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In this comprehensive guide, you'll learn everything you need to know about storytelling, from the basic elements to the nuances of sharing your stories for maximum impact. The book begins with an introduction to the concept of storytelling, exploring its history and significance in today's world. From there, you'll delve into the essential elements of storytelling, including plot, characters, setting, and more.

Since 1968, the LGBT movement has made significant inroads into the Christian church. The affirming church movement has become mainstream through the erosion of mainline denominations. Queer theology has taken hold in many academic settings. The emergence of "gay celibate theology" is causing confusion in evangelical churches through its appeal to modern psychology and LGBT-lived experience.

A woman, struggling with mental illness, fights to maintain her sanity in her home, haunted by an apparition from behind her bedroom’s yellow wallpaper.

Winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction “Deeply empathetic yet unflinching in its gaze…an unforgettable exploration of responsibility and redemption.”—Celeste Ng Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate new novel...

Stop Overthinking, Stop Negative Spirals by Moana Perkins is a powerful self-help book that addresses the harmful effects of overthinking and negative thinking patterns. In this book, the author provides listeners with valuable insights, tools, and techniques to help them break free from the shackles of excessive thinking.

First published serially in Gilman's magazine The Forerunner from 1909-1910, What Diantha Did is the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiancé to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise that includes a maid service, cooked food delivery service, a restaurant, and a hotel.

As a former “Walk Thru The Bible” instructor, Gerald knows how to condense scriptural teaching into easy-to-remember pieces. And what better book to have a complete understanding of than the foundational book of Genesis! Regardless of your spiritual age, this will impact how you organize the Bible in your mind.

On the eve of the First World War, sociology student Vandyck Jennings goes on an expedition with two of his friends to search for a society rumored to consist only of women. On the way to what they will name “Herland,” Van and his friends ponder the type of women they hope or expect to see when they get there … but they find no fantasies when they arrive. Herland is an all-female, community-driven utopia. Van and his friends are skeptical of a society that doesn’t even need men to procreate, but women and girls who live there have been raised in a world removed the patriarchy of the world.

Hollywood has thrilled—and titillated—audiences with tales of women who love monsters since King Kong and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Our love affair with the ultimate “others” continued as we made the acquaintances of Barnabas Collins, Swamp Thing, the Vampire Lestat, Hellboy, and Shrek. It should come as no surprise that when ViceTV decided to do an episode on “Monsters Fantasies”, they came to Riverdale Avenue Books to interview some of those authors in an episode that aired in March 2018.

1984 is a classic novel whose relevance continues to confront us every day. Some people thought it was a book about the future of the past. The future is now. 1984 in the 21st Century offers listeners 25 different opinions and viewpoints on this seminal novel from right to left on the political spectrum, with pieces from teachers to journalists and writers, lawyers and politicians, and union activists. The essays range from academic treatises to personal reminiscences to political rants and screeds, and even fiction and theater.

Newbery Medalist Lynne Rae Perkins introduces two irresistible sisters—Alix and Jools—and takes readers on an unforgettable vacation to the beach. This is a joyful celebration of sisters, family, friendship, and the ocean. The Wall Street Journal said, “Ocean meets sky meets two young...

It's almost time for Christmas, and Maria is traveling with her mother and younger brother, Juan, to visit their grandmother on the border of California and Mexico. For the few minutes they can share together along the fence, Maria and her brother plan to exchange stories and Christmas gifts with the grandmother they haven't seen in years. But when Juan's gift is too big to fit through the slats in the fence, Maria has a brilliant idea.

Shanti misses the warm monsoon rains in India. Now in America, she watches fall leaves fly past her feet. Still, her family’s apartment feels like a village: Mama cooking luchi, funny stories in Bangla, and Baba’s big laugh. But outside, everything is different – trick-or-treating, ballet class, and English books.

Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is startling and original fiction that raises provocative questions of power and freedom, love and dependence. An enchanting and unforgettable novel based on little-known fact, Wench combines the narrative allure of Cane River by Lalita Tademy and the moral...

Train. Car. Plane. Boat. Feet. He'll get there. Won't he?...

Leon ist scharf auf die heiße Janina, die in der Tanzschule arbeitet. Doch sie beachtet ihn mit ihrer überheblichen Art überhaupt nicht. Als er dann einige Jahre später Chef einer Postfiliale ist und sie sich als Angestellte bei ihm bewirbt, hat er sie in der Hand. Endlich kann er sich für ihre Missachtung damals rächen. Um den Job zu behalten, muss sie sich scharf anziehen und ihm zu Diensten sein...

Direktor Michael Müller-Lenz handhabt Verfehlungen auf besondere Weise: Wer einer Abmahnung entgehen oder sich gute Noten »verdienen« will, kann dies durch Körpereinsatz tun. Für die geile Leonie hat er sich etwas ganz Besonderes ausgedacht.

Zehn scharfe, originelle Geschichten lassen den Puls höher schlagen. Dauergeile Frauen lassen ihrer Lust mit Studenten, Lehrern, Chefs, Angestellten oder auch mit dem eigenen Geschlecht freien Lauf und wollen befriedigt werden. Männer, die auf üppige Kurven stehen, nehmen sich, was sie begehren. Dabei kommt es nicht darauf an, wo es passiert, ob mit Mund, Hand oder Strap-on. Hauptsache, alle kommen auf ihre Kosten.

Seine Chefin Karin in ihren knappen Röcken und engen Blusen ist supersexy. Nur zu gern würde Julian es ihr besorgen. Doch bevor es dazu kommt, kündigt sie und sie verlieren sich aus den Augen. Umso erfreuter ist er, als sie sich eines Tages an anderer Stelle wieder begegnen. Ein zweites Mal will er sich die Chance nicht entgehen lassen. Doch er muss sie gar nicht lang bitten.

Als Stefan am Weihnachtsmorgen beobachtet, wie die süße Anna auf dem Parkplatz ausrutscht und sich den Fuß verstaucht, eilt er ihr sofort zu Hilfe und bringt sie zur Notaufnahme. Ihre dankbaren Eltern laden ihn spontan zum Weihnachtsfest ein und bieten ihm auch an, im Haus zu übernachten. Anna nutzt die Chance, sich bei ihm auf ihre Weise für seine Hilfe zu bedanken, und ist überrascht von seinem Stehvermögen.