Explains how self-delusion is part of a person's psychological defense system, identifying common misconceptions people have on topics such as caffeine withdrawal, hindsight, and brand loyalty.
Penelope Akk wants to be a superhero. She's got superhero parents. She's got the ultimate mad science power, filling her life with crazy gadgets even she doesn't understand. She has two super powered best friends. In middle school, the line between good and evil looks clear. In real life, nothing is that clear. All it takes is one hero's sidekick picking a fight, and Penny and her friends are labeled supervillains. In the process, Penny learns a hard lesson about villainy: She's good at it. Criminal masterminds, heroes in power armor, bottles of dragon blood, alien war drones, shape shifters and ghosts, no matter what the super powered world throws at her, Penny and her friends come out on top. They have to. If she can keep winning, maybe she can clear her name before her mom and dad find out.
“A bizarre yet effective yoking of the spy and horror genres.” —The Washington Post Book World The Lovecraftian Singularity has descended upon the world in The Labyrinth Index, beginning an exciting new story arc in Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning Laundry Files series! Since she was promoted to the head of the Lords Select Committee on Sanguinary Affairs, every workday for Mhari Murphy has been a nightmare. It doesn’t help that her boss, the new Prime Minister of Britain, is a manipulative and deceptive pain in the butt. But what else can she expect when working under the thumb of none other than the elder god N’yar Lat-Hotep a.k.a the Creeping Chaos? Mhari's most recent assignment takes her and a ragtag team of former Laundry agents across the pond into the depths of North America. The United States president has gone missing. Not that Americans are alarmed. For some mysterious reason, most of the country has forgotten the executive branch even exists. Perhaps it has to do with the Nazgûl currently occupying the government and attempting to summon Cthulhu. It's now up to Mhari and her team to race against the Nazgûl's vampire-manned dragnet to find and, for his own protection, kidnap the president. Who knew an egomaniacal, malevolent deity would have a soft spot for international relations?
The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside
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Here you will find a rich and varied selection of monologues for men from plays which were produced and/or published in the 2015-2016 theatrical season. Most are for younger performers (teens through 30s) but there are also some excellent pieces for older actors as well. Some are comic, some are dramatic. Some are short, some are long. All represent the best in contemporary playwriting. monologues from: Vincent Delaney, Max Baker, Tom Baum, David Meyers, Lloyd Suh, Richard Dresser, Scott Sickles, Audrey Cefaly, Don Nigro, Vanessa Garcia, Abby Rosebrock, Adam Kraar, Arlene Hutton, Sam Bobrick, Philip Dawkins, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Chad Beckim, Gam Graber, Christopher Chen, Jonathan Caren, Mark Roberts, Ron Riekki, Marja-Lewis Ryan, Emily Schwend, Eric Grant, Paul Lewis Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich, Cassie Seinuk, Tanya Saracho, James McLindon, Celine Song, Chiara Atik, lee Blessing, Rebecca Gorman O'Neill, Michael Ross Albert, Elaine Romano, Mark Borkowski, Laura Hirchberg, Trish Harnetiaux, Libby Emmons, C.S. Hanson, Rosary Hartel O'Neill, Leah Tanako Winkler, Rinnie Groff, Roy Procter, Dominique Morisseau, Jeff Tabnick, Eleanor Burgess, Merridith Allen, Mark Gerrard, Tony Glazer, Nicolas Priore, Wendy MacLeod, Barry Ernst, Yussef El Guindi, Peter Ullian, Deb Margolin, Joshua James, Duncan Pflaster, Daniel Guyton, Lawrence Johnna Adams, Lawrence Carr, Brendan Gall, and Clare Barron.
When Lucia, a Mexican-born novelist, gets her first TV writing job, she feels a bit out of place on the white male-dominated set. Lucia quickly becomes friends with the only other Latino around, a janitor named Abel. As Abel shares his stories with Lucia, similar plots begin to find their way into the TV scripts that Lucia writes. Fade is a play about class and race within the Latinx community, as well as at large, and how status does not change who you are at your core..
One of the most popular and useful books on screenwriting, now greatly expanded and completely updated. This edition includes a list of resources and contains approximately 100 new entries.