Monologues for Teens II by Mike Kimmel

Teenage drama student tired of playing middle-aged grownups? Find stage pieces tailored to the real-world in this amazing new collection.

Monologues for Teens II is the latest installment in The Young Actor Series and the long-awaited follow-up to the award-winning Monologues for Teens. Full voting member of the National Television Academy and longtime NBC Tonight Show sketch comedy performer Mike Kimmel has been writing, acting, producing, and teaching for decades. Now he’s here to share a curated collection of the best comedy and drama monologues for 2020. This is a collection with depth, heart, and pathos to challenge young actors and bring out their very best performances. These are monologues they’ve never heard before – and monologues they’ll remember you by!

No props. No costumes. No entrances. No exits. No fluff.

No bad language. No snarky, mean-spirited scenarios. No talking down to you – or your audience.

Gender-neutral monologues that can be performed equally well by all actors.

If you’re searching for fresh, emotionally rich performance material with a positive, optimistic viewpoint presenting ethical questions for our youth – then order this clear and definitive new resource – Monologues for Teens II – today. Nail your next audition tomorrow.

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Mike Kimmel is a film, television, stage, and commercial actor and acting coach. He is a twenty-plus year member of SAG-AFTRA with extensive experience in both the New York and Los Angeles markets. He has worked with directors Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Townsend, Craig Shapiro, and Christopher Cain among many others. TV credits include Game of Silence, Zoo, Treme, In Plain Sight, Cold Case, Breakout Kings, Memphis Beat, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He was a regular sketch comedy player on The Tonight Show, performing live on stage and in pre-taped segments with Jay Leno for eleven years.

Mike has appeared in dozens of theatrical plays on both coasts, including Radio City Music Hall, Equity Library Theater, Stella Adler Theater, and Theater at the Improv. He trained with Michael Shurtleff, William Hickey, Ralph Marrero, Gloria Maddox, Harold Sylvester, Wendy Davis, Amy Hunter, Bob Collier, and Stuart Robinson. He has a B.A. from Brandeis University and an M.A. from California State University.

As an educator, he has taught at Upper Iowa University, University of New Orleans, University of Phoenix, and in the Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Burbank, California public school districts. He is a two-time past president of New Orleans Toastmasters, the public speaking organization, and often serves as a speech contest judge. Mike has written and collaborated on numerous scripts for stage and screen. His full-length historical drama on Presidents Lincoln and Garfield was a semi-finalist in the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. He is the 2014 recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from Upper Iowa University. Mike is a full voting member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (the Emmys).

About Calendula Proof

The picturesque seaside city of Calendula (pronounced Ka-len-doo-la) occupies the southern curl of Camino Bay, in California’s rugged central coast.

The Widow O’Keefe, Calendula’s reclusive patron of the arts, has passed away. For one day only, her mansion is being opened to the public, before everything in it—including her famous art collection—is auctioned off.

Three men acting suspiciously at the mansion catch the attention of the Mysterious Adventures Society kids. Are they summer tourists wandering unpredictably around town? Are they buyers here for the auction? Or are they up to something sinister?

With the pressure mounting and their warnings ignored by adults, the kids realize that to stop the central coast’s crime of the century, they’ll have to stop it themselves.

Calendula Proof is a story about friendship proving stronger than fear, and believing in yourself, even when no one else does.

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Steve McManus grew up in Calgary. After moving to Los Angeles, he became the drummer for Darling Violetta, who performed the theme song to the hit TV series Angel. RED FLAG, the first book in his CODA series, was published in 2015. The sequel, SEVEN DEVILS, came out in 2018. CALENDULA COOL, his first book for young adults in the new Mysterious Adventures Society series, was published in 2020.

BEACH BODY UNKNOWN by EMMA JACKSON

Flotsam, jetsam, and death. Oh, my.

Cape Charles’ local Iraqi war veteran, Nottingham “Nott” Smith, is minding his own beach-combing business when he discovers a body in the sand dunes. The plastic-wrapped stranger is one piece of salvage that won’t be decorating his shack on Cherrystone Creek.

Paige Reese, Nott’s friend and Coroner Ad Hoc for Cape Charles, relieves Nott of his find and sets to work identifying the stranger and his cause of death. A few bumbling sheriff’s detectives and a cursing, Spanish-speaking parrot serve to muddy the waters. With too few clues and too much distraction, Paige’s medical sleuthing leads only to more questions.

Until a witness identifies Paige’s brother in connection with the dead man. What was a questionable death is now considered murder, and Billy Reese is the prime suspect.

Paige must work quickly to connect construction-grade plastic, Chinese business papers, and the Atlantic Flyway to her deceased client. If she’s too late, her own brother could be the next dead man.

Also look for the first book in the CherryStone Creek Mystery series, LITTLE GIRL UNKNOWN. Fall in love with the Eastern Shore!

Praise for CHERRYSTONE CREEK MYSTERIES:
“This particular author becomes more clever and the stories become more entertaining as time passes. I’m looking very forward to book three…”Michael Reisig, Clear Creek Press

“An Eastern Shore gem!” Don Rich, author of the Coastal Adventure series

“You have achieved that point in writing that the reader finds his/herself being in the room with Paige or on the beach with Nott. The reader isn’t just reading a book, but becomes a part of it, being able to actually visualize everything.” Art Davis, advance reader

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Emma Jackson lives in Alabama and on The Eastern Shore of Virginia.

About Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever

The Butterfly Effect in human history revealed…

“Heart-stopping, compelling, and fun!” Win Blevins, New York Times Bestselling Author

How often does it happen that a single tiny mistake causes an entire civilization to collapse?! You’ll be amazed at the little things that changed history in a big way. Here are a few examples:

A single document poorly designed by one single clerk in one single county changed the outcome of a presidential election and led directly to a major war.
A soldier accidentally kicks a helmet off of the top of a wall and causes an empire to collapse.
A small mechanical device several inches long fails to function, which changes the outcome of WWII and leads to the death of millions of people.
A man fails to gather his army in time to defend against an attack because of the temptation of opium and a young slave woman.
And many more!

Hypnotic and addictive, these well-researched, factual stories will keep you turning pages far past your bedtime. This book is the “Butterfly Effect” in human history reviewed.

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Jared Knott has had numerous articles published in the Mensa Bulletin and in graduate school textbooks on subjects ranging from Supreme Court Reform to Arctic Exploration. He was a decorated combat infantry officer in Vietnam in the First Air Cavalry Division. In his civilian career, he has served as a vice president of sales + marketing and marketing director in the home improvement industry. A father of five, he lives in the Atlanta area with his wife, Kathryn.

About ‘Hollywood: Hollyweird’ “How People Survive And Make It!” by Art Norman Jr.

Hello Everyone!!! Well I’m glad to be here & yes I am African-American & my book is about my nearly Decade stay in good ‘ole HOLLYWOOD, CA! My book is ‘Hollywood: Hollyweird’ “How People Survive And Make It!” I was there as a Bodyguard that got to network in & around some of the coolest Celebrities such as ‘The Legend’ Chris Rock, Ms. Paris Hilton with a new Bentley for everyday & Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx who loves to just trip out & observe the crowd! So being that you’re looking for Great Adventures & little secrets on how to manuever in Tinseltown….well we got you covered! So grab a eBook or more & write a review or 2 & sit back & enjoy! Thanks, Art Norman Jr.-author.

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Well I have a BA in Psychology from North Carolina A&T State University! It sure did assist while surviving in Hollywood because it is wide open there!

About Monastery Valley Series Boxed Set

“Percy juggles both plotlines effectively while addressing important social issues.” –Publisher’s Weekly. This box set includes the first four mysteries in the Monastery Valley Series. Book #5, The Fury Before the Fire, releases January 28, 2021.

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Since 2012, when I left the practice of psychology, I’ve been writing and publishing novels in the “Monastery Valley” series. There are four novels so far–“Climbing the Coliseum, Book 1” (2014), “Nobody’s Safe Here,” Book 2 (2016), “The Bishop Burned the Lady,” Book 3 (2018), and most recently, “Standing Our Ground, Book 4 (2020). The first three books have won multiple awards (“Standing Our Ground” has just been released, so no awards yet), including “Climbing . . .” winning the prestigious “Finalist Award” in the 2014 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year competition, as well as being a “Distinguished Favorite” in The New York City Big Book competition. “Nobody’s Safe Here” won both that award (NYC Big Book award) and the Independent Press Award, which “The Bishop Burned the Lady” won as well.

About Featured Book: Nearly Drowned by TR Moore Ede

Available for $0.99 from Dec. 1, 2020, to Dec. 5, 2020.

Malissa Crop always thought she would live a normal human life. She will soon discover she is wrong; in more ways than one.

Maybe normal was always a bit of a stretch, but what does it matter that although she doesn’t try, Malissa has more strength than perhaps she should. Or that two traumatic experiences with water leaves her with no fear of it.

Malissa always knew she was adopted, but it takes sixteen years before she discovers not only was she left on the Crop’s doorstop, but that she was left there for her safety.

After rescuing a man from a pool that was closed down, she finds herself a target of those who tried to drown him. Those now after her seem to know her from before the pool incident and are aware of something she has yet to discover about herself.

This Christian book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print

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About The Gopher King

A suicidal former platoon sergeant, sole survivor of a Vietnam War jungle ambush, is haunted by what he perceives as his cowardly past. Debilitated by guilt and mourning the death of his wife, small town newspaper publisher Stan Przewalski lives in a PTSD-fueled world where it is impossible to distinguish reality from fantasy.

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Gojan Nikolich is a former Chicago newspaper reporter, editor and public relations agency executive. He graduated with B.A. and M.A. degrees in English Literature from DePaul University, served as a decorated U.S. Army sergeant with both the 2nd and 4th Infantry divisions and worked as a journalist in Korea and Japan. He lives with his family in Colorado, where he and his wife once owned a weekly newspaper.

About MIND SLAUGHTER

4 BOOKS IN ONE–A COLLECTION OF THEMES AND SONGS VOLUME 1 AND 2–NINE EPIC TRGEDIES–MY MIND SHADOW AND I

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-MY SCRIPT IN LIFE–BELOW–MY E-MAIL ADDRESS–RIGHT HERE–authorsmb4283@gmail.com–JUST BE SURE TO PUT THE CODE, 'BOOK', IN THE SUBJECT BOX! THANK YOU…BLOG ADDRESS–seanmichaelbrassil.wordpress.com–WHERE THE MAJORITY OF MY WRITINGS CAN BE READ FOR FREE!!!
THERE ARE NO HIGHER FORCES WHICH HOLD ME BACK!
WELCOME TO THE CHAOTIC WORLD OF SEAN MICHAEL BRASSIL. BUT FIRST ALLOW ME TO SHOW YOU IN THROUGH MY FRONT LINES. FRONT LINES I STILL TREAD THROUGH ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS. I WAS BORN INTO A WORLD OF MAD CHAOS. AND IT WILL BE FROM A WORLD OF MAD CHAOS WHICH I INTEND TO LEAVE. NEVER MIND THE LIFE I HAVE LED UP UNTIL THIS POINT. MY LIFE UP UNTIL THIS POINT HAS BEEN SPENT IN A VAST AND AN INESCAPABLE WORLD OF RUIN. BROUGHT ON BY MY NEED TO GO OUT ON THE EDGE OF LIFE. SO FAR OUT THAT THERE WAS NOTHING LEFT TO BRING BACK EXCEPT FOR MYSELF. I CAME CLOSE TO NOT EVEN ACCOMPLISHING THAT. WHILE I WAS GROWING UP I VIEWED LIFE AS A PARTY. SO I DEDICATED MY LIFE TO BEING THE BIGGEST PARTY EVER. I HAVE LIVED AND SURVIVED SINCE I WAS BORN. OF COURSE, I AM STILL GOING STRONG ON DOING JUST THAT. BY THE WAY, MY PARTY WILL NEVER END. HOW ABOUT YOURS?

About Making Money Online: How to Start a Home-Based Freelancing Business without a Degree (The Making Money Online series)

Have you always dreamt of making money working from home selling your own services, but don’t know where to start?

Do you often tell yourself that you don’t have the money or confidence to start a business?

Do you feel as though you do not have enough qualifications, skills, or experience to work for yourself?

The answer to all the above questions is – YOU CAN!

In this book, you will learn about….

The pros and cons of working as a freelancer

20 unique freelancing jobs you can start with minimal qualifications (with some requiring none at all)

Low-cost start-up solutions so that you can start your business at minimal cost

How to transition into your freelancing career

And, most crucially:
How to stand out from the competition & win clients!

YOU CAN make your dream of working as a home-based freelancer come true.

Success… well, that’s literally in your hands!

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Teacher, author, voice-over artist, and a business and management graduate, Gabriela Amour is passionate about learning and self-development within all areas of life.

Gabriela enjoys encouraging and inspiring others to be the best version of themselves by helping them to stop seeing the ways in which they can’t achieve certain life goals, and instead educating and empowering them to see the ways in which they can achieve their goals!

Gabriela specialises in the non-fiction genre and uses her knowledge and experiences to create a wide selection of books from cooking, business, career, and self-help books.

Having overcome many obstacles in her life, her mission is to help educate and empower you to do the same!

‘We already possess everything we need to achieve success – our mind is our greatest tool, nurture it, and you CAN achieve anything’ – Gabriela Amour.

About Oh Daddy Chronicles by Barry Robbins

The Oh Daddy Chronicles is a contemporary political satire. It pokes fun at just about everyone, but especially at the 45th President of the United States – a guy named Trump. A lot of ground is covered in 46 irreverent, offbeat, and easy-to-read episodes, in which no one and no thing is sacred – not even a grilled cheese sandwich. Much of the action takes place in the Oval Office itself, through whose doors enter Ivanka, Don Jr., Pence, Pompeo, Barr, Giuliani, Fauci, Cuomo, and Conway, to name just a few.

The book is structured as largely independent skit-like episodes, each one taking on a different target. One reviewer described it as: “This is Saturday Night Live, in written form, on steroids.” Who am I to argue? The episodes generally take actual events we’re familiar with, toss in a healthy dose of comic imagination, and put everything in a blender. What emerges is anyone’s guess, but it’s usually pretty funny. The “Chronicles” answers questions such as why the President was so into hydroxychloroquine and how his cognitive impairment exam actually went.

Helping to carry the burden of irreverence is a motley assortment of lovable supporting characters – Squishie the FedEx deliveryman, the fortune cookie master Wang So Fun, the tomato sauce expert Giuseppe Sauceatoni and, of course, Melania’s dear Uncle Slobodan, the pig farmer from Zagorje ob Savi.

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Barry Robbins is a retired CPA with a keen interest in things having nothing to do with accounting. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 with BS and MS degrees. He worked 26 years for a large international accounting firm. Then he quit. He moved to Helsinki, Finland with his Finnish wife and two beautiful daughters. After living there full time for 12 years, he began dividing his time between Finland and Florida. He now spends most of his time in Florida. The years spent in Europe allow him to see the U.S. through different eyes —from both the inside and the outside. This, plus his experience as a freelance ghostwriter of book reports for lazy third graders, makes him uniquely qualified to serve as Chronicler-in Chief of the Oh Daddy Chronicles.

About Pearl of the Wind by Ruth Finnegan

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Get up to date with the latest in the Kate-Pearl epic about Kate and her elusive many-named love (some read it as a parable but, well, there you go …). Intriguingly it’s somehow the same story and dreamlike style as in the original multi-award ‘The Black Inked Pearl’, other volumes being the fairytale prequel that tells us the voyage of the “Pearl of the Seas’, and “The Helix Pearl”, told by nine other than the Sea herself. This one is told by – you’d guessed? – the Wind, the “Poet of the Aire’, reflecting our call to the fleeting flighting breathing air, the soul, the fluttering butterfly-psyche of life,

Full of excitement, love, and humour. You’ll never guess …

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I love writing, often now inspired by dreams )the true reality – yes??). And picturing my awesome readers,

I am deeply inspired by music, love the countryside and the sea, and am a (fairly) regular church attender (ecumenical). I have three daughters and five grandchildren, and live in Bletchley, “home of the code breakers” in southern England. with David Murray, my longtime husband.

The official stuff (sigh., but I’d better ):

I am a professional multi-award writer (fiction, nonfiction, screenplay), I grew up in Ireland and attended a peace-loving Quaker school, overlapping there with the actress Judi Dench. This fostered my aspiration for reconciliation, spirituality and non-violence which run through my writing. Then came first-class Oxford degrees in classics and anthropology, fieldwork studying story-telling in Africa (again influential in my writing, especially my novels and screenplays ), and university teaching in Africa, Fiji, Texas, and England (where I am now an Emeritus Professor), all contexts for learning about ideas, about beautiful words, and, most of all, about people (details of career, honours etc at www.ruthhfinnegan.com)

About Brightside: A Novel

Telepathy is illegal, the guilty sent to Brightside.
It’s Joe Nolan’s hundredth day imprisoned in the beautiful mountain town.
And he swears, one way or another, it’s going to be his last.
Welcome to Brightside! Make yourself comfortable, and enjoy your stay. But, don’t be fooled. The story doesn’t end with the last page of the book. The adventures continue in the sequel Beyond Brightside.

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Mark Tullius is a former fighter and football player that now takes out his aggression on the characters in his books. Whether it’s sci-fi, suspense, or horror, someone is going to get hurt.

About Skypunk Princess

Sometimes it takes a Princess with a plasma sword to pick up the pieces of a failed world. In the aftermath of climate disaster and the fall of human civilization, a brave few have formed new societies in harmony with nature. Now the AI cities are moving to eradicate these rebels.

Eliana Skybound is an elite Sky Ranger, who charges into a swarm of drones with no fear. Her nanofabric wingsuit makes her a powerful force, but even she has her weaknesses.

Leva Kailani is a Mermaid princess who has yet to fully choose her biohacked form, which makes her a fierce crystalline scaled distraction of the best kind.

After tragedy strikes, their love has a chance to remake the course of history, but only if they have the strength to endure.

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David Colello is a parenting ninja and science fiction fanatic, helping people raise readers in a world that’s stranger than fiction. Dave’s blog SciFiParenting offers parents frequent content on kids, science fiction, and the importance of reading.

Following his time at Boston University earning degrees in English and Philosophy, he owned a personal training studio, worked in freelance copywriting, became a stay home father to three wonderful kiddos, and now publishes science fiction for a world where wonder is in short supply.

About Behind My Stethoscope: Letters of Solidarity, Encouragement, and Advice to New and Seasoned Nurses by Kim Edwards

This book of heartfelt stories from the countless hours Kim has spent at her patients’ bedside will teach you how to cope with the challenges you will face when working with seasoned nurses, how to be a valuable team player, that you are human—and that’s okay, and how to learn from your mistakes and cope with heartbreak. If you’re nervous, excited, and a little terrified to begin your nursing career, read Behind My Stethoscope to laugh, cry, and learn invaluable lessons straight from the heart of a nurse with over three decades of experience walking that path ahead of you.

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Kim R. Edwards has spent forty years of her life as a nurse. She was a nurse’s aide for four years, a student nurse for two years, and on staff at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare for 34 years. Her long-term experience as a nurse has inspired her to share her personal ups and downs in hopes that they will encourage, validate, and teach you throughout your own journey as a nurse.

About Who Says It’s Over: A fading child star’s humorous and compelling true story about gambling, life-threatening encounters and a remarkable journey back to Hollywood prominence. by Joseph Walsh

“Joseph Walsh wrote the best gambling movie ever, California Split, and now he’s out with a spectacularly entertaining Hollywood memoir…”
Ben Mankiewicz, Film critic and host of Turner Classic Movies

Walsh’s wonderfully funny memoir of showbiz, gambling and the Hollywood elite, is one exciting roller coaster ride – whether dealing with hostile bookmakers looking to break legs – disastrous theatrical auditions – or a harrowing, near-death encounter with a bottle-slashing thug. From New York’s #1 child star in early TV, to ‘has-been’ by 18, back to ‘Hollywood somebody’, this true-life adventure will keep you smiling, then holding your breath, then laughing out loud.

Undaunted by a fading career, Walsh’s love of ‘action’ would intensify, giving rise to the obsessional belief that he was the greatest football handicapper known to man. Tapping his childhood friend, Elliott Gould, for his last 60 bucks, they would go on to destroy their first bookmaker for thousands, on a once-in-a-lifetime winning streak. Little did Walsh know it would lead him to the brink of death, and into ‘escape from New York’ mode. Arriving in Hollywood with hopes of cashing in on earlier fame, he quickly discovered Tinseltown had no interest in the kid who had starred with Danny Kaye in Hans Christian Andersen and Kirk Douglas in The Juggler.

Hanging tough, this never-say-die street kid would eventually shine again – working with such notables as Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman, George Segal, Jack Nicholson, Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Gregory Peck, including memorable encounters with John Huston and Elvis Presley.

His destiny would be fulfilled when he turned his life experiences into the gambling film classic California Split.

Anyone looking for an awesome comeback story, guided by grit and grace, is in for a real treat!

“Joseph Walsh wrote the best gambling movie ever, California Split, and now he’s out with a spectacularly entertaining Hollywood memoir, Who Says It’s Over, with stories of Steve McQueen, Robert Mitchum, and bookies willing to draw blood to get their money.”
Ben Mankiewicz, Film critic and host of Turner Classic Movies

“Quite a life. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, riveting and just so damn good I was sorry it came to an end.”
Alan Ladd, Jr. / Former President of 20th Century Fox Pictures and
Chairman & CEO of MGM Pictures, Academy Award Winning Producer of Braveheart & Chariots of Fire.

“It’s extremely entertaining. Walsh has led an incredible life.”
Peter Gethers / Penguin Random House

“…a gold mine about a one of a kind human being and indefatigable spirit you gotta love.”
Elliott Gould / Actor

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Born in New York in 1937, Joseph Walsh became a child actor at ten and immediately soared to become TV’s first child star, acting in over 300 live shows, followed by several famous films. He is the writer/producer of gambling film classic California Split (1974), nominated for Best Screenplay by WGA.