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21) Outline
Author
Series
Outline volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elderly Greek bachelor. The people she encounters speak, volubly, about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in England in a series of volumes from 1759 to 1767. An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram Shandy is the most protean and playful English novel of the eighteenth century and a celebration...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
6 Starred Reviews! New York Times Bestseller! A People Magazine Best Children’s Book! A Washington Post Best Book! A Publishers Weekly Best Book! Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Award Honor recipient
Caldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White’s personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon. Readers young and old will be fascinated and inspired...
Caldecott Honor winner Sweet mixes White’s personal letters, photos, and family ephemera with her own exquisite artwork to tell the story of this American literary icon. Readers young and old will be fascinated and inspired...
27) Adam & Eve
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Entrusted with her late husband's discovery of extraterrestrial life and enlisted by her dead husband's friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt -- an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis -- Lucy Bergmann crash lands her plane on a slip of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. Burned in the crash landing, she is rescued by Adam, a delusional...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world's greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors' favorite words? Do...
Author
Series
Ernest Cunningham volume 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real in the new mystery from the author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Feverishly paging through a disturbing anonymous manuscript that she believes has world-changing potential, New York literary agent Isabel Reed catches the attention of Copenhagen veteran station chief Hayden Gray, who resolves to keep the book's secrets from being exposed.
32) The truth of memoir: how to write about yourself and others with honesty, emotion, and integrity
Author
Publisher
Writer's Digest
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deeply personal how-to book for aspiring writers, encouraging them to look inward and excavate their own memories in order to discover the authentic voices and compelling details that are waiting to be put on the page"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"The life of a book isn't easy, especially when people judge you by your cover (not every book can be adorned with sparkly unicorns!). And this narrator should know--it's the book itself, and it has a lot of opinions. It gets irritated when readers bend its pages back, and it finds authors quite annoying. But it does have a story to tell. Through witty direct address and charming illustrations, readers meet a book that has never been read, with a...
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022, c2021.
Edition
First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 326 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
From some of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries, from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
""Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores "what it means to be seen, to find someone...
40) The wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
Language
English
Description
The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
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