It's the summer before freshman year, and Rory Shepherd's doing what she always does-having sleepovers and epic beach days with her best friends. Life in their small, Florida town is sweet, but totally predictable, until Rory lays eyes on Skyler Nolan at a concert one night.No one sends her into a tailspin quite like Skyler. Cute, naughty and just a little bit dangerous, he's hard to attract and even harder to figure out. Rory's determined to try...but are bad boys like that even worth the risk?

Being a mom is all of it: light and dark, highs and lows, fever pitch frustration and all-consuming love. By now, you already know that with great love comes great joy . . . and great pain. It can be crazy-making! But it doesn't have to be. In Starry-Eyed, MOPS CEO Mandy Arioto reveals how the brightest and darkest moments of motherhood alike can become a sacred--and sanity-saving--opportunity to encounter God. There is a way to flourish in the midst of it all, and it starts with embracing the light and darkness in life with expectation and awe. Heartening, enchanting, and always unflinchingly honest, Starry-Eyed will show you how to find the unexpected grace in your life as a woman, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. Consider this your heart-to-heart sit-down with a woman who’s been there, and can help you find fresh eyes to see how beauty and pain can mingle with purpose.

No light is as unforgiving as the spotlight, but to be in it while being a teenager is just plain brutal. This collection of fictional short stories highlight the struggles, hopes, failures, and triumphs of young aspiring singers, dancers, actors, actresses, and performers. While these characters may feel out of place during their everyday lives, they are able to find a home onstage and in rehearsals. Woven throughout the anthology are personal anecdotes from several of today's most celebrated performers of stage, screen, and television. Whether hilarious or romantic or devastating or suspenseful, these diverse coming-of-age stories are perfect for anyone who is reaching for the stars.

Sometimes the journey can be all about the trip. For Vanessa, simply finding her way across town to school was more of a learning experience than she ever imagined. Sometimes not always being so sure about where you fit in can be frustrating, especially when you dont have anyone to turn to. But everyday people that make our lives unique can often be overlooked and underappreciated. Vanessas journey is a simple one that we all take every day. Whether we really understand the relationships with our own family or if were curious about the guy sitting next to us on the bus or the girl in class sometimes the journey is all about the way we see the world. ********************* Most children are believed to have their own set of beliefs and principles influenced by their parents, but their life experiences are the ones that will eventually shape their character and world views. Readers will witness the simple but lesson-filled saga of one family through the Starry-Eyed Cave Girl, a book by Vertis Nephew. The Starry-Eyed Cave Girl introduces readers to Juan Guzman and his family as they struggle to beat the odds of life and learn from their experiences. It explores the lives of each of the members of the Guzman household and highlights their unusual encounters and learning. The story focuses on Vanessa Guzman, Juans only daughter who goes to a magnet school across town. Traveling to school for almost two hours every day, Vanessa is exposed to a broad new world both on her journey and her scholastic activities. An enlightening story for the whole family, the Starry-Eyed Cave Girl is a reflective read that not only infuses positive values, but also shows how new experiences almost always change the way one feels about himself and the people around him. It explains how parents examples greatly affect their childrens judgment, as they immerse into the lives of each of the characters. Readers will learn the importance of understanding ones family, appreciating others, and building hope and confidence within themselves as they follow this reality-based story. It further proves that self-discovery can be a long journey that starts and ends at home.

When teens Zorie and Lennon, a former couple, are stranded in the California wilderness together, they must put aside their differences, and come to terms with lingering romantic feelings, in order to survive.

Have you ever gazed deeply into your navel and contemplated: an emergency physician as an alleged mass murderer; pus; a flatulating mammoth; Mark's tribulations getting his Gospel published; athlete's foot as history's first public health crisis; the genitalia of Michelangelo's David; Churchill, DeGaulle, and FDR relaxing at iconic Rick's Café Américain; a wayward pelican interrupting a Yankee-Red Sox game; telepathic tortoises and pedicuring piranhas; Cagney, Bogie, and Edward G. Robinson rescuing us from life's current perfidies? These are but samples of the ironical, cynical, and metaphorical black humor contained in this tome. It's a glimpse through the diaphanous layers of the author's imagination. It's an imagination of another time from another place. It's an imagination that has been carefully molded by varying aliquots of Big Apple naiveté, emergency medical mayhem, madness & mirth, and a persistent fatalistic optimism.

Have you ever felt left out? A misfit? A misplaced puzzle piece? So often, people like us get taunted, teased, or bullied because of the things that make us so special. This book is for people like us. Our story follows a little girl who feels this way. Follow along with her as she tries to find her place among the crowd. Join her in her journey as she discovers her worth and, more importantly, how being different is a gift. This little girl offers hope in a time when many children are in dire need of it. So snuggle up, cuddle in, and submerge yourself in the story of our starry-eyed girl. Coming Soon Jewel is a young girl who is trying to adjust to the loss of a loved one. However, this is not just a sad story. Sure, at times it may tug at your heartstrings, but more than anything, this is a story about finding light in the darkest of times.