ECH, WRITER’S BLOCK AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro May 2012 "Don’t write. Read instead." —Shapiro It’s been days, maybe weeks, and you have convinced yourself that you have used up all your material, that you will...
ECH, WRITER’S BLOCK AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro May 2012 "Don’t write. Read instead." —Shapiro It’s been days, maybe weeks, and you have convinced yourself that you have used up all your material, that you will...
Zoe came home to find her apartment had been violated. Nothing was taken. A sealed jar that looks ancient and valuable was left behind. Senses alert, paranoia in full control, Zoe looks for help, for someone to tell her what to do. Nick Rose is the therapist she chooses and nothing will be the same again as, one by one, everyone she knows and cares about dies, leaving her to find hope among the shards of her life.
Michael McGarrity’s early Kevin Kerney novels combined razor-sharp procedural detail with a gripping noirish edge, raves Booklist. Available for the first time in years is Hermit’s Peak, a seminal novel in the crime fiction series that places New Mexico lawman Kevin Kerney in the pantheon with Tony Hillerman’s heroeswhile carving out territory that is distinctly his own across the American Southwest.
IN THIS GROUNDBREAKING BOOK, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere.
Story Idea: Make Sense of the Ridiculous by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro April 2012 "Why this becomes believable is that it’s based on a very human quality..." —Shapiro Rereading Sam Shepard’s Day Out of Days, (Knoph, 2010), I thought of how he...
Books can supply stellar plots, memorable characters and amazing locations, but this particular title supplies all of these and far more. In fact, the author delves into a mystery that spreads throughout time, and turns a suspenseful novel into sheer beauty.
Mayim Bialik, best known for Blossom in the 1990s and now for Amy Farrah Fowler, PhD of The Big Bang Theory, writes about parenting, elimination communication, slings, breast feeding, and poop.
There are few things more confusing, awful, and wonderful than family, few places more dear than home; Chung brings them together in a heartbreaking tale made memorable by its simplicity.
Willow Briars only has to glance at her identical twin sister, Hollyslim, happy, married with two beautiful childrento see how her life might have turned out differently. The divorced Willow, who works at a London talent agency, has all the outward trappings of success, yet her dissatisfaction is growing along with her dress size. Add in a long-term, fruitless crush on her friend Daniel, and Willow has started to feel invisible.
Do you have a hyper-hobbied man in your life? Maybe you are a hyper-hobbied man. Hobbies and adventurous pursuits are good for the soul, says author Zeke Pipher. In fact, the human spirit was designed for challenge, stimulation, even risk. So why a book about hyper-hobbied men? Because too much of a good thing can pull men away from the even more important thingslike family, friends, and church.