"Anyone can break your heart--Jeff Zentner can also make you laugh out loud!" --RAINBOW ROWELL, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carry On and Eleanor & Park From the award winning author of The Serpent King comes a contemporary novel about two best friends who must make tough decisions about their futures--and the TV show they host--in their senior year of high school. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new book, In the Wild Light! Every Friday night, best friends Delia and Josie become Rayne Ravenscroft and Delilah Darkwood, hosts of the campy creature feature show Midnite Matinee on the local cable station TV Six. But with the end of senior year quickly approaching, the girls face tough decisions about their futures. Josie has been dreading graduation, as she tries to decide whether to leave for a big university and chase her dream career in mainstream TV. And Lawson, one of the show's guest performers, a talented MMA fighter with weaknesses for pancakes, fantasy novels, and Josie, is making her tough decision even harder. Scary movies are the last connection Delia has to her dad, who abandoned the family years ago. If Midnite Matinee becomes a hit, maybe he'll see it and want to be a part of her life again. And maybe Josie will stay with the show instead of leaving her behind, too. As the tug-of-war between growing up and growing apart tests the bonds of their friendship, Josie and Delia start to realize that an uncertain future can be both monstrous...and momentous. "I laughed, cried, and fell over-the-moon in love with Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee." --JENNIFER NIVEN, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the Universe

Based on a true story: Travel with Midnite through his dark journey into America's hell. Will he ever emerge back into the light? Just as Midnite's musical career is about to go viral, he finds himself enduring the most terrifying tests of his young life. The reader is plunged into the American musical prodigy's nightmare, when he is illegally abducted by corrupt police and forced into slave labor while witnessing prostitution, torture and murder. Alone, he must rely on his intellect, creativity and dreams of his music. This spellbinding novel, featuring Midnite, a musical prodigy, is a based on a true fact story that encompasses corruption, forced and illegal labor as well as prostitution, romance and murder. The aftermath of Midnite's escape is as riveting as the lead story. One can see the beginnings of today's privatized correctional facilities as well as the present day madness of America's correctional policies.

Midnite, is a book about Love, Understanding and Acceptance. It is about accepting individuals for who they are no matter what cultural background they come from. It is about how her life was saved by three dogs who did not care that she was different. You ever wish you were the exception to rejection or bullying? Do you want to be accepted for who you really are? This is Midnite’s story about rejection, and how acceptance and understanding saved her life. There's probably no worse feeling in life than the feeling of rejection because you are different. Rejection sucks because it goes beyond emotional pain, it can come from fear, ignorance, or hatred. Rejection takes countless forms, and it can hurt so much. No one wanted Midnite because she was Black, no one dared to keep her because she is considered Bad-Luck. Non-forgiveness or bitterness will ravage your life because of rejection. Midnite was blessed with understanding and accepting parents who saved her from a life of rejection. Midnite’s story will remind every person that conflict can only be ended with understanding and acceptance. It is an allegory of today’s societal issues, especially those in America. She reminds everyone to accept each other regardless of their differences in opinions, social standings in life, colors, walks of life, etc. Her message of friendship and community being pivotal in a person’s development is evident here. She talks about the importance of helping each other grow in understanding and tolerance will help with violence and corruption in one’s life. It is also a story with a lesson accompanying it, not only for kids, adolescents, but to everyone who reads her story.

A CHILD OF TWO WORLDS – BELONGING TO NEITHER, DANGEROUS TO BOTH. All Kisaki wants is a place where she can belong, but there are few safe havens for half demons such as her. Raised in isolation within the celestial palace, she longs to escape and explore the world below – Earth. So when an opportunity presents itself, she takes it, inadvertently stealing the Blade of Heaven – her mother’s greatest treasure – in the process. Exploring a new land is terrifying enough, but hot on her heels is the tiger-spirit Shitoro. If he catches her, he’ll drag her straight back home. She thinks it’s to punish her. But in actuality it’s to protect her. Kisaki doesn’t know it yet, but there’s a good reason she’s been kept hidden. Half-breeds aren’t tolerated by the great demon lords. If they find her, they’ll stop at nothing to take the blade and use it to destroy her, her mother, and the new world she hopes to call home. ---------- A new adult urban fantasy. If you like Annette Marie, Seanan McGuire, or K.F. Breene, you’ll love this manga-inspired adventure.

Midnite Rainbow undresses under the cover of night. In this sensuous collection, Sequoia Olivia Mercier caresses supple language to lay bare desire: "jambalaya on a half shell crescent moon dipped from open mouth of God stick your finger down my throat split the confetti filled piñata loosen my tongue", At other times family secrets get naked and forgiven, "grace is an open hand on my heart filled with forgiveness for the times your wings withered and became fingers crossing boundaries groping between my legs looking for something I could not give". Real talk from a poet with her tongue deep off in your ear. Michael Datcher, Author: Raising Fences These are umph! poems. Sequoia opens the lies and joys you've kept in mason jars and simultaneously quenches your thirst while making you beg for one more sip. Mercier has lived, embraced change, and now has the guts to write about it. S. Pearl Sharp, Author, Black Women For Beginners and filmmaker, The Healing Passage/ Voices From The Water

From the creators of_ The Sixth Gun_ and Manor Black comes this new supernatural horror series about monsters of the silver screen coming to life and wreaking havoc on a small town. Basil Saxon is a legend among horror fans. Over fifty years ago, he vanished during a freak accident on the set of the film that would have been his masterpiece. The cursed film—God of Monsters—was never completed and has never been seen. But when a film festival shows footage from the long-lost movie, classic horror monsters manifest to wreak havoc and terror on the unsuspecting populace. A ragtag group of misfits must band together to stop the most famous creatures of all time and send them back to the realm of celluloid nightmares. Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt, Bill Crabtree, and Jim Campbell unleash this tale of terror. Popcorn not included.