The aging orc shaman Ner'zhul has seized control of the Horde and reopened the Dark Portal. His brutal warriors once again encroach upon Azeroth, laying siege to the newly constructed stronghold of Nethergarde Keep. There, the archmage Khadgar and the Alliance commander, Turalyon, lead humanity and its elven and dwarven allies in fighting this new invasion.

Even so, disturbing questions arise. Khadgar learns of orcish incursions farther abroad: small groups of orcs who seem to pursue a goal other than simple conquest. Worse yet, black dragons have been sighted as well, and they appear to...

Do you have students who want to be the X Games next skateboarding champions? Help them safely learn more than a dozen of the hottest advanced skateboard tricks with the step-by-step instructions included in this book. This how-to guide captures through stop-action digital photography a real skater hitting each trick so readers know how it's supposed to be done right and safely.

The Atlantis team are stranded on a hostile world after triggering a booby trapped shuttle craft. But it's a trap Ronon Dex recognises, one he invented long before he met Colonel Sheppard's team, back when he was a Runner and a hunter of Wraith.

DuckBob Spinowitz has a problem. It isn't the fact that he has the head of a duck-the abduction was years ago and he's learned to live with it. But now those same aliens are back, and they claim they need his help Apparently creatures from another reality are invading the universe, and only DuckBob can reset the device that maintains the barrier between dimensions. He reluctantly agrees to help, but how can a man whose only talents are bird calls and bad jokes, and whose only work experience is punching random buttons on a computer in a standard cubicle, be expected to save the universe? No...

The gods have returned. All of them The change promised by the ending of the Mayan Calendar in 2012 manifested itself in an unexpected manner. Every pantheon of gods and goddesses, from every belief the world over, has returned ... changing the world forever. As the pantheons settle into their ancestral lands, they vie for worshippers, gaining or losing power along the way. They find the world of man a bewildering, crazy quilt, and each wishes to remake their lands in their own image. Come and meet some of the inhabitants of this strangely familiar world in eleven new tales that explore what...

In ReDeus: Divine Tales, the gods returned to us. All of them. Now, in ReDeus: Beyond Borders, see just what that means for the nations of the world-and the people living in them. Everything has not necessarily turned out for the best, especially in some lands. Nor is it all bad. But with so many gods vying for worship, there's some interesting jockeying going on, for lands and for people. It's a vastly different world the gods have returned to, and their efforts to re-assert themselves have forced mortals into a complicated, ever-changing struggle to live and provide for their families....

One nation under God...no more With the return of the old gods, the modern world came to a virtual standstill. Around the planet, deities whose names had no more meaning than as characters out of myth and history were suddenly revealed to be real...and once again demanded to be worshipped by the people of Earth. And, in an instant, the borders set by man were erased and the world reshaped to conform to their divine plans. But what of North America? When last its native gods walked the world, their people occupied the lands from the Alaskan coast through the Gulf of Mexico. But war, disease,...

Bob Spinowitz was an average guy-until aliens abducted him and gave him the head of a duck. Then they asked "DuckBob" to save the universe, since their modifications meant he could. Talk about a backhanded compliment Amazingly, though, DuckBob did it. And thus became Guardian of the Matrix, which protects the cosmos from further invasion-as long as he's plugged in. Literally. But alien techie pal Ned just made the Matrix User Interface wireless. Suddenly, DuckBob is free again-the whole universe is at his alien-altered, webbed feet Only problem is, could being unplugged mean he's out of a...