stop or sabotage seem... harmless. Beneficial, even, to human and witchkind alike. Finley's ...

Three years ago, Daniel Scratch ascended to become Adherent of the Sixth Axis, the primary, magical forces of Endings in the world. Since then, he’s tried to use that power for the betterment of all witchkind—despite the “don’t bother” attitude of the senior adherents of the other four Axes. The other junior adherents, on the other hand, are much more willing to help the rest of witchkind—especially when it comes to curtailing the humans’ use of magic-draining iron. But a critical misstep tears the Veil, the subtle, delicate magic that conceals witchkind’s true nature from ...

Welcome to the audiobook version of Perspectives on Technology Skill Development, a collection of articles by leaders who recognize their organization’s success depends on their ability to consistently and predictably build tech skills. The speed of technological change and pressure to deliver innovations to the market means the old ways of “training” teams aren’t cutting it anymore.

It’s been a year since Clara’s magic manifested itself and she was accepted into Linginbaum’s School for Magic Users (“witch” is such a dated term). She’s made friends, learned new spells, and most importantly begun to master her unique, once-in-a-generation type of magic: mathemagic. To Clara, all the magic in the world is a mass of glowing, rainbow-colored mathematical equations that she can alter and manipulate. She’s used her special ability to raise new and lasting Borders between the Ordinary world and Underhill, the secret and fantastic world of witches. And now a new ...

Poor Clara. On the one hand, things are going well: she’s aced her Math final, and school’s almost out for the year. Dad’s hanging in there with contract jobs, Mom’s helping make ends meet by cleaning other people’s homes, and they’ve at least got a roof over their heads. Vegas isn’t the nicest place in the summer, but it’s no worse than the half-dozen other places she’s lived in her short life. But on the other hand, she has no friends. Everyone at school is either diffident or a bully—as if they can sense that Clara doesn’t quite fit in. And then there are the triplets.

FINALIST Best Sci-Fi Feathered Quill Book Awards Frank and his crew have truly made it: after unleashing version 2 of Endless Sky, a fully immersive sci-fi role-playing game, they’re richer than their wildest dreams. They’ve built a kick-butt new ship and are prepared to start reaching for the Legendary character levels. Sure, their actual bodies have long since been composted, but they were never planning to leave the game. But then a series of adventures and mishaps—including an assassination mission that might not have gone well—send them spiraling in a new direction. They ...

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