Download or read book The Pocket Scavenger written by Keri Smith and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of "Wreck This Journal," an exploration into the creative process and chance. Readers are instructed to go on an unusual scavenger hunt, collecting a spectrum of random items. They'll be forced out of habitual ways of thinking to discover new connections.

Download or read book Create This Book written by Moriah Elizabeth and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create This Book is the ultimate outlet for creativity. Includes 242 pages of unique and inspiring prompts to get you in the creative zone! Whether you are trying to get past an artist's block, wanting to become more creative, or just looking to have some fun, you will love this interactive journal! Want to learn more? Check out "Create This Book" on Youtube! You can watch Moriah Elizabeth's "Create This Book" Series! Great for inspiration and guidance on your creative journey! Go to MoriahElizabeth.com for more information.

Download or read book Mess written by Keri Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally bestselling creator of Wreck This Journal, a book that celebrates mistake- and mess-making like never before... Your whole life, you’ve been taught to avoid making a mess: try to keep everything under control, color inside the lines, make it perfect, and at all costs, avoid contact with things that stain. This book asks you to do the opposite of what you have been taught. Think of it as your own personal rumpus room. A place to let loose, to trash, to spew, to do the things you are not allowed to do in the “real world.” There are only three rules you will find in this book: 1. Do not try to make something beautiful. 2. Do not think too much. (There is no “wrong.”) 3. Continue under all circumstances. It's time to make a mess.

Download or read book The Extra 2 written by Jonah Keri and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team’s Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. When former Goldman Sachs colleagues Stuart Sternberg and Matthew Silverman assumed control of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005, it looked as if they were buying the baseball equivalent of a penny stock. But the incoming regime came armed with a master plan: to leverage their skill at trading, valuation, and management to build a model twenty-first-century franchise that could compete with their bigger, stronger, richer rivals—and prevail. Together with “boy genius” general manager Andrew Friedman, the new Rays owners jettisoned the old ways of doing things, substituting their own innovative ideas about employee development, marketing and public relations, and personnel management. They exorcized the “devil” from the team’s nickname, developed metrics that let them take advantage of undervalued aspects of the game, like defense, and hired a forward-thinking field manager as dedicated to unconventional strategy as they were. By quantifying the game’s intangibles—that extra 2% that separates a winning organization from a losing one—they were able to deliver to Tampa Bay something that Billy Beane’s “Moneyball” had never brought to Oakland: an American League pennant. A book about what happens when you apply your business skills to your life’s passion, The Extra 2% is an informative and entertaining case study for any organization that wants to go from worst to first.

Download or read book This Is Not a Book written by Keri Smith and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally bestselling creator of Wreck This Journal, a curious, engaging, and creative rethinking of all the different things a book can be. In this uniquely skewed look at the purpose and function of a “book”, Keri Smith offers an illustrated guide that challenges readers to creatively examine all the different ways This Is Not a Book can be used. With intriguing prompts, readers will discover that the book can be: A secret message—tear out a page, write a note on it for a stranger, and leave it in a public place. A recording device—have everyone you contact today write their name in the book. An instrument—create as many sounds as you can using the book, like flipping the pages fast or slapping the cover. This Is Not a Book forces you to ask, “If it’s not a book, what is it then?”—with a kaleidoscope of possible answers.

Download or read book Soul Magic written by Jennifer Lyon and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KISS OR KILL When an ancient pact is broken, powerful witches who once used their magic to help humanity become the twisted playthings of demons, and the mortal men who once protected the sorceresses become witch hunters, cursed with the longing to spill the witches’ blood: an irresistible craving that will cost witches their lives and witch hunters their souls. The Wing Slayer Hunters fight this curse, guarding innocent witches until the urge to harm them grows too strong–then they must kill their own. Wing Slayer Sutton West has always honored that vow. His own father killed himself rather than go rogue. But now Sutton is tempted as never before by Carla Fisk, a brilliant psychologist and dynamic witch whose twin sister, Keri, was murdered by rogues. Bound by blood and passion, Carla and Sutton dare not succumb to their deadly attraction. Yet when a mysterious rogue named Styx joins forces with the demon Asmodeus, witch and hunter have no choice but to work together. For Keri’s immortal soul is at stake–and with it, balanced on a knife-edge, is the fate of humanity itself. From the Paperback edition.

Download or read book 2984 written by R. Vincent Riccio and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter an Orwellian Earth a thousand years in the future. The year is 2984, in which a critically injured young Ph.D. in Biochemistry is recuperating after a serious lab accident. The accident, coupled to two years of hospitalization and advanced revivifying techniques, has caused Dr. David Killan to lose much of his early memory; thus he must be re-educated in the current, far-reaching governmental system known as The Code, an expansive legislation enacted in the mid-third millennium to control society following the bloody War Epoch of the 19th to 23rd centuries. But The Code itself is naturally unfamiliar to the recently rejuvenated Dr. Killan, which causes him to question its foundation and the "perfected" society it has begotten. Neither does David recall the ubiquitous "M" monorail network, whose glistening rails bind the planet together in a labyrinthian transportation web. Still other mysteries unveil themselves to him in the huge megalopolises where no animals dare to roam, and where government considers it dangerous and "mal-Adaptive" to wander outside in the fresh air and sunlight. Befriending only his beautiful nurse guide, Sellene, David Killan sets out to unearth the secrets of this mystifying and paradoxical civilization which has subsumed the world, the world of 2984. About the Author: R. Vincent Riccio is a psychologist and business consultant in New Haven, Connecticut. He is currently engaged in writing his next book, Time Locked, about a man who has visions of unchangeable future events, and finds himself powerless to change fate. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/2984.html

Download or read book Growing Pains written by Andrew Lippert and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seth Zimmer has always been an overweight, glasses-wearing film buff and shy loner. And at the young age of fourteen, he decided he wanted to become a filmmaker just like the man he admires mostSteven Spielberg. Then at the age of fifteen, Seths life changed for the better. He and fellow classmate Keri started falling in love, even though Seths friend Vance warned him against her. After a relationship of four years, Keris mother, the puppet master, finally ends the relationship on the grounds of Seths unrealistic filmmaking dream. Heartbroken and severely depressed, Seth pushes forward and opens his home-based multimedia business, Digital Studios Media House. And to Seths delight, it was quite successful too. While working on his latest film, Seth and local actress Molly unknowingly become closer to each other, until deeply buried feelings inside Seth become reignited, and this reignition begins a passionate love affair. The best romances dont always end happily, and the grandest love stories are tragedies above all. Though we might hate to admit it, there are always two sides to every story.

Download or read book When It Rains written by KJ Ten Eyck and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning she has inherited the family farm in Ohio, Stephanotis (Steph) Weatherby decides life has offered her a fresh start. Leaving Boston, Steph and her Shetland sheepdog, Misti, travel to Ohio to face an uncertain future. Believing she has left the worst behind her, Steph is determined to create a new beginning after the storms that have turned her life upside down. Arriving at the farm, Steph soon discovers that she has taken on more than she can manage alone. The small farm

Download or read book The Texas Trails Series written by Darlene Franklin and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2012-05-25 with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set includes all six books of the Texas Trails Series: Lone Star Trail, Captive Trail, Long Trail Home, A Ranger's Trail, Cowgirl Trail, and End of the Trail. The six-book series is about four generations of the Morgan family living, fighting, and thriving amidst a turbulent Texas history spanning from 1845 to 1896. In Lone Star Trail, as much as Judson "Jud" Morgan dislikes the immigrant invasion, he can't help admiring Wande Fleischer. The immigrant is sweet and cheerful as she serves the Lord and all those around her. Can the rancher put aside his prejudice to forge a new future? Through Jud and Wande, we learn the powerful lessons of forgiveness and reconciliation among a diverse community of believers. In Captive Trail, Butterfield Overland Mail Company driver Ned Bright finds a woman, exhausted and injured, lying on the road. With hard work, Ned discovers Taabe Waipu's identity. He plans to unite her with her family, but the Commanche have other ideas. In Long Trail Home, Riley Morgan takes a job at the Wilcox School for Blind Children in an attempt for a new life after the Civil War. By helping the children and the pretty blind woman, Annie, he begins to find renewed hope. But when the school is in jeopardy of being closed and Annie's secret is revealed, Riley attempts to make peace with God despite an uncertain future. In A Ranger's Trail, Texas Ranger Buck Morgan is called to investigate the murder of Leta Denning's husband at the beginning of the Mason County War. He has ties to a German family involved with Dennning's death, which makes Leta question his impartiality. A tentative trail emerges...one forged by respect and bound by vengeance and forgiveness. In Cowgirl Trail, Maggie Porter is desperate to save her ranch as her father's health fails and the cowboys walk off the job. To everyone's surprise, she turns to the town's women for help. The cowgirls must herd, rope, and drive the cattle to the market. With only two days left, outlaws charge the small band in an effort to start a stampede. Will they lose everything? Where will their help come from? In End of the Trail, a high stakes poker game ends with Brooks Morgan holding the deed to his new friend Will's ranch, a vague promise to "take care of Keri," and Will's mysterious demise. When Brooks finally rides to the Raven Creek Ranch, he is greeted by a rifle pointed right at his chest. This is the "Keri" he promised to take care of. As Will's niece, Keri believes the ranch was promised to her. Keri and Brooks both want to save the ranch, but will their differences make that impoosible?

Download or read book The Shattering written by Karen Healey and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Keri likes to plan for every possibility. She knows what to do if you break an arm, or get caught in an earthquake or fire. But she wasn't prepared for her brother's suicide, and his death has left her shattered with grief. When her childhood friend Janna tells her it was murder, not suicide, Keri wants to believe her. After all, Janna's brother died under similar circumstances years ago, and Janna insists a visiting tourist, Sione, who also lost a brother to apparent suicide that year, has helped her find some answers. As the three dig deeper, disturbing facts begin to pile up: one boy killed every year; all older brothers; all had spent New Year's Eve in the idyllic town of Summerton. But when their search for the serial killer takes an unexpected turn, suspicion is cast on those they trust the most. As secrets shatter around them, can they save the next victim? Or will they become victims themselves?

Download or read book Mail Order Muse written by Kirsten Osbourne and published by Unlimited Dreams Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keri Bateman had her first book published at eighteen, and from that moment on she was certain her life would be perfect. Years later, Keri is running out of money, and she has not been able to get another book published. She has no desire to move back home with her family because the thirteen younger siblings she’d written about in her first book were all still there, and her mother was pregnant with twins. When she runs into an old schoolmate, and the woman suggests she go West as a mail-order bride, the idea is much more palatable than living in her family’s already overcrowded home. Harry White has moved West to start a ranch, and it’s going very well for him. The only thing missing from his life is a woman who will share his future with him. He writes to find himself a mail-order bride, as that seems the easiest solution. As the couple marry and get to know one another, he realizes that Keri is so obsessed with her work that sometimes he seems inconsequential. Will the two of them be able to work through their differences? Or will they each face the future alone?

Download or read book Interstitial Beings written by James A. Gauthier J.D. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you seen someone that looks like someone you know, but it is not them.? How about things you believe you see and feel that lack an explanation. A new race of beings, called Tolasians, have been existing within the interstitial spaces of homes, and throughout our world for more than 500 years. They have existed in a gas stasis form until now. Meet Jari and Deri, the first Tolasian beings to make physical contact with humans. Life begins with Matt and Keris marriage to Jari and Deri. The excitement of hybrid children and the circumstances challenging a human-Tolasian pairing is exciting, especially when coupled with the fact that Jari is Tolasian royalty. The positive side of the pairing is that Matt and Keri will never grow old; nor will their hybrid children. The book is easy reading and would be enjoyed by all family members.

Download or read book The Keeper of the Mist written by Rachel Neumeier and published by Ember. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautifully written story that emphasizes intelligence and diplomacy. Recommend to fans of Patricia Wrede and Tamora Pierce, as well as lovers of traditional fantasy.” —School Library Journal, starred review Keri has been struggling to run her family bakery since her mother passed away. Now the father she barely knew—the Lord of Nimmira—has died, and ancient magic has decreed that she will take his place as the new Lady. The powerful position has never been so dangerous: the magical mists that hide Nimmira from its vicious, land-hungry neighbors have failed. Now Keri’s people are visible to strangers for the first time in generations. Meanwhile, half brothers with their own eyes on the crown make life within the House just as perilous as the world outside. Keri has sources of guidance: her mysterious Timekeeper, a wise and intimidating man; her clever Bookkeeper and best friend since childhood, Tassel; and her steadfast Doorkeeper, Tassel’s stoic but noble cousin. Thrust into the spotlight after a lifetime of avoiding it, Keri must find the will to lead—or lose everything. “Neumeier delivers intriguing political problems, complicated and charming personal relationships, and magic running the gamut from the domestic hominess of Nimmira to the terrifyingly gorgeous enchantments of Eschalion.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Ballad of the Blacksmith s Son written by Rick Taylor and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keri, the teenage blacksmith’s son, hoped for a little more time between his first kiss and his last—but war and weather won’t wait. One of thirty chosen to serve the king, Keri joins a desperate forty-day trek out of their mountain refuge through a snow-buried wilderness. Disasters both natural and man-made defy their passage. And then the wolf pack shows up—unnaturally large, unnaturally led, and unnaturally desperate to stop them. Blood in the snow forces an unsteady Keri into physical and spiritual leadership roles he must master immediately. When one more step means death, Keri looks among the thieves, pagans, and broken saints for help, but even his love’s star deserts him. Past voices point him to one chance. Grasping his uncle’s axe, he follows the one-eyed madman to face the demons. Who will survive to write the Ballad of the Blacksmith’s Son?

Download or read book Getting Mad and Even written by Joanna Carroll and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pit your detective skills against that of investigative journalist Meg Witt as she looks into a couple of stories, one of them unfolding in her own Payson, Arizona, backyard. A local property management company has gone from the brink of bankruptcy to seemingly an overnight success. But unraveling the truths from the lies has Meg spinning in circles until a series of encouraging notes take her down pathways she never considered. She uncovers a suicide and an accident that both have the pungent aroma of murder and the next one might be her own as the author of the notes becomes frustrated that the pathways she's chosen were not the ones intended. Another story has her helping a detective in Arkansas sort through a web of clues stretching across the country and ending....once again in her own backyard. You will have more clues than she does as you look back in time to see the development of a serial killer as both plots intertwine. Can you solve this mystery before she does?

Download or read book Understanding Learning centred Higher Education written by Claus Nygaard and published by Copenhagen Business School Press DK. This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book - a product of an international symposium held in Greece in June 2008 and arranged by the international academic association Learning in Higher Education - addresses the importance of moving from a content-based view to a learning-centered view of higher education. Researchers and practitioners from five continents discuss three central themes that concern learning-centered higher education - the concept of learning; curriculum; and learning, teaching, and assessment processes. The chapters integrate theoretical conceptualizations and empirical examples. The book thereby offers both new approaches to the understanding of learning-centered higher education, as well as normative implications and examples of best practices from people involved in everyday practices of quality enhancement within higher education.