Christie Colangione-B

Adapted from their original Holiday Story Book, "The Santa Clock". Author Jimmy Badavino and Illustrator Christie Colangione-B are excited to offer adults and children this interactive story and grayscale coloring book.Christie has specially prepared over 40 grayscale images from her beautiful and traditional original full color illustrations. As you color and read along you can create your own family collectable. A story sure to become a Holiday Classic in years to come.Christie and Jimmy hope you enjoy this rekindling of the Holiday Spirit

Legend says that at Forest Park Cemetery, headless statues bleed from the neck, and the shrieks of crying, violins, and chattering ghosts are muffled behind decaying tomb walls.Based on Pinewoods Cemetery in Troy, NY, Theory of Technolution weaves a cryptic tale about the future clashing with the past.After two high-school students go missing in the cemetery, their friends embark on a mission to find them. Unsure of what is truth and what is tale, they find themselves attempting to unravel the riddle of a twisted vision, and expose the demon that haunts Forest Park.

It is 1962, and young Jimmy Keating is at a crossroads. He is the star pitcher of his high school baseball team, and is being scouted by the majors. At the same time, his washed up brother turned Irish mobster, Jack, is at odds with local gang boss, Michael O'Grady, and wants Jimmy to join his campaign. In a world where family values are as important as family tradition, and family tradition is both a blessing and a curse, a young man struggles to reach his dreams, and avoid being trapped in the fiery streets of Hell's Kitchen.For professional inquiries regarding use of this screenplay for production, please contact the author at www.jimmybadavino.com.

In 2009, The Fall of South Bridge became a cult classic for organized crime enthusiasts, as well as citizens of upstate New York, who enjoyed reading about a city that sat very close to home. Five years later, Jimmy Badavino celebrates the anniversary of his first novel and two-time local best seller with a second edition release that offers reviews, pages for readers to take notes, and a crime family 'tree' for fans to follow along with.An organized crime novel based on actual events, The Fall of South Bridge tells the saga of the powerful Carelli crime family of upstate New York. Molded after the 'ndrangheta, the mafia in Calabria, Italy, the empire had gone undetected by major law enforcement for over sixty years until the late 80's, when DEA chief Rick Mackenzie starts laying the groundwork to dismantle the family and its number one source of income, cocaine. While lead family enforcer Donnie Carelli is pondering retirement, his uncle and newly anointed boss, Rocco Denoboli, is thinking survival, and starts planning a restructuring of the family hierarchy. As the wheels of treachery begin to turn, Donnie's eldest nephew joins Rocco with an ambiguous agenda that could destroy the clan, and perhaps the entire city.

One night, a young girl quietly listens to her favorite holiday music, and then suddenly begins to dance around like a ballerina. She surprises her parents with elegant toe taps and balanced twirls across the living room floor. The Ballerina's First Dance tells of a little girl'sdiscovery of a hidden talent, and the shyness she overcomes when she begins her first day of dance school. This graceful story, coupled with delightful, soft colored illustrations, sweetly portrays the nervous feelings and exciting surprises that children often find when trying something new.