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Hooked

Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go

By: Les Edgerton

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Hooked

Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go

By: Les Edgerton

The road to rejection is paved with bad beginnings. Agents and editors agree: Improper story beginnings are the single biggest barrier to publication. Why? If a novel or short story has a bad beginning, then no one will keep reading. It's just that simple. In Hooked, author Les Edgerton draws on his experience as a successful fiction writer and teacher to help you overcome the weak openings that lead to instant rejection by showing you how to successfully use the ten core components inherent to any great beginning. You'll find: • Detailed instruction on how to develop your inciting incident • Keys for creating a cohesive story-worthy problem • Tips on how to avoid common opening gaffes like overusing backstory • A rundown on basics such as opening scene length and transitions • A comprehensive analysis of more than twenty great opening lines from novels and short stories Plus, you'll discover exclusive insider advice from agents and acquiring editors on what they look for in a strong opening. With Hooked, you'll have all the information you need to craft a compelling beginning that lays the foundation for an irresistible story!

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1582976910

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Hooked

Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go

By: Les Edgerton

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Hooked

Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go

By: Les Edgerton

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1582974578

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Perfect Game USA and the Future of Baseball

How the Remaking of Youth Scouting Affects the National Pastime

By: Les Edgerton

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Perfect Game USA and the Future of Baseball

How the Remaking of Youth Scouting Affects the National Pastime

By: Les Edgerton

For decades baseball scouts have beat the bushes for talent, wandering throughout the United States in search of promising young players. But technology and competition have recently brought about big changes, as potential stars are identified as early as Little League. The largest such scouting and development service, Perfect Game USA, has become the primary pipeline to college and professional baseball, with its participants accounting for more than 70 percent of the players taken in the 2007 amateur draft. This book looks at the history, methods, and impact of Perfect Game USA, which continues to change the landscape of youth baseball.

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McFarland

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0786452374

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9780786452378

Surviving Little League

For Players, Parents, and Coaches

By: Les Edgerton,Mike Edgerton

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Surviving Little League

For Players, Parents, and Coaches

By: Les Edgerton,Mike Edgerton

A humorous look at the experiences and people connected with Little League baseball.

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Taylor Trade Publications

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1589790677

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9781589790674

The Sāṁkhyakārikā of Īśvarakṛṣṇa

A Sanskrit Study Guide

By: Les Morgan

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The Sāṁkhyakārikā of Īśvarakṛṣṇa

A Sanskrit Study Guide

By: Les Morgan

Sāṁkhya is one of the main branches of Indian philosophy. It explores the relationship between consciousness and the material world. Debates between Sāṁkhya adherents, Vedantic philosophers, and Buddhist thinkers examined fundamental concepts of existence, mind, and the nature of reality. Sāṁkhya ideas appear in many other Indian texts, including the Bhagavadgītā and Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras, as well as in Indian Buddhist thought. This workbook presents the most important text of classical Sāṁkhya, the Sāṁkhyakārikā of Īśvarakṛṣṇa, which summarizes the system in just 72 verses. The text is arranged for use by both general readers and Sanskrit students. It includes an English translation, a word-by-word analysis of the Sanskrit grammar and vocabulary, metrical analysis, and references.

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Createspace

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146648814X

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9781466488144

Beyond Climate Fixes

From Public Controversy to System Change

By: Les Levidow

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Beyond Climate Fixes

From Public Controversy to System Change

By: Les Levidow

Political elites have been evading the causes of climate change through deceptive fixes. Their market-type instruments such as carbon trading aim to incentivise technological innovation which will supposedly decarbonize or replace dominant high-carbon systems. In practice this techno-market framework has perpetuated climate change and social injustices, thus provoking public controversy. Using this opportunity, social movements have counterposed low-carbon, resource-light, socially just alternatives. Such transformative mobilisations can fulfil the popular slogan, ‘System Change Not Climate Change’. This book develops key critical concepts through case studies such as GM crops, biofuels, waste incineration and Green New Deal agendas.

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Policy Press

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1529222400

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9781529222401

Aquatic Monocotyledons of North America

Ecology, Life History, and Systematics

By: Donald H. Les

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Aquatic Monocotyledons of North America

Ecology, Life History, and Systematics

By: Donald H. Les

This book brings together information on the natural history, ecology and systematics of North American aquatic monocotyledons. The book is an overview of the biology of major aquatic species by compiling information from numerous sources that lie scattered among the primary literature, herbarium databases, and other reference sources. Information on more than 300 species in 87 genera of monocotyledons will be included. Recent phylogenetic analyses will be incorporated. Although focusing specifically on North America, the cosmopolitan distribution of many aquatic plants should make this an attractive text to people working virtually anywhere outside of the region as well. Key Selling Features: The primary source of natural history information on aquatic plants Comprehensive lists of ecological associates Synthetic overview of systematic relationships of aquatic species and genera Practical information for rare and invasive plant managers Essential guide to facilitate wetland delineation

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666

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CRC Press

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1351679686

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9781351679688

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

By: Les Payne,Tamara Payne

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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

By: Les Payne,Tamara Payne

An epic, award-winning biography of Malcolm X that draws on hundreds of hours of personal interviews and rewrites much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic, National Book Award–winning biography, which interweaves previously unknown details of Malcolm X’s life—from harrowing Depression-era vignettes to a moment-by-moment retelling of the 1965 assassination—into an extraordinary account that contextualizes Malcolm X’s life against the wider currents of American history. Bookended by essays from Tamara Payne, Payne’s daughter and primary researcher, who heroically completed the biography after her father’s death in 2018, The Dead Are Arising affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle.

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Liveright Publishing

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1631491679

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9781631491672

The Bill of Rights Primer

A Citizen's Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights

By: Akhil Reed Amar,Les Adams

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The Bill of Rights Primer

A Citizen's Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights

By: Akhil Reed Amar,Les Adams

Many Americans reference the Bill of Rights, a document that represents many of the freedoms that define the United States. Who doesn’t know about the First Amendment’s freedom of religion or Second Amendment’s right to bear arms? In this pocket-sized volume, Akhil Reed Amar and Les Adams offer a wealth of knowledge about the Bill of Rights that goes beyond a basic understanding. The Bill of Rights Primer is an authoritative guide to all American freedoms. Uncluttered and well-organized, this text is perfect for those who want to study up on the Bill of Rights without needing a law degree to do so. This elementary guidebook presents a short historical survey of the people, events, decrees, legislation, writings, and cultural milestones, in England and the American colonies, that influenced the Founding Fathers as they drafted the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. With helpful comments and fun facts in the margins, the book will provide a deeper understanding of the Bill of Rights, exhibiting that it is not a stagnant document but one with an evolving meaning shaped by historical events, such as the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Skyhorse

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1628733985

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9781628733983

The Rapist

By: Les Edgerton

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The Rapist

By: Les Edgerton

The Rapist introduces us to Truman Ferris Pinter, an amoral man occupying a prison cell for a heinous crime committed years earlier. Master storyteller Les Edgerton guides us on a haunting journey inside the criminal mind to show that no matter how depraved a person appears to be, there might still exist a spark of humanity.

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0985578629

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9780985578626

Do Fishes Get Thirsty?

By: Les Kaufman

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Do Fishes Get Thirsty?

By: Les Kaufman

Explains, using a question-and-answer format, the differences between several fish and other aquatic species.

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0531109925

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9780531109922

Adrenaline Junkie

A Memoir

By: Les Edgerton

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Adrenaline Junkie

A Memoir

By: Les Edgerton

Meet a real-life, twenty-first-century Renaissance man. A real-life ADRENALINE JUNKIE, a Memoir by Les Edgerton.

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1948235412

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9781948235419

The Bitch

By: Les Edgerton

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The Bitch

By: Les Edgerton

Ex-con Jake Bishop is several years past his second stint in prison and has completely reformed. He's married, expecting a child, and preparing to open his own hair salon. But then an old cellmate re-enters his life begging for a favor: to help him with a burglary. Forced by his code of ethics to perform the crime, Jake's once idyllic life quickly plunges into an abyss. Jake soon realizes that there is only one way out of this purgatory . . . and it may rupture his soul beyond repair.

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Hooked

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Hooked

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Perfect Game USA and the Future of Baseball

Perfect Game USA and the Future of Baseball

Surviving Little League

Surviving Little League

The Sāṁkhyakārikā of Īśvarakṛṣṇa

The Sāṁkhyakārikā of Īśvarakṛṣṇa

Beyond Climate Fixes

Beyond Climate Fixes

Aquatic Monocotyledons of North America

Aquatic Monocotyledons of North America

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

The Bill of Rights Primer

The Bill of Rights Primer

The Rapist

The Rapist

Do Fishes Get Thirsty?

Do Fishes Get Thirsty?

Adrenaline Junkie

Adrenaline Junkie

The Bitch

The Bitch

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