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Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Sophos, an unwilling prince, tries to save his country from being destroyed by rebellion and exploited by the conniving Mede empire.

Having found a measure of peace among the dwarves in the reclaimed Mithral Hall, Drizzt begins to know contentment for perhaps the first time in his tumultuous life. But for the dark elf renegade from a city ruled by priestesses of a demon goddess, no peace can long last. It is Lolth herself, the dreaded Queen of the Demonweb Pits, who musters her followers to pour up from the black depths of the Underdark to reclaim for their goddess the one soul...

The Day The Earth Was Silent is a provocative story about children working together to change their world for the better. The Day The Earth Was Silent promotes peace, celebrates cooperation, and encourages thoughtful social action by demonstrating how a group of students achieve their goal, even when everyone around them asks, "Why try?"

Every year, the Wheel of the Infinite must be remade to ensure peace and harmony. And every hundred years, the Wheel and the world become one. But now a blac storm ravages the beautiful mandala, and a woman with a shadowy past-an exile, murderer, and traitor-has been summoned back to put the world right. For if Maskelle and the swordsman Rian cannot stop the Wheel's accelerating disintegration-then all that is, was, and will be...will end.

In this first book in the Principalities and Powers series, Israel has just attacked Iran's nuclear facilities, triggering a chain of potentially cataclysmic events around the planet. Will leaders and the "salt of the earth" - great and small - be able to intervene before events spin out of control? Nash Lee, an NGO entrepreneur, is determined to make a difference through his worldwide ivillage network. "Kim Grace, a nuclear scientist imprisoned in...