The modern year of 1927, and orcs still have to fight elven asshole bullshit. Prohibition left exceptions for the church of Men, the Elvish sacraments, even the Dwarfish rituals. But the elves in Congress insist that orcs have no sacraments. Without the Orcish draught, without the rites, Uruk-Tai’s fine strong boys might grow tall. They might earn respect. But they will never be Orcs. And Uruk will not let that happen.

"I love these stories" Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author of The Fey ELVES WENT INTO THE WEST—TO AMERICA. GENERATIONS LATER, ORCS FOLLOWED. 1927 Detroit. Orcs fight Prohibition, avoid police, and labor hard for their children. All while doing their best to navigate the narrow human world. Men drive fancy Dodges and Cadillacs; orcs squeeze into fourth-hand Model Ts. Dwarves dominate the skilled trades; orcs push brooms. And behind everything, elves make it their life’s work to deny orcs have worth. To be an orc is to endure, but when the world tries to deny even that, an orc must act. And Uruk-Tai will do anything for his family. This long-demanded collection includes all the Prohibition Orcs tales—Spilled Mirovar, Final Gift, Drowned Mirovar, Witness November, Degreased Hopes, Woolen Torment, and the never before published A Debt of Meat. With an introduction by USA Today best-selling author Robert Jeschonek

50% John McClane 50% Robin Hood 100% trouble Reeling from the death of her lover and partner, freelance "exfiltration specialist" Billie Carrie Salton breaks into a high-tech, high-security biotechnology firm to steal their sickle cell anemia cure and broadcast it to the world. In, out, announce. Easy. Except Salton's life never works that smoothly. And a gig gone wrong only begins the disasters. Thievery, lies, and betrayals propel Salton across the world, from Atlanta, Georgia, to the heat of Portugal and the jungles of Myanmar, where she must put everything on the line to save everything she loves.

The modern year of 1927, and orcs still have to fight elven asshole bullshit. Prohibition left exceptions for the church of Men, the Elvish sacraments, even the Dwarfish rituals. But the elves in Congress insist that orcs have no sacraments. Without the Orcish draught, without the rites, Uruk-Tai's fine strong boys might grow tall. They might earn respect. But they will never be Orcs. And Uruk will not let that happen...

The modern year of 1927, and orcs still have to fight elven asshole bullshit.Prohibition left exceptions for the church of Men, the Elvish sacraments, even the Dwarfish rituals. But the elves in Congress insist that orcs have no sacraments.Without the Orcish draught, without the rites, Uruk-Tai's fine strong boys might grow tall. They might earn respect.But they will never be Orcs.And Uruk will not let that happen...

DNS The world’s most successful distributed database—and the most naïve. The Domain Name System is one of the Internet’s oldest protocols, designed for a network without hostile users. Intruders targeting a network start by investigating their DNS. DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, hardens DNS and brings it into the 21st century. Learning DNSSEC required wading through years of obsolete tutorials, dead ends, and inscrutable standards. Until now. This new edition of DNSSEC Mastery will have DNS administrators deploying DNSSEC with industry-standard software in hours instead of weeks. You will: · Understand what DNSSEC provides · Configure your servers to resist attack · Verify your environment supports modern DNS · Debug DNSSEC and the Chain of Trust · Sign your zones and attach them to the Chain of Trust · Conceal zone data with NSEC3 · Automate DNSSEC maintenance · Roll over keys to maintain integrity · Implement DNSSEC on private networks · Securely distribute security-critical information via DNS And more! DNSSEC Mastery transforms DNS from a headache to a solution.

"Words, Phrases and Passages" is a collection of Tolkien's notes on the Quenya, Sindarin, Dwarvish, Rohirric and Black Speech examples occurring in "The Lord of the Rings," with translations, grammatical explanations, and etymologies of the various words and names. The entries are arranged in the order the items occurred in the story. In many of these notes dating from 1955 to 1965 Tolkien reconsidered his original explanation of some words and names which led to revisions in the text of novel. Many of the words are traced to their etymological roots; and an index of these together with Tolkien's own lists and explanations of basic Elvish elements is included. There is also an index of all the words and phrases that are glossed within the entries. This issue of "Parma Eldalamberon" is edited by Christopher Gilson, with cover art by Patrick H. Wynne.

From the twenty-first century to the fifteenth century, past and future collide in a tale of love, obsession, betrayal, and the hope for redemption.

DRAIGON WEATHER: The brutal, drought-bringing heat that arises from the colossal, near-mythical Draigon, is a fell portent, heralding the doom of a woman. When Leiel's mother is Sacrificed to the Draigon to relieve the terrible drought, Leiel is marked by the shame brought to her family. She must leave school, relegated to a new life of servitude. Cleod, the woodcutter's son, is Leiel's closest friend. To avenge Leiel's mother, he vows to rise above his station and join the Ehlewer Enclave, an elite society famed for training men to kill Draigon. The friends' lives take different paths. Cleod struggles with divided loyalties as he learns he cannot be a Draigon hunter while remaining a friend to a tainted woman. Leiel seeks forbidden knowledge and old secrets, placing herself in danger of sharing her mother's fate. When Draigon Weather returns to the land, Cleod has the chance to fulfill all his promises-both to Leiel and to his new masters, the Ehlewer. But as the rivers choke on their own silt and heat soaks the ground, the choices the two friends have made begin to catch up with them - for what plagues Arnan is more than just a monster.

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