Sentences with phrase «books as a ghost»

I soon realized that teaching wasn't for me and I decided to go back to books as a ghost writer.

Not exact matches

Part road novel, part ghost story, this National Book Award winner set in rural Mississippi follows a troubled mother and her two children as they drive to pick up the children's father from prison.

What the Evangelical church needs is a fresh outpouring of the Holy Ghost, just like in the book of Acts, where daily, thousands recognized their need for Jesus Christ as the only person who could save them from a Christ-less eternity.

«The problem with real ghosts, as opposed to the elegant fictional creations of the likes of MR James and Susan Hill, is that their behaviour is so erratic and irritating,» write the Telegraph «s reviewer of a new book called A Natural History of Gghosts, as opposed to the elegant fictional creations of the likes of MR James and Susan Hill, is that their behaviour is so erratic and irritating,» write the Telegraph «s reviewer of a new book called A Natural History of GhostsGhosts.

Please Pray about it, Read the Book of Mormon as God if it is True, follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost and then join us.

«We receive all these books, and these only, as holy and confirmation of our faith; believing, without any doubt, all things contained in them, no so much because the church receives and approves them as such, but more especially because the Holy Ghost witnessed in our hearts that they are from God, whereof they carry the evidence in themselves.»

We believe that Mary conceived the child by the Holy Spirit, as is made clear in the Book of Mormon: «And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son, yea, even the Son of God» (Alma 7:10).

In his book, Ghosts of Manila (Harper Perennial), Mark Kram Jr wrote: «Today, he would be looked upon as a contaminant, a chronic user of hate language.»

According to the Book of Enoch (which the inspired Jude quotes from as authoritative and which Revelation alludes to quite a bit), these now physical sons of God were punished by losing their bodies and became all the invisible demons that roam the world terrorizing people to this day (with ghost sightings, hunched backs, strange voices, possession, and more).

As the first Incarnation was, you say, imperfect, we have to wait for the Holy Ghost to produce a second birth and this in fact is described in the Book of Revelation: «Ever since John, the apocalyptist, experienced for the first time (perhaps unconsciously) that conflict into which Christianity inevitably leads, mankind has groaned under this burden: God wanted to become man, and still wants to.

They write books, give lectures, and appear on talk shows contending that they really do have ideas that are, well, true» just as though there is reason, or soul, or even a ghost in the machine.

Kwasi Kwarteng, Conservative MP for Spelthorne as been an active author with books such as Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World and War and Gold: A Five Hundred Year History of Empires, Adventure and Debt.

Most busy actuaries would have dismissed this as a passing fancy, but Buff had some experience with the writing life; his wife, Sheila, is a medical writer who has collaborated on or ghost - written several best - selling books, including 2003's Atkins for Life.

The book will be sort of a wet Christmas Carol, by Dickens: the Ghost of Flooding Future is meant to serve as warning, although I am sure that I will be preaching to the choir.

My other posts from that trip are as follows: Cutest Hotel on Lake Washington, My Seattle Travel Guide, Top 10 Favorite Fashion Books, in Fall City, Fuller's Jewelry Store, in Ghost Alley.

Set in London in 1921, Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall), author of the popular book «Seeing Through Ghosts,» has devoted her career to exposing claims of the supernatural as nothing but hoaxes.

Gidding met with Jackson, told her his interpretation of the novel as being really about a mental patient who's been institutionalized and that all the events of the book can be explained as manifestations of her psychosis, only to be decisively told by Jackson that her book was «a ghost story.»

by Walter Chaw The same between American Splendor and Ghost World is that both have middle - aged outcasts as protagonists who each collect old blues 78's, that both were adapted from comic books, and that there's a bus stop in Cleveland.

GHOST WORLD (Grade: B +): Thora Birch won the best actress honors at the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival for her performance as a passively rebellious 17 - year - old in this funny, sad and tragic teen angst drama / comedy directed by Terry Zwigoff («Crumb») and based on a serialized comic book by Daniel Clowes.

Fans of the book will remember her as a permanently irritable teenage ghost, but the actress chosen to represent the wraith on screen is an ancient 32 years old.

And as far as female - led comic book adaptations are concerned, it's by far the largest opening as the second closest is Paramount's Ghost in the Shell, which debuted with $ 18.6 million earlier this year.

He's back in theaters again, the flaming - skull demon from hell, Ghost Rider, otherwise known as Johnny Blaze, played once again by Nicholas Cage in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, a new take on the Marvel comic book character from Crank directors Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor.

«U.N.I (You And I)» from And the Winner Isn't «Love and Lies» from Band Aid «If I Dare» from Battle of the Sexes «Evermore» from Beauty and the Beast «How Does a Moment Last Forever» from Beauty and the Beast «Now or Never» from Bloodline: Now or Never «She» from Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story «Your Hand I Will Never Let It Go» from The Book of Henry «Buddy's Business» from Brawl in Cell Block 99 «The Crown Sleeps» from The Breadwinner «World Gone Mad» from Bright «Mystery of Love» from Call Me by Your Name «Visions of Gideon» from Call Me by Your Name «Captain Underpants Theme Song» from Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie «Ride» from Cars 3 «Run That Race» from Cars 3 «Tell Me How Long» from Chasing Coral «Broken Wings» from City of Ghosts «Remember Me» from Coco «Prayers for This World» from Cries From Syria «There's Something Special» from Despicable Me 3 «It Ain't Fair» from Detroit «A Little Change in the Weather» from Downsizing «Stars in My Eyes (Theme From Drawing Home)» from Drawing Home «All In My Head» from Elizabeth Blue «Dying for Ya» from Elizabeth Blue «Green» from Elizabeth Blue «Can't Hold Out on Love» from Father Figures «Home» from Ferdinand «I Don't Wan na Live Forever» from Fifty Shades Darker «You Shouldn't Look at Me That Way» from Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool «This Is How You Walk On» from Gifted «Summer Storm» from The Glass Castle «The Pure and the Damned» from Good Time «This Is Me» from The Greatest Showman «The Hero» from The Hero «How Shall a Sparrow Fly» from Hostiles «Just Getting Started» from If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast «Truth to Power» from An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power «Next Stop, The Stars» from Kepler's Dream «The Devil & The Huntsman» from King Arthur: Legend of the Sword «Have You Ever Wondered» from Lake of Fire «I'll Be Gone» from Lake of Fire «We'll Party All Night» from Lake of Fire «Friends Are Family» from The Lego Batman Movie «Found My Place» from The Lego Ninjago Movie «Stand Up for Something» from Marshall «Rain» from Mary and the Witch's Flower «Myron / Byron» from The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) «Longing for Summer» from Moomins and the Winter Wonderland «Mighty River» from Mudbound «Never Forget» from Murder on the Orient Express «Hold the Light» from Only the Brave «PBNJ» from Patti Cake $ «Tuff Love (Finale)» from Patti Cake $ «Lost Souls» from The Pirates of Somalia «How a Heart Unbreaks» from Pitch Perfect 3 «The Promise» from The Promise «Kaadanayum Kaalchilambe» from Pulimurugan «Maanathe Maarikurumbe» from Pulimurugan «Stubborn Angel» from Same Kind of Different as Me «Dancing Through the Wreckage» from Served Like a Girl «Keep Your Eyes on Me» from The Shack «On the Music Goes» from Slipaway «The Star» from The Star «Jump» from Step «Tickling Giants» from Tickling Giants «Fly Away» from Trafficked «Speak to Me» from Voice From the Stone «Walk on Faith» from Year by the Sea

In it, the paranormal investigation team of Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) Warren, co-authors of several books and shown as the film begins lecturing a small auditorium of people on the finer points of ghost - hunting, confront their Greatest Challenge Ever when they're called to the modest New England farmhouse of the Perron family.

As a young woman, living with her supportive father (a wonderful Jim Beaver), she prefers books to beaus, and is busy writing a ghost story («Ghosts are a metaphor for the past,» she states).

In the books, Portman's character is known first as «the biologist» and then goes by a nickname, «Ghost Bird»; in the movie, she goes by Lena.

GHOST WORLD (Grade: B +): Thora Birch won the best actress honors at the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival for her performance as a passively rebellious 17 - year - old facing the first challenges of adulthood in this funny, sad and ultimately tragic teen angst drama / comedy directed by Terry Zwigoff («Crumb») and based on a serialized comic book by Daniel Clowes.

Although his adventures after «Touching the Void» never quite reached the same level of desperation, his life has been in danger many times, as he recounts in his book, This Game of Ghosts.

Best known to the public as the idiosyncratic author of Ghost World, Daniel Clowes stands as one of the most storied authors — of comic books or any other medium — working today.

Clowes is writing the screenplay because he wrote the book, as well as the screenplays for the film adaptations of his other works Ghost World, Art School Confidential, and David Goldberg.

Zwigoff also proves himself with a deliberate visual style that evokes the panels of a comic book (though the Ghost World comic was in black and white), as well as the industrial wasteland at the outskirts of any city: strip malls, porno shops and overall dingy, dirty cars, streets and people.

If you decide to test drive the two disc edition, you'll get the same commentaries and making - of documentary, as well as an Extended Version of the film (with never - before - seen footage) and Sin & Salvation (a featurette on the comic book origins of Ghost Rider).

Sandwiched among the dramatic vignettes of the story, Greenwood pauses to pepper the book with historical sidebars about the «secret code» language used by those who helped shuttle slaves north to safety; a biographical sketch of Harriet Tubman, known as «Moses» to those along the route; a brief history of storytelling among southern slaves; a scientific explanation for the «swamp ghosts» many slaves encountered along their escape routes; an inside look at some of the methods used to hide slaves from capture; and much, much more.

His debut novel was When I Was the Greatest and was followed by Boy in the Black Suit and All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely), As Brave As You, Jump Anyway, and the first two books in the Track series, Ghost and Patina.

The bundle books include compelling urban fantasy reads with some of the strangest detectives you've ever met, including Dan Shamble Zombie P.I. in my own Unnatural Acts, as well as ghosts, elves, vampires, sorceresses, modern - day dragon slayers, immortal Shakespearean characters, and more in Dean Wesley Smith's The Deep Sunset, R.R. Virdi's Grave Beginnings, Patrick Hester's Into the Fire, Susan Sizemore's Living Dead Girl, J.A. Pitt's Night Terrors, L. Jagi Lamplighter's Prospero Lost, Alex Berg's Red Hot Steele and Cold Hard Steele.

For me, when I walk into a store and see a book I wrote, either under this name or one I wrote for a major bestseller as a ghost novel, I know it's my book.

Lauren Oliver, known for her YA books, succesfully ventures into adult territory with Rooms, a novel focusing on a family haunted by their painful pasts, as well as the ghosts that live in their dead relative's home.

By the end of 2012, «Loose Ends» had sold over 82,000 copies and, as of the writing of this bio, was the number one bestselling book in Amazon's ranking of Ghost Stories in the Book / Literature & Fiction / Genre Fiction / Horror / Ghosts section and the number two in the same area in the Kindle eBooks sectbook in Amazon's ranking of Ghost Stories in the Book / Literature & Fiction / Genre Fiction / Horror / Ghosts section and the number two in the same area in the Kindle eBooks sectBook / Literature & Fiction / Genre Fiction / Horror / Ghosts section and the number two in the same area in the Kindle eBooks section.

Rather, the fixed - layout epub takes the fastidiously constructed ghost story for grownups to another level, incorporating an original score and a collection of text effects that are triggered as the reader turns pages «I was in many ways the art director and [e book pro-ducer] Lillian Sullam was the technical director,» says Dan - ielewski on the phone from Los Angeles.

Brewer wrote and self - published three books: Rembrandt the Rocker, an illustrated parable on aging that poses as a children's book; A Yin for Change, a book of «dime - store» philosophy; and a ghost - written biography of Clarence Darrow.

Bibliography (dates and titles reflect UK publications as he has usually been published in the UK first) Long Lankin, 1970; Nightspawn, 1971; Birchwood, 1973; Dr Copernicus, 1976; Kepler, 1981; The Newton Letter: An Interlude, 1982; Mefisto, 1986; The Book of Evidence, 1989; Ghosts, 1993; Athena, 1995; The Ark, 1996; The Untouchable, 1997; Eclipse, 2000; Shroud, 2002; Prague Pictures: Portrait of a City, 2003; The Sea, 2005; Christine Falls, 2006; The Silver Swan, March 2008 in both the USA & UK.

If you've already worked up a book proposal with a developmental editor, your ghost can use that document as a launch pad.

Books included 25 classics, including The Wizard of Oz and Black Beauty, as well as ghost stories and scary stories, which were the most popular.

As a developmental editor, ghost - writer, and publishing consultant, Hal has helped over 100 authors develop successful books, including several national bestsellers.

I have published books both traditionally and indie under my own name and as a ghost writer.

According to one of the book blurbs, written by Peter Straub (author of Ghost Story and Shadowland) fans of Neal Stephenson, John Barth and Thomas Pynchon will enjoy this; another reviewer compares Morrow to John Barth, and, in the past, he has been compared to writers such as Kurt Vonnegut and John Updike.

As the book ends, Cha - Cha faces his ghosts and the family hosts a final birthday party for Viola.

Bellman & Black will be published by Emily Bestler Books on November 5, 2013, and the novella is being described as a «heart - thumpingly perfect ghost story.»

In 2010, she started editing and writing full - time and has worked on over 500 traditionally published books, doing everything from proofreading and copyediting to developmental editing and ghost writing, as well as working with select self - published authors.

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