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An epic, refreshingly entertaining but conscious account of the life of a girl with humble beginnings, trapped by forces outside of her control, but driven to emerge as a precious diamond. The novel provides a rich Caribbean flavor of events with an appeal to the appetite of the Caribbean Diaspora and to those with the will to breathe, triumph, and to succeed in the face of ruins and desolation, along the path of day to day life. The Diamond Trap is not the conventional day-in-the-life novel, but instead, superimposes the parallel of comedic storyline to that of self-reflection, retrospect, and the pull from a vision to overcome obstacles and achieve your dream._,

An empowering and practical guide to raising twins under extremely challenging circumstances, including single parenting. Written by a Registered Nurse with over 15 years of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit experience, and a single mother of twins. You will find in this book

Can Outlining Help You Write a Better Story? Writers often look upon outlines with fear and trembling. But when properly understood and correctly wielded, the outline is one of the most powerful weapons in a writer&rsquo,s arsenal. Outlining Your Novel

Are you looking for techniques to really bring your fiction to life for the readers, so they feel they re right there, on the edge of their seats, struggling with the hero or heroine? Staying up late at night, worrying, glued to the pages? This guide provides specific advice, with examples, for captivating readers and immersing them in your story world. It s all about creating a direct connection from the characters to the readers through techniques such as deep point of view, showing instead of telling, avoiding author intrusions, and basically letting the characters tell the story. Today s readers want to put aside their cares and chores and lose themselves in an absorbing story. This book shows you how to provide the emotional involvement and immediacy readers crave in fiction. You ll find techniques for making sure your characters come to life and your readers feel directly connected to them, without the author s hand appearing as an intermediary. And like Jodie Renner s other writing guides, which are all designed for busy writers, the format of this one is reader-friendly, with text broken up by subheadings, examples, and lists._,

Fire up Your Fiction - An Editor s Guide to Writing Compelling Stories, has won two awards to date under its previous title, Style That Sizzles & Pacing for Power. This popular writing guide received a Silver Medal in the Florida Authors & Publishers President s Book Awards for 2013 and an Honorable Mention in the Writer s Digest Self-Published E-Book Awards for 2013. What a wonderful resource for writers at any stage of their career! I wish I had this book when I first started writing. ... I can t think of anything important that you haven t addressed succinctly and clearly. ... This should be on the booklist for Master s Programs in Writing for Publication. ... You must be a wonderful editor to be able to write such a readable, but comprehensive book. - Judge, Writer s Digest Self-Published e-Book Awards, January 2014 Fiction writers - if you re looking to hone your style, bring your scenes to life, tighten up your writing, add tension, pick up the pace, and develop a more authentic, appealing voice, this guide to the indispensable style elements of writing a popular novel is for you. This book is chock-full of excellent tips to help you learn to write like the pros and create a compelling novel that sells. Not only that, but if you apply these tips to your manuscript, you ll save a lot of money on editing costs. Topics include

Do you know your clerihew from your haiku? Do you sometimes struggle with the sonnet, and is the terza rima little more than a mystery? What is free verse... or blank verse, and is the rubaiyat really some form of exotic poetry? In fact, what is poetry, and how do we begin to construct a poem? If these are the questions that puzzle and perplex the mind, then here is the compendium to provide the answers. It will not teach you how to become a poet... no book could ever claim such a prize. What Rhymes and Reasons will do is help develop the talent you have, with the encouragement to explore all manner of new styles and experiment with use of language. Toby Wren is a published poet of over three decades', standing, runs poetry groups and workshops and has presented to audiences in both the UK and US. This book provides a comprehensive guide, and includes poems written specifically to illustrate each new discovery along the way. It is a journey, once started, that never ends..._,

Dream. Explore. Write. The Urban Fantasy Writer&rsquo,s Mini Story Bible for Bedside and Travel is your first stop along the path to writing. You set the pace for discovering the imaginary worlds and conflicts within your stories. Each book section includes an area for you to brainstorm words associated with your idea, detail pages for up to five characters including supernatural powers and attire frames, diagram and notes for cataloging your plot points including threats and murder information, space to record your world&rsquo,s divergent events and landmarks, frames to sketch settings and scenes, lines for recording your research, and more. Keep your story details in one convenient journal that easily travels or resides next to your bed. Ideas come at all hours of the day, don&rsquo,t lose your thoughts because you couldn&rsquo,t find paper._,

Imagine. Discover. Write. The Fantasy Writer&rsquo,s Mini Story Bible for Bedside and Travel is your first stop along the path to writing. You set the pace for exploring the imaginary worlds and conflicts within your stories. Each book section includes an area for you to brainstorm words associated with your idea, detail pages for up to five characters including magical powers and attire frames, diagram and notes for cataloging your plot points, space to record your world&rsquo,s important historical events and landmarks, frames to sketch settings and scenes, lines for recording your research and more. Keep your story details in one convenient journal that easily travels or resides next to your bed. Ideas come at all hours of the day, don&rsquo,t lose your thoughts because you couldn&rsquo,t find paper._,

Dream. Explore. Write. The Historical Writer&rsquo,s Mini Story Bible for Bedside and Travel is your first stop along the path to writing. You set the pace for discovering your imaginary worlds and conflicts within your stories. Each book section includes an area for you to brainstorm words associated with your idea, detail pages for up to five characters including picture and attire frames, diagram and notes for cataloging your plot points, space to identify historical landmarks and events, frames to sketch settings and scenes, lines for recording your research and more. Keep your story details in one convenient journal that easily travels or resides next to your bed. Ideas come at all hours of the day, don&rsquo,t lose your thoughts because you couldn&rsquo,t find paper._,

Imagine. Discover. Write. The Writer&rsquo,s Mini Story Bible for Bedside and Travel is your first stop along the path to writing. You set the pace for exploring the imaginary worlds and conflicts within your stories. Each book section includes an area for you to brainstorm words associated with your idea, detail pages for up to five characters including picture and attire frames, diagram and notes for cataloging your plot points, space to sketch settings and scenes, lines for recording your research and more. Keep your story details in one convenient journal that easily travels or resides next to your bed. Ideas come at all hours of the day, don&rsquo,t lose your thoughts because you couldn&rsquo,t find paper._,

Imagine. Discover. Write. The Mystery Writer&rsquo,s Mini Story Bible for Bedside and Travel is your first stop along the path to writing. You set the pace for exploring the imaginary worlds and conflicts within your stories. Each book section includes an area for you to brainstorm words associated with your idea, detail pages for up to five characters including picture and attire frames, diagram and notes for cataloging your plot points including the murder layout, space to sketch settings and scenes, lines for recording your research and more. Keep your story details in one convenient journal that easily travels or resides next to your bed. Ideas come at all hours of the day, don&rsquo,t lose your thoughts because you couldn&rsquo,t find paper._,

You&rsquo,ve finished the first draft of your novel. Now to make it shine. This book will show you how by focusing first on the structural aspects of a great book and then getting down to the nitty gritty of copy editing and proofreading. Not sure if the beginning will hook the reader? Think your pacing might be off? Have you written yourself into a corner and need a miracle to get out of it? Is something not quite right but you don&rsquo,t know what it is? Learn how to analyse what&rsquo,s not working in your manuscript and get tips on how to fix it. , Claire Boston has been writing, mentoring and judging competitions for more than ten years and continues to see the same issues in beginner writers&rsquo, work. She made the same mistakes when she was starting out. , With her help you can avoid the pitfalls and ensure your manuscript is the best it can be before you submit it._,

Do you sense you have a book inside you, but have no idea how to get it out of your head? , Are your family and friends telling you to write that book, simply because you&rsquo,re a great storyteller? , Have you tried to write your first book and then stopped, not knowing how to proceed? , Have you bought other writing books, manuals and guides, but they just didn&rsquo,t resonate within you? , Do you have a nagging voice inside you, telling you to do something? , William Garner employs a simple, step-by-step, building-block method we have used all our lives, and includes easy-to-follow examples and exercises._,

Prick of the Spindle is a literary journal publishing contemporary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, drama, reviews, interviews, and works of literary criticism. The print edition content is separate from that of the online journal. Prick of the Spindle is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation._,

Ideas for Writing Creative Christmas Letters That People Are Actually Eager to Read! offers a unique solution to the boring brag letter problem at Christmas time. This first-of-its-kind book instructs the reader how to transform the annual family newsletter into one that is so interesting and entertaining that even the busiest holiday reveler can hardly put it down. The secret is to weave a theme into the family news. The book offers 30 theme ideas, strategies and sample letters to inspire the family author._,

Dream. Explore. Write. The Science Fiction Writer&rsquo,s Mini Story Bible for Bedside and Travel is your first stop along the path to writing. You set the pace for discovering the imaginary worlds and conflicts within your stories. Each book section includes an area for you to brainstorm words associated with your idea, detail pages for up to five characters including alien attributes and attire frames, diagram and notes for cataloging your plot points, space to record your galaxy&rsquo,s important historical events and landmarks, frames to sketch settings and scenes, lines for recording your research, and more. Keep your story details in one convenient journal that easily travels or resides next to your bed. Ideas come at all hours of the day, don&rsquo,t lose your thoughts because you couldn&rsquo,t find paper._,

Excerpt from Orazione FuneraleIn vertìo porche og/z,non comegln/fniflg/iono in, diletto di oofi neéo/z nano 7nn oon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and class

Excerpt from Die Philosophie der Araber im X. Jahrhundert N. Von Dr. Fr DietericiMoglich, dass der Geologe sich lieber mit den alten Schichten der Erdrinde, als mit den spateren Ablagerungen und Formationen beschaftigt, und gewiss ist, dass der Culturhistoriker nur ungern den spateren Bildungen des Geistes gerecht wird, vernachlassigt durfen dieselben aber dennoch nicht werden, wenn uberhaupt die Entwickelung des menschlichen Geistes als ein in sich zusammenhangendes organisches Ganze betrachtet werden kann und soll. Das geht schon daraus hervor, dass alle Fragen, welche vom 12 - 16. Jahrhundert in Europa auftauchten und die Geister bewegten, schon im 10 - 12.jahrh. Im Orient vorgebildet und gelost waren. Man wird die Bildung dieser Vorstufe dem Muslim als Verdienst anrechnen mussen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,

Excerpt from A Short Introduction to the Study of LogicThis is only another way Of putting the Scholastic division of Logic into Formal and Material, Formal Logic or Dialectics answering to the act Of the agent (see definitions at p. 10, et seq., referred to at p. 17) Material Logic, to the end Of the act. And, as Truth is something else besides the end Of the act Of reasoning, as it can be gained in other ways, and is manifested bylaws outside our minds,-and as Material Logic has Truth for its matter, it follows that these laws must fall within the scope Of this Material Logic. In this division a knowledge Of the agent of the act is presupposed.A distinction is Often made between Natural and Artificial Logic, Natural Logic means the natural reasoning that leads men to Truth, or that would do so, if it were possible for them always to follow the light Of reason. Artificial Logic may be briey called the science of Natural Logic, for it does no more than give an exact and methodical Shape to the rules delivered by nature, just as in music, or painting, or sculpture, the technicalities Of the art merely throw natural rules into order and method.And, as the art-student naturally acquires delicacy Of perception in all that concerns his art, so does the study Of Logic give delicacy Of intellectual touch to distinguish Truth, and a peculiar power Of dis cerning Truth, and Of unmasking error when it lurks under the guise Of Truth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair

Excerpt from Logik und Metaphysik, Vol. 1