Celebrate your former (or current!) emo days with this interactive activity book perfect for elder emos reliving their youth and the latest wave of emo trendsetters alike—just grab your colored pencils and get ready to let those emotions fly! If studded belts and fingerless gloves were the ultimate fashion statement… If you can still translate MySpace chatspeak without a second thought… If surviving a summertime music festival dressed in all black is still the highlight of your year… Then this ultimate emo coloring and activity book is meant for you! Relive the classic emo moments of the early 2000s, discover little known trivia about emo culture across the ages, and explore the ways the trends have changed and continued to grow even today. Activities include: -Testing your knowledge of iconic emo fanfiction with quiz questions that will stump even the most dedicated fans -Grabbing your colored pencils and decorating the perfect chunky wristbands to show off your emo style -Creating your ideal lineup for the emo festival of your dreams -Finding out how emo you really are by writing your own cathartic lyrics inspired by helpful prompts and hints -And many more! This must-have for any emo fan features fun facts, coloring pages, and more activities to help you learn those little-known facts you really want to know…and get a healthy dose of your favorite emo moments (cringey MySpace photos, anyone?) at the same time. This book is here to remind you: it definitely wasn’t a phase!

Wren's still struggling to control her powers and her father's evil mind-games aren't helping. Worse, her mother and boyfriend both risk losing their sanity. What's the point of liminal powers if you can't save the ones you love?

For Virgil West, seventeen, student and outcast, phasing out of this existence and into another is something he’s neither prepared for nor is it something he wants. An object of derision at his school, he finds himself a target due to his phase-outs. Once he leaves this Earth and lands on a world that he calls Earth Two, he encounters other people who have gone through the same ordeal. The one thing that they have in common is that they all went through the same phase-out period of time and that they were no one special. Virgil meets Jiao-jie, a Chinese girl his age. In turn, they meet some older people who have come from all walks of life. Together, they forge a new society and try to learn more about the world they’re on. Life continues, but when an old enemy returns, Virgil finds out that their new Earth may not be big enough for them. The battle between good and evil, as well as survival, begins again. However, this time, only one side can win.

The red planet will run red with blood. Martian terraformer Kaylee Fourteen is a recent immigrant from Earth. Residents of the domed colonies of Mars can practically smell the day they’ll be able to walk outdoors on their own planet without the need for air supplies. But the committees on Earth control the resources the colonists need and their interference threatens the terraforming project’s very existence… Until a group of radicals takes hostages to force the release of the tech and materials the terraformers need. Caught in the crossfire, Kaylee has to navigate the delicate line between sympathy for her captors’ goals and horror at their methods. If she can’t keep the peace and find a way to get the hostage takers what they ask for, humans and robots alike will pay with their lives. How can anyone negotiate a hostage crisis with a bomb locked around her neck? The fate of two worlds and the balance of power between humans and robots hang on that answer.

Based on the popular Tumblr, a collection of funny stories that commemorate the awkward phases in our lives. Back in the 1990s, when slap bracelets and Velcro ruled supreme, two adolescents were stumbling their way through life on gangly limbs. One, Claire Linic, had self-permed her bowl cut, and the other, Tyler Gillespie, had purchased self-tanner, telling the cashier it was for his girlfriend. Now in their twenties and still just a tiny bit awkward, Linic and Gillespie have joined forces to ask the question, “If we could talk to our fourteen-year-old selves, what would we tell them now?” Based on the hit Tumblr “The Awkward Phase,” this book answers that question with personal stories and cringe-worthy photos from seasoned comedians, YouTube stars, and people like the rest of us that cover everything from sweaty-palm moments to bad band photos. In these pages, you’ll hear about the moment Shaun Sperling realized he was gay at a Richard Simmons’s workout studio, how Bente Engelstoft made her own bra out of her dad's old underwear, and why even though Robert Bacon’s awkward phase was mortifying, it was the beginning of his new, happier life. Ultimately, The Awkward Phase encourages us to laugh and celebrate the moments that have helped shape who we are. As Gillespie and Linic say, “Everyone is in on the joke. You don’t have to eat your lunch alone in the bathroom stall. You can sit with us.”

Life never turns out the way we expect it to. For Emily, Will, Gus, and Marg, an inexplicable meeting in a mysterious room would change the course of their lives and set them on a path to change. Emily returns home after experiencing this event, which she cannot explain even in her wildest dreams. Never expecting to see the three others she met that night, she is stunned when she sees one of them on the street, the kid from the dream. Will feels the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end when, turning, he sees her staring at him. Marg thinks she was hallucinating that night until she sees Will and Emily talking together in the diner where she stops in for coffee. Another month passes, and Gus has finally convinced himself he was sleepwalking. And then he runs into Margy when she pulls into his station for gas. The four of them form an uneasy alliance as they try to make sense of what they saw and felt that night. Then they begin to notice startling changes in themselves. Bright lights and aliens become their new reality.

If you're a fan of fast-paced high-concept action thrillers - Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy, Matthew Reilly - you'll love this. Phase Four is part techno thriller, part adventure story, part conspiracy theory - and all action all the way. When a classified military convoy transporting nerve gas is hijacked in the Nevada desert by a group of Middle Eastern terrorists, Homeland Security investigator Matthew Drake is assigned to put the suspects under surveillance. But when the gas is released inside a luxury high-rise hotel in an apparent attempt to assassinate the President, Drake realizes - too late - that the hijackers weren't terrorists, the convoy wasn't carrying nerve gas, and something is very wrong in Washington D.C. Now mobs are rioting in the Bay Area and panic is spreading across California at a frightening speed, threatening to engulf the entire country. On the run with disgraced CIA surveillance technician Gena Hahn, Drake struggles to contain a sinister plan to achieve total control over the human mind. "Government conspiracy, political intrigue, action, thrills, and psychedelic horror - this book has a little tantalizing piece of everything." - The Troubled Scribe

Alison Reilly works as a legal secretary by day, but she spends her nights banging away on her beautiful blue drum set. Office politics and ill-advised romances rule the halls at worksomething Alison steers clear of until the firm hires Joan Stevens as a secretary. Joan is the most intense, most self-confident, and most brash woman whos ever worked at the firm. Shes also a stunning beauty that everyone in the office, including Alison, cant help admiring. When Joan goes out on a date with an office services clerk, George Kerns, she returns refusing to talk about the dateand she wont even read the lyrics to a song that George left her. But Allison does read the song, and shes impressed by its clever lyrics. Soon, shes jamming on the drums with George, but their beautiful co-worker continues to invade their minds. Personal and private worlds collide, and Alison, Joan, and George edge toward a dramatic conclusion in Phase.

Is it ever too late? Amnesiac time travel pioneer Eli Ryerson is slowly regaining his memory. Just in time to dodge the government agents who are after his secrets. On the run, Eli's now caught between his pursuers and a group of renegades determined to change the course of history. But Eli knows that the past can't be changed . . . even if the future depends on it. Origin Phase is the first book in the Origin Phase Cycle. Book 2 is Robot Academy, and Book 3 is Oasis. All the books of the Origin Phase Cycle are complete 400+‑page novels, and the cycle can be read in any order. Time travel. Amnesia. Romance. Intrigue. Adventure. Passion. All at the intersection of science fiction and fantasy. Your timeless journey starts now.