Living for Shalom

Living for Shalom
Author: Jeanette Woods
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1666715409

Ross Langmead will be remembered as one of Australia's leading missiologists, having established his credentials as a young man in founding Westgate Baptist Community after writing a report on the struggling churches in the west of Melbourne. His distinguished academic and teaching career led him to join the faculty at Whitley College until his death in 2013. He will also be remembered for his seventies folk group, Daddy's Friends, and the songs of love and justice he wrote over forty-five years that are still sung today. This biography starts with his missionary family upbringing and traces the influences that shaped his passion for sharing Jesus with the urban poor. He was a key player in the radical discipleship movement in Australia; his understanding of incarnational mission was that Christians need to be the people of God just where they are. Above all, he lived simply that others might simply live, his passion extending to ecomissiology and support for the unemployed, indigenous, and refugees. He would want this book to inspire readers to make a difference in the world.

The First 50 Pages

The First 50 Pages
Author: Jeff Gerke
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-10-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 159963287X

Seeking writing success? Start at the beginning... Whether you’re looking to get published or just hoping to hook your reader, first impressions are vital. Compelling opening scenes are the key to catching an agent or editor’s attention, and are crucial for keeping your reader engaged. As a writer, what you do in your opening pages, and how you do it, is a matter that cannot be left to chance. The First 50 Pages is here to help you craft a strong beginning right from the start. You’ll learn how to: • introduce your main character • establish your story world • set up the plot’s conflict • begin your hero’s inner journey • write an amazing opening line and terrific first page • and more This helpful guide walks you through the tasks your first 50 pages must accomplish in order to avoid leaving readers disoriented, frustrated, or bored. Don’t let your reader put your book down before ever seeing its beauty. Let The First 50 Pages show you how to begin your novel with the skill and intentionality that will land you a book deal, and keep readers’ eyes glued to the page.

How to Write a Novel

How to Write a Novel
Author: Nathan Bransford
Publisher: Nathan Bransford
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 173414940X

Author and former literary agent Nathan Bransford shares his secrets for creating killer plots, fleshing out your first ideas, crafting compelling characters, and staying sane in the process. Read the guide that New York Times bestselling author Ransom Riggs called "The best how-to-write-a-novel book I've read."

Birthing A Book

Birthing A Book
Author: Vennie Anderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2022-02-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781977251640

Question: Who would enjoy reading "Birthing A Book?" Answers: Anyone who has always wanted to write a book. Anyone who has already written a book but has no idea what to do with it. Anyone who is an avid reader, interested in how people write books and get them published. All these and more are people who will enjoy reading this amusing and informative book. Instructional, funny, and honest about the pitfalls she encountered in the publishing world, Anderson describes how she came to write her first book, "The First Year: Coping With Widowhood." She takes the reader along on the journey to publication of that book and beyond. It was a labor of love, so much so that she found herself comparing the writing and publishing of a book to having a baby. She decided to begin another book about just that, ergo "Birthing A Book." As anyone who has published a book will tell you, there is a lot of downtime during the publication process, waiting for this and that to be finished before moving to the next step. Anderson used the downtime to work on additional writing projects, completing a second book and beginning work on a third. When "The First Year: Coping With Widowhood" was published, Anderson was pleased with the result of her publisher's work. However, because she struggled mightily with the publisher's complex online forms and editing software, she decided to search for another publisher for her next book. Still a relative novice in the publishing world, there was much she didn't know, including the reputation of a certain self-publishing parent company with multiple imprints. Unknowingly she chose one of those imprints to publish her second book, "The Shanty Irishman and the Lady." Ultimately she found herself in a nest of vipers. She had unwittingly set in motion a chain of events, which was to cost her a lot of money and personal anguish. Chagrined at the fallout from her poorly informed decision, she set about learning all she could about writing and publishing. She decided to rework "Birthing A Book" to include what she felt was essential information for aspiring authors about writing and publishing, and in particular, the need for extreme caution in choosing a publisher. The result is a two-part book. The first part is like a diary of her first book journey. She begins with the decision to write the book, the actual writing, choosing a publisher, and the publication process. Blind luck and trust in the Better Business Bureau led her to a reputable self-publisher for that first book. The second part of "Birthing A Book" is essentially a mini-manual on writing and publishing a book, including references to resources such as "The Elements of Style" and other books written by experts in writing and publishing. Anderson includes compelling evidence for making careful, well-informed choices when choosing a publisher. Tips on record keeping and efficient organization for writers are included. In both parts, Anderson uses amusing epigraphs on writing and publishing to introduce each chapter "Birthing A Book" is a fine example of finding oneself surrounded by broken eggs and deciding to make an omelet.

My First Karate Class

My First Karate Class
Author: Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2016-12-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1481479334

Beginning readers can learn all about what happens at karate class in this Pre-level 1 Ready-to-Read with sweet text and photographs of young martial artists-in-training! It’s the first day of karate class. What will it be like? Find out in this early reader by Biscuit creator Alyssa Satin Capucilli. Karate students wear a uniform called a gi, and learn to block and kick! Young readers will love seeing kids their age practicing karate, learning words like obi (the karate belt), and more in this adorable introduction to the sport! Includes a special section of step-by-step instructions for basic karate moves—to be done with a parent or guardian’s supervision.

The First Five Pages

The First Five Pages
Author: Noah Lukeman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2010-02-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199575282

Language, literature and biography.

The School at the Chalet

The School at the Chalet
Author: Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2023-05-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1667623273

Inspired by a vacation to the Austrian Alps, Elinor M. Brent-Dyer wrote The School at the Chalet, launching a series that would span more than 60 books. The series follows the adventures of a boarding school set in the picturesque Swiss Alps. The series begins with The School at the Chalet (1925), where readers are introduced to Miss Madge Bettany, a young woman who decides to start a school for girls in the Swiss mountains. The series then chronicles the growth and evolution of the school, as well as the trials and triumphs of its students.

The End

The End
Author: Salvatore Scibona
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101150920

An incredible debut and National Book Award-nominated novel, described as "Memento meets Augie March. Didion meets Hitchcock" by Esquire, from the author of The Volunteer It is August 15, 1953, the day of a boisterous and unwieldy street carnival in Elephant Park, an Italian immigrant enclave in northern Ohio. As the festivities reach a riotous pitch and billow into the streets, five members of the community labor under the weight of a terrible secret. As these floundering souls collide, one day of calamity and consequence sheds light on a half century of their struggles, their follies, and their pride. And slowly, it becomes clear that buried deep in the hearts of these five exquisitely drawn characters is the long-silenced truth about the crime that twisted each of their worlds. Cast against the racial, spiritual, and moral tension that has given rise to modern America, this first novel exhumes the secrets lurking in the darkened crevices of the soul of our country. Inventive, explosive, and revelatory, The End introduces Salvatore Scibona as an important new voice in American fiction.

The Midnight Library

The Midnight Library
Author: Matt Haig
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-01-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781432883614

"Good morning America book club"--Jacket.

The Door

The Door
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2009
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0547237707

Atwoods first book of poetry since "Morning in the Burned House" in 1995, "The Door" contains 50 lucid yet urgent poems which range in tone from lyric to ironic and meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political.