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"One of the most acclaimed travel writers of our time turns his unflinching eye on an American South too often overlooked. Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and...
383) Write! Write! Write!
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2020.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Write! Write! Write! is a poetry collection that explores every stage and every aspect of the writing process, from learning the alphabet to the thrilling moment of writing a thought for the first time, from writer's block to finding inspiration, and from revision to stapling your finished work into a book. These poems also celebrate how writing teaches patience, helps express opinions, and allows us to imagine the impossible. This book, brimming...
384) Someone like me
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2017.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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In this semi-autobiographical picture book, author Patricia MacLachlan relates what it might take to grow up to become a writer.
385) Yasmin the writer
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[2020]
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Yasmin struggles with Ms. Alex's assignment to write an essay about her hero until she realizes that her hero is someone very close to her.
386) Working
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2019
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“One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer.” —The Sunday Times (London)
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books.
Now in paperback, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own...
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books.
Now in paperback, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own...
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"A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national monument. The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by President Trump in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It's also a spectacularly beautiful landscape, a mosaic of sandstone canyons and bold mesas and buttes. This wilderness, now threatened...
388) Everything left to remember: my mother, our memories, and a journey through the Rocky Mountains
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"In this heart wrenching and inspirational memoir a woman and her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, embark on a road trip through national parks, revisiting the memories, and the mountains, that made them who they are. Steph Jagger lost her mother before she lost her. Her mother, stricken with an incurable disease that slowly erases all sense of self, struggles to remember her favorite drink, her favorite song, and--perhaps most heartbreaking...
389) A Thief of time
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2004]
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Navajo tribal cops Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) and Jim Chee (Adam Beach) delve into the netherworld of illegal archaeological excavations, purloined pots, and slain pot hunters, set against a backdrop of Navajo witches, spirits, and lore."
390) The replay
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[2022]
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60 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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"Take a front-row seat, and relive history's greatest sports moments as they happened."--Publisher
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[2018]
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192 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm
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Utilizing what he taught in classrooms for 10 years and drawn on for his own award-nominated comics, Hart details how to start from scratch with no ideas, how to develop ideas, how to find and finish stories, how to stay fearless and nimble, and how to constantly create something meaningful to you, regardless of your medium.
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"In See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen, the first American to complete a university program in North Korea, culls from his experiences living, traveling, and studying in the country to create a multifaceted portrait of the country and its idiosyncratic capital city in the Kim Jong Un Era. Anchored by the experience of his five trips to North Korea and his interactions with citizens from all walks of life, Jeppesen reveals how the North Korean...
395) Business English Writing: Effective Business Writing Tips and Tricks That Will Help You Write Bet
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Everyone wants to know the "who-what-when-where-why-how-how much" immediately, in the first sentence.
They need to make decisions. When they read documents, they want to know the important things immediately.
They want to know objectives, means of measurement, costs, and returns on those investments.
They want to see that information in the first sentences. Good business writing is more about clear thinking than it is about writing style. Writing...
396) Digital Zettelkasten
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Are you an academic, author, or blogger or anyone else who wants to make writing a breeze?
The Zettelkasten method is the perfect way to harness the power of technology to remember what you read and boost creativity. Invented in the 16th century, and practiced to its fullest extent by a German sociologist who wrote more than seventy books and hundreds of articles, the Zettelkasten method is exploding in popularity. Writers of all types are discovering...
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Todo lo que necesitas saber sobre cómo hacer un taller de escritura creativa y aprender a escribir mejor.
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Taller de poesía: domina los recursos poéticos o figuras literarias.
Taller de novela: aprende a escribir una novela interesante.
Taller de cuento y relato: aprende a escribir las narraciones más breves.
Taller de no ficción: cómo escribir ensayo, autoayuda, manuales, artículos...
Ejercicios, consejos, trucos, juegos...
398) Manifest
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These are my collection of poems that I wrote over the years. Some wonderful memories and experiences that I shared with people close to my heart.
399) The Songs of Kabir
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Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Laureate, was born on 7th May 1861 and was died in 194.He was renowned poet, playwright, and novelist of the modern India. He was a Bengali Author who reshaped Bengali Literature and Music. He Penned 'Gitanjali', which is deeply sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, after which he acclaimed the title 'Nobel Laureate'. He was the first non-European to get 'Nobel Prize' in Literature in 1913. He started poetry writing from...
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I'm Joanna Penn and I left my corporate job a decade ago to become a full-time author entrepreneur. In this completely updated Third Edition, I'll explain how I make a living with my writing and share tips from other writers on how you can do it too with practical, actionable advice that you can implement for yourself.
If you love to create and you're ready to learn fresh skills in a fast-changing environment, this book will give you lots of ideas...
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