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Books with author S McPherson

  • When Waves Collide

    S McPherson

    Paperback (S McPherson Books, Nov. 20, 2018)
    Will any survive when the worlds collide?The world has fallen to chaos and adversaries are closing in.Yvane is in the clutches of the enemy. Milo is battling his hidden demons. Lexovia learns a lesson in loyalty. And Dezaray finds herself on a hunt for the ones who may not exist.Shifters, mortals, sorcerers and monsters; the more they try to come together, the more that seems to divide them. But when gearing up for the battle to end all battles, they can’t afford to turn on each other. If they do, none will survive when all the worlds collide. The final instalment of The Last Elentrice series COMING SPRING 2019“This series is a must read!’- Amazon Reviewer“This series just gets better and better.” – Carol M. Phipps, Bestselling Author of WHAM!
  • How to Learn: The 10 Principles of Effective Revision & Practice

    Fiona McPherson

    eBook (Wayz Press, Dec. 29, 2013)
    Working ‘hard’ is not enough. To be an effective student, you need to work ‘smart’.This book is for students who are serious about being successful in study, and teachers who want to know how best to help their students learn. For being a successful student is far more about being a smart user of effective strategies than about being 'smart'. In Effective Notetaking and Mnemonics for Study, Dr McPherson showed readers many strategies for improving understanding and memory. But these on their own can only take you so far, if you don’t know how to cement that information into your brain for the long term. In this new book, Dr McPherson explains the 10 principles of effective practice and revision.Few students know how to revise effectively, which is why they waste so much time going over and over material, as they try to hammer it into their heads. But you don’t need to spend all that time, and you don’t need to endure such boredom. What you need to do is understand how to review your learning in the most effective way. Using examples from science, math, history, foreign languages, and skill learning, that is what this book aims to teach you.This book will tell youwhat you should practice or revise how you should practicehow often you should practicehow far apart you should schedule your sessionsdifferent strategies you can use in your practicehow skill learning differs from 'fact' learningand more.As always with the Mempowered books, this book uses the latest cognitive and educational research to show you what to do to maximize your learning.
  • Bad to the Bone: Fifteen Young Bible Heroes Who Lived Radical Lives for God

    Miles McPherson

    eBook (Bethany House, Aug. 1, 1999)
    The stories of 15 biblical heroes teach that teens can devote themselves to Christ and live lives that go against the grain. Ages 13-17.
  • Effective Notetaking

    Fiona McPherson

    Hardcover (Wayz Press, Nov. 12, 2018)
    You can predict how well a student will do simply on the basis of their use of effective study strategies.This book is for college students who are serious about being successful in study, and teachers who want to know how best to help their students learn.Being a successful student is far more about being a smart user of effective strategies than about being 'smart'. Research has shown it is possible to predict how well a student will do simply on the basis of their use of study strategies.This workbook looks at the most important group of study strategies - how to take notes (with advice on how to read a textbook and how to prepare for a lecture). You'll be shown how to: format your notes use headings and highlighting how to write different types of text summaries and pictorial ones, including concept maps and mind maps (you'll find out the difference, and the pros and cons of each) ask the right questions make the right connections review your notes evaluate text to work out which strategy is appropriate. There's advice on individual differences and learning styles, and on how to choose the strategies that are right for both you and the situation. Using effective notetaking strategies will help you remember what you read. It will help you understand more, and set you on the road to becoming an expert (or at least getting good grades!). Successful studying isn't about hours put in, it's about spending your time wisely. You want to study smarter not harder. As always with the Mempowered books, this thorough (and fully referenced) workbook doesn't re-hash the same tired advice that's been peddled for so long. Rather, Effective notetaking builds on the latest cognitive and educational research to help you study for success. This revised edition includes review questions and advance organizers for each chapter.
  • The Dickens Connection

    Joyce McPherson

    language (Candleford Press, Aug. 5, 2016)
    When the SBI whisks Stella and her friends to England, no one will tell them why they are needed. But they soon find their own clues as they enter the fascinating world of Camp Dickens and work to prevent a looming disaster.
  • Artist of the Reformation: The Story of Albrecht DĂźrer

    Joyce McPherson

    eBook (, June 8, 2018)
    A biography of Albrecht DĂźrer, one of the most influential artists of the Renaissance and Reformation. In addition to creating hundreds of engravings, woodcuts, drawings, and paintings, he wrote books on geometry, fortification, and human proportions. He explored the meaning of beauty in his art textbook, which was called "Food for Young Artists." The Christian worldview which he brought to the field of art is still relevant today. DĂźrer was counted among the leading intellectuals of the sixteenth century. He witnessed the coming Reformation and made the acquaintance of men such as Erasmus, Martin Luther, Melanchthon, and the Emperor Maximilian. Though he created works of art for wealthy patrons, he made his woodcuts affordable for ordinary people. In this way, DĂźrer brought the Bible to a wide audience through his brilliant illustrations of the book of Revelation and other themes. This biography includes over twenty illustrations by Albrecht DĂźrer, who wrote: "Painting is a useful art when it is of a godly sort and employed for holy edification." The life and art of DĂźrer is food not only for young artists, but for all who seek beauty and truth. This book is written on a 5th-6th grade reading level, but younger children will enjoy having it read aloud to them.
  • The Revere Factor

    Joyce McPherson

    language (Candleford Press, Aug. 5, 2016)
    Stella and her friends return to Camp Hawthorne, a magical place where young people find their hidden gifts. But from the beginning everything goes wrong. Ellen has lost her special powers, Lindsey can't make it to camp, and the new camp counselor thinks Stella is a troublemaker. Even worse, Stella soon discovers that Dr. Card is still at work.
  • Fractured: Dereck Dillinger and the Shortcut to Oz

    Eddie McPherson

    language (BookBaby, May 4, 2017)
    Dereck, is a normal thirteen-year-old boy who has agreed to take care of his five-year-old sister, Jessie, while their mother is away overnight. As the big brother, he intends to keep his sister safe, taking on the role of their dad who died in a car accident the year before.Derek loves his sister, but her constant need of his attention is starting to get on his nerves. However his mom is always reminding him to spend time with his little sister.The only thing Jessie wants Dereck to do is read fairy tales to her, though he would prefer they do anything else like shoot bottle rockets or throw a baseball around. When Jessie takes a nap, a violent storm moves in, causing Dereck to stumble down the steps to the cellar of their home. When Jessie screams out for help, Dereck imagines a tree crashing through her window, trapping his sister in her room. Trying to run to his sister’s rescue, he falls through the cellar floor and wakes up in Oz - an Oz filled with all the fairy-tale characters Jessie loves (and he hates) so much.Right away Dereck meets a farmer and his wife who live on the far side of a cornfield that grows beside the yellow road that weaves itself through Oz. The couple is waiting on the Dorothy girl from Kansas to pass by so they can make a deal with her. If she helps them catch a pesky man-sized crow, they will give her a secret map that shows a shortcut to the Emerald City. But when Miss Glinda warns the farm girl not to take the shortcut, Dereck, with the help of the six-foot crow, decides to ‘borrow’ the map without the farmer’s knowledge so that Dereck can rush to the Wizard as quickly as possible so the great Oz might send him back to his sister who, he knew, was yelling for him to help her. Dereck meets Miss Glinda’s personal assistant who has dressed herself like the good witch and calls herself Glindalina. Right before his eyes, the Wicked Witch of the West talks the assistant into becoming her evil assistant so she can help her make sure Dorothy will get the shortcut map, take the shortcut, and die so the green witch can get her hands on the silver slippers she wants from the farm girl so badly. Miss Glinda is livid and scares the wicked witch away so that she won’t be able to give Dorothy the shortcut map.With the help of Crow, Dereck sneaks the map from Miss Glinda, and takes off down the yellow road where he battles a giant, a wolf, an ogre and somehow loses the yellow road, winding up in the middle of a thick forest where he runs into a little girl who wears a red cloak. The girl introduces him to her grandmother who brings out an old photograph of a young man who favors Dereck a good deal. But how could that be? Within the short visit, the old lady finds out about Dereck planning to take the shortcut and gives him a safety charm since she heard that the shortcut between the yellow road and the Emerald City is a very dangerous path. Dereck makes it to the shortcut path, finding a beautiful lady who quickly morphs into an ugly hag and tells Dereck he must die so that she and the other creatures kept captive there will be freed at last.Dereck remembers bottle rockets in his backpack and uses them to destroy the creature and catch the surrounding forest on fire. Miss Glinda calls for a dragon to take Dereck home then and there. When Dereck arrives back to his house, he finds Jessie hiding in her bedroom closet as the storm outside has started to move away.A few days later, Dereck notices in the artwork of Jessie’s fairy tale books, small things in the background like he had seen on his journey but were never mentioned in the age-old stories. He discovers the artist is from his own hometown and looks up the artist’s picture, realizing he looks very familiar and suddenly remembers the old photograph that Red’s grandma had shown him. That was the artist who had looked like him.But how could that be? Had the artist been to the same place? Dereck may never
  • Ransomware and Murder: A Jack Sharp MD Novel

    Scott McPherson MD

    Paperback (Esengo Publishing, May 1, 2019)
    A murderous hacker is holding the hospital for ransom! In this new Jack Sharp, MD novel, Ransomware and Murder, Jack’s Family Practice office is in trouble. Their finances just don’t make sense and as hard as Jack and his partners work, they can’t understand why they aren’t doing better. Just as they come up with some strategies for improvement, the computer systems go down.Detective Rebecca Sweate’s plate is filling up fast. While dealing with a murder investigation centered in St. Francis Hospital, the hospital system is hacked and attacked with ransomware! Pulled in different directions Detective Sweate, the lead investigator, has her hands tied when the police station loses computer access. They’re hacked and attacked as well. She can’t decide if this murder is tied to the cyber-attack but she will pit her best officers and information technologists against the hacker. Then, as if she doesn’t have enough to deal with, the FBI comes in to take over.Married only a few years, Jack is trying to adapt to raising a teenager. His adopted daughter is growing up fast and he realizes how little he knows about teens. The struggles in his office weigh on his mind and a dark cloud rising up from his past, draws him in. Before he even knows he’s at risk, Jack becomes a victim.Looking for a fast-paced mystery that will keep you guessing? Click on the “Look Inside” feature and dive into Jack’s world. Then download your copy of Ransomware and Murder.
  • Caught in the Ripples

    S McPherson

    Paperback (Nielsen, June 26, 2016)
    When the Exlathars escaped the battle that night, their silhouetted figures merged with the sky, their wings swatted at stars and the Coltis people were too busy celebrating their victory to realise that there wasn’t one. Now the Exlathars are back. And they bring with them remnants of everybody’s past. Back in England, Dezaray discovers just how deep Coldivor’s connection to Earth really goes. But she cannot change their past and she cannot see how to alter their future. So it seems the ripples that shake the surface are only a glimpse of what’s brewing beneath. The young adult fantasy, 'Caught in the Ripples' delves deeper into the Water Rushes saga, answers questions the first book raised and plunges you into an ocean of intrigue and magic. They thought the Elenfar was the end…turns out it was only the beginning. "Caught in the Ripples by S. McPherson takes up the tale of magic, mayhem and other dimensions where magic is real and like the human world, there is always evil trying to impose itself on others."
  • Shania Streep Wanted to Sleep

    S McPherson

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, April 8, 2017)
    A little girls night time adventure.Shania Streep wanted to sleep but was being kept awake by a strange sound,she looked left, she looked right, she looked up, she looked down, but the cause of the sound could not be found.
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  • The River Of Grace: A Story Of John Calvin

    Joyce McPherson

    Paperback (Greenleaf Press, June 1, 1999)
    This is the only biography of Calvin available for young people. Joyce focuses on Calvin's childhood and youth, tracing his days at the university and the circumstances of his conversion. She traces his early and precocious leadership of the Protestants in France, and his flight to Basel, Strassburg, and Geneva when King Francis I began executing Protestants. The result is a warm and affectionate picture of the leader of the second generation of the Protestant Reformation. This is a book worth reading out loud to younger students; older students and adults will find it a valuable introduction and aid in understanding the author of The Institutes of the Christian Religion.