High Rock

Before there was Elli and Jagger, there was Elli and... Sixteen year old Elli Matthews is learning about guys with her boy crazy best friend Jenna by her side. A tragedy changes the teens of East Lake High, but not always for the better.

Frederick Moore spent his 1950s Minneapolis childhood obsessively teaching himself guitar and writing songs. In the 1960s, his bands Skogie and the Flaming Pachucos reached local stardom. After, they put everything they had into their cars and caravanned to Los Angeles. From a garage in suburban Arleta, they evolved Skogie into a new band called The Kats. In the 1980s, The Kats sold out every major club in Los Angeles.

In “Shadows of Revenge”, Callum Rogers thought he could finally escape the chaos of his past after dismantling the cartel that once held power over him. But when a relentless assassin, tied to his military days, begins a campaign of terror against those he holds dear, Callum realizes he’s only scratched the surface of a deeper conspiracy. The Illuminated Collective, once thought crippled, has returned—now deadlier than ever, and they’re set on vengeance. As Callum and his trusted ally, Owen, face brutal ambushes, cryptic messages, and a skilled assassin known only as "Ghost," they...

Lead singer of the hugely successful Irish rock band Kodaline, Steve Garrigan plays to thousands of fans worldwide - his business is being in the spotlight. But for years, Steve was privately battling his own demons. Here in this deeply personal memoir, he shares his experiences.

Becca and Slade never stood a chance back in high school. She was a nerd, blending in with the geeks in the back of auditorium as Slade's band performed for Senior Night. A chance encounter set them on a path to be more than acquaintances who had a couple classes together, but it imploded as quickly as it started. Slade's back in town for the holidays, reluctantly, his brother and their band, Reciprocity, performing at the local Winter Festival with their old drummer. He never wanted to go to that tree farm with his dad, he sure as hell didn't want to meet eyes with the girl who tore his ...

Ted Sweeney. Affable everyman in small-town Montana. Tailgate hung on with baling wire, owner of his own business. Ten minutes ago, his biggest worry had been how to pay for the engagement ring rattling around in his pocket. But that was before he came home to find a corpse tidily arranged in his favorite recliner, his "old pal of a piece of furniture". Is it a warning or a setup or what? Sweeney can't help but admire the efficiency of the work, the slice deep across the guy's throat. Somebody knew what they were doing.

In "Shadows of Deceit", former Marine Callum Rogers thought he’d left his darkest days behind. But when a cryptic message pulls him back into the world of covert operations, he finds himself facing a new enemy—a ruthless blackmailer named Royce Kincaid, whose power could topple governments and destroy lives. Tasked with protecting his old mentor, Dr. Ellis Newton, Callum teams up with his loyal friend, ex-Navy SEAL Owen Brooks, to unravel a conspiracy more dangerous than anything they’ve ever encountered. As Callum and Owen dive deeper into Royce’s criminal empire, they uncover ...

Four years have passed. Four long years since Ava and Leo have been in the same room, since he drove away with her heart in his hands and never looked back. Ava wouldn’t know how to begin to make up for all the time she’s lost with her best friend, who also happens to be the man of her dreams. Leo’s life has only grown better. Reciprocity is living the good life; a song on a hit movie soundtrack, loads of girls at every stop, getting ready to co-headline their first major tour. He doesn’t let himself think about the past and the girl he let slip away all those years ago. Ava knows ...

What do you do when the guy you like has a best friend that likes you when he should really like your best friend and she should like him too? Ugh, sometimes Life’s a Mitch. Noelle Moody, no relation to the Christmas carol, but a very accurate last name, has been crushing on Mitchell since the days they flirted incessantly. She loved his corny jokes. He loved that she loved his corny jokes and could match his wit with sarcasm. It made class fun. It made it easy to be her friend. Until that came to an abrupt end the day he found out she sorta, maybe, a little bit, liked him. There’s only...

Muir Powell is a shy, innocent, 17-year-old with big dreams and no clue what to do about them. Moody Powell is a few years older and wild. Embittered by the death of his father 15 years earlier and cramped by the narrowness of his mountain world, Moody escapes into moonshine and gambling while Ginny, their mother, watches helplessly. When Muir decides that his purpose in life is to build a rock church with his own hands, the consequences of his ambition are far-reaching.

At age eleven, Helen disappeared in the wilderness of Mount Rainier National Park while camping with her father, Benjamin. She was gone for almost a week before being discovered and returned to her family. It is now twenty-five years later, and after more than two decades of estrangement, Helen and Benjamin reconnect at his home in Portland, Oregon, to try to understand what happened during the days she was gone. Meanwhile, Benjamin meets an odd pair, a woman and boy who seem driven to help him learn more about Helen's disappearance.

He wants her back. She wants him gone. Can a fake engagement solve everything? Rock star Cole Hanson has always taken care of the people in his life—first his younger brothers and now his bandmates. It wasn’t a role he chose, but he’s good at it and it brings security to the people who matter to him. But when a near-death experience forces Cole to decide what he wants, there’s only one name on his lips… Mia Durant’s heart (and her singing career) was crushed by Cole years ago. Between her work as an ER nurse and raising her best friend’s son, she doesn’t have time for ...

When Jason Drummond’s life is shattered overnight, he’s forced to run deep into the Appalachian wilderness, hunted by a ruthless stalker and betrayed by those he trusted most. With his only ally, a reclusive ex-Marine named Virgil, Jason learns to survive the deadly terrain and uncover the secrets of a criminal empire determined to destroy him. As they race to expose the powerful and dangerous Gregor, a mastermind who weaves his web of lies from the shadows, Jason and Virgil face relentless threats and impossible choices. Alongside a team of unexpected allies, they’re drawn into a ...

Look around. Clearly, we humans are radically different from the other creatures on this planet. But why? Where are the Bronze Age beavers? The Iron Age iguanas? Byron Reese argues that we owe our special status to our ability to imagine the future and recall the past, escaping the perpetual present that all other living creatures are trapped in. Envisioning human history as the development of a societal superorganism he names Agora, Reese shows us how this escape enabled us to share knowledge on an unprecedented scale, and predict—and eventually master—the future.

Rock Stars on the Record is a collection of firsthand tales by artists of all ages, backgrounds, and musical influences, remembering the meaning behind the records that mattered most to them. From Laura Jane Grace to Ian MacKaye, Don McLean to Cherie Currie, Alice Bag to Mac DeMarco, and many more, best-selling author Eric Spitznagel talks to rock stars across the sonic spectrum about the albums that changed them in ways only music can change someone.

A talented group of teen musicians. A stateless old man living on the margins of society. What do they have in common? Humanity and sweet music. Will, Sanchez, Song-Yi, and Stephanie attend an American international school on the island of Penang, Malaysia. But at night, they are a talented band of musicians striving to win their school’s talent show, so they can further their dreams of becoming professional musicians. Musa “Moses” Marbun has been without a country for forty-six years. The crippled and destitute rickshaw driver pedals tourists through the quaint streets of Penang’s ...

Bridget doesn't have dreams. Growing up across the tracks in the 50s and 60s, her life's a little tough having to take care of family and raise siblings. But it isn't all bad. She's adored by a throng at school, not for anything great, just for her flower child ways, occult knowledge, and listening. She can do telekinesis and tell when the phone’s going to ring, but her real gift is listening to boys concerned about going to Vietnam. Things explode when she loses her virginity at fifteen to the lead singer of a garage band. She even begins to dream of a crossroads ranch house to assist ...

Well that certainly wasn’t in the benefits package. I’m staring at my grumpy boss’s package while getting passed over for yet another promotion. I want to unwrap it. My sex drive has been pedal to the metal since this whole hotwife thing started, and I can’t seem to pump the brakes. I want everyone I can get my hands on, even the jerk who runs the company I work for. Parker’s always been gorgeous, the type of gorgeous that should have had me pushing kids out of the bounce house at the company picnic and finding a better use for it, despite my husband standing right there. But come...

At 29 years old, Mary and her newlywed husband embark at a two-year diplomatic assignment to South Africa. A continued campaign of economic sanctions from the international community has pressured President De Klerk to negotiate with recently-freed Nelson Mandela to end apartheid with the end goal of democratic government. Uncertainty about the future hangs like a cloud cover over the South African heat.

The prehistoric adventure continues in this third installment of the Clan of the Ice Mountains series. Attu and Rika meet new challenges and dangers as they journey north to find a place their Clan can call home.