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In Lead You: The Winning Combination to Achieve Personal and Professional Success, Bobby Harrington shows you how self-leadership can transform you into the leader you aspire to be. Bobby’s Lead Yourself First method provides a self-leadership framework that teaches you how to utilize the basic tenets of leadership, execute tasks with passion and discipline, and commit to continuous improvement. The Lead Yourself First method is a roadmap through the foundations of self-leadership, the importance of discipline and personal responsibility, and the concept of sovereignty in leadership.

Over 47% of leaders say that chaos is pervasive in their organizations. Though disorder can feel overwhelming at times, human beings are actually designed to overcome and conquer chaos. In Built to Beat Chaos: Biblical Principles for Leading Yourself and Others, renowned teacher, coach, speaker, and best-selling author Gary Harpst delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to transform chaos into order by relying on strategies drawn directly from the Bible.

Survival tales in the skies of Uranus, desperate struggles at the solar system's edge, and near-lightspeed interstellar expeditions await in this hard science fiction collection of seven Hayden’s World short stories.

Enmeshed in a brutal siege at the walls around Savannah, James finds unexpected companions among the soldiers who were sent by the French to help the American cause. Friends become brothers, bound together by shared sacrifice and purpose.

Yves de Bourganes just wanted to make some money to support his widowed mother as she tried to keep the family farm afloat. He wouldn’t have minded some adventure, too. He didn’t expect to be sent to fight in a war between France’s constant nemesis Great Britain and her boisterous American colonies across the treacherous sea. When he arrives, he meets Amalie, a slave girl with a difficult past, and his fate changes entirely, as he learns that some paths lead to unexpected destinations.

Bounty hunter Hal Mason is doing well for himself, a year after the System converted Earth into a lawless, apocalyptic Dungeon World. Now, though, old friends have come calling with a new opportunity and with it, the murky politics of Galactic interests and overlapping contracts. Hal must protect the first train to cross the new wildlands of the American Midwest.

The integration of Major League Baseball in 1947 was a triumph. But it was also a fight. As the first Black major leaguer since the 1880s, Jackie Robinson knew he was not going to be welcomed into America’s pastime with open arms. Anticipating hostility, he promised Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey that he would “turn the other cheek” during his first years in the league, despite his fiercely competitive disposition.

As the British close in on Philadelphia, trouble at home and a fight with Congress culminate in the worst night of Isaac Melcher’s life. Can he recover his honor and his marriage before both are lost forever—and help prevent the Revolution from being crushed by the Crown?

Devastated by her father’s death days after her triumphant graduation from Oberlin College, Amanda Stewart is all alone in the world. Her father’s unscrupulous business partner offers her an indecent proposal to earn a living. Instead, to fulfill a promise she made to her father, she resolves to start a school to educate and uplift their race. Sorting through her father’s papers, she discovers he had carried on a mysterious correspondence with a plantation in Milford, Georgia. She determines to start her teaching work with the formerly enslaved.

Arthur Leary thought that his part in the Revolution ended when his generals surrendered their army to the Americans after the Battle of Saratoga. Little did he know that political maneuvering at the highest levels of British and American government would leave him and his fellow soldiers marching across the landscape for years to come...unless he could find a way out. The rocky soil of a New England farm owned by fierce patriots to the American cause offered him hard labor and harder choices - choices that would shape his future and that of his country.

The darkness descending over coastal Maine leaves George no choice but to leave childhood behind for good. Despite living in the shadow of America's most crushing naval defeat in the ongoing Revolution, George’s life is pretty simple, if dull. A beautiful girl and a deadly conspiracy against the British occupation change all of that nearly overnight. In the blink of an eye, he’s in up to his neck. Tenderness and terror alike leave his head spinning. Will the arrival of an American scientific expedition bring salvation, or rip away everything that matters to him?

Lawrence Stewart is a rare man. Raised with his grandmother’s Miami Indian tribe, as a Negro, he has consistently walked between two worlds most of his life. He devotes his time and study to becoming a lawyer, fully intending to obtain justice for the ousted Miami Indians. No Negro man has accomplished these things before, but he is not daunted. He studies for his exams as he rides circuit through the backwoods of Ohio, handing out justice to people who cannot easily reach a courthouse. His life is perfectly set until one June day....

James Hayden has a dream, and the Riggs test vehicle is going to take him there. But when failure after failure leads to his last chance exploding spectacularly, he must partner with an AI and gamble everything for one last shot at the stars. "43 Seconds" is a hard science fiction short story that is part of the Hayden's World series.

You are a security professional who dreams of keeping people safe, and you work hard to live your dream. You’re ready, willing, and able to do what it takes to be the best. But you’re just starting out, and you have several questions. Rent-A-Cop Reboot will help you get answers to those questions, and change the way you look at security guards, and other non-law enforcement security professionals, forever.

Virginia, 1781: The revolution followed him home. Maimed in battle, Nathaniel Wooster wants to recuperate and try to rebuild his life. Returning home to his mother's cottage in the quiet port community of York Town seems like a good place to find some peace and quiet. He's slowly finding his way in a life forever changed, when the British arrive in force, and he has to draw on everything in him just to keep himself and those he cares about alive.

The question of how the American colonists made the long trip from being subjects of the British king to being citizens of the independent United States has nearly as many answers as there were people. Within this Tales from a Revolution collection, you'll be transported to the time when the American Revolution tested how a Tuscarora clan member, a former slave, and an orphaned teen would all navigate the tumultuous times of the American Revolution. Includes: The Smoke, The Freedman, and The Tree.

Caleb’s father is serving with Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys as the long-anticipated open war against the British rages up and down the length of Lake Champlain. Between his duties on the family farm and constant worry about his father’s safety, the young man’s attentions are already fully occupied when a fateful encounter with an unlikely neighbor changes everything. Pulled into new intrigues and new friendships, Caleb finds himself on a path that changes his life - and which will affect the outcome of the whole war.

Alec Tinworth joined the Loyalist militia to restore his family’s fortunes after his Connecticut neighbors rebelled against the British Crown. His own luck runs out when he is captured and thrown into the most notorious prison in the colony — a dank, abandoned copper mine. Hunger, disease, and his fellow prisoners all put his very survival in question. A desperate escape plan and new friendships are all that keep Alec going…but will they be enough?

The question of how the American colonists made the long trip from being subjects of the British king to being citizens of the independent United States has nearly as many answers as there were people. Within these collected tales, you'll be transported to the time when the American Revolution tested how a tobacco farmer, a Spanish sailor, and a Quaker blacksmith would all navigate the tumultuous times of the American Revolution.

As the quiet cycle of life in the forested realm of the Skarure is shattered by the outbreak of war between the British and Colonial forces, the old alliances of the Haudenosaunee Confederation are pulled in divergent directions, pitting brother against brother, even within the clans. Thrust into the middle of this maelstrom, young Joseph Killeen will rely upon the guidance of an unexpected community to decide not only what is right and wrong, but ultimately, who he even is.