Be a better writer in 26 days with the ABC Book of Literary Devices. One literary device for each letter of the alphabet is introduced and defined in easy to understand language. Two examples for each device are provided as models, one from published works and one from the author. Workbook space allows practice using each device. The author's complete short story, composed from each of her examples, is included at the end of the text. (Note: While this is a good educational tool for middle grades through adult education, it is not appropriate for the elementary level student.)

ABC Book of Literary Devices

Education & Teaching

Adams, Lucy

Schools & Teaching

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Crunch, crunch. Swish, swish. What is that noise in the night? What will the Beast of Blue Mountain eat? A just right scary story for the young and the fearful. Everyone loves a campfire tale that ends well. Simple language and limited suspense make it an appropriate read aloud selection for young children.

The Beast of Blue Mountain: A Campfire Story for the Fearful

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

This book is her journey from the time her daughter left her home in 2014 until the present date. Five years of estrangement, her fears, her sorrow, and her transformation from a Prodigal Child to a woman held in faith.

From Prodigal to Held, A Diary of Hurt and Hope

Self-Help

AuthorHouse

The HR Change Toolkit: Your complete guide to making it happen

Lucy Adams's bestselling HR Disrupted (2017) called for a radical change in how we treat our most important resource of all - our people. Now she has created the handbook for HR professionals, showing exactly how to go about making the change to create a function fit for world-leading 21st century organisations.It's hard to make change happen in HR. If you're a HR manager with good ideas on making things work better that's frustrating enough, but for organisations that fail to respond to the way the world is changing the results could be fatal. In this insightful, practical book the world's top HR disruptor - Lucy Adams - explains why HR needs to change its approach if it’s to be successful in transforming its organisations. She also shares workable strategies for getting your own HR team ready, preparing the ground in your organisation, designing your change and implementing it effectively.It's up to you to lead the way - here's what you need to make it happen.

Business & Money

Business Culture

Practical Inspiration Publishing

The new and updated edition of the classic work on Disruptive HR. &nbsp;The way we work is changing fast, and traditional HR is no longer fit for purpose. Equipping our organizations to meet today's demands requires something very different. This book provides HR professionals with: a compelling case for changing HR practical people solutions for a disrupted world &nbsp;strategies to make the changes they need ways to equip HR with the right capabilities and mindset

HR Disrupted: It’s time for something different (2nd Edition)

It's hard to make change happen in HR. If you're a HR manager with good ideas on making things work better that's frustrating enough, but for organisations that fail to respond to the way the world is changing the results could be fatal. 
In this insightful, practical book the world's top HR disruptor - Lucy Adams - explains why HR needs to change its approach if it's to be successful in transforming its organisations. She also shares workable strategies for getting your own HR team ready, preparing the ground in your organisation, designing your change and implementing it effectively. 
It's up to you to lead the way - here's what you need to make it happen.

Management & Leadership

HR has lost its way and needs to find a new direction. The central question this book sets out to answer is: if we are to survive and thrive in this new, volatile business world, how do we lead, manage, engage and support our employees in a radically different way? HR departments, and companies, need to transform their approach. This entails not simply tinkering with the process or the mechanics, but taking a completely fresh look at the entire scenario. It’s the difference between spending hours deciding how many grades there should be in an employee grading system, and asking if grading people actually increases their ability to perform better in the first place. To achieve this change, Disruptive HR has three pillars: 1. Treating employees as adults not children 2. Treating employees as consumers or customers (not a one-size-fits-all approach) 3. Treating employees as human beings EACH: Employees as Adults, Consumers and Human beings. (Each of us is different, each of us deserves better.) So what happens when you read this book? First, there’s the lightbulb moment: ‘I do that and I hadn’t even realised it’. Then you’ll see what this means for you and your organisation, with practical tools, ideas and techniques so you can start making changes immediately. And finally, the hard bit: this book will help you introduce this new thinking to others in your business.

HR Disrupted: It's time for something different

Human Resources

Ever laughed when you knew you shouldn't?  Battled with Satan over chocolate?  Forgotten to wear lipstick to the Garden Club meeting?  Tried to define variorium?  At times like these, what else can you do but Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run?In her much awaited second book, award winning writer Lucy Adams, author of If Mama Don't Laugh, It Ain't Funny, takes readers on a roller-coaster ride through life's most embarrassing moments and delivers them safely on the other side.  In her usual form, Adams gives readers an eye-watering, nose-snorting, giggling gift of a good time.Join a 40 year-old bridesmaid on her journey to walk down the aisle, delve into a magnolia massacre, attend a hawg killin' with the communists, do some island living country style, and inflict vicarious revenge on the inventor of the balloon.  Adams's wit will make you turn around and check your own underwear. Best of all we each can relax in the realization that we're not the only ones running with our skirts tucked in our panties.Praise for Tuck Your Skirt In Your Panties and Run"Humorist Lucy Adams has found her voice!" - Tripp Bowden, author of Freddie & Me:  Life Lessons from Freddie Bennett, Augusta National's Legendary Caddy Master"Pour a tall glass of sweet iced tea, sit back and relax on the front porch and savor the down-home humor of Ms. Adams, but be warned, the tea's just as cold coming out through your nose." - Rick Rantamacki, author of Mental Notes - From the Brink of Reality"Reading anything written by Lucy Adams is like solving the problems of the world, particularly the world of family life, over a cup of coffee with your best girlfriend. Her prose takes the mundane, morose and maddening things that are part of everyday life and weaves them into stories that will have you laughing, crying and mostly realizing that yes, you are pretty much like everyone else." - Karin Calloway, editor, Augusta Family Magazine and author of Quick Cooking with Karin Calloway  About the AuthorLucy Adams graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.S. in education then went on to earn an M.S. in psychology from Augusta State University. A syndicated columnist, she currently writes a humor column for several newspapers in Georgia and Tennessee. She also teaches second grade. If Mama Don't Laugh is Lucy's first book. Lucy lives in Thomson, Georgia with her husband and four children. In her spare time, she breathes and washes clothes.

Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Palm Tree Press

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ABC Book of Literary Devices

The Beast of Blue Mountain: A Campfire Story for the Fearful

From Prodigal to Held, A Diary of Hurt and Hope

The HR Change Toolkit: Your complete guide to making it happen

HR Disrupted: It’s time for something different (2nd Edition)

The HR Change Toolkit: Your complete guide to making it happen

HR Disrupted: It's time for something different

Tuck Your Skirt in Your Panties and Run