Howard Holloway is a down-on-his luck agent for child actors and one the last good guys left in Hollywood. After discovering a thirteen-year-old acting prodigy, he is poised to close the deal of a lifetime which would catapult them into the big time. Now he must juggle the actress' volatile father, dodge a scheming producer, and outwit his uber-slick nemesis. As he arrives on the brink of his dream, he begins to sense that his innocent young starlet...

"Deepfake technology can create video evidence of just about anything: Hollywood superstar Margot Robbie in an orgy Chinese president, Xi Jinping declaring nuclear war, basketball legend Michael Jordan winning the World Cup. The only limit is the imagination. In a time where fake news and disinformation is becoming harder and harder to identify, it is more essential than ever to understand the dark origins of deepfakes. Journalist Michael Grothaus...

Tech innovators strike a raw nerve as banks and network pundits rush to condemn volatile cryptocurrencies and their underlying blockchain technology. Why are banks terrified while UNICEF Ventures embraces it to help refugee children? Award-winning filmmaker Alex Winter reveals that proponents of blockchain are already using the technology to change the world, fighting income inequality, the refugee crisis, and world hunger.

"In an age where Roe v. Wade is in danger of being overturned, a minister and ethicist offers a Christian defense of abortion, arguing that we need to trust women to make moral decisions about their pregnancies, their families, and their futures. Unplanned pregnancy and abortion are a normal part of women's reproductive lives: roughly one-third of US women will have an abortion by age forty-five, and fifty to sixty percent of the women who have abortions...

"Phoenix dreads a summer at family summer camp, but head counselor Callum may change all that--if Phoenix can learn to trust him"--

Independent reading is the right of every student. It is an indispensable foundation for solid reading instruction yet, is too often viewed as a luxury. Overly prescriptive, culturally irrelevant curriculum does not provide spaces for students to develop a sense of agency as readers or for teachers to make decisions that reflect the needs of the students in front of them. When teachers trust themselves and trust their students to create reading experiences...