Shepherd shows step-by-step how to make an improv movie, with a camcorder and a small or large group of colleagues, friends, or family. It starts with a brainstorming session to create a scenario, or theme, which breaks out a story line into locations, suggests activities to give players focus, and describes what happens between players—but not how the scene must end. The hallmark of improv is surprise. The book is stoked with games he invented, such as the ones on the popular TV show, “Whose Line Is It Anyway,” to help players feel at ease on camera, develop imagination, and create characters with focus. There are jobs explained for those who want the excitement of movie-making without performing. There is a Fast Lane for the hands-on learner to zip through the book learning experientially. Examples at every step inspire creativity and teamwork, including case studies, interviews with experts, and his own experience working with them.

That Movie in Your Head: Guide to Improvising Stories on Video

David Shepherd

Gere Publishing

In 1948, Germany was under siege. With Berlin surrounded by the Russians, the western allies and Germans of West Berlin launched an impossible rescue mission and the greatest humanitarian effort in modern history. With the ground and water routes to West Berlin blockaded by the Soviet Union, the extraordinary Berlin airlift flew coal, food, medicine, and everything needed for survival to 2.24 million West Berliners for 462 days until the blockade's end in May 1949. The mission saved West Berlin and perhaps all of Europe from Russian aggression following World War II. THE UNHERALDED: Men and Women of the Berlin Blockade and Airlift is 298 pages, includes 30 pictures, and tells about: ? The personal perspectives and sacrifices of those who contributed to the airlift's success from the ground up. ? Stalin's most humiliating defeat and events that launched the Cold War. ? The Soviet blockade and Berlin airlift from a new historical perspective. ? How the Berlin airlift pioneered tactics vital to U.S. airlift preparedness today. Edwin Gere flew Seventh Air Force B-24s against Japan in World War II, then three years later flew 184 missions in the Berlin Airlift. With a doctorate in political science, he taught for 35 years at the Universities of Connecticut and Massachusetts. His 65 professional publications were written under the academic "publish or perish" dictum, but this book was written for love and sheer pleasure, out of heartfelt need.

The Unheralded: Men and Women of the Berlin Blockade and Airlift

History

Gere, Edwin

Europe

Sanford Bloomberg, M.D., combines his memoir and quest for religious understanding with a philosophical discourse on predeterminism.

The Quest: Addressing the Conundrum of Predetermism versus Free Choice

Bloomberg, Sanford

Representing a wide variety of illnesses and disabilities, different cultures and religions, both contemporary and classic time periods, Finding Hope and Compassion is a diverse collection of inspiring stories, essays, and poems showing how to be more compassionate, how to talk and act around people who suffer, and how to take consolation and inspiration from those who live in seemingly insurmountable situations. Each of the authors in this anthology has a unique point of view about illness and disability based on their own personal experiences. They tell their true stories in a way that brings comfort and meaning to others by showing what they have learned. Those who offer medical care such as nurses, doctors, medical students, and others in the medical community, those who are sick, suffering, or living with disabilities, as well as their friends and family who care for them will benefit from the helpful, positive lessons in these stories and poems. From C. Everett Koop, M.D., ScD, Former Surgeon General of the United States, "Celebrate with them the values we cherish: courage, compassion, valor, and patience. You will learn that chronic illness is not necessarily hopeless illness." -

Finding Hope and Compassion: Inspiration for Doctors, Nurses, and Other Caregivers Coping with Illness, Disability, or Suffering

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Focused on her busy career, rising through the ranks of management in high-tech, it was easy for Linda Edwards to dismiss individual symptoms as they appeared, especially when doctors told her they were not life-threatening. Even with her eventual diagnosis of scleroderma, her positive outlook, resilience, and faith kept her pushing through life. It wasn’t until she was facing death, frail, and her breathing compromised, that she realized it would take a miracle to save her. Join Linda on her journey of survival. In Breathing Again… A Joyous Miracle: My Journey with Scleroderma, she shares the role of faith, family, friends, and the medical community along with her lessons learning to live with chronic illness.

Breathing Again. . . A Joyous Miracle: My Journey with Scleroderma

Religion & Spirituality

Edwards, Linda M.

New Age & Spirituality

Gene Shepherd, still grieving his wife’s death, alone in his home after his daughter moves in with her good-for-nothing boyfriend, has grown accustomed to a life of solitude. When he gets a series of unexpected visits from bible-toting Patrick Frye, a young man on a personal crusade for Jesus, Gene must confront not only the pushy young missionary, but the painful past he has been quietly suppressing. Gene’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Chelsea Shepherd, caught in a destructive relationship, finds herself at a crossroads in her life, unsure of her future, as well as her present. One night, after an argument turns violent, Chelsea flees from her relationship and finds solace, safety, and an unexpected friendship with Swedish college professor Alexander Jansson. Both Gene and Chelsea must face choices and challenges that will guide them towards their places in the world with the help of some unexpected characters and a major test of faith. A Wider Universe is a story of family, redemption, and one man’s discovery that even the loneliest man is not truly alone.

A Wider Universe: A Novel

Floyd, Allison

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