This marvelous little guide provides the beginning novelist with a step-by-step plan for writing that first book. It features a detailed how-to, along with helpful quotes from well-known authors offering up tips and tricks.It covers the various forms of outlines that will help you to start — and finish — your first or even your second or third novel, whether it's a mystery, spy thriller, sci fi or a romance.There are sections on: Plots, Locale, Characters, Dialogue, Sex Sce...

Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find yourself.When life unravels for Beth after the break up of a long marriage, she finds herself reaching back for answers. Into her past as a troubled, pregnant teenager in a home rapidly falling apart. Into the life of her great-grandmother, using her skills as a researcher and psychoanalyst to find the truth behind family secrets.Moving between past and present, through parallel stories of family disintegration and lives knocked off...

This is a charming tale written as a bedtime story for the younger set. It's about a very curious boy named Jonathan Gonagin who treks to the North Pole to find out if Santa is real. Santa and the Elves are sick with the Holly Pox. They are too ill to make and deliver toys, but Jonathan finds a cure and Christmas is saved. Here's the beginning:It was almost Christmas.All over the world, boys and girls were making lists of what they wanted St. Nick to bring.Toys, mos...

This bedtime story was written to be read aloud to children 3 or 4 to 6 or 7 years old. It is loosely based on an old nursery rhyme that you may recall: rich man, poor man, beggar man thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief.

This is a charming tale written as a bedtime story for the younger set. Read it aloud to your children. It's about a very curious girl named Jennifer Gonagin who treks to the North Pole to find out whether Santa Claus is real. Santa and the Elves are sick with the Holly Pox, so no one is making toys. But Jennifer finds a cure and Christmas is saved.

This is a quick and easy guide that covers everything you need to know to grow fabulous Phalaenopsis orchids. The authors, Beth Cox and Geraldine Powell, are the owners of The Orchid Gallery, an orchid nursery and ecommerce business located just outside Chattanooga, TN. Together they have more than fifty years experience in the orchid business. Now they have decided to pass their knowledge along in a series of non-technical, how-to-grow it articles. This is the first in that series.

Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating “consumer choices” and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist connections between theory, methods, and activism. Together, we suggest avenues for incorporating methodological innovations, collaborative analysis, and collective activism in our scholarly proj...

From parks and libraries to pubs and schools, social infrastructures are the everyday places that bring people together, support community life, and foster connection. As interest in the concept grows, this timely and accessible edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of social infrastructure—its origins, development, and practical impact.Packed with innovative case studies from the UK, Europe, Australia, and the US, it highlights how these shared spaces can shape urban l...

Though it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century transformed the nation and forced Americans to reconsider almost every aspect of their society, culture, and identity.Using an interdisciplinary approach, the volume’s contributors examine a broad array of topics, including the Cold War’s impact on national security, race relations, gun ...

"Excellent! Dark and light and brilliant." - Miles CameronSomewhere in England, in a small town called Strange Ground by the Skea, Ebbie Wren is the last librarian and he's about to lose his job. Estranged from his parents, unable to make connections with anyone except the old homeless lady who lives near the library, Ebbie isn't quite sure what he's supposed to do next. His only escape from reality is his deep interest in local folklore, but reality is far strange...

"What would you do if you know you could not fail?" These words, attributed to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, have inspired tens of millions to face their fears and dare to follow their hearts. This can-do compendium is a veritable tool kit for transforming readers from reticent to role model. From the authors of Living Life as a Thank You, this volume presents true stories of ordinary people with extraordinary fortitude.Authors Mary Beth Sammons and Nina Lesowitz have gone...

Seasons for Your Soul paints pictures for your mind as you reflect on how God is working and moving in your life. Sheilas collection of poems, psalms, and reflections bring a feeling of peace and contentment. The author keeps returning to one constant the love and mercy of God. No matter where it is in the calendar year, you are living through today. Whether good or bad, happy or sad, you are dealing with life on some emotional level. How often do you stop to be in tune with your feelings ...