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  • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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    Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen KingONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this … [more below]

    • Author: King, Stephen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: June 02 2020
    • ISBN10: 1982159375
    • Language: English
  • The Shining

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME – Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror. Jack Torrance t[more below]

    • Author: King, Stephen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 688
    • Publish Date: August 27 2013
    • ISBN10: 0345806786
    • Language: English
  • Walden and Civil Disobedience

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    Henry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience.

    In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along

    • Author: Thoreau, Henry David
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: July 03, 2012
    • ISBN10: 0451532163
    • Language: English
  • Wishful Drinking

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    The bestselling author of Postcards from the Edge comes clean (well, sort of) in her first-ever memoir, adapted from her one-woman Broadway hit show. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up

    • Author: Fisher, Carrie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: September 08, 2009
    • ISBN10: 143915371X
    • Language: English
  • Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder

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    “The letters are valuable for ecologists, students, and teachers of contemporary American literature and for those of us eager to know how these two distant neighbors networked, negotiated, and remain[more below]

    • Author: Snyder, Gary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 12 2015
    • ISBN10: 1619025469
    • Language: English
  • Sexus

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    Henry Miller’s monumental venture in self-revelation was begun with his Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, which on their American publication were hailed as “miraculous,” “superb,” “ribald,” “

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    • Series: Rosy Crucifixion
    • Author: Miller, Henry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 506
    • Publish Date: January 12 1994
    • ISBN10: 0802151809
    • Language: English
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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    Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.

    Here is a book as joyous

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    • Author: Angelou, Maya
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: April 21 2009
    • ISBN10: 0345514408
    • Language: English
  • The Things We Leave Unfinished

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    Told in alternating timelines, THE THINGS WE LEAVE UNFINISHED examines the risks we take for love, the scars too deep to heal, and the endings we can’t bring ourselves to see coming.

    Twenty-eight-year

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    • Author: Yarros, Rebecca
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: February 23 2021
    • ISBN10: 1682815668
    • Language: English
  • Jacob’s Ghetto: You’re not the product of your environment

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    Jacob, a bright 10-year-old African American boy with exceptional writing ability, seems to have a promising academic future ahead of him. But living on the south-side of Chicago, life at home is noth

    • Author: Peagler, Travis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: August 17, 2019
    • ISBN10: 1732563527
    • Language: English
  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah’s Book Club 2.0)

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe–and built her back up again.

    A

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    • Author: Strayed, Cheryl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: March 26 2013
    • ISBN10: 0307476073
    • Language: English
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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    Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.

    Here is a book as joyous

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    • Author: Angelou, Maya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: April 21 2009
    • ISBN10: 0812980026
    • Language: English
  • El Juego del Ángel / The Angel’s Game

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    En la turbulenta Barcelona de los a os 20, un joven escritor obsesionado con un amor imposible recibe la oferta de un misterioso editor para escribir un libro como no ha existido nunca, a cambio de un

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  • Kid Authors: True Tales of Childhood from Famous Writers

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    Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell the tales from the growing-up years of Beverly Cleary, J. R. R. Tolkien, and 13 other great writers.

    Every great author

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    • Series: Kid Legends #4
    • Author: Stabler, David
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: October 10 2017
    • ISBN10: 1594749876
    • Language: English
  • Who Was J. R. R. Tolkien?

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    Best known for his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien was born in British-occupied South Africa. His early life was full of action and adventure. Tolkien spent his childhood… [more below]

    • Series: Who Was?
    • Author: Pollack, Pam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 21 2015
    • ISBN10: 0448483025
    • Language: English
  • His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina

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    At once a loving legacy and an unsparing depiction of a devastating illness, Danielle Steel’s tribute to her lost son is a gift of life, hope, healing, and understanding to us all.

    “This is the story

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    • Author: Steel, Danielle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: February 08 2000
    • ISBN10: 0385334672
    • Language: English
  • She Got Up Off the Couch

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    The # 1 New York Times bestseller A Girl Named Zippy was a rare and welcome treat: a memoir of a happy childhood. Spunky, strong-willed, and too smart for her own good, Zippy Jarvis brought readers de… [more below]

    • Author: Kimmel, Haven
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: February 01 2007
    • ISBN10: 074328500X
    • Language: English
  • A Man of Modern Letters

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    The Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past

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  • Guts

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    Guess what — Gary Paulsen was being kind to Brian. In Guts, Gary tells the real stories behind the Brian books, the stories of the adventures that inspired him to write Brian Robeson’s story: working… [more below]

    • Author: Paulsen, Gary
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: November 12 2002
    • ISBN10: 0440407125
    • Language: English
  • Irma: The Education of a Mother’s Son

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    A son’s lessons from his single mother–a twenty five year old widow who took control of her life, defied expectations and raised him into a manhood of his own–from the author of the acclaimed The Ac

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    • Author: McDonell, Terry
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: April 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063277972
    • Language: English
  • Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré

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    RECIPIENT OF THE PURA BELPR HONOR

    * A Today Show’s Best Kids’ Books of 2019 * Indie Next List Pick * Junior Library Guild Selection *

    “An appealing tribute and successful remedy to the lack of titles

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    • Author: Denise, Anika Aldamuy
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: January 15 2019
    • ISBN10: 0062748688
    • Language: English
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