Michael is an ordinary Californian teenage boy who lives with his grandma. Life moves on happily until he finds out about his father , who has been captured and is been held captive by an evil dark power , Scorpio. Michael sets out on a journey to find his father. Michael who fulfils his dream of becoming an astronaut undertakes the dangerous quest with his team mates. They end up on an unknown planet with no one but themselves to save the world.Read on to find more about Michael, his friends, the betrayal and a lost planet.

We all make mistakes, some can be rectified but for some we might have to pay a terrible price. When Henry was coronated years ago, little did he know that his mistake would bring his planet on the brink of extinction. He made a mistake by creating his evil self 'Chaos' and held him captive. Now HE IS BACK for revenge!!! Tesseraude is in grave danger and only Michael can save the planet!

It was Monday morning and everyone in the neighbourhood was scurrying away to their workplace. Our hero, Michael was still fast asleep in his cozy bed, relishing his leave right before his marriage. But his life comes to a standstill when he is accused of three murders and a kidnapping. Someone wants him behind the bars or merely is using him to get to someone else. Amidst all this ruckus, Michael gets a new mission. An unknown creature is found dead in the forest of Congo. Michael has less time but lots to deal with . . . "Time" - that's the only thing that can save MICHAEL!

A member of the greatest generation looks back on the loves and losses of his past and comes to treasure the present anew in this poignant and thoughtful new novel from a modern master Stewart O'Nan is renowned for illuminating the unexpected grace of everyday life and the resilience of ordinary people with humor, intelligence, and compassion. In Henry, Himself he offers an unsentimental, moving story of a twentieth-century everyman. Soldier, son, lover, husband, breadwinner, churchgoer, Henry Maxwell has spent his whole life trying to live with honor. A native Pittsburgher and engineer, he's always believed in logic, sacrifice, and hard work. Now, seventy-five and retired, he feels the world has passed him by. It's 1998, the American century is ending, and nothing is simple anymore. His children are distant, their unhappiness a mystery. Only his wife Emily and dog Rufus stand by him. Once so confident, as Henry's strength and memory desert him, he weighs his dreams against his regrets and is left with questions he can't answer: Is he a good man? Has he done right by the people he loves? And with time running out, what, realistically, can he hope for? Like Emily, Alone, O'Nan's beloved portrait of Henry's wife, Henry, Himself is a wry, warmhearted portrait of an American original--a man who believes he's reached a dead end only to discover life is full of surprises.

Featuring rumpled PIs, shyster lawyers, corrupt politicians, double-crossers, femmes fatales, and, of course, losers who find themselves down on their luck yet again, film noir is a perennially popular cinematic genre. This extensive encyclopedia describes movies from noir's earliest days – and even before, looking at some of noir's ancestors in US and European cinema – as well as noir's more recent offshoots, from neonoirs to erotic thrillers. Entries are arranged alphabetically, covering movies from all over the world – from every continent save Antarctica – with briefer details provided for several hundred additional movies within those entries. A copious appendix contains filmographies of prominent directors, actors, and writers. With coverage of blockbusters and program fillers from Going Straight (US 1916) to Broken City (US 2013) via Nora Inu (Japan 1949), O Anthropos tou Trainou (Greece 1958), El Less Wal Kilab (Egypt 1962), Reportaje a la Muerte (Peru 1993), Zift (Bulgaria 2008), and thousands more, A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir is an engrossing and essential reference work that should be on the shelves of every cinephile.