In a life that’s spiraled out of control, Jed must decide if he chooses his own destiny with Summer by his side or if the violent urges that plagued his father are truly in the blood…Īnd Sara shows her versatility with a completely different story in WILL THE REAL ABI SAUNDERS PLEASE STAND UP?Ībi Saunders might be a kickboxing champion, but when it comes to being the center of attention, she’d rather take a roundhouse kick to the solar plexus any day. But after Jed wakes up from a total blackout to discover a local kid has gone missing-a kid he was last seen talking to-he’s forced to face his greatest fear: that he could somehow be responsible. The only things that keep him sane are his little sis his best friend and dream girl, Summer and the alcohol he stashes in his room. His mom’s practically a walking zombie, he’s lost most of his friends, and the press camps out on his lawn. Then his father was charged with the abuse and murder of four young boys and normal became a nightmare. Why? His father is a monster and the whole world knows it.įor seventeen years Jed Franklin’s life was normal. “You’re just like your father” is a phrase Jed Franklin does not want to hear. IN THE BLOOD (out November 6, 2013) is a dark tale about one boy’s struggle for identity. IN THE BLOOD by Sara Hantz (Entangled Teen).
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When the two Sloanes’ luggage gets swapped at their hotel, and they overcome their immediate antipathy toward each other, they concoct a plan by which they can be Sloane Jacobs without being themselves at all. Meanwhile, Sloane Devon Jacobs is also headed to Montreal, in her case after a blowup on the ice has her benched, making hockey camp there her last chance to control her temper with her mother in rehab for alcohol abuse, she has a lot of anger to manage. She also dreads attending skate camp in Montreal, where she will spend four grueling weeks working at a sport she is no longer sure she loves. At sixteen, figure skater Sloane Emily Jacobs finds herself shying away from triple salchow jumps and suffering through family dinners, where her perfectionist mother can’t contain her disappointment and where Sloane can’t look her senator father-whom she recently caught in flagrante with a young staffer-in the eye. He wrote one feature film in 1987 titled Nightflyers, based on a novella he wrote of the same name. Martin would also collaborate with Game of Thrones showrunners, and wrote several episodes before stepping back from the show after the 4th season. A major chunk of Martin's screenwriting work was for a 1989 miniseries of Beauty and the Beast on which Martin was also a producer. When a deal for a movie adaptation of one of his books fell through, Martin kept in touch with producers and landed a gig writing for the 1980s reboot of The Twilight Zone.Īfter this gig, he got a job writing for Max Headroom, an iconic 1980s pop culture character. Eventually, Martin's work would lead him to screenwriting. Martin and Robert Redford bring Tony Hillermans Navajo Nation crime novels to AMC, Ms. Martin, author of the New York Times best-selling novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, comes a moonlit tale of feuding vampire clans. But of course, sci-fi and fantasy were always where he thrived. The It List: First Kill is Netflixs new lesbian vampire series, George R.R. Martin published everything from vampire novels (Fevre Dream) to short horror stories like Portraits of His Children. MARTIN Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something’s amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. After the death of a close friend, Martin decided it was time to focus on writing. A THRILLING REINVENTION OF THE VAMPIRE NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF MODERN FANTASY, GEORGE R. Whatever their views on the intervention in Indochina, a majority seemed to believe that the young, allegedly unpatriotic troublemakers had it coming. The video, replayed over the next few days, shocked and angered millions who opposed the war.īut pollsters soon found that twice as many Americans sided with the police as sided with the protesters. Viewers saw police brutally attacking men and women with mace and clubs. It was shown live on TV for a full 17 minutes. The day I was released, a confrontation between helmeted police and nonviolent demonstrators erupted in front of the Hilton hotel in downtown Chicago. But I don’t think any of us expected that the conflict - not just over the war, but over two visions for American society - would still be raging, half a century later. Many of us at the time felt we had a duty to oppose the war, and we certainly felt the historical weight of the moment. I joined hundreds of others in jail that night. This was, of course, the Democratic National Convention, which was about to nominate as its presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey, the vice president, who had staunchly supported the decision to send half a million troops to pursue a deeply immoral and doomed mission in Vietnam. 26, 1968, I was arrested on a street corner in Chicago for a dubious crime: protesting a political event. |