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81) Flash fire
Author
Series
Extraordinaries volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
"Through bravery, charm, and an alarming amount of enthusiasm, Nick landed himself the superhero boyfriend of his dreams. Now instead of just writing stories about him, Nick actually gets to kiss him. But having a superhero boyfriend isn't everything Nick thought it would be--he's still struggling to make peace with his own lack of extraordinary powers. When new Extraordinaries begin arriving in Nova City--siblings who can manipulate smoke and ice,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Draft No. 4 is a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of playful, expertly wrought essays, John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his career and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most esteemed writers of recent decades. McPhee offers definitive guidance in the decisions regarding arrangement, diction, and tone that shape nonfiction pieces, and he presents extracts from his work,...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
123 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With Draw A Comic!, you'll learn to create and print your own comic books! Follow these simple steps to sketch out your story ideas and ink a comic page. Learn which art supplies are best for drawing comics--you can use a pen, a brush, or even a computer. With the help of a photocopy machine, you can even self-publish your own comics and share them with your friends!"-- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Book-of-the Month Club
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is an exclusive Book-of-the-Month Club anthology of hard-to-find non-fiction pieces, little-known interviews, short stories, and articles about writing for those looking for direction on how to find their own "windows"-or for anyone wishing to be touched by Stephen King's humor and wisdom.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cite Right is the perfect guide for anyone who needs to learn a new citation style or who needs an easy reference to Chicago, MLA, APA, AMA, and other styles. Each chapter serves as a quick guide that introduces the basics of a style, explains who might use it, and then presents an abundance of examples. This edition includes updates reflecting the most recent editions of The Chicago Manual of Style and the MLA Handbook. With this book, students...
88) Afterworlds
Author
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
Author
Series
Hazel Wood series volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although not thrilled when her summer plans are upended for a surprise cross-country train trip with her family and embarrassed because one of her moms is writing a tell-all book about the trip, twelve-year-old Sara Johnston-Fischer finds herself changing along with the landscape outside the train windows.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats, White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It is all the more impressive,...
92) Making comics
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"For more than five years the cartoonist Lynda Barry has been an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison art department and at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, teaching students from all majors, both graduate and undergraduate, how to make comics, how to be creative, how to not think. There is no academic lecture in this classroom. Doodling is enthusiastically encouraged. Making Comics is the follow-up to Barry's bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Billy's wild imagination gets him into trouble at school, but a creative writing contest could be the perfect opportunity for him to shine.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
106 p. : ill., map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
How did Jon Scieszka get so funny? He grew up as one of six brothers with Catholic school, lots of comic books, lazy summers at the lake with time to kill, babysitting misadventures, TV shows, and jokes told at family dinner.
96) The circle
Author
Series
Inspector Hen Mallin novels volume 1
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widowed van driver Bob Naylor is prodded into joining the Chichester Writers' Circle by his teenage daughter. Bob writes limericks and jingles, and fears he will be out of his class among the literati. But the members of the circle come from all walks of life and practice many forms of writing, from fantasy to household hints. There seems to be nothing about any of them to incite a serial killer. However, there is an arsonist in their midst, burning...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
379 pages : 25 cm
Language
English
Description
As children, Lexie and Annie were incredibly close. Bonded by the death of their beloved father, they weathered the storms of life together. When Lexie leaves home to follow her dream, Annie is forced to turn to her leather-bound journal as the only place she can confide her deepest secrets and fears. As adults, sisters Lexie and Annie could not be more different. Lexie is a successful doctor and happily engaged. Annie is an addict--a thief, a liar...
Author
Publisher
Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
52 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day"--
"A celebration of the extraordinary life of Ezra Jack Keats, creator of The Snowy Day. The story of The Snowy Day begins more than one hundred years ago, when Ezra Jack Keats was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. The family were struggling Polish immigrants, and despite Keats's obvious talent, his father worried that Ezra's dream of being an artist was an unrealistic one....
100) The lawgiver
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
234 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director has rejected her rabbinical father's strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multi-billionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses if the script meets certain standards, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including a reunion with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business.
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