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1) Storytellers
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Would you murder your brothers to keep them from telling the truth about themselves?
On a long, cold Icelandic night in March 1920, Gunnar, a hermit blacksmith, finds himself with an unwanted lodger-Sigurd, an injured stranger who offers a story from the past. But some stories, even those of an old man who can barely walk, are too dangerous to hear. They alter the listeners' lives forever...by ending them.
Others are keen on changing Gunnar's life...
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Your life is extra-ordinary. The things you see, the places you go, the people you meet are full of so many stories, adventures, tiny miracles and big moments. But are you capturing them? Are you savouring those images and experiences or are you letting them disappear?
You have an opportunity to remember all the details of your life.
This book will show you how by turning your memories into stories. It will help you freeze frame the best moments...
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Follow six children as they grow up doing
what they like best and pursue their dreams.
The storytellers come from all walks of life.
Each one brings something special to their story.
Come on a wondrous journey that starts a chain
reaction through the joy of storytelling.
After all, we are all part of someone else's story
as well as our own.
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It is 1876 America. Ulysses S. Grant is completing his second term as president, the Civil War has been over for eleven years, and Sitting Bull's Lakota have just defeated Custer's seventh calvary. But now as rumors begin circulating about a mystical being that is stalking the moonlit skeletons on the battlefield, the US Army begins developing a plan to investigate.
A year later, the army dispatches an expedition to return to the Little Bighorn to...
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Trapped between life and the afterlife, three women meet and share their stories while discovering the truth about the men in their lives-and about themselves.
Suspended in an eerie state of limbo, an entity called the Gatekeeper tells Nikki, Ronnie, and Mrs. Hawthorne they are on the cusp of entering the afterlife-but only if the women can persuade him that in their earthly lives, they knew the meaning of love.
Fragments of their memories return,...
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In Storytellers: Bringing Muslims Home, Bernie Power shows how the art of storytelling can be used to answer the questions that Muslims ask about the Christian faith. He does so by telling us a story within a story, which points to the greatest story ever told: the story of God's Son, Jesus Christ.
In Bernie's novel, we are introduced to a young Christian couple: Tom, a teacher, and his wife Hanna, a doctor, who travel to the Middle East to live...
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"Twelve biographies follow the career paths of Native people who work in the complex entertainment industry, either in front of or behind the camera. Included are descriptions of what each member of a production team does, as well as advice on what it takes to get started in the entertainment industry"--
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In Vanessa Grant's Powerful Pacing for Storytellers, you'll discover how to build tension, emphasize important events, and control your story's pacing while increasing the reader's engagement.
You'll explore story pacing with its three different timing clocks and a formula that can help you control the relationship between time, speed, viewpoint depth, and emotional intensity.
Then you'll go on to look at the way a reader's perception of time fluctuates...
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