What happens when you plunge an historical figure, the real Saint Nicholas, into the modern world? Not the red-suited, toy-making Saint Nicholas of American legend, but a man who exemplifies the spirit of giving; who gives from the heart and who knows what people need-not what they want. You get Nick, not really a man, but the immortal spirit of giving, who gets the reader to examine the spiritual side of life in a modern way but without a hint of religious dogma. Nick deals with adolescence, family, racial, and social issues and makes a positive difference in every life that he touches as he...

The Kids 4ever Club is a book of fun and creative activities for children and the young at heart. Questions accompany each activity that spur a child's creativity and imagination. In a world where many children sit passively in front of the television set or playing with premade toys for hours on end, the Kids 4ever Club urges them to actively pursue activities that will challenge them. The husband and wife team of Tim and Gail Scullion have created and belonged to the "Kids 4ever Club" for years, and have just recently decided to share their club with other "kids"-both young and old. The...

This is a guitar instruction book that is for the beginner to intermediate guitarist that not only shows you how to play chords, but also how chords are formed and named. But this is not just a chord book: It also explains music keys and chord progressions, showing how to play chord progressions that have been used successfully thousands of times in modern music. If you have ever seen a guitarist sit in with another group and play along flawlessly to a song that he or she has never heard before-it's because he or she understands how chords, keys, and chord progressions work together. Develop...

This is a guitar instruction book that is a definitive look at how to sweep pick chords on the guitar. Sweep picking is when you move your picking hand and pick across all or most of the strings with one motion. You are not using the usual down and up-stroke motions on the individual strings when you play: You are using an economy of motion that will in the end go faster, sound better, and be more rhythmically in time. This is a must have for lead guitarists wanting to take their playing to the next level No matter what style of music you play (rock, metal, jazz, country, blues, classical),...

This guitar instruction book is a speed primer that takes you through graduated techniques to play the guitar fast. Unlike other "exercise books," Shred Tech. addresses ways for any player, no matter the level, to achieve their own personal maximum speed of playing the guitar through proper technique and using the right pick. The various exercises help improve your playing both two and three-note-per-string scales as well as the legato style techniques of hammer-ons and pull-offs, string-skipping, two-hand tapping and a bonus section on how to train yourself to play a difficult part of any...