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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
461 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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"Three Rock & Roll icons. Two explosive tell-all memoirs. One ghostwriter caught in the middle. Mari Hawthorn has just landed the biggest job of her ghostwriting career. Anke Berben, the legendary model and style icon, needs someone for her hotly anticipated memoir. In the 1960s, Anke reveled in headline-grabbing romances with three members of the hugely influential rock band The Midnight Ramblers. The band became as famous for their backstage drama...
562) Catching the light
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
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122 pages ; 19 cm.
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"In this lyrical meditation about the why of writing poetry, Joy Harjo reflects on significant points of illumination, experience, and questioning from her fifty years as a poet. Comprised of intimate vignettes that take us through the author's life journey as a youth in the late 1960s, a single mother, and a champion of Native nations, this book offers a fresh understanding of how poetry functions as an expression of purpose, spirit, community, and...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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315 pages ; 22 cm.
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Quinn mantiene listas de todo, desde los días en que lloró feamente hasta cosas que nunca admitiría en voz alta y todos los chicos que le gustaría besar. Sus listas la mantienen cuerda. Al escribir sus miedos (así como sus verdades vergonzosas y vergonzosas) en papel, nunca tendrá que enfrentarlos en la vida real. Es decir, hasta que su diario desaparece. Una cuenta anónima publica una de sus listas en Instagram para que toda la escuela la...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xviii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"In this practical, immediately actionable guide, Lucinda Halpern, founder of the prestigious Manhattan-based agency Lucinda Literary, divulges what agents look for in authors and the shortcuts they use to get book deals but have never revealed--until now. Lucinda has personally witnessed how dramatically writers' lives can change when they publish their first book. But the path to literary success begins with knowing the answers to questions like:...
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Pub. Date
c1998
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x, 976 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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"Stories, Essays, and Memoir" contains all of Welty's collected short stories, her first book, "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories" (1941), stories based on her travels, and the ever-popular memoir, "One Writer's Beginnings" (1984).
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Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"What if there was an algorithm that could predict which novels become mega-bestsellers? Are books like Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl the Gladwellian outliers of publishing? The Bestseller Code boldly claims that the New York Times bestsellers in fiction are predictable and that it's possible to know with 97% certainty if a manuscript is likely to hit number one on the list as opposed to numbers two through fifteen. The...
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With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal much about what happened to America in the middle of the twentieth century. Like Phillip Roth's American Pastoral or Don DeLillo's Underworld, Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a...
569) Whatshisface
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Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Wicked funny and hella gay, it's time for Taylor Parker to come out about a lot of things. Taylor Parker has always been a funny girl--but when she is accepted as a finalist for a diverse writers' internship at Saturday Night Live, it turns her life upside down. If she wants a shot at winning in a little more than a month, Taylor will have to come out about both of her secrets: She wants to be a comedian...and she's a lesbian. With a mom who gave...
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It's the greatest literary mystery of all time: Who wrote the works of William Shakespeare? Although the official story of a Stratford merchant writing for the London box office has held sway for centuries, questions over the authorship of the plays and poems persists. Derek Jacobi leads an impressive cast featuring Vanessa Redgrave and Mark Rylance on a quest to uncover the truth behind the world's most elusive author, and discovers a forgotten nobleman...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
xvi, 367 p. ; 21 cm.
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"Featuring speculative fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison (R), Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, screenwriters of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many more. The fifth volume in the acclaimed Now Write! writing-guide series offers a full toolbox of advice and exercises for speculative fiction writers hoping to craft an engaging alternate reality, flesh out an enthralling fantasy quest, or dream up a...
575) The butterfly effect
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
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Evan Treborn wants to be free of his disturbing childhood memories. As a young child, he often blacked out for long periods of time and would try to detail his life through journal writing. As a young adult, he revisits the journal entries to figure out the truth about his troubled childhood friends Kayleigh, Lenny, and Tommy. When he discovers he can travel back in time in order to set things right, he does so in order to save his beloved friends....
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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227 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes...
579) Just pretend
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
297 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Tori makes up stories all of the time, so she has never lived in just one world. Those stories might just save her when her world seems to crumble"--
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