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Story Power (Paperback)
Kate Farrell; Contributions by Susan Wittig Albert
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R455
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Verbal Communication Through Telling Stories "...learn how to bring
your own stories to life on the page, on the stage, around a
campfire, or a dinner table." -Mary Jo McConahay, award-winning
journalist Winner 2020 Indie Book Award for Non-Fiction
Writing/Publishing CIBA I&I (Instructional & Insightful)
Non-Fiction Awards Finalist #1 New Release in Writing Researching
& Publishing Guides The art of telling stories has been around
as long as humans. And in today's noisy, techy, automated world,
storytelling is not only prevalent it's vital. Whether you're
interested in enlivening verbal communication, building your
business brand, making presentations, sharing family wisdom, or
performing on stage, Story Power shows you how to make use of a
good story. Tell your story. Telling stories is the most effective
verbal communication if you know how to use it. Story Power
provides techniques for creating and framing personal stories
alongside effective tips for telling them in any setting. Plus,
this book models stories with unique storytelling examples,
exercises, and prompts, as well as storytelling techniques for
delivery in a spontaneous, authentic style. Learn from the verbal
communication experts. Story Power is an engaging, lively guide to
the art of telling stories from author and librarian Kate Farrell,
a seasoned storyteller and founder of the Word Weaving Storytelling
Project. In Story Power, more than twenty skillful contributors
with a range of diverse voices share their secrets to creating,
crafting, and telling tales. In this book discover: How to share
your own coming-of-age stories and family folklore The importance
of a personal branding story and storytelling marketing Seven Steps
to Storytelling, along with helpful tools, organizers, and media
options Booklovers who have read Storyworthy, The Storyteller's
Secret, Long Story Short, or the classic How to Win Friends &
Influence People, will find Story Power to be a great read.
It’s Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling
Dahlias—the garden club in little Darling, Alabama—are trying
to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn’t
easy, though, since there’s a firebug on the loose in Darling.
He—or she!—strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things
have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What’s more, a
dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling’s
direction, while a hurricane of a different sort is making a
whirlwind campaign stop: the much-loved-much-hated senator from
Louisiana, Huey P. Long, whom President Roosevelt calls the “most
dangerous man in America.” Add Ophelia Snow’s secret
heartthrob, Liz Lacy’s Yankee lover, and the Magnolia Ladies’
garden of red hot pokers, fire-red salvia, and hot pink cosmos, and
you have a volatile mix that might just burst into flames at any
moment. Author Susan Wittig Albert has brought us another
delightful assortment of richly human characters who face the
challenges of the Great Depression with courage and grace. Her
books remind us that friends offer the best of themselves to each
other, community is what holds us together, and even when life
seems too hot to handle, there’s always hope.
Spring, 1935 finds the little Alabama town of Darling excited about
their new local radio station, WDAR. But there are problems brewing
at the newspaper, where a trio of new hires causes headaches for
editor Charlie Dickens. That's not the worst of it, though, as the
Dahlias discover when the newest resident at Bessie Bloodworth's
Magnolia Manor is found dead. She had overindulged in a large and
very rich chocolate cake-but was something else baked into that
cake? If so, one of the Dahlias is likely to find herself at the
top of Sheriff Buddy Norris' suspect list. That would give Darling
something to gossip about! And there's plenty more to keep the
tongues wagging. Will the ladies at the new bakery ever learn to
bake bread? What's happening in Liz Lacy's love life? Will her new
book be a success? And can Voodoo Lil's special brand of magic keep
Violet Sims from taking Cupcake off to Hollywood to become a
Shirley Temple look-alike? But amid all these mysteries, one
thing's for certain: The Darling Dahlias just keep growing. Spring,
1935 finds the little Alabama town of Darling excited about their
new local radio station, WDAR. But there are problems brewing at
the newspaper, where a trio of new hires causes headaches for
editor Charlie Dickens. That's not the worst of it, though, as the
Dahlias discover when the newest resident at Bessie Bloodworth's
Magnolia Manor is found dead. She had overindulged in a large and
very rich chocolate cake-but was something else baked into that
cake? If so, one of the Dahlias is likely to find herself at the
top of Sheriff Buddy Norris' suspect list. That would give Darling
something to gossip about! And there's plenty more to keep the
tongues wagging. Will the ladies at the new bakery ever learn to
bake bread? What's happening in Liz Lacy's love life? Will her new
book be a success? And can Voodoo Lil's special brand of magic keep
Violet Sims from taking Cupcake off to Hollywood to become a
Shirley Temple look-alike?
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Hemlock (Hardcover)
Susan Wittig Albert
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R707
Discovery Miles 7 070
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times bestselling author of
A Plain Vanilla Murder, comes a tightly crafted novel that
juxtaposes the disappearance of a rare, remarkably illustrated
18th-century herbal with the true and all-too-human story of its
gifted creator, Elizabeth Blackwell. Herbalist China Bayles' latest
adventure takes her to the mountains of North Carolina, where her
friend Dorothea Harper serves as the director and curator of the
Hemlock House Library, a priceless collection of rare gardening
books housed in a haunted mountainside mansion that once belonged
to Sunny Carswell, a reclusive heiress. But the most valuable
book-A Curious Herbal, created by Elizabeth Blackwell in the
1730s-is missing and Dorothea is under suspicion. China's search
for the thief takes on a new urgency when she discovers Miss
Carswell's bookseller, the victim of an attempted murder. Is his
shooting connected with the theft? And there are other urgent
questions: What is the Hemlock Guild? Who owns Socrates.com? Did
Sunny Carswell really kill herself, or does her ghost have a
different story to tell? And what is the real truth behind the many
tantalizing mysteries of A Curious Herbal? Hemlock is a compelling
mix of mystery and herb lore, past secrets and present sins, and
characters who are as real as your friends and neighbours-in an
absorbing novel that only Susan Wittig Albert could create.
From Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times best-selling author of
Queen Anne's Lace, comes an intriguing new addition to her
widely-acclaimed China Bayles Mysteries. China and Ruby Wilcox are
presenting their annual "Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop," always a
huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But
someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive,
and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant
Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a
vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the
chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany professor, a
prominent researcher specializing in vanilla orchids. China is
trying to help a longtime friend: the dead professor's ex-wife and
a prime suspect in his murder. However, there's no shortage of
other suspects: a betrayed lover, a disgruntled graduate student,
jealous colleagues, and a gang of orchid smugglers. But the lethal
roots of this mystery reach back into the dark tropical jungles of
Mexico, where the vanilla vine was first cultivated. At stake: a
lucrative plant patent, an orchid that is extinct in the wild, and
the life of an innocent little girl. A Plain Vanilla Murder is a
flavorful blend of mystery and herb lore, present sins and past
secrets, and characters who are as real as your next-door
neighbors--stirred together in an absorbing novel that only Susan
Wittig Albert could create.
The author of Peter Rabbit and other tales, Beatrix Potter is
still, after a century, beloved by children and adults worldwide.
In this first Cottage Tale, Albert introduces Beatrix, an animal
lover and Good Samaritan with a knack for solving mysteries. With
help from her entourage of talking animal friends, Beatrix sets out
to win over the human hearts of Sawrey, where she's just bought an
old farm--and plans to stay.
It’s Christmas, 1934, and the citizens of Darling, Alabama, are
unwrapping a big package of Christmas puzzles. Mildred Kilgore and
Earlynne Biddle are planning to open a bakery on the square—if
they can come up with the right recipes. Charlie Dickens faces two
of the biggest puzzles of his career as an investigative reporter,
and one of them involves his wife. Cute little Cupcake’s talent
as a singer and dancer makes her a tempting target for an
unscrupulous exploiter; Lizzy must enlist the Dahlias to protect
her, while she herself is confronted by a romantic puzzle. And
Sheriff Norris is forced to reopen a puzzling mystery that the town
thought was solved and follow a string of clues that lead to a
deadly situation at the nearby prison farm. Once again, NYT
best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert takes us to a place where
real people have courage, respect their neighbours, and dream of
doing their best, even when they’re not sure what that is. She
reminds us that Christmas is a celebration of friendship,
community, and what’s right with the world. There’s nothing
puzzling about that.
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Hemlock (Paperback)
Susan Wittig Albert
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R525
R447
Discovery Miles 4 470
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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A companion treasury from the author of the national bestselling
series.
Readers of the China Bayles mystery novels are familiar with the
usefulness and wonder of the many herbs the amateur sleuth sells in
her beloved Thyme and Seasons shop. Compiled by national
bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert at the request of her fans,
"China Bayles' Book of Days" gathers together tidbits and treasures
about plants and reveals ways you can put more green into your
daily life.
Featuring 365 days of recipes, crafts, gardening tips, remedies,
and more, this special volume is a personal calendar of the legends
and lore of herbs and also features brand-new essays from the
author, clues from China's mysteries, and some special
contributions by the irrepressible members of the Myra Merryweather
Herb Guild, Pecan Springs's oldest civic organization.
Now readers can join China Bayles in ten puzzling cases—and get a taste of her world. This delightful collection features loads of wonderful herbal tidbits on everything from rosemary to feverfew to catnip; recipes for such to-die-for dishes as a Deadly Chocolate Valentine, Ruby's Applesauce Mint Bread, China's Five-Spice Chicken and Veggie Stir-Fry, and McQuaid's Tex Mex-and a host of creative ideas for garden and home. It's a one-of-a-kind collection featuring a one-of-a-kind sleuth—who's worth spending some "quality thyme" with!
Winner, WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, 2008 How do
women experience the vast, arid, rugged land of the American
Southwest? The Story Circle Network, a national organization
dedicated to helping women write about their lives, posed this
question, and nearly three hundred women responded with original
pieces of writing that told true and meaningful stories of their
personal experiences of the land. From this deep reservoir of
writing-as well as from previously published work by writers
including Joy Harjo, Denise Chavez, Diane Ackerman, Naomi Shihab
Nye, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gloria Anzaldua, Terry Tempest Williams,
and Barbara Kingsolver-the editors of this book have drawn nearly a
hundred pieces that witness both to the ever-changing,
ever-mysterious life of the natural world and to the vivid,
creative, evolving lives of women interacting with it. Through
prose, poetry, creative nonfiction, and memoir, the women in this
anthology explore both the outer landscape of the Southwest and
their own inner landscapes as women living on the land-the
congruence of where they are and who they are. The editors have
grouped the writings around eight evocative themes: The way we live
on the land Our journeys through the land Nature in cities Nature
at risk Nature that sustains us Our memories of the land Our
kinship with the animal world What we leave on the land when we are
gone From the Gulf Coast of Texas to the Pacific Coast of
California, and from the southern borderlands to the Great Plains
and the Rocky Mountains, these intimate portraits of women's lives
on the land powerfully demonstrate that nature writing is no longer
the exclusive domain of men, that women bring unique and
transformative perspectives to this genre.
"Much of the time our society stereotypes and dismisses old women
as ridiculous, troublesome, irrelevant, and (worst of all) boring.
These memoirs contradict the assumptions. The women who wrote them
have experienced solid, hearty lives, with a characteristic
vitality enduring into old age." -- from the Foreword by Liz
Carpenter
Women who were sixty or older at the turn of the twenty-first
century have lived through some of recent history's most momentous
moments-- and yet these women often believe that their personal
lives and stories are insignificant, not worthy of being recorded
for future generations. To change that perception and capture some
of these life stories before they are lost, the Story Circle
Network, a national organization dedicated to helping women write
about their lives, developed the Older Women's Legacy (OWL) Circle
Memoir Workshops. During the first two years of the project
(1998-2000), nearly 500 older women participated in workshops that
offered them the opportunity and encouragement to reflect on and
create written records of their lives.
With Courage and Common Sense presents an extensive selection
of memoirs from the OWL Circle project. Organized thematically,
they describe women's experiences of identity, place, work, family
life, love and marriage, loss and healing, adventures great and
small, major historical events, and legacies to keep and pass
along. Taken as a whole, the memoirs chronicle far-reaching changes
in the ways that women participated in the world during the
twentieth century. They show how women learned to surmount
obstacles, to courageously make the most of the opportunities that
came their way, and to move quietly andwisely beyond the limits
that were imposed upon them.
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