Download or read book A Little Character Goes a Long Way written by Tom Wilson and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ziggy must be part of me, because he feels as if he's been with me all my life." --Tom Wilson No matter where you are, no matter what's going on in your life, Ziggy has been there. For the past 35 years, readers around the world have picked up newspapers, opened greeting card envelopes, or caught sight of T-shirts and there's Ziggy, unfailingly showing how to appreciate life and find the silver lining in any cloud. Tom Wilson's character--an admirable mix of Ben Franklin, Dale Carnegie, and Forrest Gump all rolled into a little bald icon--strikes a chord in everyone. And that's why so many will cherish A Little Character Goes a Long Way, a celebration of Ziggy himself. After all, it's the character of this character that's earned Ziggy such a special place in our hearts. This treasury includes many classic Ziggy frames and strips, each highlighting the traits that make Ziggy the upbeat, hopeful, and unflappable optimist that he is. There's Ziggy generally making molehills and wrinkles out of life's highest mountains and lowest valleys; Ziggy and his menagerie of pets; and Ziggy taking the time to appreciate nature's beauty at its best. This little Everyperson reminds us all of what's really important, and this treasury will undoubtedly do the same.
Download or read book Long Way Down written by Jason Reynolds and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review) “Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young Adult Fiction Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner An Entertainment Weekly Best YA Book of 2017 A Vulture Best YA Book of 2017 A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2017 An ode to Put the Damn Guns Down, this is New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds’s electrifying novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he’s going to murder the guy who killed his brother. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RULE Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES. And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if Will gets off that elevator. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.
Download or read book A Long Long Way written by Sebastian Barry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war from “master storyteller” (Wall Street Journal) Sebastian Barry, author of Old God's Time In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side. Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.
Download or read book A Secret Refuge written by Lauraine Snelling and published by Bethany House Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughter of Twin Oaks, Sisters of the Confederacy, The Long Way Home.
Download or read book A Little Goes a Long Way written by Rachael Adams and published by BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant life is more simple than you think. In a culture where bigger is seen as better, it’s easy to wonder if your quick prayer between errands or the short note you text a friend means anything in God’s kingdom. Contrary to how you may feel, every little thing you do can go a long way in God’s hands. Partnering with God unlocks the eternal significance of the smallest act. In fifty-two devotions, Rachael Adams exemplifies this empowering truth and shares · personal stories of how God values each deed, · practical actions for lasting impact, and · encouraging prayers that reveal how much your contributions matter. Watch God take your everyday actions and transform them for his eternal purposes.
Download or read book On Creating And Celebrating Characters written by Ron Collins and published by Skyfox Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let’s talk about what makes people real. That’s what my favorite characters are to me. Real. If you’re reading this, I suspect that’s what they are to you, too. Characters I love often feel as real to me as people I know in the physical world. Whether from books, movies, comics, or television shows, the characters I love mean something to me. They give me hope. They teach me lessons that become ingrained into the fabric that makes me who I am. If you get me spun up, I can talk about my favorite characters in the same way I talk about best friends. So, yes. The characters I love are real to me, and there isn’t anything you can do or say to convince me otherwise. --- So begins award-winning SF author Ron Collins’s celebration of characters that matter. From Katniss Everdeen to Tyrion Lannister, from James Bond to Lieutenant Dan (and maybe a few more!), Collins brings his unique perspective built through thirty years of experience to examining some of the most iconic characters ever presented on the page. Along the way, helping writers build toolboxes that they can use to create their own dazzling and memorable characters. All done with a personal touch illuminated by a life spent searching for characters that matter. If you’re trying to write great characters, or simply want to celebrate them, too, this book is for you.
Download or read book In the Light of Logic written by Solomon Feferman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays written over a period of twenty years, Solomon Feferman explains advanced results in modern logic and employs them to cast light on significant problems in the foundations of mathematics. Most troubling among these is the revolutionary way in which Georg Cantor elaborated the nature of the infinite, and in doing so helped transform the face of twentieth-century mathematics. Feferman details the development of Cantorian concepts and the foundational difficulties they engendered. He argues that the freedom provided by Cantorian set theory was purchased at a heavy philosophical price, namely adherence to a form of mathematical platonism that is difficult to support. Beginning with a previously unpublished lecture for a general audience, Deciding the Undecidable, Feferman examines the famous list of twenty-three mathematical problems posed by David Hilbert, concentrating on three problems that have most to do with logic. Other chapters are devoted to the work and thought of Kurt Gödel, whose stunning results in the 1930s on the incompleteness of formal systems and the consistency of Cantors continuum hypothesis have been of utmost importance to all subsequent work in logic. Though Gödel has been identified as the leading defender of set-theoretical platonism, surprisingly even he at one point regarded it as unacceptable. In his concluding chapters, Feferman uses tools from the special part of logic called proof theory to explain how the vast part--if not all--of scientifically applicable mathematics can be justified on the basis of purely arithmetical principles. At least to that extent, the question raised in two of the essays of the volume, Is Cantor Necessary?, is answered with a resounding no. This volume of important and influential work by one of the leading figures in logic and the foundations of mathematics is essential reading for anyone interested in these subjects.
Download or read book Acting for Animators written by Ed Hooks and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Hooks' essential acting guidebook for animators has been fully revised and updated in this fifth edition, capturing some of the vast changes that have affected the animation industry in recent years. Written specifically for animation professionals instead of stage and movie actors, this book provides an essential primer for creating empathetic and dynamic character performance and, in the process, shows how the strongest storytelling structure works. Hooks applies classical acting theory – from Aristotle to Stanislavsky and beyond – to animation, as well as explaining scene structure, character development and the connections between thinking, emotion and physical action. Theory presented here applies to any and all character animation regardless of style or animation technique. Whether your project is stop-motion, 2D, 3D or a blend of techniques, audiences are audiences are audiences, and they have shown up at the theater or cinema so they can experience and enjoy your story. New to this fifth edition: Four new scene-by-scene acting analyses of animated feature films: Flee, Soul, Porco Rosso and The Triplets of Belleville A comprehensive and updated section titled "Classroom Notes" which includes a segment on experimental animation, a brief history of acting training for actors and guidance on Motion and Performance Capture technology Updated online database of Hooks' previous film analyses, all in one place Acting for Animators is essential reading for all students and teachers of animation courses.
Download or read book Crafting Unputdownable Fiction Series Boxed Set written by Beth Yarnall and published by Story Siren Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for beginners needing the basics AND seasoned writers looking to dramatically improve their skills. If you’re looking for a concise and practical reference on writing description, deep POV, and sex and romance, then you'll love Beth Yarnall's easy how-to guides. MAKING DESCRIPTION WORK HARD FOR YOU Learn how to use description to achieve deep point of view and to create stories and characters readers will remember long after the last page is turned. GOING DEEP INTO DEEP POINT OF VIEW In this book, you'll learn about the different kinds of POV, choosing the right POV for your scene, when, how, and why to shift POV, how to achieve deep point of view, and more. SOME LIKE IT HOT: WRITING SEX AND ROMANCE In this book you’ll learn how to create sexual tension, how to write sex scenes, and how to plot a romance that will have readers staying up until the wee hours to finish and closing your novel on a happy sigh. "Changed the way I write." ~ TG, Amazon "Terrific book that will up your writing game." ~ Magical Story Fangirl, Amazon Keywords: novel writing, on writing, write a book, authorship, how to write, writing for beginners, creative writing, writing and editing, fiction writing, playwright, screenwriting, poetry writing, writing reference, language arts, composition, writing, novel writing, reference, research & publishing guides, writing skills, education & reference, short reads, words, writing & grammar, description, describe, point of view, POV, deep point of view, deep pov, writing romance, how to write, sex scenes, love scenes
Download or read book After 3 written by Joy Ohagwu and published by Divine Breakthrough Infinity. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Inspirational Fiction After she reached her limit, she stumbled into a miracle. A down-on-his-luck renowned author in hiding, stumbles into a forgotten Christian supermodel in crisis, on Day Spring Farms. What could go wrong—or right? As far as former supermodel Rachel Song was concerned, her best modeling days--and the good cash it brought along--were over, thanks to her age and a medical condition beyond her control. Stuck with debt, and working a low-paying job, she finds herself doubting an opportunity to revisit her modeling days, was from God. Will she follow through on her promise to be part of this new venture, or will the rejections she'd suffered impact her obedience to God? Since the day his late fiancee died, New York Times bestselling author, Al Dove had kept one promise to himself--to keep breathing until he died too--and to do nothing more. He was no longer interested in anything life had to offer him beyond breathing, eating and sleeping. When a knock at the door, and a sharp awakening led him to revisit his decision, he attempts to pick up the pieces of his life from shambles. Can he see a possible future with God and the people around him in it, or will he remain blinded by grief? AFTER 3 is Author Joy Ohagwu's combined Christian Inspirational Fiction catalogue of the After Series, the New Beginnings Series, and the Excellence Club -- All hope-filled Christian Inspirational Fiction.
Download or read book Writing a Romance Novel For Dummies written by Victorine Lieske and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get your romance (writing) on! Writing a Romance Novel For Dummies is the only reference aspiring writers need to get their careers off to the right start. Fully updated to reflect the industry's latest trends and secrets, this book helps you understand what makes a great novel, so you can hone your craft and write books people want to read. We break down the romance subgenres, give you expert tips on plotting and pacing, and walk you through the process of finding an agent and getting published in today’s competitive market—or self-publishing like many six-figure authors are doing. For aspiring writers longing to find success in the industry, Writing a Romance Novel For Dummies is easy to read, highly informative, and a must-have! Refine your writing to craft engaging stories readers can’t put down Find a route to publication that works for you—mainstream, or self-published Understand the ins and outs of the romance genre and its subgenres Learn how to get your work noticed in the popular world of romantic fiction This Dummies guide is perfect for beginning writers who want advice on writing and publishing a successful romance novel. It’s also a great reference for accomplished writers looking to level up their romance game.
Download or read book Secrets of Film Writing written by Tom Lazarus and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning screenwriter of "Stigmata" reveals the secrets successful screenwriters employ to get Hollywood to green light their projects. The UCLA extension course instructor also shows how to pitch, follow up, polish, and present one's work.
Download or read book Publishers Circular and Booksellers Record of British and Foreign Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gin Drinker s Toolkit written by Mick Wüst and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equip yourself to navigate the world of gin. Make the most of gin's resurgence in popularity with the Gin Drinker's Toolkit. Leading beverage blogger Mick Wust (craftypint.com) doesn't take himself or gin drinking too seriously and gives you the tools to navigate the world of gin - without turning you into a tool yourself. Entertains and educates on the history of gin, the distilling process, gin styles, mixes and glasses. Explores which gin to drink when. Gin Drinker's Toolkit is more like learning from a chat in a bar than sitting through a lecture. It's like going to giniversity. Light and readable hardcover book that any gin drinker would love to read or receive. Funky, illustrated compact design. Learn all about this classic spirit.
Download or read book About Writing written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the four-time Nebula Award–winning novelist and literary critic, essential reading for the creative writer. Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both vivid and sympathetic?) and generalities (How are novels structured? How do writers establish serious literary reputations today?), Delany also examines the condition of the contemporary creative writer and how it differs from that of the writer in the years of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the high Modernists. Like a private writing tutorial, About Writing treats each topic with clarity and insight. Here is an indispensable companion for serious writers everywhere. “Delany has certainly spent more time thinking about the process of generating narratives—and subsequently getting the fruits of his lucubrations down on paper?than any other writer in the genre. . . . Delany’s latest volume in this vein (About Writing) might be his best yet... Truly, as the jacket copy boasts, this book is the next best thing to taking one of Delany’s courses. . . . [R]eaders will find many answers here to the mysteries of getting words down on a page.” —Paul DiFilippo, Asimov’s Science Fiction “Useful and thoughtful advice for aspiring (and practicing apprentice) authors. About Writing is autobiography, criticism, and a guidebook to good writing all in one.” —Robert Elliot Fox, Professor of English, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale “Should go on the short list of required reading for every would-be writer.” —New York Times Book Review (on Of Doubts and Dreams in About Writing)
Download or read book The Complete Works Novels Short Stories Plays Articles Essays Travel Sketches and Memoirs written by Anthony Trollope and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 30758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novels: An Eye for an Eye An Old Man's Love Ayala's Angel Barchester Towers Can You Forgive Her? Castle Richmond Cousin Henry Doctor Thorne Doctor Wortle's School Framley Parsonage Golden Lion of Granpr̈e Harry Heathcote of Gangoil He Knew He Was Right Is He Popenjoy? John Caldigate Kept in the Dark La Vendě Lady Anna Linda Tressel Marion Fay Miss Mackenzie Mr. Scarborough's Family Nina Balatka Orley Farm Phineas Finn Phineas Redux Rachel Ray Ralph the Heir Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite The American Senator The Belton Estate The Bertrams The Claverings The Duke's Children The Eustace Diamonds The Fixed Period The Kellys and the O'kellys The Landleaguers The Last Chronicle of Barset The Macdermots of Ballycloran The Prime Minister The Small House at Allington The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson The Three Clerks The Vicar of Bullhampton The Warden The Way We Live Now Short Stories and Tales Plays: Did He Steal it? The Noble Jilt Travel Articles: How the 'Mastiffs' went to Iceland North America South Africa The West Indies and the Spanish Main Essays and Studies: Life of Cicero Lord Palmerston Thackeray A Walk in a Wood An Obituary Notes on Jane Austen's 'Emma' On Anonymous Literature On Dallas' 'Clarissa' On English Prose Fiction as Rational Amusement On the Higher Education of Women The Civil Service as a Profession The Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne The National Gallery The Young Women at the London Telegraph Office The Commentaries of Caesar Sketches: Clergymen of the Church of England Hunting Sketches London Tradesmen Travelling Sketches An Autobiography Notes on Trollope by Leo Tolstoy Anthony Trollope by Henry James Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison.
Download or read book Sitcom Queens written by Michael Karol and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it was Lucy and Ethel (Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance) or Eve Arden as Miss Brooks, Gale Storm as her dad's "little" Margie, always interfering but with the best of intentions, or the more modern Bea Arthur as Maude, flaunting the conventions of how a woman was supposed to behave, we all have our favorite funny ladies who brought us laughter every week, and, for a half-hour at least, took us away from our daily problems. Classic TV expert Michael Karol, in a series of original essays, examines the roles these Sitcom Queens played on TV, and how they became the beloved TV icons of generation after generation of TV fans. With a sitcom timeline and a Top 10!
