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1) Not quite what I was planning: six-word memoirs by writers famous and obscure : from Smith magazine
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A collection of six-word memoirs, contributed by both famous and obscure writers, records the human experience in works that are by turn whimsical, poignant, and bizarre, by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates and Joan Rivers.
Series
Bilingual education and bilingualism volume 26
Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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Publisher
Picador Australia
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Brendan James Murray has been a high school teacher for more than ten years. In that time he has seen hundreds of kids move through the same hallways and classrooms - boisterous, angry, shy, big-hearted, awkward - all of them on the journey to adulthood. In The School, he paints an astonishingly vivid portrait of a single school year, perfectly capturing the highs and lows of being a teenager, as well as the fire, passion and occasional heartbreak...
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Publisher
Sarsaparilla Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
People who have read my books, particularly "the art of war" and its cousins, have a vague idea of the odyssey of a particular solitary guy, wracked by guilty and riven by self doubt, as he struggles toward his destiny as a writer. But they have only the scantiest conception of the particulars of that journey. These particulars, I'm hoping may be of use to others as they wrestle with their own version of that same odyssey. So let me try to strip it...
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"What do the punk singer Henry Rollins, the Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa, the American authors Tobias Wolff, Tayari Jones, and George Saunders, the Canadian writer Sheila Heti, and the Russian poet Polina Barskova have in common? At some point they all studied the art of writing deeply with someone. The nearly seventy short essays in A Manner of Being, by some of the best contemporary writers from around the world, pay homage to mentors--the...
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Series
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Examines autobiographies by athletes such as Wilt Chamberlain, Babe Ruth, Martina Navratilova, and Dennis Rodman, and analyzes common themes and recurring patterns in the accounts of their lives and sporting experiences"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Since its release in 1949, The Hero With a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of moden psychology with Joseph Campbells' revoutionary uderstanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's myhtic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world...
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Bison book volume 119
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
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Series
Language
English
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"When Martha Summerhayes (1844-1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she "saw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords," but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to intrude. Remonstrating with her husband, Jack Wyder Summerhayes, that she had only three rooms and a kitchen instead of "a whole house," she was informed that "women are not reckoned in at all in the...
20) The woman in me
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Language
English
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"The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey--and the strength at the core of one of the greatest...