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Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Things are scary right now. We're all being swept along by a tidal wave of history, and it's easy to feel helpless. But we're not helpless: we have minds, and imaginations, and the ability to visualize other worlds and valiant struggles. And writing can be an act of resistance that reminds us that other futures and other ways of living are possible. Full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish during the present emergency,...
24) Creative block: get unstuck, discover new ideas : advice and projects from 50 successful artists
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Creative block presents the most crippling--and unfortunately universal--challenge for artists. No longer! This chunky blockbuster of a book is chock-full of solutions for overcoming all manner of artistic impediment. The blogger behind The Jealous Curator interviews 50 successful international artists working in different mediums and mines their insights on how to conquer self-doubt, stay motivated, and get new ideas to flow. Each artist offers...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work,...
Author
Publisher
The Good Book Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this faithful and fun account of Genesis 1, children 2-4 years old will discover how God made his very good and wonderful creation. Children will learn that God used every shade of the rainbow, and so many more!"-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan Reflective
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Abstract theology is overrated. In the contemporary West, we're desperately in need of rediscovering God through ordinary, physical things we see in the world around us. Jesus did it all the time. He mentioned a lily, sparrow, sheep, coin, fish, harvest, banquet, lamp, stone, seed, and vineyard to teach about the kingdom of God. In the Old Testament, too, God repeatedly describes himself and his saving work in relation to physical things such as a...
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"God's Creation: Help Tell the Story is an exciting new way for children to experience God's creation of the world as they interact with the words, follow along with easy-to-understand directions, and watch the story of God's creation unfold. This interactive picture book not only engages and keeps kids' attention, but also helps them internalize and commit the story to memory."--
39) Devotion
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all converge in what becomes Devotion, [a] ... fairy tale about...
Author
Publisher
Grupo Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Este vibrante y educativo libro ilustrado da vida a la historia bíblica de la creación en Génesis 1 para niños de 2 a 6 años. En La creación de Dios tan colorida, el alegre texto de Tim Thornborough y las brillantes y divertidas ilustraciones de Jennifer Davison se combinan para mostrar a los niños cómo Dios hizo su muy buena y maravillosa creación. Los pequeños aprenderán que Dios utilizó todas las tonalidades del arcoíris al crear...
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