Jack’s only job was to help provide for his camp. Then he found an object that could save the world...or destroy it. Jack is an ordinary kid. He lives in the background at 13 years old, with life as dull as the wrecked city he lives in. But a boring life is a safe one, right? When Jack discovers a mysterious piece of technology, his life is thrown into chaos. His camp is taken under siege, and he’s forced to flee, leaving his brother behind amid the eternal war of Good and Evil. Can he save his camp and keep the precious object out of the wrong hands?

Indifferents

Why do some companies have employees that love what they do, while other companies are full of uninspired and unengaged people?

What are the ingredients that make a team productive, profitable, and want to work together long-term?

Coach Culture: A Playbook for Winning in Business explains how to shift your team from their current state to create an engaged workforce of inspired, innovative individuals who make the most of their strengths and gifts while connected to their mission and purpose.

This practical playbook teaches:

How to design the perfect coaching program for your team that drives
How the three modalities of internal and external coaching can radically transform an individual’s performance
Why employees get disconnected, lose motivation, and become overworked, and what to do about it
How to get people in your company to take massive ownership of their what they do, reducing leader and manager workloads
In Coach Culture, Corden breaks down what it takes to build a leadership team that collaborates together and works towards the highest result - all while increasing profits, productivity, and employee retention.

If you are the leader of your company, Coach Culture is your practical playbook defining the what, the why, the options, and the how of building a coaching culture.

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast." (Peter Drucke)

Coach Culture

Coach Culture: A Playbook for Winning in Business

Wes D. Gehring, a noted authority on film comedy, examines Lombard's legacy, focusing on both the public and private figure from her early days as merely beautiful window dressing in Mack Sennett silent films, to her development as the leading motion-picture comedienne of her time, to her tragic death in a January 1942 plane crash.

Carole Lombard

Carole Lombard, The Hoosier Tornado

Pennywise. Xenomorphs. Freddy Krueger. Beetlejuice. Jason Voorhees. Most movie fans immediately recognize these creatures and characters, but hardly know much about the artists behind these iconic designs. In Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume 1, journalist Heather Wixson shines the spotlight on 20 special effects makeup artists, creators, and technicians, whose work has left us captivated and marveling at their innovation, ingenuity, and creativity.

Featuring behind-the-scenes information and extensive interviews, MM&E explores the lives, careers, and inspirations behind some the greatest artisans to have ever worked in film and television. MM&E is a celebration of the creative spirit and artistic endeavors of those who have worked tirelessly for decades to create the memorable monsters, creatures, and onscreen personas that have terrified us, made us laugh, and filled us with a sense of wonder.

Monsters, Makeup, and Effects

Monsters, Makeup & Effects

Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Conversations with Cinema's Greatest Artists

Evelyn Lantz’s widowed father has recently remarried. At 23, his new wife Greta is only a few months older than Evelyn herself. Yet she behaves like a spoiled child. Now she’s expecting a baby, and things are worse than ever.

Needing an escape, Evelyn goes to stay with her brother Dan and his family. Benjamin Glick, the cousin of Daniel’s wife Rachel, is staying there as well. Benjamin is there trying to get over his infatuation with a beautiful Englisch girl.

Evelyn finds Benjamin annoying and nosey, but she can’t deny he is also good-looking. She finds herself strangely drawn to him. When her brother Daniel is injured in an accident, Evelyn and Ben are forced to spend more time together taking care of the farm and the children. Much to Evelyn’s surprise, she enjoys Ben’s company, and she wonders whether it might lead to something more.

That is until Benjamin’s former Englisch girlfriend shows up and everything is thrown into disarray.

Benjamin's New Beginning

Swashbuckling novelist Rafael Sabatini brings Cesare Borgia to life!

Cesare Borgia, former cardinal, Duke of Valentinois and Romagna, has been a figure of awe and scorn for generations. For 400 years, the romance of Borgia's tumultuous life has been the topic of romances and tragedies. His rise and fall inspired Machiavelli to write The Prince and Friedrich Nietzsche to write The Antichrist.

Among those inspired by this prince of Italy was famed author Rafael Sabatini (Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk). Seemingly compelled to explore this fascinating historical figure's true nature, Sabatini wrote a biography and a play. But his best work was in his favorite writing style: historical fiction. With characteristic Sabatini flair, he brought Borgia life as no one had before.

Drawn to the passion, suspicion, betrayal, and ambition of Borgia's brief but exciting life, Sabatini penned seven short stories set during the Italian Renaissance: "The Honour of Varano", "The Test", "Ferrante's Jest", "Gisimondi's Wage", "The Snare", "The Lust of Conquest", and "The Pasquinade". These stories are collected in the volume Sabatini entitled The Justice of the Duke.

The Justice of the Duke

Kid on the Go! is Neill McKee's third work of creative nonfiction. It's a standalone prequel to his award-winning Finding Myself in Borneo. In this new audiobook, McKee takes listeners on a journey through his childhood, adolescence, and teenage years, from the mid-40s to the mid-60s in the small, then industrially-polluted town of Elmira, Ontario, Canada. It is known as one of the centers of production for Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

McKee's vivid descriptions and dialogue are a study of how a young boy learned to play and work, fish and hunt, avoid dangers, cope with death, deal with bullies, and to build or restore "escape" vehicles. You may laugh out loud as the author recalls his exploding hormones, attraction to girls, rebellion against authority, and survival of 1960s' "rock & roll" culture, emerging on the other side as a youth leader. After leaving Elmira, McKee describes his intensely searching university years, trying to decide which career path to follow. Except for a revealing postscript, the story ends when he accepts a volunteer teaching position on the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia.

Kid on the Go!

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Septimus Bean

Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine

A Series of Unfortunate Events

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning

Wesley is a professional stage actor and voice over artist with more than a decade of experience under his belt. He's appeared on stages across the country including The Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, The Michigan Shakespeare Festival, The House, Steep, Orlando Rep, and the California Theatre Center.

Wes currently works heavily in the field of Audiobook narration where he lends his talents to voicing full cast narrative fiction and non-fiction with a flair for the cinematic and an ear for crisp, clean, and precise audio at the highest standard of quality.

Wesley Scott