Books with author Andy Schneider

Wendy has watched too many of her friends and family fall prey to the Primate. Thousands have died at his hands, simply because he deemed them unworthy of life. With her newfound allies, who possess more information on the Primate's vicious plans for domination, Wendy urges her weakened people to strike. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wendy and Jeff lead a group into the heart of the Primate's city. When they find technology that could wipe out what is left of the world to make room for the Primate's believers, they each must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to keep their friends safe. Even if that sacrifice means losing each other.

Return to Wendy’s plight in the enthralling third installment of the Jagged Scars Series.Wendy conquered the monster in her mind.The people of Shelter are safe.For now.In the aftermath of the plague, the leaders of Shelter decide to go on the offensive. Wendy wants another shot at Pelton, and she is the first to volunteer.But Jeff has other ideas. He’s putting together a secret strike team, and he wants Wendy on board. It means going in first. It means a greater risk of death. It means letting someone else take care of Pelton.Unfortunately, Wendy is finding it more and more difficult to say no to Jeff. She thinks about him all the time. She wonders what he’s doing. She wants to be with him.They pretend to date so that no one will ask about the time they spend together for the strike team, but when Wendy realizes she’s no longer pretending, she wonders how a relationship will fit into her world. Download your copy of Shattered Dreams today and find out how Wendy copes with being twitterpated in the middle of a war.

One of the great masters of 20th-century art, the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti captured the existential loneliness of modern humanity with his spindly, attenuated figures whose life-like gazes pierce the vastness of space. Uniting more than 250 sculptures, paintings, drawings and graphic works, this extensive monograph is an exemplary overview of his oeuvre.The book underscores the continuity between the two remarkable bodies of work that characterize his career: the pre-1935 works, which included the finest of all Surrealist sculptures, and the post-war masterpieces. As a result of a profound artistic crisis that began in 1934, when Giacometti returned to working from the model and thus broke with the Surrealists, the artist began tackling the problem of situating figures in space in an entirely new way. Painting played a key role in the solutions that Giacometti found to this problem, and the discussion here of the relationship between his two- and three-dimensional works reveals him to have been as great a painter as he was a sculptor.Contributions by several notable art historians address contemporary research issues and offer a comprehensive record of Giacometti's life and work. Among the many photographs of the artist and his circle are images by such notable photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ugo Mulas and Man Ray.

Their hero is a fraud and only he knows it. When the truth comes knocking, can one boy conjure a way to save the day?Young Samual longs to perform magic of his own. And what’s worse, he can’t seem to convince anyone that their beloved Town Magician is a trickster without an enchanted bone in his body. When a wicked wizard challenges the pretender to a duel, Samual vows keep his village safe by forcing the fraudster to rise to the challenge.Determined to prevent disaster, he secretly shadows the phony protector during his training with the Grand Wizard. And when they barely escape an attack by dire wolves, Samual realizes he must partner up with his bitter rival. But keeping the truth hidden any longer may not help them outwit a powerful sorcerer.With his town in grave danger, can Samual protect the ones he loves from the forces of evil?Embracing the Magic is the enchanting first story in the Town Magician middle grade fantasy series. If you enjoy unlikely heroes, coming-of-age adventures, and spellbinding creatures, then you’ll love S.A. Schneider’s fantastical tale.Buy Embracing the Magic to leap into a world of wonder today!< br>For more stories and books - visit sa-schneider.com

Tainted crops killed millions.The Skinnies ate the rest.Sixteen year old Wendy never knew the world before the Starvation. She’s learned to put her trust in her knives, and her confidence in her fighting ability.When Skinnies destroy her compound, she is the lone survivor.With a broken body and a shattered mind, Wendy is rescued and nursed back to health by mysterious strangers.But trust has never been one of Wendy's strengths, and suspicion soon leads to evidence that these people want something that only Wendy can find. Something they killed her entire family for.Taking the settlement down from the inside in order to get her revenge requires Wendy to do something she really isn’t good at.Fight her way through five men twice her size?Easy.Make small talk, listen to other teenagers prattle on about their problems and pretend to care all while battling her own internal demons?Wendy would rather face a hoard of Skinnies.If you’re a fan of The Walking Dead and Divergent, love stories about friendship and sacrifice and adore great characters this series is for you.

The doctors want to know why Lys did it.Lys wants to know too.Sixteen-year-old Lysandra Blake is forced to question her sanity after attempting to rip her mother’s eyes out of their sockets. Lys has no idea where this Need came from, she just wants it to go away.The possibility of a normal life seems lost, when the mysterious Jeremiah Mason appears. He assures Lys that she’s not crazy. Instead she’s addicted to a rare and deadly drug she swears she never took. He offers her hope in the form of his recovery facility. Afraid of who she will hurt next, Lys clings to the chance that she can be cured. At the facility, Lys meets Kamau, a seventeen-year-old from Mozambique with perfect table manners and secrets of his own.Together they discover Mason lied about their condition. When Lys starts seeing visions, and the two of them are kidnapped, they find themselves thrown headfirst into a world of unbelievable powers and dangerous possibilities.If you’re a fan of Michael Vey and the X-Men and care about compelling characters this series is for you. Download your copy today!What Readers are Saying:“New Sight is a high-octane YA urban/paranormal fantasy thriller.”“The world that Jo creates is an awesome one where magic is real and it’s a real problem.”“Jo Schneider does an amazing job in revealing the inner turmoil of the protagonist: euphoria vs. guilt, strength vs. the overriding compulsion to succumb to her deepest of urges.”

The doctors want to know why Lys did it.Lys wants to know too.Sixteen-year-old Lysandra Blake is forced to question her sanity after attempting to rip her mother’s eyes out of their sockets. Lys has no idea where this Need came from, she just wants it to go away.The possibility of a normal life seems lost, when the mysterious Jeremiah Mason appears. He assures Lys that she’s not crazy. Instead she’s addicted to a rare and deadly drug she swears she never took. He offers her hope in the form of his recovery facility. Afraid of who she will hurt next, Lys clings to the chance that she can be cured. At the facility, Lys meets Kamau, a seventeen-year-old from Mozambique with perfect table manners and secrets of his own.Together they discover Mason lied about their condition. When Lys starts seeing visions, and the two of them are kidnapped, they find themselves thrown headfirst into a world of unbelievable powers and dangerous possibilities.If you’re a fan of Michael Vey and the X-Men and care about compelling characters this series is for you. Download your copy today!What Readers are Saying:“New Sight is a high-octane YA urban/paranormal fantasy thriller.”“The world that Jo creates is an awesome one where magic is real and it’s a real problem.”“Jo Schneider does an amazing job in revealing the inner turmoil of the protagonist: euphoria vs. guilt, strength vs. the overriding compulsion to succumb to her deepest of urges.”

A young woman, obsessed by a man she considers a predator, climbs a fire escape and thinks she sees a murder.Out of work actress Ava Beck, reduced to working in a West Village flower shop, starts to watch handsome, womanizing hedge funder Peter Greer, who lives near. He likes to romance his girlfriends with flowers.Ava notices bruises on his troubled-looking date named Chloe. Concerned, she follows them after work to Chloe's studio, second floor in the rear of a brownstone. She hears them arguing, climbs up the fire escape just as Greer angrily sees her....and plunges into a world of stunning twists, murder and madness worse than any she could have imagined...

It is 1966 and Mel is a teenage girl in the small town of Lake Oswego, Oregon. She also happens to be the only one who can figure out where alien material is hidden that came from a UFO crash outside Roswell, New Mexico back in 1947. The Air Force wants it so they can keep their cover-up, and the KGB will kill her to get the technology. But she is driven to find it because she knows it is her father’s last wish.The most famous UFO event in history was the discovery of a crashed flying saucer and alien bodies outside Roswell, New Mexico in July, 1947. The military put out a press release saying they had recovered a flying disk, but recanted the next day, stating it was a big misunderstanding and just a weather balloon. Over the following days the military from Roswell Army Air Field covered it up: They cordoned off the crash sites, recovered the bodies and debris, threatened the local population into silence, and switched out pieces of a weather balloon for the crash debris in a big press event. And the most important interplanetary incident in history remained buried for years. But what if someone managed to sneak material out of the crash site, and decades later it was hidden in a secret location. And, what if the only person who could figure out that location was a young teenage girl?

It is 1966 and Mel is a teenage girl in the small town of Lake Oswego, Oregon. She also happens to be the only one who can figure out where alien material is hidden that came from a UFO crash outside Roswell, New Mexico back in 1947. The Air Force wants it so they can keep their cover-up, and the KGB will kill her to get the technology. But she is driven to find it because she knows it is her father’s last wish.The most famous UFO event in history was the discovery of a crashed flying saucer and alien bodies outside Roswell, New Mexico in July, 1947. The military put out a press release saying they had recovered a flying disk, but recanted the next day, stating it was a big misunderstanding and just a weather balloon. Over the following days the military from Roswell Army Air Field covered it up: They cordoned off the crash sites, recovered the bodies and debris, threatened the local population into silence, and switched out pieces of a weather balloon for the crash debris in a big press event. And the most important interplanetary incident in history remained buried for years.But what if someone managed to sneak material out of the crash site, and decades later it was hidden in a secret location. And, what if the only person who could figure out that location was a young teenage girl?

Lysandra Blake may have thwarted Mason’s plan to bring magic back into the world, but she and her friends are far from safe. With the touch seal leaking waves of unstable power, and Mason trying to break more users, they are fighting an uphill battle.An uneasy alliance with the New isn’t enough, so Ayden asks Kamau to reach out to his tribe. The tribes are secretive, paranoid and more apt to kill outsiders than listen to anything they say, but when Mason’s touch users exhibit powers beyond the norm, Kamau agrees.Lys and the rest are thrust into a world of hidden powers and drastic consequences. It doesn’t take long for Lys to realize she’s out of her league, and she quickly finds that she is dangerously close to losing what little control she has gained over her magic.