Ember</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Readers of <i>I Am Number Four?? T" Maze Runner??</i> and <i>Legend</i> will love this exciting new adventure series by the co-creator of the groundbreaking television show <i>Twin Peaks??</i> with its unique combination of mystery?? heart-pounding action?? and the supernatural.<br><br>Will West is careful to live life under the radar. At his parents' insistence?? he's made sure to get mediocre grades and to stay in the middle of the pack on his cross-country team. Then Will slips up?? accidentally scoring off the charts on a nationwide exam.<br><br>Now Will is being courted by an exclusive prep school . . . and followed by men driving black sedans. When Will suddenly loses his parents?? he must flee to the school. There he begins to explore all that he's capable of--physical and mental feats that should be impossible--and learns that his abilities are connected to a struggle between titanic forces that has lasted for millennia.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br><div class=" <p>Amazon Exclusive: Mark Frosts Top Eleven Television Shows by Decade</p> <p>A Highly Personal Inventory<br>ChosenMostlyfor Personal Reasons</p> <p>1960s:</p> <ul> <li><em>The Andy Griffith Show</em>I visited the set at age ten and met Andy and Ron who showed me the jail cells secret back escape route. </li> <li><em>The Man from U.N.C.L.E</em>.inspired my first (unpublished and unpublishable) novel written when I was eleven. </li> <li><em>The Prisoner</em>which blew my mind and taught me (foreshadowing) that a TV show didnt have to follow the rules. . . . </li> </ul> <p>1970s:</p> <ul> <li><em>Mister Rogers Neighborhood</em>because I worked my way through college on the production crew (with a young stand-up named Michael Keaton) <br>and because Fred Rogers was and is the best human being Ive ever been privileged to know.</li> <li><em>The Six Million Dollar Man</em>because it was my first professional WGA gig three weeks out of college which soon led to . . . </li> </ul> <p>1980s:</p> <ul> <li><em>Hill Street Blues</em>where for three years I learned from the best: my boss?? Steven Bochco?? and my senior colleague David Milch. I went to<br> work every day unable to imagine a better job. <em>Hill Street Blues</em> was a hugely influential show that is now almost absurdly underappreciated.</li> <li>Th"Showtime?? Lakers?no one made better television than those guys.</li> </ul> <p>1990s:</p> <ul> <li><em>Twin Peaks</em>?because my buddy Dave and I just went for it?? and had more fun than humans should be allowed to have.</li> <li><em>Seinfeld</em>?because my dad played George??s (almost) father-in-law?? and because nothing ever made me laugh more until . . .</li> </ul> <p>2000s:</p> <ul> <li><em>Curb Your Enthusiasm</em>?funniest show ever?? and . . .</li> <li><em>The Sopranos</em>?the most important TV drama ever. Period. The end.</li> </ul> <p>2010s:</p> <ul> <li>Not officially on the list yet because the decade is young?? and so is the show?? but getting closer . . . <em>Boardwalk Empire</em>.</li> </ul> <p>Honorable Mentions:</p> <p> <ul> <li><em>ABC??s Wide World of Sports</em>?? <em>SportsCenter</em> (with Dan and Keith)?? <em>The Larry Sanders Show</em>?? <em>The Tonight Show</em> (with Johnny Carson)?? BBC??s new <em>Sherlock</em>?? and <em>Downton Abbey</em>.</li> </ul> </p> <p>"logy?? and Metaphor"An Essay by Mark Frost</p> <p>Relax. I??m not referring to anything you might have covered?or been bored to petrification by?in English class.</p> <p>I??m talking about stories that grab you by the eyeballs?? bury their fangs in your forehead?? and won??t let you go until the last words are graven onto your sated?? saturated brain. The kinds of stories that keep you up at night because you??re in a reading fever and physically can??t put them down. <em>Those</em> stories?? the ones you??ll never forget?? that put a spiritual brand on you you??ll wear for the rest of your life.</p> <p>When I was a kid??