Books with author Allison Rak

Boondoggle – The Scavenger Hunt Redefined™ - is an exciting adventure that awaits you and your guests.In a few simple steps you can create a party like no other:- Invite the Guests- Plan the Course- Create the Clues- Send the teams on an outrageously fun raceA BOONDOGGLE has three-parts:- A Course that you’ve designed for teams to follow by solving clues that lead to your secret destinations.- Loot that teams gather along the way.- Factoids – trivia questions that each team must answer.Boondoggle rewards resourcefulness, strategy and speed. Teamwork is key, as people work together in an exhilarating race to the finish.Boondoggles have been used for birthday parties for kids as well as adults, corporate team-building events, youth group outings, and community fundraisers. Teams can be people of the same age, or mixed, including family teams. This guide lets you customize your Boondoggle your group’s age, interest and ability.The step-by-step guidebook provides detailed instructions, templates and examples to help you create a challenging, customized team event for 6-20+ people.

In the land of Faerie, lies are easily disguised as truths. They were raised like sisters, the heir to the Court of the Day and her guardian.And as rebellion darkens the land of the Day—and the faeries of Court fall under a dark magic that disconnects them from the land, dooming them to a slow, agonizing death—they will question all they know to be true.Sevelle, the Light of the Day, is destined to rule one day. She possesses a rare form of magic, the ability to heal the powerful connection between faeries and the magic in the land, the connection that gives them life—if only she could figure out how to use this magic, or even find it within herself.Jae lives in the shadows, watching over Sevelle as her guardian and listening to the whispers of Court brought to her by the winds. She longs for a life outside of Court, but knows her duty to Sevelle is more important than her own desires.But when an unexpected proposition comes from none other than Lex, son of the rebel leader, Sevelle and Jae realize their lives will never be the same—and that evil may be within their own court more so than in the rebels that oppose them.Walking paths far different than they imagined separates the sisters, but then a secret is revealed that may break them apart forever.Fly Free is the first installment of the Light of Faerie series. Enter a land of magic in the midst of a power struggle, where all is not as it seems and love may be found in the most unlikely places.

Outcasts of Faerie have lived unseen and secluded from humans. Until now.When a strange dark magic threatens the human world, sixteen-year-old Nola seeks the help of Kelty, an outcast faerie she discovered with her rare magic sight, to help her stop it.Reluctant and wary, Kelty must choose between turning her back on the helpless humans or sacrificing her chance to return to Faerie, which is only possible if she remains untainted by human contact.The outcast responsible for Kelty’s banishment is playing his own dangerous game. He might be the answer to defeating the dark magic. He also might destroy them both.Will the truth be discovered before the dark magic is unleashed upon the human world?For fans of fast-paced YA fantasy, intense plots, and breathtaking magic, The Nameless is a tale unlike any other.“The Nameless provides a genuinely unique twist to a young adult and teen genre that I didn't think had any more twists to give.” --Readers’ Favorite

A dangerous faerie lurks behind an empty throne.Still living as a faerie outcast in the human world, Kelty is summoned by the Court of Outcasts, where another faerie—one with a dark past, a skewed sense of reality, and a penchant for influencing minds—offers her the throne. Accepting would force her to forfeit her dreams by remaining in the human world for the rest of her days. But refusing could spell disaster for the humans she now hopes to protect.Meanwhile, Nola struggles with fainting spells as her human body rejects the faerie magic now within her. She tries to stay away from the outcasts, but when the mysterious new guy in school lures her friend Lauren away, she follows them to a place she never thought she would see—and may not be able to leave.Fighting separate battles against a common enemy, Kelty and Nola find themselves questioning everything as they struggle to decide what truly matters—and to survive with their minds intact.This second installment in the Tales of an Outcast Faerie series is a magical, fast-paced tale where life-altering decisions loom, relationships falter, and the insanity of one powerful faerie threatens to break them all.

Girls and young women participate in soccer at record levels and the Women’s National Team regularly draws media, corporate, and popular attention. Yet despite increased representation and visibility, gender disparities in opportunity, compensation, training resources, and media airtime persist in soccer, and two professional leagues for women have failed since 2000. In Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women’s soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport. Allison details the complex constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the selling and marketing of women’s soccer in a half-changed sports landscape characterized by both progress and backlash, and where professional sports are still understood to be men’s territory.

Girls and young women participate in soccer at record levels and the Women’s National Team regularly draws media, corporate, and popular attention. Yet despite increased representation and visibility, gender disparities in opportunity, compensation, training resources, and media airtime persist in soccer, and two professional leagues for women have failed since 2000. In Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women’s soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport. Allison details the complex constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the selling and marketing of women’s soccer in a half-changed sports landscape characterized by both progress and backlash, and where professional sports are still understood to be men’s territory.

In the face of defeat lies true strength. Kelty now lives as an outcast faerie in the human world. But before she was cast out, an encounter with a deceiving faerie resulted in a devastating trick—one that changed Kelty's life forever in this enthralling untold story.For fans of YA fantasy, Outcast is a riveting prequel to the Tales of an Outcast Faerie series, beginning with The Nameless.

Tanja remembered hearing the men who came; men with guns and harsh voices, but she had never really accepted that her father had been taken away and murdered by one of the terror squads who had roamed the Bosnian countryside several years before. Prompted by the discovery of a photograph she ventures into the mountains to search for her father, but she is not prepared for the many dangers which she encounters there.

A simply addictive tale of loss, loneliness and the hope that can spring from our lowest moments.Having lost everything she held dear, Ava is plunged into a new life she neither chose nor wanted.Pulling herself up, lurching from highs to lows she struggles to find purpose in her new world.Robert, brings a new set of emotions, hate, frustration and potentially fear.Because Robert has a secret, a secret not even he fully understands.In a home she expected to hate, suddenly she finds something to love. But with great love comes greater fear, and a future so unknown that her tomorrows may be numbered.2015's hottest new YA Novel, Divine Mortals, is a must read!Jan 2015 Review:"Well I hope your little fingers are flat out typing that second book! Way too much I need to know now I've finished it! If I read the back of that book I wouldn't have picked it up again only because I kind of always steer away from the abnormal unexplained storylines! Soooo glad I read it, I was hooked right from the start."

"[Tick] more than stands its ground in a crowded field of dystopian fiction. Rose is a good writer of dialogue, and is deft at slowly doling out information. The story is exciting, fast-paced, and full of surprises." - IndieReader Review"A dark and lush tale; tightly woven and compelling." - Judge, 3rd Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published eBook Awards"The pacing of the book is a work of art; the tension ebbs and flows at just the right times." - The Online Book ClubJo Bristol has a tick ... she has visions of killing people. Los Angeles is under attack from cyber terrorists, and in an effort to stop them, the city uses spy drones to seek out civilians with brain abnormalities and adjusts their brains to remove any criminal tendencies. Jo has spent her life evading the drones and brain manipulation by keeping her tick a secret, until a week before her seventeenth birthday her visions threaten to become reality. Having always wanted to be a painter, Jo knows any adjustment to her brain could alter her artistic sense and she could lose all that makes her who she is. She must do everything she can to hide the darkness in her mind or lose her muse completely.The first in a 3-Part series, a young adult near future science fiction thriller trilogy. TICK is the beginning of Jo's adventures, and will continue into two more books.

Outcasts of Faerie have lived unseen and secluded from humans. Until now.When a strange dark magic threatens the human world, sixteen-year-old Nola seeks the help of Kelty, an outcast faerie she discovered with her rare magic sight, to help her stop it.Reluctant and wary, Kelty must choose between turning her back on the helpless humans or sacrificing her chance to return to Faerie, which is only possible if she remains untainted by human contact.The outcast responsible for Kelty’s banishment is playing his own dangerous game. He might be the answer to defeating the dark magic. He also might destroy them both.Will the truth be discovered before the dark magic is unleashed upon the human world?For fans of fast-paced YA fantasy, intense plots, and breathtaking magic, The Nameless is a tale unlike any other.“The Nameless provides a genuinely unique twist to a young adult and teen genre that I didn't think had any more twists to give.” --Readers’ Favorite