Julie Hall came in first place with her fantasy - fiction book, Life Everafter, and Alana Terry came in second place
with her fiction book, The Beloved Daughter.
As
with fiction book descriptions, your headline needs to entice people to hit «Read More» with a motivating line or two.
This doesn't bother me tremendously
with a fiction book which I will likely buy, read and be done with.
They are just bullies armed
with a fiction book.
I would use a lot of this book to help
with fiction books also.
They are series (key to making a lot of money
with your fiction books) and they have loads of diehard fans (yup — that helps sell millions of books).
One lesson I have taken over and again is that those who see the greatest success
with fiction books are those who create their books in a series.
Not exact matches
This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter
with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a
book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical
fiction about the French Revolution.
That jibes
with what Stewart suggests, that certain kinds of
books — genre stuff like fan
fiction or romance — work better digitally, but print is still a more desirable way to digest the really good meaty writing.
A nearly indestructible disk carrying a digital copy of Isaac Asimov's science
fiction book series, Foundation, is also on board, plus a plaque engraved
with 6,000 SpaceX employees names.
I had to fight my immediate prejudice and remind myself of something I've talked
with others about for years — the increasing size of
books, both
fiction and non-
fiction, to justify the inflated pricing from publishers.
The Mirror caught up
with The Washington Examiner's media writer Eddie Scarry this weekend to pick his brain about his first
book, Fraud and
Fiction: The Real Truth Behind Fire and Fury, Inside the Trump White House.
HotAirAce, the only reason you don't believe in Jesus» truth which is the same reason that you believe his truth to be a
book of bad
fiction is because you have issues to deal
with.
= > no
fiction book ever says that I pointed out the text analysis that person did to juxtapose it
with the authenticity of the biblical narrative.
Views based on an ancient
book of
fiction that completely conflict
with the evidence we have available are crazy.
Like all of his
books after Black Robe (his only attempt at historical
fiction), it takes the form of a thriller,
with a seductively relentless pace reminiscent of Simenon at his best.
And, at the same time, to be fair, what you may perceive as a «Love Story by God» and take it «literally» others perceive it at best, a
book of
fiction,
with some good words of wisdom now and then, to at worst, a
book of an insane deity who demands obedience, among other ridiculous things, and... sent «himself» to die for «us» as we are «broken» and «flawed» / sinful» creations, and by sending his - self... if... we just «believe» we go to eternal paradise
with him.
Interesting comment from someone supporting a
book with the Noah's ark science
fiction story and the premise that ALL laws of science / physics / etc.
In case you couldn't tell, the
book is science
fiction...
with an emphasis on the
fiction.
Joseph Smith, who had little formal education, writes a 532 page
fiction book with multiple story lines, more than three major ethnic groups that intermingle
with one another, creates over 200 new names, many of which have Hebraic origin (Mosiah for instance), writes in chiasmas poetry, accurately predicts latter day pollution, international intrigue, the dispersing of the Gospel message and a host of other fictional and hysterical points was WRONG?
«Actually, NL, anything your generation can conjure up or assume you are conjuring up
with those mash potato brains, has already been written in that dusty
book you so despise aka there is nothing new under the sun» So, now are you arguing that the bible writer's had superior imaginations to modern
fiction writers?
Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close
with a few of the
books I have enjoyed
with my children: Noel Streatfield's
books about families
with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive,
books of historical
fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture
book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.
In a
book replete
with evaluations and magisterial judgments tossed in as throw - away lines, Till We Have Faces — arguably the most powerful piece of
fiction written by Lewis — is mentioned only twice.
Think of S. M. Stirling's series of science
fiction books, which kicked off in 2008
with Dies the Fire, or the television series Revolution, which ran on NBC from 2012 - 14.
Perhaps most poignantly, one reader who read the
book in light of the pedophilia scandals and the church's early secrecy about them says, tentatively but tellingly: «
With all that is going on in the Catholic Church today, it makes you wonder if some of the
fiction is actually true.»
I like her Christmas series, starting
with «The Christmas Shoes» (the series is
fiction) and probably my favorite
book is her «Sheltering Trees» (Hardcover
with enclosed CD), which is not
fiction.
I am assuming you are an adult and most adults don't believe in magic, so why would you think that actually happened when there is no evidence that it happened other than a
book that is equally old, has been revised many times and is filled
with fiction.
While the terror at the power and indifference of nature can be found in her other
books, and is the foundation insight in Living by
Fiction, the difference here is that she has claimed a place
with others.
My belief in Jesus has nothing to do
with the stories of the greatest
fiction book ever written (again and again and again... conveniently omitting any stories written by the women of the time, I must add!!
I hear a «whispering hope» when the erudite Reynolds Price writes openly about his vision of Jesus during his cancer ordeal, or when thousands buy his translation of three of the Gospels; when
books of interviews
with writers — like Susan Ketchin's The Christ - Haunted Landscape or Dale Brown's Of
Fiction and Faith — seep into the academy.
I remember seeing an interview
with a Baptist
fiction writer of great renown - John Grisham, I think - and he was asked something like why there was so little sex in his
books.
I remember seeing an interview
with a Baptist
fiction writer of great renown - John Grisham, I think - and he was asked something like why there was so little socks in his
books.
I just did not believe any of what I read or had read to me anymore than I believed any other
book of
fiction with so many metaphors, parables and supernatural BS.
Wilson, who is both editor and publisher, stirs in
fiction,
book reviews and classified ads
with articles on all aspects of boatbuilding, including such spellbinders as «When the Keel Drops Off» and «How I Almost Used My Kayak As Firewood.»
I do not have the figures in front of me, but I expect that golfers buy more instruction
books, chuckle at more golf whimsy, read more
fiction about their sport and sympathize more fully
with accounts of the agonies of their brethren of the links than any other athletes.
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Both
fiction and nonfiction
books provide us
with an opportunity to experience a story and another person's life through a protagonist's eyes.
She owns up to her mistakes (promoting a
book as a memoir when it was
fiction), acts silly (a cross-country road trip
with her best friend Gayle), cries when her dog dies or she hears a heartbreaking story, gets behind causes she believes in (a girls school in South Africa), and acts like a student and not just a teacher (organizing a 10 - week online class to discuss Eckhart Tolle's
book, «A New Earth.»)
Separate fact from
fiction with help from this comprehensive
book about improving low milk supply.
I contacted her and we exchanged
books, hers
fiction and mine nonfiction, both
with open adoption as a core theme.
I wasn't expecting that
with a
book that's supposed to be
fiction.
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with fiction in his new
book Leonardo da Vinci Gets a Do - Over (Innovators In Action).
This great
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He also kept up to date
with modern
fiction and political and economic
books.
As Peter W. Singer's argues in his seminal
book Wired for War, this prospect does not belong to the realm of science
fiction: we are amidst a revolution in military warfare,
with digital and robotic technology increasingly replacing human decision in contemporary warfare.
Although the natural inclination for the summer holidays is to relax
with a good
book of
fiction, there is always room in the travel bag for something more serious.
This year's
books had something for everyone
with mysteries, historical
fiction and non-
fiction,
books in a series and
books that have been made into films.