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Missouri

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Serena Burdick

California

A Novel

What if you could write a new ending for yourself?



England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the famous novelist William Aubrey, she was dazzled by his brilliance. But their newlywed bliss is brief when William is gripped by writer's block, and he becomes jealous of Evelyn's writing talent. When he commits the ultimate betrayal--stealing a draft of her novel and passing it off as his own--Evelyn decides to write her way out of their unhappy marriage.



California, 2006. Abigail always wondered about her father, his identity forever lost when her mother unexpectedly died. Or so Abigail thought, until she stumbled upon his photo and a message that her great-great-grandmother was the author Evelyn Aubrey, leading Abigail on a journey to England in search for answers. There, she learns of Evelyn's shocking disappearance and how London society believed she was murdered. But from what she uncovers about Evelyn, Abigail believes her brilliant great-great-grandmother had another plot up her sleeve.



Rich in atmosphere and emotion, The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey tells the story of literary secrets, a family curse and the lengths women will go to take charge of their future.    

The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey

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Charles J. Shields

Nevada

A Portrait of Harper Lee

"A fine, well-rounded portrait of Harper Lee. Mockingbird is good reading."--Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) To Kill a Mockingbird--the twentieth century's most widely read American novel--has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. Yet despite her book's perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee, has become a somewhat mysterious figure. Now, after years of research, Charles J. Shields brings to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable characters--Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout. At the center of Shields's evocative, lively book is the story of Lee's struggle to create her famous novel, but her colorful life contains many highlights--her girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama; the murder trial that made her beloved father's reputation and inspired her great work; her journey to Kansas as Truman Capote's ally and research assistant to help report the story of In Cold Blood. Mockingbird--unique, highly entertaining, filled with humor and heart--is a wide-ranging, idiosyncratic portrait of a writer, her dream, and the place and people whom she made immortal.

Mockingbird

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An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

The Right to Write 

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Tony and Pat Pratt Mystery 

Murder Without Reservation 

2002 MJF Books. Not literary criticism in the strictest sense. Just quarreling, bickering rival authors!

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels from Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe

Jacket has a couple small tears - note written on inside page 

Texas

1963 Edition

Bible Words that Guide me 

Pennsylvania

The War for Souls

December 21, 2012, may be one of the most watched dates in history. Every 26,000 years, Earth lines up with the exact center of our galaxy. At 11:11 on December 21, 2012, this event happens again, and the ancient Maya calculated that it would mark the end, not only of this age, but of human consciousness as we know it.

But what will actually happen? The end of the world? A new age for mankind? Nothing? The last time this happened, Cro-Magnon man suddenly began creating great art in the caves of southern France, which to this day remains one of the most inexplicable changes in human history.

Now Whitley Strieber explores 2012 in a towering work of fiction that will astound readers with its truly new insights and a riveting roller-coaster ride of a story. A mysterious alien presence unexpectedly bursts out of sacred sites all over the world and begins to rip human souls from their bodies, plunging the world into chaos it has never before known.

Courage meets cowardice, loyalty meets betrayal as an entire world struggles to survive this incredible end-all war. Heroes emerge, villains reveal themselves, and in the end something completely new and unexpected happens that at once lifts the fictional characters into a new life, and sounds a haunting real-world warning for the future.

2012

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Jaime Lynn Hendricks

Murderpalooza, the premier mystery and suspense writers conference, is meant to be an exciting celebration of the genre and its preeminent writers. But when bestselling author and industry favorite Kristin Bailey is found dead in her hotel room, her rival authors at the convention seem to be the prime suspects. Vicky Overton shares Kristin's agent and is hoping to raise her profile with the award she's up against Kristin for. Davis Walton is a hot-shot writer with his star-and ego-on the rise. Mike Brooks is a washed-up has-been planning his big comeback. And Suzanne Shih is a star-struck young writer desperate to break into the business. As an anonymous social media account taunts them to confess, the suspects find themselves turning to each other to help solve who is behind the shocking turn of events. But they must first decide if the killer is targeting them, or is one of them. The only thing they know for sure is that no one is better at both creating and solving a mystery than the people who write them for a living. Jaime Lynn Hendricks gives the reader a thrilling peek into the mystery writing world and those that inhabit it in this gripping suspense novel.

I Didn't Do It

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Connecticut

The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey 2022

A Novel 2022

Jackson J. Benson

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

His Life and Work

"Drawing on nearly ten years of research and unlimited access to Stegner's letters and personal files, Benson traces the trajectory of Wallace Stegner's life from his birth on his grandfather's Iowa farm, his frontier childhood on the lonely prairie homestead in Saskatchewan, and his teenage years among Salt Lake City's Mormons up through his prominence as an award-winning writer, critic, historian, environmental activist, and teacher. Stegner founded Stanford University's legendary Creative Writing Program, where his students included such budding writers as Larry McMurtry, Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Robert Stone, Raymond Carver, Evan Connell, and Tillie Olsen." "But Benson's book is as much a consideration of Stegner's own literary legacy as it is a blow-by-blow retelling of his life. Providing a critical reassessment of the entire body of Stegner's work, Benson argues convincingly for his subject's place in the literary canon - and not merely as a "regional" Western writer, but quite simply as one of the great writers of twentieth-century American letters, whose books can stand comfortably on the shelf beside the work of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Wallace Stegner

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Martha Gellhorn

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

A Memoir

Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic. "Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together. Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War.

Travels with Myself and Another

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John S. Warner

Kentucky

Reading & Language Arts

A Fiction Writer's Guide to Masterful Character Creation

Transform your story with a character your readers will remember long after they've turned the last page

When you think of unforgettable characters from books you've read, who comes to mind?

James Bond, Harry Potter, Scarlett O'Hara, Elizabeth Bennett, Atticus Finch, Sherlock Holmes?

These are just some of the most iconic characters in fiction.

They are so memorable that even decades or centuries later, they still captivate our imagination.

But what exactly is it about them that keeps readers through generations so invested in them?

Despite their vast differences in age, gender, nationality, occupation, and personality, each of them has a special quality that makes us want to know them more.

Whether it's James Bond's suave demeanor, Scarlett O'Hara's haughty vulnerability, or Atticus Finch's righteousness, we're hooked.

Do you want to know how you too can create your own unforgettable characters that your readers will be dying to read about?

Yes, it's rare to write such timeless characters - even some bestselling authors don't have widely recognizable protagonists.

However, it's entirely possible to write characters that resonate strongly with your readers - and get them hooked on your story - no matter how new you are to the game.

Writers apply certain rules and tricks with their characters to make their stories shine and keep their audience engrossed.

And with this guide, you'll find out exactly what they are.

In The Secrets to Creating Character Arcs, here is just a fraction of what you will discover:

 * How your characters can make or break your story - and what you can do to make your characters more compelling
 * 10 simple tricks to add more excitement to your plot without veering away from your main story
 * How to take advantage of plot and structure to help develop your protagonist's journey
 * The worst thing you can do for your character that will immediately make them unappealing and uninteresting
 * How to make your readers relate to - and root for - an unlikable character
 * A fun yet insightful exercise in character building that can help you make sure all your characters have their own unique individual personalities
 * 2 letters that will speed up your writing process without sacrificing quality

And much more.

Writing your first story (or your latest one) can be intimidating. The stakes seem to be higher when writing down words rather than just saying them out loud.

But remember that you're allowed to make mistakes, change things up, delete, and add to your story however many times you need to.

Plus, with the techniques from this guide at your disposal, you can approach your writing with more confidence.

Sometimes, all you need to do is get started... and the ideas will just keep flowing from there.

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The Secrets to Creating Character Arcs

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New Jersey

A Biography of Edna Ferber

Ferber

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Eric Bentley

Frank Rich

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on un-American Activities 1938-1968

The testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC's treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly readable and absorbing collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a "dignified" manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe. This book serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record. "The basic document with which all future studies of the [House Un-American Activities] Committee will have to begin." —Dalton Trumbo "...what he has done is give us HUAC as spectacle, and the perspective is shattering."—Victor Navasky, The New York Times

Thirty Years of Treason

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Lesley M. M. Blume

The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises

A dazzling depiction of the genesis of The Sun Also Rises and how Ernest Hemingway created his own legend

Everybody Behaves Badly

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Estelle Freedman

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Arkansas

Including: Susan B. Anthony Simone de Beauvoir W.E.B. Du Bois Hélène Cixous Betty Friedan Charlotte Perkins Gilman Emma Goldman Guerrilla Girls Ding Ling * Audre Lorde John Stuart Mill Christine de Pizan Adrienne Rich Margaret Sanger Huda Shaarawi * Sojourner Truth Mary Wollstonecraft Virginia Woolf

The Essential Feminist Reader is the first anthology to present the full scope of feminist history. Prizewinning historian Estelle B. Freedman brings decades of teaching experience and scholarship to her selections, which span more than five centuries. Moving beyond standard texts by English and American thinkers, this collection features primary source material from around the globe, including short works of fiction and drama, political manifestos, and the work of less well-known writers.

Freedman's cogent Introduction assesses the challenges facing feminism, while her accessible, lively commentary contextualizes each piece. The Essential Feminist Reader is a vital addition to feminist scholarship, and an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of women.

The Essential Feminist Reader

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Katie Roiphe

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Minnesota

Great Writers at the End

From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak, and James Salter--an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality.

In The Violet Hour, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects. She investigates the last days of six great thinkers, writers, and artists as they come to terms with the reality of approaching death, or what T. S. Eliot called "the evening hour that strives Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea."

Roiphe draws on her own extraordinary research and access to the family, friends, and caretakers of her subjects. Here is Susan Sontag, the consummate public intellectual, who finds her commitment to rational thinking tested during her third bout with cancer. Roiphe takes us to the hospital room where, after receiving the worst possible diagnosis, seventy-six-year-old John Updike begins writing a poem. She vividly re-creates the fortnight of almost suicidal excess that culminated in Dylan Thomas's fatal collapse at the Chelsea Hotel. She gives us a bracing portrait of Sigmund Freud fleeing Nazi-occupied Vienna only to continue in his London exile the compulsive cigar smoking that he knows will hasten his decline. And she shows us how Maurice Sendak's beloved books for children are infused with his lifelong obsession with death, if you know where to look.

The Violet Hour is a book filled with intimate and surprising revelations. In the final acts of each of these creative geniuses are examples of courage, passion, self-delusion, pointless suffering, and superb devotion. There are also moments of sublime insight and understanding where the mind creates its own comfort. As the author writes, "If it's nearly impossible to capture the approach of death in words, who would have the most hope of doing it?" By bringing these great writers' final days to urgent, unsentimental life, Katie Roiphe helps us to look boldly in the face of death and be less afraid.

Praise for The Violet Hour

"A beautiful book . . . The intensity of these passages--the depth of research, the acute sensitivity for declarative moments--is deeply beguiling."--The New York Times Book Review

"Profound, poetic and--yes--comforting."--People

"Unconventional, engaging . . . [The Violet Hour] is at once scholarly, literary, juicy--and unabashedly personal."--Los Angeles Times

"Enveloping . . . I read it in bed, at the kitchen table, while walking down the street. . . . 'What normal person wants to blunder into this hushed and sacred space?' she asks. But the answer is all of us, and Ms. Roiphe does it with grace."--Jennifer Senior, The New York Times

"A beautiful and provocative meditation on mortality."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"A tender yet penetrating look at the final days . . . Roiphe has always seemed to me a writer to envy. No matter what the occasion, she can be counted on to marry ferocity and erudition in ways that nearly always make her interesting."--The Wall Street Journal

"Here is a critic in supreme control of her gifts, whose gift to us is the observant vigor that refuses to flinch before the Reaper. . . . She knows that true criticism does not bother with the mollification of delicate sensibilities, only with the intellect as it roils and rollicks through language."--William Giraldi, The New Republic

The Violet Hour

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Robyn Spizman

Rick Frishman

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