Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

The award-winning poet presents a daily record of her thoughts and feelings during her eighty-second year, reflecting on her youth, the vicissitudes of her cat, the rigors of a Maine winter, and the mystery of old age.

At Eighty-Two

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Illinois

Tells the story of Manhattan columnist Carrie Bradshaw's high school years, her relationships with her peers, and how she became a writer.

The Carrie Diaries

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James King

Former library copy in very good condition 

The Life of Farley Mowat

Biography of the non-fiction Canadian writer who remains a tireless advocate of the Inuit, wolves, whales and other endangered peoples and species.

Farley

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Ralph Fletcher

Donald Murray

Initials across pages as pictured. Otherwise, mint. 3

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Provides specific, practical strategies designed to help teachers improve and challenge their students' writing skills.

What a Writer Needs

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

A Crafter Hooks a Killer

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Dan McCollam

Finding Your Song explores seven sources of inspiration for writing great praise and worship songs. Working examples are taken from the writings of Brian and Jenn Johnson along with quotes from some of the greatest worship writers of our day. Anyone can write a song. Whether you are a first-time writer or just busting through a creative block, the practical exercises and creative starters in this book will propel you into a fresh dimension of personal praise and worship.

Finding Your Song

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Christopher Rush

A very engaging story of true facts Truth mixed with a reimagining of events of William Shakespeare’s life … a different and enjoyable read.

A Novel

Rush takes [readers] into Shakespeare's mind; he dares to speak in Shakespeare's words ("The Independent"), in this work that chronicles how the Bard wrote his will.

Will

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Leone N. Western

The Gold Key to Writing Your Life History 

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Noel R. Fitch

Walks in Hemingway's Paris is the perfect travel companion to the most romantic and fascinating of cities for those who want to experience Paris beyond the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame. Covering all the area of Paris that Hemingway and his fellow expatriates once roamed from Left Bank to Right, Noel Riley Fitch provides an intimate visit to major Parisian landmarks as well as to out-of-the-way cafes, hotels and residences immortalized by "Papa" and his friends.

A Guide to Paris for the Literary Traveler

This guide includes seven unique walking tours of Paris's Left and Right Banks for the newest or the most seasoned traveler. It provides an intimate journey to major Parisian landmarks as well as out-of-the-way cafes, hotels, and residences immortalized by Hemingway and his friends. Maps and photographs.

Walks in Hemingway's Paris - First St. Martin's Griffin Edition

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New York

An Ill-Advised Autobiography

ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age

A riveting, scorching--and hilarious--autobiography by the award-winning author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and Deadline.

From trying to impress a member of the girls' softball team (with disastrous dental results) to enduring the humiliation of his high school athletic club initiation (olives and oysters play unforgettable roles), Chris Crutcher's memoir of the tricky road to adulthood is candid, disarming, laugh-out-loud funny, relevant, and never less than riveting.

He vividly describes a temper that was always waiting to trip him up even as it sustained him through some of the most memorable mishaps any child has survived. And how did this guy (he lifted his brother's homework through the entire tenth grade) ever become a writer, not to mention the author of fourteen critically acclaimed books for young people

The frontier may be mild, but the book is not. Fans of Tara Westover's Educated, Jack Gantos's Hole in My Life, and Walter Dean Myers's Bad Boy will laugh, will cry, and will remember.

"Funny, bittersweet and brutally honest. Readers will clasp this hard-to-put-down book to their hearts even as they laugh sympathetically."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

King of the Mild Frontier

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This essential guide includes revision conferences, models, strategies, mini-lessons, and assessment ideas. Loaded with revision charts, checklists, forms and graphic organizers. For use with Grades 2-6.

English

Practical Strategies, Models, and Mini-Lessons that Motivate Students to Become Better Writers Grades 2-6

Helping Students Revise Their Writing 

Louisiana

The Great Gatsby

Vanina Marsot

A Novel of Life and Love in Paris

Sexy, sophisticated, and infused with the sights and sounds of Paris, this enchanting debut novel is a humorous, poignant look at one woman trying to understand who she is in two countries.

Foreign Tongue

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STECK-VAUGHN

Mint book. Very light signs of use. Sticker on front cover as pictured.

An Author's Story

Biograghy of Laura Ingalls Wilder written for elementary students.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Sheree Bykofsky

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Kansas

Five Years from Now: the Life-Planning Book You Write Yourself

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Utah

History

Vintage Hardcover

Francis Scott Key

William L. Rivers

Virginia

Enlarged and revised

Free-Lancer and Staff Writer--Newspaper Features and Magazine Articles

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James P. Blaylock

California

Thirteen Phantasma and Other Stories

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Clinton Cox

A Biography

The author of Undying Glory provides middle readers with a comprehensive biography about this celebrated American writer who was also a riverboat pilot, adventurer, and newspaper reporter. Reprint.

Mark Twain - America's Humorist, Dreamer, Prophet

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Oklahoma

How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids

Children change your life, but they don't necessarily have to end your career! &break;&break;As a mom, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. But you'd also like to make some money doing something you enjoy. How do you get the best of both worlds? Writer Mama by experienced freelancer Christina Katz tells you how. You can start a stay-at-home freelance writing career tailored to fit your family and lifestyle. &break;&break;Writer Mama will answer all your questions about how to get started, in realistic, easy-to-follow steps. While conversational and easy-to-read, this book also does a lot of hard work for you. It gives you practical advice and exercises that help you get started in a matter of weeks. You'll get tips on how to: &break;&break; begin with the easiest routes to publication for moms&break; network with other writer mamas, editors, and agents&break; write cover letters and queries&break; choose your own writing specialty&break; create a web presence&break; set up a home office&break; make time for yourself, your kids, and your writing &break;&break;You'll love the short chapters, sidebars, and exercises that let you get the information you need in small doses that fit into your busy schedule. Plus this book was written to grow with you. Once you master the skills of being an article writer, it teaches you how to pitch a nonfiction book idea and explore other areas of writing. &break;&break;So if you want to get started writing for publication, let writer mama Christina Katz help. If she and countless other moms can do it, so can you!

Writer Mama

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Nevada

Edgar Allen Poe. The Most Remarkable Writer of the 19th Century.

In Among Friends M. F. K. Fisher begins her recollections in Albion, Michigan, but they soon lead her to Whittier, California, where her family moved in 1912, when she was four. The "Friends" of the title range from the hobos who could count on food at the family's back door to the businessmen who advertised in Father's paper—but above all they are the Quakers who were the prominent group in Whittier. Mary Frances Kennedy found them unusual friends indeed, in the more than forty years that she lived in Whittier she was never invited inside a Friend's house.

Her portraits of her father, Rex—her mentor, himself the editor of the local newspaper—her mother, Edith, and the other members of her family are memorable and moving. Originally published in 1970, Among Friends provides a fascinating glimpse into the background and development of one of our most delightful and best–loved writers, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher.

Among Friends - Vintage 1971

Tatiana de Rosnay

North Carolina

A New York Times best seller in hardcover! From the New York Times and international best-selling author Tatiana de Rosnay comes The Other Story, "[a] brilliant pager-turner"(BookPage), layered and beautifully written, that is a reflection on identity, the process of being a writer and the repercussions of generations-old decisions as they echo into the present and shape the future. When Nicolas Duhamel was twenty-four years old, he stumbled upon a troubling secret about his family, a secret that was carefully concealed. In shock, Nicolas embarked on a journey to uncover the truth that took him from the Basque coast to St. Petersburg-but the answers wouldn't come easily. In the process of digging into his past, something else happened. Nicolas began writing a novel that was met with phenomenal success, skyrocketing him to literary fame whether he was ready for it or not-and convincing him that he had put his family's history firmly behind him. But now, years later, Nicolas must reexamine everything he thought he knew, as he learns that, however deeply buried, the secrets of the past always find a way out. Page-turning, layered and beautifully written, THE OTHER STORY is a reflection on identity, the process of being a writer and the repercussions of generations-old decisions as they echo into the present and shape the future. "The tension of Nicholas's unsustainable half-truths and the gradual parceling out of his father's secrets will keep readers in de Rosnay's thrall, hoping redemption will come. Readers in real life should anticipate de Rosnay's latest with all the fervor Nicholas's fans show in awaiting his." -Shelf Awareness "de Rosnay's fans...will not be disappointed." -Library Journal

The Other Story

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Aleksandar Hemon

In this stylistically adventurous, brilliantly funny tour de force-the most highly acclaimed debut since Nathan Englander's-Aleksander Hemon writes of love and war, Sarajevo and America, with a skill and imagination that are breathtaking.

A love affair is experienced in the blink of an eye as the Archduke Ferdinand watches his wife succumb to an assassin's bullet. An exiled writer, working in a sandwich shop in Chicago, adjusts to the absurdities of his life. Love letters from war torn Sarajevo navigate the art of getting from point A to point B without being shot. With a surefooted sense of detail and life-saving humor, Aleksandar Hemon examines the overwhelming events of history and the effect they have on individual lives. These heartrending stories bear the unmistakable mark of an important new international writer.

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