There is something magical about the wealthy parts of Orange County, California, but lately, there is trouble in paradise. The kids at Northwood High are no stranger to theatrics. Yet each game night from August to Christmas, when the Knights play football, dreams do come true. Northwood High's progressive administrative practices and educational policies encourage the importance of cultivating modern educational methods, namely online media for...

A girl looking for a way out. Being the daughter of New America's leader, Mercury Masters has everything a girl could want. A glamorous life full of beautiful people, and the power to have anything she wants, except for one thing-to escape. Because Mercury's perfect life comes with secrets to keep. Dangerous secrets that if made public would destroy her, her family, and her father's reign. Then she meets Hawk. A boy looking to be a hero. Hawk, a handsome...

What began in tragedy has become a great triumph of love, family, and purpose. Bamo Toure's story began before he was born. The heart and hopes of Diaka, his mother, were shattered when a romance ended in a cruel dismissal. Alone and pregnant, Diaka is disowned by her father. After spiraling into a deep depression, she travels from the metropolitan city of Abidjan to the rural village of Oume where she finds her calling as a teacher. Then tragedy...

Nothing matters, if only love endures the unexpected darkness. A simple sentence that launched the first five books in the Family by Choice series. Brittany and Tommy. Jack and Stephanie. Julie and Bill. These characters have become my family and it has been an honor and a privilege to write them into existence. But it's time for this chapter to end. Brittany and Tommy's story was always about love and family. Two broken souls in need of awakening. Jack...

At the age of four, you witness your mother's collapse as the washing machine overflows and sends clumps of soapsuds scudding past her across the kitchen floor. When your father goes to work, he leaves you next door at the Blue Belle Diner, under the watchful eye of Charlie, an ex-boxer turned short-order cook. The Diner becomes your day-care center as your mother waits for remission. Deprived of a mother's physical affection, you become increasingly...

All is lost for Dia-Matic Keys without Elle Martins. Secrets and betrayal are tearing the band apart. One man is the culprit to their downfall. His fears lead to careless decisions that affect not just the group, but everyone he loves. A novella about one of Elle's beloved men. Get acquainted with the charming James Roberts as he fights to prove himself worthy to the band, and especially to Elle. Will he gain their respect again? Can he win back her...

Maps Full of Borders' is a delicately and wryly written fresh take on the coming-of-age novel, exploring questions of personal identity, gender and whether we are a human being or a human doing. Fifteen-year-old Molly doesn't understand the world around her and feels as though she doesn't belong. By chance, she comes across an old photo album that leads to an unlikely obsession with the boy in the images — a ghost child who allows Molly to express...

The ten slice of life stories in this short story collection are about a young boy growing up and coming of age during the decade of the Sixties. Some of the stories are funny, some are sad and some may just make you think. The Ricky Huening Stories are semi-autobiographical stories all based on some event in the author's life as a boy growing up in a southern Indiana farm.

In a strange seaside city on the verge of revolution, a young man made of paper climbs out of a crashed bus and into his new life. He is called Michael, and since the procedure that transformed him from a regular boy into one made of paper, he has been living the isolated existence of a freak inside his family's Inland home. Escape is Michael's only hope, and the City offers art, adventure and possibility for everyone, even somebody as strange and...

Told in astonishing prose, "Not into Night" is the long-awaited third novel of the series "If Where You're Going Isn't Home," the story of a boy growing up Mormon in America in pursuit of a dream to play jazz trumpet. At nineteen, Shake Tauffler is no stranger to conflict. In the summer of 1963, as the civil rights movement inflames America, he leaves Utah, his unprotected younger siblings, and his life as a gifted jazz trumpet player behind to spend...