The thrills intensify in the next installment of Gordon Korman's adventure ON THE RUN.One man holds the key to freeing Aidan and Meg Falconer's parents from prison: a mysterious figure named Frank Lindenauer. Aidan and Meg must cross the country to try to catch him . . . even as the FBI tries to catch them first. In California, Aidan and Meg fall in with a crowd that already has its share of trouble going on. They want to believe they've found friends who will help them out. But if they're not careful, these "friends" will sell them out instead.
Book 1 of The Aztec Mates Series Celeste is the Alpha daughter of the Sky Moon Pack. Her parents were killed when she was just 8 years old by the Blood Moon Pack. For 11 years she lived as an omega even though she had Alpha blood running in her veins. Lying about her age, her rank and her broken gift, she lived life trying to protect the remaining members of her parent's pack without letting anyone find out who she really is. During the full moon party for the Blood Moon Alpha's daughter, Celeste's lie comes crumbling around her as she realizes that Alpha Markus, one of the guests, is her mate. Joining the Crescent Moon Pack with her mate has changed Celeste's life, but as truth of her past begins to come out, she and Alpha Markus find themselves in a battle for her life and the survival of her people. She finds out the secret of what is behind the tragedy that follows her Aztec blood line. Celeste and Markus will find themselves with enemies more powerful than your average greedy werewolf. Will Celeste and Markus' bond be enough to get them through the battles ahead. Join them in their journey to right the wrongs of things past, their present and to secure their future. Stary Writing Academy III Girl Power Chasing her Apollo
A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, CinemaScope, and VistaVision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios; the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television. Here is Eisenhower’s America—seemingly complacent, conformity-ridden revealed in Vincente Minnelli’s Father of the Bride, Walt Disney’s Cinderella, and Brigadoon, among others. And here is its darkening, resonant landscape, beset by conflict, discontent, and anxiety (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Asphalt Jungle, A Place in the Sun, Touch of Evil, It Came From Outer Space) . . . an America on the verge of cultural, political and sexual revolt, busting up and breaking out (East of Eden, From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, Sweet Smell of Success, The Wild One, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Jailhouse Rock). An important, riveting look at our nation at its peak as a world power and at the political, cultural, sexual upheavals it endured, reflected and explored in the quintessential American art form.
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
