Byrd: 344 books

there is a place beyond desperation, just this side of hopelessness. a place where fear reigns and confidence is but a whimsy. this is where biceps are found to be useless and the heart becomes the most important muscle in your arsenal. years upon years of building emotional endurance has lead to...

This book will guide you, step-by-step, through a process to evaluate films that you choose. Not ones that someone else chose for you. Seeing how filmmakers tackle story problems can make you a better writer. No joke. Every major screenwriting teacher tells his or her students to watch films. This...

June 14, 1903, was a typical, hot Sunday in Heppner, a small farm town in northeastern Oregon. People went to church, ate dinner, and relaxed with family and friends. But late that afternoon, calamity struck when a violent thunderstorm brought heavy rain and hail to the mountains and bare hills south...

Colonel William Byrd II (28 March 1674 - 26 August 1744) was a planter, slave-owner and author from Charles City County, Virginia. He is considered the founder of Richmond, Virginia. His works are among the earliest of Virginia literature and his diaries are considered as classic documents. This diary tells about the iron mines that Ex-Governor Spotswood opened.

Colonel William Byrd II (28 March 1674 - 26 August 1744) was a planter, slave-owner and author from Charles City County, Virginia. He is considered the founder of Richmond, Virginia. His works are among the earliest of Virginia literature and his diaries are considered as classic documents. This diary...

If you are looking for a new form of expression, a new canvas on which to apply your talents, egg decoration could very well be for you. Egg decoration is a time-honored art that was part of the future of ancient China, flourished over the centuries in the course of the European kings, and inspired...

Although millions of slaves were forcibly transported from Africa to Brazil, the languages the slaves brought with them remain little known. Most studies have focused on African contributions to Brazilian Portuguese rather than on the African languages themselves. This book is unusual in focusing...

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.   In contemporary discussions of...

English is drowning in a sea of bobbles, but some of us are willing to take up arms on the noble tongue's behalf. Bloated sentences, pointless paragraphs, grammatical solecisms of the worst sort -- these are our enemies in our struggle for concision, clarity, and content. If a thing that's...

Taking on the Writing World: The Ups and Downs of the Writing Life is my personal journey of the challenges and lessons I had to face regarding the publishing business and what it takesI want to share some of the lessons I have to learned over the years about content mill sites, contest scams, blogging,...

In I Peter 2:4-5, we read: "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." From this passage...

“One Glimpse of You Lord” facilitates the ability to change hearts toward God. It’s foundational teaching provides a step-by-step method to help build a stronger relationship with Jesus Christ. It will also help discipline the mind and body, bringing it under subjection to our Father God. However,...

Long ago, all was created perfectly by the Three omnipotent Divine Ones, until Abaddon, the evil Dark Horse, tricked the mortal equines of the world of Equus into rejecting their loyalty to their Creators. As a result, a curse fell upon the equines as every generation were sentenced to be Abaddon's...

Here is a collection of poems on faith, hope, and charity -- the virtues that we live out when we're rooted in God. Our Creator's story appears in epics of the Bible and in lyrics of doubt and faith emerging into praise of the One Who is Light and Love. Creation takes place, a man of faith...