The ultimate sentimental gift to your grandfather. Filled with questions on their journey through life and insights into their mind and memories. This book is designed to build a stronger bridge between the two of you and as something to hold on to as a keepsake once he has finished the book. A true once in a life time gift.
There is no ideal way to find out your father is dead. For Hallie Townsend, a thirty-second news bulletin would be at the bottom of the list. But what can you do when your dad is Ellery Yates, the world's biggest fantasy writer? A fantasy writer with a best-selling series that is currently unfinished. Now, in her position as literary executor, Hallie discovers that Ellery's world isn't all perfect prose and epic battle sequences. With the pressure of appointing another author to finish the series and the expectations of a dedicated fandom, Hallie's life has been turned on its head. The obvious choice is the illustrious Mason Parrish, a fan favourite with impressive credentials, but when Fletcher Larson, Ellery's tenacious and handsome young prot g gets involved, Hallie has a more difficult decision to make. Can she finish her father's story, or will the ending die with him?
There is no ideal way to find out your father is dead. For Hallie Townsend, a thirty-second news bulletin would be at the bottom of the list. But what can you do when your dad is Ellery Yates, the world's biggest fantasy writer? A fantasy writer with a best-selling series that is currently unfinished. Now, in her position as literary executor, Hallie discovers that Ellery's world isn't all perfect prose and epic battle sequences. With the pressure of appointing another author to finish the series and the expectations of a dedicated fandom, Hallie's life has been turned on its head. The obvious choice is the illustrious Mason Parrish, a fan favourite with impressive credentials, but when Fletcher Larson, Ellery's tenacious and handsome young prot g gets involved, Hallie has a more difficult decision to make. Can she finish her father's story, or will the ending die with him?
Dr Paul Roe is a historian with a foot either side of Australia's Great Dividing Range. One foot planted in suburban Sydney - the other in the outback town of Bourke. In a community on a large-scale farm, he taught students how to bring the ancient Biblical narratives to life. At the same time, he was listening to the stories of outback people and transferring them on local radio. This experience of learning Australia's heart-music shaped him as 'The Outback Historian'. On the red soil plains, he tracked the doings of an amazing array of men and women who have shaped modern Australia.The historian in him was grieved to see the footprints of those who have carried vital Christianity all across this country being scuffed over and the formative story of Jesus left lying, neglected. He's convinced that their extensive practical service alone has earned these Australians the right to have their stories recovered and broadcast.This book is a call to gather this extensive faith-narrative and set it to work in public spaces. Paul wants to stir creative storytellers to relay it to the new generations who are plotting our multi-cultured future. He says, 'It's not a matter of pushing religion - it's cultivating the kind of honest history that teaches us our spiritual DNA. There's another story we need to know if we're going to really understand ourselves.'www.theoutbackhistorian.com.au
Tell Us: What are you doing? Improving how you communicate your academic research, relevance and expertise. Learn from the best. Communicate widely and well. Hear the practical tips, examples and candid comments from in-depth interviews with high-profile academics and journalists in Australian and international media. This easy-to-read guide will help researchers, tertiary students, academics and anyone else who wants to hone their skills to maximise the reach and impact of their knowledge and work. Why do we need this guide?For some, translating their views and work to be easily understood by lay people can be akin to pulling teeth. For others, it's a rewarding and enjoyable experience, which can markedly boost their own public profile and that of their organisation. There's no doubt that learning to operate in a world beyond your immediate patch may feel foreign and uncomfortable at first. But, as any traveller knows, building knowledge and having a mind open to adapting to new cultures does foster familiarity and confidence.In this guide, those working at the coalface discuss how to overcome communication challenges and create ongoing opportunities. We also look at research and draw on the ABDC communications advisor's 40-plus years of experience in journalism and strategic communication to help improve your communications. Book excerpt: Tin rattling, testing and telling it like it isPicture this: you've had a good day. You have discovered something exciting and are dying to tell your nearest and dearest. At home you walk in to discover family members or friends intensely discussing an unrelated topic. They look up, say 'hi' briefly, and go back to their conversation. There's no pause or easy opening in which to share your news. But you are passionate and determined so you quickly find a way to broadcast your message to the room. There are several key ingredients here: You have something worthwhile to sayThat something matters to you and your audienceYou understand the key interests of those in your audienceYou know where they hang out and you meet them in that placeYou enthusiastically and knowledgeably explain why the news is important You concisely and clearly explain the key elements of the news You talk in language they all understandWhat you say resonates beyond the moment you say it.If you can nail all those points in all your communications and know how to effectively distribute your messages, then you can probably stop reading now. After all, there are no secret ingredients or dark arts at work here.However, while the principles are straightforward, there are endless variations on the themes. Communicating well is always a work in progress that changes with each circumstance, topic, platform and medium used.
A collection of short stories and illustrations produced by students in schools on the Mid-North Coast of NSW resulting from a competition now in its sixth year and in the fourth year of publication. Each year, the number of entries has increased and the popularity of the event grows.
A coming-of-age cozy fantasy with a queer cast, witches, and tarot. Perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and Our Flag Means DeathIris Galacia's tarot cards do more than entertain gamblers.With the flip of her fingers she can predict the future and uncover a person's secrets. But under the watchful eye of her mother, she is on thin ice for pursuing a passion in the family business, and then cracks start to form until she eventually she falls through.She is given an ultimatum - a test to prove her worth: earn a thousand coins or leave the business, and the family.Enter Marin Boudreau, a charming young person who can scale buildings and break off door knobs, who comes for her help to rescue a witch who's been falsely imprisoned in Excava Kingdom.And Marin is willing to pay a high sum for her talents.But saving a prisoner from royal hands isn't easy, nor is leaving home for the first time in eighteen years.Now Iris must learn to trust in herself, Marin, and this new magical world, while racing the clock before the royals decide the fate of the witch, and before any secrets catch up to her.TELL ME HOW IT ENDS features LGBTQ+, disabled, neurodivergent, cultural, and mental health representation. The main character, Iris Galacia, is a lesbian tarot reader with anxiety and autism. The second main character, Marin Boudreau, is an aromantic asexual non-binary person with ADHD.
Collection of short stories and illustrations by students in the Mid-North Coast schools, grades 3-6 reviewed by panels of judges and published as part of a competition with awards and prizes for competitors.
A collection of short stories and illustrations by school children in grades three through six created as part of a competition for fiction and illustrations for schools in the Manning and Great Lakes regions of New South Wales.
It's often said that the journey of a thousand miles begins with one single step. In this case, it all starts with the first question.'Tell Me More' is a prompt guide to document the journey thus far. Whether it's writing your own legacy for the next generation to treasure, or helping a loved one remember theirs, it's never been easier. Simply use our questions in each category to get you on your way to help paint a picture that will be remembered for generations to come.
TELL YOUR STORY is written to inspire and equip the 'non-evangelists', who make up 90% of any Church community.Whether you are a new Christian or have been on the journey of faith for many years, we all have a story to tell about how we met Christ and our life with Christ.There is power in your personal story and opportunities exist every day in normal life to TELL YOUR STORY.
What began as the author's simple expectations, developed into unimaginable opportunities to share the love of Jesus in unlikely locations. From a first timid entry into Pakistan, God opened up doors to other fields.Tell Them I'm Alive is about searching for fresh purpose when life takes a different turn. It is an account of the faithfulness of God in calling, but also equipping and sheltering of His children where danger prevails.The distinct message on Marion's heart came from Jesus Himself: "Tell Them I'm Alive"."If you are like me you will be amazed at what Marion attempted through Christ. She felt compelled to tell people who were imprisoned by circumstances, trapped in misery and hemmed in by spiritual darkness, that Jesus the great Liberator could not be incarcerated even by death. He was alive and ready to free all who wanted that freedom."Bishop Reg Piper former Senior Minister, Gymea Anglican"In a world where risks are increasingly avoided, Marion recounts a testimony of trusting and obeying, loving and forgiving, risking and rescuing...This is a story about never giving up on the promptings and call of God. Marion thank you once again for inspiring and encouraging me to listen to and love people in Jesus' name."Rev Jonathan Shanks, Senior Minister, Northern Life Baptist Church
From the internationally bestselling author of The Disappeared comes a profound meditation on the cultural impact of storytelling and testimony in five intimate and illuminating essays. In this moving collection, critically acclaimed novelist Kim Echlin examines how we turn to literature to measure our lives against the darknesses of our time. Tell Others explores how literature resists silencing and repression with truth and imagination. Echlin skillfully blends her lived experience in different parts of the world--teaching in post-revolutionary China, researching war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, studying under one of Canada's most respected Elders, Basil H. Johnston--with wide-ranging reading that offers solace and highlights the possibility to transform outrage into understanding and resistance. Looking to her favourite writers--Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Ma Jian, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Haruki Murakami, to name a few--Echlin grapples in fresh ways with tyranny, war, sexual violence, and censorship to bear witness to the past and look to the future. Written in characteristically unsparing and evocative prose, Tell Others is an invitation to all readers to acknowledge histories that are difficult to see and to make meaning from the stories that buried bones tell. The author proceeds for this book will be donated to PEN Canada and PEN International.
Hailed as a new classic in faith exploration, this remarkable book offers a rare chance to eavesdrop on a conversation between a believing father and a skeptical daughter about God, faith, and morals. World-renowned theologian Michael Novak accepts a unique challenge when his twentysomething daughter Jana sends him a long fax filled with practical questions about life and religion. His answers -- warm, wise, and unfaltering -- serve as guideposts to faith at a critical time in his daughter's life. For her part, Jana is not interested in a scholarly essay but in straight and honest replies; she challenges what she doesn't understand, and she never hesitates to bat back an answer she doesn't like. The result is a lively, thought-provoking dialogue that addresses the concerns of Jana's generation while also taking on the questions of the ages -- from the purpose of religion in our lives, to how "good" must a Christian be, to the problems of suffering, compassion, and the existence of God. Enacting as it does the difficult passing on of a noble tradition, Tell Me Why offers an illuminating path for anyone searching to embrace or deepen their faith.
Illustrated in full color. This die-cut book features a clock with movablehands, making this introduction to the hours a tick-tock treasure. Youngtime-tellers can move the hands to match the time on the clocks pictured oneach page as they follow Thomas the Tank Engine and his train yard pals througha busy day. Clever clock illustrations and simple text also introduce theconcepts of minutes and quarter, half, and three-quarter hours in this timelytome.
PRIZEWINNING WASHINGTON POST JOURNALISTS REVEAL HOW REALITY GAGGED THE GINGRICH REVOLUTION Speaker Newt Gingrich and his troops promised a revolution when they seized power in January 1995. The year that followed was one of the most fascinating and tumultuous in modern American history. After stunning early success with the Contract with America, the Republicans began to lose momentum; by year's end Gingrich was isolated and uncertain, and his closest allies were telling him to shut up. Here is an unprecedented, fly-on-the-wall look at the successes, sellouts, and perhaps fatal mistakes of Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution. Based on the award-winning Washington Post series that documented the Republicans' day-to-day attempts to revolutionize the American government, "Tell Newt to Shut Up!" gets to the heart of the political process.
James Olney demonstrates that autobiography, because it provides the most direct narrative enactments of the ways, motives, and beliefs of a culture, is an excellent way to approach African literature. After a general discussion of the African ethos, each chapter takes up the "autobiographical" literature of a specific group in African society and treats it as both an expression of a personal vision and as a revelation of a permeating social reality. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
