Books with author Rob. Wagner

This illustrated volume about the movie business waspublished in 1918.Excerpts from the Foreword:The writer wishes to confess at the outset that he is not an actor, director, extra girl, camera man, movie queen, or any of the other first-persons who voice forth these tales. As a detached, but interested, observer he watched the moving picture industry grow from its crude beginnings to the huge thing it has become, and during all those years he wondered why some one of the great army of publicity men employed by the various studios did not splash in and tell the truth about the film folk, finally concluding that it was either that their familiarity with the truth had bred contempt, or that the companies, for some strange reason, had employed only fiction writers. When these stories were written the author had only one hope : that they would be amusing and entertaining ; and only one purpose: that, being merely a painter, he needed the literary exercise. Imagine then his surprise when he received the following letter from a profound and corrugated professor of English at a large univer- sity: "The arts of music, sculpture, architecture, painting, and the drama are as old as human records. No new art has come into the world within the history of man, until the birth of the photo-drama. Though all the other arts are more or less related to one another, and the photo- drama has borrowed something from her older sisters, nevertheless it is a new art-form. Future historians will regard this new birth as an epoch marking event. "You are fortunate in having been present at this birth, and the intimate pictures you give will be . . . etc., etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."What a contribution to the literature of the drama if some writer of the 16th century (even though he had been a very bad one) had given us a little peek into the lives of Shakespere's actors, stage hands, and press agents ! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Heavens, to think I had been singing so glibly of a cosmic event! It is just as well that the critics are ac- cessories only after the fact, for had this lofty purpose been in contemplation Posterity would have been denied, as the writer would have been too self-consicous to have sung at all. But here are the tales; written for the moment, but destined by the prof, to go bowling down the ages as Dramatic Literature (even though it be very bad litera- ture) . An author has one great advantage in writing for Posterity. It, at least, cannot get out an injunction for- bidding publication.

Margaret lives in a constant state of fear. Fear of her mother, whose constant state of anger and unwillingness to speak of Margaret's past have long since pushed Margaret away. Fear of disappointing her father should he ever discover the events of that day. Most of all, Margaret lives in fear of her abuser's return. Margaret turns to self-harm to cope with her pain and fear. Only when her self-inflicted injuries bring her near death does she realize she has the power and the support from an unlikely place to stand up to her fears and believe in herself again. Tristis Manor is a novella from The Never Chronicles, an epic fantasy series.

Sarah T. is only one of America's 500,000 teenage alcoholics. Based on the Universal Television Production.Teen-age problem drinkers are not just young adults of legal age. Many are alcoholics at 12 and 13, and some even sooner. They’re raiding their parents’ liquor cabinets . . . bribing older friends to buy it for them. Young girls are trading sex for it.Sarah T.: Portrait Of A Teenage Alcoholic takes both a shocking and compassionate look at the growing problem of adolescent liquor abuse . . . and the desperate need for rehabilitation.

Scott Louis Drake, the most famous detective of our modern day, the Mystery Buster himself, is missing now for two years, and considered dead. Uneasy with their inheritance, Sally and her brother Benny shockingly, without warning, find the actual ancient secret that has allowed their great-uncle Scott to solve his string of 100 plus mysteries and cases. Now thrust into a world of sleuthing, Benny and Sally attempt to untangle the near impossible clues that fling them into the outrageous dangers of the past. Puzzles are hidden in every step they take. Do legendary monsters and curses actually exist? Why do the authors, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells call Scott Drake their friend 100 years before he was born? Will Sally and Benny Marshall solve the greatest mystery above all else; what actually happened to their great-uncle Scott, the Mystery Buster? Follow the clues and ‘Expect the Unexpected!’

Andy Lampman and the In-Between PlaceA small town Idaho boy and his two friends begin a summer adventure like nothing they've ever experienced before. When Andy stumbles upon a mysterious area known as Hyde Rock, he sets in motion events that will change the world - but that world isn't the one he lives in. Prepare for a quest that starts in one world and takes three young friends to another!

Scott Louis Drake, the most famous detective of our modern day, the Mystery Buster himself, is missing now for two years, and considered dead. Uneasy with their inheritance, Sally and her brother Benny shockingly, without warning, find the actual ancient secret that has allowed their great-uncle Scott to solve his string of 100 plus mysteries and cases. Now thrust into a world of sleuthing, Benny and Sally attempt to untangle the near impossible clues that fling them into the outrageous dangers of the past. Puzzles are hidden in every step they take. Do legendary monsters and curses actually exist? Why do the authors, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells call Scott Drake their friend 100 years before he was born? Will Sally and Benny Marshall solve the greatest mystery above all else; what actually happened to their great-uncle Scott, the Mystery Buster? Follow the clues and ‘Expect the Unexpected!’

Stripped of his powers and banished to The Never, James must save himself before he can save his fellow sorcerers from imminent demise. Prophesied by the greatest of all seers to be the sorcerer who would bring an end to the Epoch Terminus—the destruction of his kind—James grew up developing his powers under the watchful eye of his mentor, Akil Karanis. James’s insular world is shattered when he is found guilty of murdering Akil and exiled to The Never, a mysterious and dangerous place reserved for the worst of the worst, a land from which no one returns. Powerless and alone, James quickly learns that the land itself poses a greater threat than its inhabitants. If he is to have any chance of returning to his family, any chance of proving his innocence, any chance of saving his kind, he must survive the dangers and temptations meant to ensnare both body and mind in order to discover what no one else has been able to discover—a way home.

We've all had the dream. Flying. Soaring above the trees without a plane. Just you and the sky. What if that wasn't a dream at all. But something that was just…forgotten. Andy Lampman is an Idaho 12 year old who, at the beginning of summer, accidentally discovers an ancient, mysterious cave filled with strange symbols and odd crystals. This cave holds unimaginable secrets for access to another world. Andy, his best friend and her brother are caught up in an amazing journey, literally flying into this strange land filled with bizarre creatures and warring people. Andy is thrust into the heart of the conflict, resulting in a thrilling adventure that is exhilarating, painful and challenges everything he knows.