Books with author Jack Davenport

Start with a heart shape . . . and end with a beautiful finished piece of art!You’ll love Jane Davenport’s fabulous, fun, and amazingly easy technique for drawing figures. For aspiring artists, drawing people can be intimidating—but it doesn’t have to be. Over years working as a fashion illustrator, Jane Davenport devised her own method of creating in-proportion figures. Her clever core technique involves using equal-size hearts to build the body’s structure. And Jane’s results have been astounding: her students go from “I can’t draw a stick figure” to producing gorgeous, well-proportioned illustrations. After laying out the basics, her imaginative guide walks you through working with different mediums; drawing the head, face, clothing, hair, and features; and constructing figures inspired by fashion, fantasy, life drawing, and more.

Are you aware of what God is doing in your life? He's growing something. . . . God wants to grow great things in the lives of His people. I Am a Field uses the powerful metaphor of God as the farmer and our lives as the field to show us not only who we are but also who God is and how we can recognize His work in our lives. Interweaving Scripture with engaging stories as well as humor, catch a fresh glimpse of God in your life and renew your desire to experience more of Him and impact the world around you.

When you're at the top, there's nowhere to go but down.Two talented skaters. Two bright futures. Two shining stars. One ruined by a career-ending scandal and another by a father's ruthless ambition.Marina Sanders was the darling of the winter games, winning a bronze in figure skating one week after losing both parents in a car accident. Four years later, she was the most hated woman in America.Drew Delacorte was the future of the Sockeyes hockey team, crowned the best young player in the league and heir-apparent to the hockey throne once occupied by his father. Only Drew doesn't want that throne. Despite being in the prime of his career, he's considering hanging up his skates.Together they're fire and ice, and when things get that hot, they melt. Can these two broken souls find comfort and courage in each other's arms or will they find only pain and regret?

Includes "Crashing the Boards" novella as bonus material.Hockey star Cooper Black and professional party crasher Izzy Maxwell return in this sequel to Crashing the Boards.Jealous boyfriends and glitzy parties can be a recipe for disaster. When the gorgeous yet controlling Cooper interrupts a party Izzy was paid to crash and almost ruins her career as a professional party crasher, Izzy kicks him to the curb. She learned early in life not to count on anyone, and she will not relinquish her independence, not even to a sexy-as-sin pro athlete who can melt her heart with one wink.As the Sockeyes hockey team opens their inaugural season in Seattle, Cooper finds himself minus a girlfriend and plus a surly teenaged nephew. Cooper doesn't want to be a surrogate dad, he doesn't want to play in Seattle, and he doesn't want to be alone. He misses Izzy, but seeing her with other men at parties turns him every shade of green. Regardless, he wants her back, and he's willing to change, if only she'll give him a second chance. Aware of her precarious finances, Cooper makes an offer she can't refuse by hiring her to be responsible for his nephew when he's traveling with the team.Fearing Cooper isn't capable of changing his control-freak ways, Izzy resists his efforts to turn their financial arrangement into a personal relationship. He needs a sweet, docile girlfriend, and Izzy cannot be that woman. Yet, when tragedy strikes, Izzy is there when Cooper needs her the most, and love has a way of getting what it wants, no matter the circumstances.

This collection is comprised of three previously published novellas which feature Blake and Sarah and the Wolfe brothers.Love at First SnowFour years ago on Christmas Eve, NHL defenseman Blake Daniels lost his entire family in a floatplane crash. This Christmas, a small gray kitten struggling to survive in a snowstorm introduces him to the healing power of love.Hearts on IceDrawn together by tragedy and broken apart by practicality, can two lost souls find each other again during a magical holiday season?A Wolfe Brothers ChristmasSpending their first Christmas together in years, the Wolfe brothers fumbling attempts to create good memories go awry.

Candide, published simultaneously in five European capitals in 1759, became an instant bestseller and is now regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. Voltaire’s preoccupations with evil and with various kinds of human folly and intolerance found a perfect vehicle in the philosophical tale. A master storyteller, he combined often wildly entertaining action with profoundly serious sense, parodying the traditional chivalric and oriental tales with which his public was more familiar to create a witty allegory of a young man whose optimism gives way to disillusionment after a series of terrible misfortunes.

God wants to grow great things in the lives of His people. I Am a Field uses the powerful metaphor of God as the farmer and our lives as the field to show us not only who we are but also who God is and how we can recognize His work in our lives. Interweaving Scripture with engaging stories as well as humor, catch a fresh glimpse of God in your life and renew your desire to experience more of Him and impact the world around you.

Kind Words is the youngest reader's book on teaching positive, healthy communication. Geared for ages five and up, Kind Words explores the difference between words that are kind and helpful and words that are mean and hurtful. The repeated message that "kind words are the glue that help keep us together" supports healthy relationships and respect for each other at an early age. The reader will explore how they feel when different words are spoken to them. The reader will learn that when mean and hurtful words are said to them, it is not their fault, they are not alone, and it is okay to ask for help. Together we can make a difference by continuing to support positive, healthy, and safe relationships in our homes, in our neighborhoods, and in our schools.

Are you aware of what God is doing in your life? He's growing something. . . . God wants to grow great things in the lives of His people. I Am a Field uses the powerful metaphor of God as the farmer and our lives as the field to show us not only who we are but also who God is and how we can recognize His work in our lives. Interweaving Scripture with engaging stories as well as humor, catch a fresh glimpse of God in your life and renew your desire to experience more of Him and impact the world around you.