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41) Mum
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Mum is my first audiobook on my poetry written over a period of 10 years. Most of them are expressions of my life experiences and my deepest emotions. Writing poetry is one of my best self-help techniques. It helps to take away anxiety, stress, and sadness and it also expresses my happiness.
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El bloqueo del escritor es un término comúnmente utilizado para referirse a una situación en la que un escritor tiene dificultades para seguir escribiendo. El bloqueo del escritor significa no saber qué escribir, no tener ideas o no saber cómo expresarlas adecuadamente. Esto puede deberse a una amplia variedad de factores, como la falta de inspiración, dificultades para encontrar las palabras adecuadas, estrés, preocupaciones sobre si lo que...
43) Seduced
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Do You Know Reading a Sexy Book Makes You Feel Sexy, and it's Beneficial to Your Health?
Author and Sexy Lifestyle Expert Dana B. Myers state feeling sexy is inherent to the human experience just as the air we breathe. "When you welcome the sexiest, most fabulous and vibrant version of yourself… all of your life's endeavors will benefit," she says.
It was further noted, reading a Raunchy or Flirty book is one of the easiest ways to feel sexy. This...
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SHE is a deeply penetrating examination of every Woman's soul illuminated in spine-tingling poems by the emerging poet Margaux Channing.
SHE examines every Woman's relationships, from husband to boyfriend to father and mother and siblings.
SHE reveals the hidden dangers and exploitation every Woman encounters when dating, having sex, at work, at home.
SHE, more than everything else, empowers Women as they seek emotional security and inner spirituality...
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Are you ready to become an Extreme Novelist?
Can't find the time, energy, or self-confidence to get your novel written? Have life's distractions and demands stopped you from completing the book of your heart? You're not alone. Every year, through no fault of their own, intelligent, dedicated writers just like you feel this same frustration and fall short of their dreams of becoming successful novelists. Because they haven't yet learned the secrets...
46) Godless Grace
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Is it possible to live a fulfilling life of gratitude, joy, and humility in a state of grace without religion and a belief in God?
A cold hard look at the human predicament of existence in this universe based on the empirical knowledge we have today, Godless Grace uses narrative and poetry to go where people fear to tread. Not an everlasting life in heaven, but a finite life, here and right now. Godless Grace seeks to examine and reinterpret life's...
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Pocho in the House – The Bicultural Adventures of a Mexican American, chronicles life growing up between two cultures. Written with humor and pathos the story is told through a collection of monologues highlighting the way differences reveal how people are more similar than they think.
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If you intend on a new start, avoiding the fractal vise of old entanglements, Escaping the Timeline is a restorative collection of poetry exploring the path between doing no harm and taking no crap.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Family Snapshot
Chapter 2: Growing Up for the Children
Chapter 3: Finding the Grace in Everything
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Take your novel to the next level.
Unlock the power of the silver screen with The Popcorn Principles, a guide to fiction and novel writing.
It will help you:
• Craft unforgettable characters
• Write compelling scenes
• Hide exposition
• Structure powerful endings
With this book (and the movies it draws on), you'll learn the tools and techniques used by screenwriters, which you can apply to your own writing.
Craft your next novel and become...
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2013.
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"Offering a springboard into independent reading, the Flip-a-Word series takes kids from a single word, to a phrase, to a simple sentence. Ice Mice utilizes word families to help new readers recognize similarities between words that rhyme and connect words that have matching long or short vowel sounds"--
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[2018]
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360 pages ; 22 cm
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"An American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and American English. "If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd sound like an American." "English accents are the sexiest." "Americans have ruined the English language." "Technology means everyone will have to speak the same English." Such claims about the English language are often repeated but rarely examined. Professor Lynne Murphy is on the linguistic front line....
52) Frog jog
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2014.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"With bright art done in the Japanese anime style, each book in this interactive early reading series features three different word families. When kids flip the pages, they get a new word and image within that word family. Word families help children recognize similarities between words that rhyme, and help them connect words with similar long or short vowel sounds. This familiarity helps kids read a word they don't necessarily know"--
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©2013
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xxix, 383 pages ; 21 cm
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"The ultimate guide for creating captivating charactersFormer private investigator and New York Times Notable author David Corbett offers a unique and indispensable toolkit for creating characters that come vividly to life on the page and linger in memory. Corbett provides an inventive, inspiring, and vastly entertaining blueprint to all the elements of characterization--from initial inspiration to realization--with special insights into the power...
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[2017]
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xii, 159 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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"Literacy is at the heart of education -- and what better way to teach this important subject than through the motivational techniques built into gamification? With Gamify Literacy, teacher Michele Haiken brings together top educators and gaming professionals to share gamification strategies, demonstrating how teachers can use gaming tools and activities to improve literacy and content learning. This friendly, accessible guide provides classroom educators...
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2022
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AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Memoir meets craft master class in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of how we think and write about intimate experiences—“a must read for anybody shoving a pen across paper or staring into a screen or a past" (Mary Karr)
In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and master class, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical...
Memoir meets craft master class in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of how we think and write about intimate experiences—“a must read for anybody shoving a pen across paper or staring into a screen or a past" (Mary Karr)
In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and master class, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical...
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Everyone has a story to tell, whether it's a memoir of an exciting life or fictional characters in your head trying to get out. Perhaps you've thought it might be cool to write a book but always believed it was beyond your reach and ability.
It's not.
To be more precise, it doesn't have to be. All you lack is the motivation to get started, the tenacity to stay with it, and the expertise to get it finished. I can help you with the first two.
In...
57) Coyote vs. Dingo
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2022
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What if a coyote and dingo had a fight? Who do you think would win?This nonfiction reader compares and contrasts two ferocious animals: a coyote and a dingo! Readers will learn about each animal's anatomy, behavior, and more. Then compare and contrast the battling pair before finally discovering the winner! This nonfiction series is full of facts, photos, and realistic illustrations, and it includes a range of mammals, sea creatures,...
58) The word detective: searching for the meaning of it all at the Oxford English Dictionary : a memoir
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[2016]
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xvi, 364 pages ; 25 cm
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"What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? Can you drink a glass of balderdash? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments, its quirks, and its quiddities than the former chief editor of the OED,...
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2013
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With over 10 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! The ability to put thoughts into writing is an essential skill vital to success in school—from elementary school through college. Bestselling author Dan Gutman helps kids master this important skill with his fun, informative writing guide, My Weird Writing Tips.
Dan offers tricks for spelling hard words, understanding the difference between similar
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"If you want to know why more people are asking 'what's your pronoun?' then you (singular or plural) should read this book." —Joe Moran, New York Times Book Review
Heralded as "required reading" (Geoff Nunberg) and "the book" (Anne Fadiman) for anyone interested in the conversation swirling around gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns, What's Your Pronoun? is a classic in the making. Providing much-needed historical context...Didn't find it?
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