Books with author JD Nelson

Use this ultimate beginner's scroll saw guide to hone your scrolling skills to perfection!25 practice exercises to build your skillsStep-by-step cutting instructions and patternsEssential information on blades, accessories, equipment, materials and proceduresLearn scrolling techniques like stack cutting, relief, inlay, compound, segmentation, and moreObjective guide to today's best scroll sawsAuthor John Nelson has taught hundreds of students how to quickly and safely use the scroll saw to make practical and beautiful projects. Now it's your turn!This book is like having an experienced scroller in your shop, looking over your shoulder to tell you step-by-step how to get great results from your scroll saw.You'll find everything you need to know here, boiled down to the best and simplest methods. Practice a specific technique in each of 25 skill-building chapters, and then use that skill to make an attractive project. As you progress, each chapter builds upon the previous skills you've already learned. By the time you've completed the book, you'll be ready to tackle any scroll saw project with experience and confidence.Begin with the basics of cutting straight, curved, and jagged lines, and then progress to more advanced techniques like stack cutting, relief, inlay, compound, segmentation, and more. Project patterns include die-cut stationery, a fish silhouette, a butterfly with interior cuts, a hummingbird ornament, and a collapsible wooden basket.This new third edition provides an objective guide to all of the scroll saw models available in today's market, updated to include information on new scroll saw manufacturers.

Little Red Hood is a modern day twist of Little Red Riding Hood, Red's mother likes to keep her safe at home. But one day Mum gives Red the opportunity to go to her go to Grandma’s on her own - as long as she doesn’t talk to any strangers along the way. Red naively tells Mr Patel, the local friendly shopkeeper (whilst buying her Gran cakes for a treat) that her Grandma has left the door on the latch because of her arthritis, unaware that their conversation is being listened to. On her journey to Grandma’s with Buster (her dog) she meets different characters. But what happens when she gets to Grandma’s? And just who is sleeping in Grandmas bed? And most importantly who is going to come to the rescue? This book is aimed at young children aged 9+REVIEW: Usborne Publishing "Original and gripping," Kate Davies, Assistant Editor, 2006

The anticipated sequel to BRIDGE DAUGHTER—Single mother Hanna Driscoll struggles to raise her “bridge daughters,” twins born pregnant with Hanna’s children. In six weeks the girls will give birth and die, leaving Hanna with two infants to raise.Then Hanna’s busy life is shaken when an activist threatens to rescue her daughters from their fate and kill the children they bear.A thriller of twists and turns, Hanna faces challenges from all sides to protect her infants-to-be…only to discover she too questions the mortality of her bridge daughters.

New York mystery writer Bill Hays became burnt out and felt his novels were repetitious, and so he moved to the Santa Fe, New Mexico in the early 1990s to broaden his perspective and renew himself. After a while, he developed a cynical attitude about this city and its affectations, but was inspired by the beauty of the landscape and wrote a literary novel, “Out-of-sort Anglo on the Lone Prairie.” The novel failed, and so to make ends meet, he now applies his literary investigative skills in some piecemeal detective work. When Juan Santiago, the scion of a Hispanic Brujo family, is murdered, his massage partner, Leslie Anne, hires Bill to investigate. After the murder of a medicine man in Taos, which appears to be payback, Bill seemingly finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly standoff between the Brujos and Medicine Men. As the energy salvos are exchanged, Bill is initiated by Juan’s older brother, don Jose, and the mysterious Carlos into the Brujo realm to summon his magical nagual to join in their behind-the-scenes battle with an evil sorcerer who would enslave us all. “John [Nelson] may indeed be a modern-day Carlos Castaneda.”Michael Langevin, author of “Secrets of the Ancient Incas”About the AuthorJohn Nelson is the author of the visionary novels “Starborn,” “Transformations,” and “Matrix of the Gods,” originally published by Hampton Roads Publishing, and more recently “I, Human” published by Cosmic Egg, and “The Miracle of Anna” by Roundfire Books. He authored the nonfiction title “The Magic Mirror,” which won the 2008 COVR Award as the best book of the year and best divination system, and “A Guide to Energetic Healing.” He is the former editorial director of Bear & Company in the late 1990s and Inner Ocean Publishing in early 2000s. Nelson is the present owner of Bookworks Ltd., where he edits fiction and nonfiction books for a variety of authors and publishers. This includes “The Sacred Promise” by Gary Schwartz, “The White House Doctor” by Dr. Connie Mariano, “The 12-Step Buddhist,” “Yoga and the Twelve-Step Path,” “The Buddha Speaks,” “Bright Light” by Dee Wallace, and Jacob Liberman’s “Luminous Light.”Nelson has been a yogi and a meditator for fifty years and brings an expanded consciousness perspective to all that he writes. His fiction is a blend of hard science, science fiction, and psycho-spiritual insights, and his nonfiction is based on his metaphysical explorations. His website: www.johnnelsonbookworks.com.

Fans of John Green, The Handmaid's Tale and 1984 will love this dark but clever dystopian thriller with a romantic twist.Meet fifteen-year-old Vela Anderson, whose motto is laugh or you’ll go crazy, borrowed from her missing father who unfortunately seems to have done the latter. Not that Vela gets to laugh much: between her hyper-vigilant mother and the egomaniac president that rose to power during two wars that wiped out much of the world, Vela’s learned to be careful about what she says, and more importantly, who she trusts.Unfortunately the one thing the wars left untouched was high school, which Vela’s just started, enduring the endless memorization and classroom politicking that are necessary to keep the stars on her armband, which will used to sort students on graduation.However Vela’s world is about to change forever when a relative she’s never met is mysteriously pardoned and sent to live with her family. As his behavior grows more and more erratic Vela begins to piece together clues that suggest everything she’s learned about her family and country might be a wrong. But it isn’t she meets a boy in her grade with a dark family secret of his own that she discovers the truth about the world she lives in and takes her first step towards unlocking the rebel’s code.

KINDLE SCOUT WINNER - Young Hanna thinks her thirteenth birthday will be no different than the one before--until her mother explains the facts of life. Hanna is a "bridge daughter," born pregnant with her parents' child. In a few months she will give birth and die,leaving her parents with their true daughter.A mature bookworm who dreams of college and career, Hanna is determined to overcome her biological fate. Navigating through a world eerily like our own, she confronts unyielding attitudes and instinctive fears as old as humankind itself.Then Hanna learns of an illegal procedure that will allow her to live to adulthood...at the cost of the child's life.

The Bridge Daughter Cycle continues with STRANGER SON. Now a grown woman, Ruby Driscoll lives by her wits on the street while her mother languishes in prison. A tip from a familiar name sends Ruby digging through her family's deepest secrets while seeking out her long-lost younger brother. Her journey leads to the heart of Jefferson, America's newest and fifty-first state. Ruby must reunite her family while avoiding authorities, hiding her true nature—and staying alive.

In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law—he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his antiwar stances in the sixties—but nothing could prepare him for the wretched bog that constituted the world of a Harbor Boss. Director of Harbors and Marine Services was a position so mired in corruption that its previous four directors ended up in federal prison. Nelson inherited angry constituents, prying journalists, shell-shocked employees, and a tobacco-stained office still bearing a busted door that had been smashed in by the FBI. Undeterred, Nelson made it his personal mission to become a “pneumacrat,” a public servant who, for the common good, always follows the spirit—if not always the letter—of the law.Dirty Waters is a wry, no-holds-barred memoir of Nelson’s time controlling some of the city’s most beautiful spots while facing some of its ugliest traditions. A guide like no other, Nelson takes us through Chicago’s beloved “blue spaces” and deep into the city’s political morass. He reveals the different moralities underlining three mayoral administrations, from Harold Washington to Richard M. Daley, and navigates us through the gritty mechanisms of the Chicago machine. He also deciphers the sometimes insular world of boaters and their fraught relationship with their land-based neighbors. Ultimately, Dirty Waters is a tale of morality, of what it takes to be a force for good in the world and what struggles come from trying to stay ethically afloat in a sea of corruption.

We often think about what our children will inherit from those who have gone before them.But what about the one inheritance that will last forever?Christian parents have already faced the reality of their own sin, helplessness, and need for a Savior. And, though our young children’s lives often seem simpler than ours, their spiritual predicament is every bit as real. They are never too young to hear God's good news for them as they face eternity—but, as a parent, you may be wondering how to explain it to them in a way they can understand.Jill Nelson demonstrates that even young children can learn about the gospel—not just in general, but in full detail! In this illustrated guide for parents to read with five- through ten-year-old children, she lays out God’s plan of salvation, starting with his very first designs for creation and moving through what went wrong, how important and hopeless our situation truly is, and what the wonderful news of our Savior’s sacrifice means for us.Don’t just prepare your children for this life—prepare them for the one that matters most!"Tackling the difficulty of helping children understand the significance of the cross, Jill Nelson clearly and carefully leads her audience through their plight (the bad news of sin) and the rescue promised in the garden (the good news of salvation through the death and resurrection of Jesus). . . . Emphasizing key biblical truths written winsomely in a style children can understand, God’s Gospel is an excellent primer on the good news of salvation in Christ."—Sally Michael, Cofounder, Children Desiring GodJill Nelson taught Sunday school for more than twenty years before becoming a Sunday school curriculum writer and a blog director for Children Desiring God. She and her husband, Bruce, have two adult children and a growing number of grandchildren.

'I just don't want to live anymore.'' Those can be scary words to hear from a friend. But what your friend really means is: ''I want help from someone to feel good about living.'' You can be that someone - and this book tells you how. The Power to Prevent Suicide. A Guide for Teens Helping Teens When teens were asked, ''Who would you tell about wanting to commit suicide?'' 90 percent said they would tell a friend first. The Power to Prevent Suicide shows how young people like you can be a friend who cares and knows what to do. In this book, you'll learn: Why someone might want to die? What you need to know about suicide and suicidal people? How to recognize the warning signs of a person who's suicidal? How to reach out to a friend in danger?, How to get help for someone who's suicidal? How to help yourself when you're feeling depressed or overwhelmed? How to get your school and community involved in teen suicide prevention Praise for the original edition of The Power to Prevent Suicide.