Books with title Reality Check

The stench of the Jareneiks has always made Jahni want to gag…too bad she is on a ship with 25,000 of them! A career placement test is bringing hope of changing her whole life for the better, but little does she know that her long lost best friend Sloane is about to come back into the picture and take her back to her home planet of Zelle. There is only one catch…Zelle isn’t like she left it. There’s been a war with the Ratillians. Her Mother is missing, her Father is imprisoned far away on another planet, and her brother and sister are being held hostage while their home planet dies. Jahni is the only one who has a chance of saving them.

Sixteen-year-olds Charlie, Keiran, Brooke, and Hallie have just been signed up for their own reality television show. They can't even believe it. "You'll be The Hills meets The Secret Life of the American Teenager," the Armani-suited executive tells them, "and the hottest thing on our network." How could they say no?But soon enough, cameras following them everywhere and interfering producers surreptitiously scripting their lives start to affect the four best friends' relationships. Brooke seems to want all the screen time. Keiran is abruptly written out of the show--and, consequently, the group's friendship--when she doesn't rate well. As soon as Charlie realizes what's going on, she figures out the perfect way to give the studio and her home audience a much-needed reality check.Because friends don't let friends do reality shows.

QB of the varsity football team. Passing grades in all his classes. Dating the hottest—and smartest—girl at school. Summer job paying more than minimum wage. Things in Cody's world seem to be going pretty well. Until, that is, his girlfriend, Clea, is sent off to boarding school across the country, and a torn ACL ends his high school football career. But bad things come in threes—or in Cody's case, sixes and twelves—and the worst is yet to come. While limping through town one day, Cody sees a newspaper heading: "Local Girl Missing." Clea, now his ex, has disappeared from her boarding school in Vermont, and the only clue is a letter she sent to Cody the morning of her disappearance. With that as his guide, Cody sets out to find out what happened. Once in Vermont, he unearths the town's secrets—and finds out that football isn't the only thing he's good at. Reality Check is another edge-of-your-seat suspense novel by the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author of Down the Rabbit Hole.

Tenth grader and deep geek Collin Meeks thinks he is a very smart boy-- that is until he purchases a True Virtual Reality (TVR) Helmet, the most important tool for plugging your mind into the world wide Virtual Internet System (the VIS). What Collin expects is total VIS access. What he forgets is that he is a cat owner!When tenth-grader Collin Meeks is at school, his cat, Catreece, puts on her owner's virtual reality helmet, assumes the identity of a cute teenager, and surfs the Virtual Internet System while Collin is at school.

The Screech Owls are invited to compete in a four-day skills competition in Detroit. Along with another team, they will be participating in a reality show called Goals & Dreams. They're staying at a fancy hotel, being showered with hockey swag, given Hollywood nicknames, and posing for the film crew -- Hockeytown doesn't look bad at all! That's until they meet the other team and start noticing how differently they're being treated. Are the producers engineering certain tensions and situations to pump up the show? The Screech Owls don't like to be manipulated . . .

"BLACK SHOES offers a welcome relief from the "ghetto lit" being rung throughcash registers across the UK... Ghetto lit will do well to take a leaf out of that book and walk a step or two in Obiora's Black Shoes." The Guardian"... it's surprising that Black Shoes is Obiora's first novel as he probes and wrestles with Daniel's character like someone who has been writing for years... reveals a complicated, layered and three dimensional character in Daniel. A morality tale, with more than a ring of truth to it for modern Britain - this is a great start for the actor/author." Lime Magazine"Obiora is a promising writer. This is more than entertainment, what transpires is a thought-provoking debut in the so called "post racial", post-Obama election era." The New Black Magazine"The narrative of Black Shoes powers along in short, rapid shifts that build up to a powerful climax." Property WeekMeet successful London property developer Daniel Martins. He has everything a man could want: his own booming business, the luxury pad, the expensive sports car... all at the tender age of twenty-five. But should he appreciate this more because he is black?Daniel doesn't think so, as far as he is concerned, his hard work warrants his position. Gone are the days where by default, black men are seen as gun toting, drug selling, urban music making individuals. Times have changed; the colour of ones' skin is trivial. It's the twenty-first century; racism is a thing of the past... isn't it? It's only policemen and shop assistants who constantly remind Daniel of the stereotypes assigned to his race. Surely this shouldn't be enough to send him on a mission to prove everybody wrong? After all, it could cost him his relationship with his best friend who happens to be white. It could cost him his career and make him become the very stereotype that he longs to refute. Despite all this, Daniel is hell-bent on challenging every prejudice, he is also desperate for his late fathers' approval. But how dangerous does his obsession with all this become?In the meantime Safra, Daniel's beautiful long-term girlfriend wants more commitment but an obstacle in the form of another woman - who also happens to be white - may lie in the way. His brother thinks he should convert to Islam and, Daniel hopes his therapist can save him from the haunting wizard who breathes smoke through his nostrils.Through explorations of love, friendships, paranoia and ignorance, BLACK SHOES, is about a professional mans' quest to find his way through the maze of negative stereotypes, and his own personal battle with his identity.Daniels' life is far from a nightmare but he has a dream... he also needs to face up to the reality.

"BLACK SHOES offers a welcome relief from the "ghetto lit" being rung through cash registers across the UK... Ghetto lit will do well to take a leaf out of that book and walk a step or two in Obiora's Black Shoes." The Guardian "...it's surprising that Black Shoes is Obiora's first novel as he probes and wrestles with Daniel's character like someone who has been writing for years... reveals a complicated, layered and three dimensional character in Daniel. A morality tale, with more than a ring of truth to it for modern Britain - this is a great start for the actor/author." Lime Magazine "Obiora is a promising writer. This is more than entertainment, what transpires is a thought-provoking debut in the so called "post racial", post-Obama election era." The New Black Magazine "The narrative of Black Shoes powers along in short, rapid shifts that build up to a powerful climax." Property WeekMeet successful London property developer Daniel Martins. He has everything a man could want: his own booming business, the luxury pad, the expensive sports car... all at the tender age of twenty-five. But should he appreciate this more because he is black? Daniel doesn't think so, as far as he is concerned, his hard work warrants his position. Gone are the days where by default, black men are seen as gun toting, drug selling, urban music making individuals. Times have changed; the colour of ones' skin is trivial. It's the twenty-first century; racism is a thing of the past... isn't it? It's only policemen and shop assistants who constantly remind Daniel of the stereotypes assigned to his race. Surely this shouldn't be enough to send him on a mission to prove everybody wrong? After all, it could cost him his relationship with his best friend who happens to be white. It could cost him his career and make him become the very stereotype that he longs to refute. Despite all this, Daniel is hell-bent on challenging every prejudice, he is also desperate for his late fathers' approval. But how dangerous does his obsession with all this become? In the meantime Safra, Daniel's beautiful long-term girlfriend wants more commitment but an obstacle in the form of another woman - who also happens to be white - may lie in the way. His brother thinks he should convert to Islam and, Daniel hopes his therapist can save him from the haunting wizard who breathes smoke through his nostrils. Through explorations of love, friendships, paranoia and ignorance, BLACK SHOES, is about a professional mans' quest to find his way through the maze of negative stereotypes, and his own personal battle with his identity. Daniels' life is far from a nightmare but he has a dream... he also needs to face up to the reality.