Move over, Max Lucado and Rick Warren; here's an author who wants to challenge your dominance of devotional literature. "How else can I compete with them," says Edwin Scroggins, "unless I offer not only superior content, but also an exceptionally novel writing style? In this book, I used a style that allowed me to focus and format my subject material in a way that permits the reader to enter the narrative as a 'you-are-there' observer." To give you an up-close view of key, biblical events, the author puts you right on the stage with his sometimes fictitious, sometimes biblical actors. These...

YOU CAN DO IT What if you could design, layout, and format your own book and then convert it to PDF and publish it, all at little or no cost? This book and a self-publishing firm such as CreateSpace can make this happen If you are tired of getting your book proposals rejected by traditional publishers, here, at last, is a solution that will make your failed dreams come true. This one-of-a-kind book offers highly detailed, technically precise instructions that will lead you through the entire process of designing & formatting your book to your self-publisher's specifications. You will learn...

If you have ever longed for a secluded place in which to "get away from it all," here is the book that will tell you what is required to make your dreams come true. Whether you want to build a hideaway just for escaping your crowded city during weekends, or you want to construct a country cabin in which to retire, you need to know beforehand exactly what you will face if you decide to do it all yourself. Read this book and learn from the author's experiences. For readers with little interest in the technical details of carpentry, the author has placed an "Interlude" after each chapter,...

A little bit TOM SAWYER, PENROD, and 'WONDER YEARS, ' this chronological series of stand-alone stories resumes the author's 1940s boyhood memoir of rural life that now begins to demand social, institutional, and amorous skills he has not yet learned. The book recounts the boy's bumbling attempts to navigate the perilous passages of Jackson Junior High, Pasadena High School, and Rice Institute. As the years progress, his naivete and life's soul-searing sorrows leave him puzzled and wondering if God, after all, really has a plan for his life. The book's final chapters trace his search for...

In a unique style that combines poetic prose, pathos, and humor, this entrancing mosaic of childhood memories lyrically details the songs and sorrows, the triumphs and travails, of a boy and his identical twin brother living through the 30s and 40s on a rural homestead in South Texas. With the constant support of their loving mother, the boys struggle amid primitive living conditions to meet farm-related responsibilities and educational objectives imposed upon them by their caring but stern, disciplinarian father. The author recounts his dearest and most anguished memories as a series of...

Are you anxious about what's going on in the world today, but you don't fully understand what the Bible says about mankind's future? Bible Prophecy in a Nutshell offers an organized, condensed, panoramic survey of God's entire plan of the ages. Here, at last, is a small, readable book that brings together all the separated Scriptures and scenarios you need to make sense of Bible prophecy. And, it is written in a lucid, you-are-there style and in an everyday language that both adults and children can understand. The book surveys numerous biblical prophecies fulfilled in the past, and it...

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YOU CAN DO IT What if you could design, layout, and format your own book and then convert it to PDF and publish it, all at little or no cost? This book and a self-publishing firm such as CreateSpace can make this happen If you are tired of getting your book proposals rejected by traditional publishers, here, at last, is a solution that will make your failed dreams come true. This one-of-a-kind book offers highly detailed, technically precise instructions that will lead you through the entire process of designing & formatting your book to your self-publisher's specifications. You will learn...

HOW FAR COULD YOU WALK BAREFOOTED? The author of Juma's Journey invites you to follow barefooted Juma on his 950-mile walk from south Tanzania's Mbeya to Arusha in the north. Hours before his mother dies, Juma promises her that he will seek out the traveling mzungu missionary and get the white man to tell him about Jesus. As it turns out, the mzungu has left Mbeya and is on his way to Arusha, so Juma must follow him if he is to keep his promise to his dead mother. On his dangerous journey, Juma is confronted by many physical and spiritual tests. You will fear for his life when he is stalked...