Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)
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Writing by Heart: A Poetry Path to Healing and Self-Discovery
$21.95 Read moreWrite to Explore and Express the Wild Beauty of Your Heart
Meredith Heller invites you to write as a path toward self-understanding and as a lifelong refuge of steadfast friendship with yourself. She- Author: Heller, Meredith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1608689107
- Language: English
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EmbarRACEments: Daily Embarrassments in Black and White . . . and Color
$16.00 Add to cartA self-deprecating, sobering book about a world that continues to move forward without anyone really advancing.
–Gian Paolo SerinoAs Europe, along with the rest of the world, struggles to learn its
- Series: Crossings #24
- Author: Komla-Ebri, Kossi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1599541246
- Language: English
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Help! for Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
$21.99 Add to cartThe craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story’s too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer’s block is rearing its ugly head.
In Help! For Writers,- Author: Clark, Roy Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0316126705
- Language: English
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Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
$27.95 Read moreOver his four-decade career, Sid Meier has produced some of the world’s most popular video games, including Sid Meier’s Civilization, which has sold more than 51 million units worldwide and accumulate
- Author: Meier, Sid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1324005874
- Language: English
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The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality
$18.95 Add to cartA complete guide to the art and craft of creative nonfiction-from one of its pioneer practitioners
The challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informat… [more below]- Series: Wiley Books for Writers
- Author: Gutkind, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0471113565
- Language: English
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Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
$18.99 Add to cartA delightfully offbeat history of the art and science of sentence diagramming by a veteran copyeditor and writer. Grumpy grammarians, crossword-puzzle aficionados, and lovers of language will apprecia… [more below]
- Author: Florey, Kitty Burns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0156034433
- Language: English
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How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them–A Misstep-By-Misstep Guide
$19.99 Add to cart“What do you think of my fiction book writing?” the aspiring novelist extorted.
“Darn,” the editor hectored, in turn. “I can not publish your novel! It is full of what we in the business call ‘really
- Author: Mittelmark, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061357952
- Language: English
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How to Write a Book: Step by Step Guide
$15.98 Add to cartIf you’ve ever set out to write a book, you may have realized it wasn’t as easy as it may seem. It can be even more difficult to find advice if you’re busy.
How to Write a Book: A Step by Step Guide is
- Author: Vincent, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 28
- Publish Date: October 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1087810809
- Language: English
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The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from Npr’s Fresh Air
$16.99 Add to cartThis engaging collection of National Public Radio broadcasts and magazine pieces by one of America’s best-known linguists covers the waterfront of contemporary culture by taking stock of its words and
- Author: Nunberg, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0618116036
- Language: English
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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartFor anyone who enjoys reading memoirs–or is thinking about writing one–this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors, including Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt, and others.
The … [more below]
- Author: Baker, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 20 1998
- ISBN10: 0395901502
- Language: English
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Simple & Direct
$18.99 Add to cartA fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one’s style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revisi
- Author: Barzun, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 18 2001
- ISBN10: 60937238
- Language: English
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The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide
$24.00 Add to cartThe Silence Of Your Name revolves around the suicide of Marshall’s charismatic and idealistic young husband, Tim Buxton, while they were in Ghana with Operation Crossroads Africa – a progenitor of the
- Author: Marshall, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1734641681
- Language: English
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Blueprint for a Nonfiction Book
$18.99 Add to cartTop book coach Jennie Nash teaches you how to define a winning idea, pin it to the page, and pitch it to the people who can bring your book to life.
“Jennie Nash may just be the best nonfiction book co
- Author: Nash, Jennie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1733251146
- Language: English
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Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
$19.95 Add to cartWINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS including the Writer’s Digest Grand Prize and Rubery Book Award Book of the Year
True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations
- Author: Chao, Isabel Sun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1954854056
- Language: English
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How to Write Your Life Story and Leave a Legacy: A Story Starter Guide to Write Your Autobiography and Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartAre you looking for a way to leave a lasting legacy? This how-to, story starter, guide, and journal, is the perfect tool to help you write your life story and leave a lasting impression on those who r
- Author: Johnson, Melanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1956642897
- Language: English
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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
$18.99 Add to cart“Delightful.” —Mary Norris, The New Yorker
A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark
The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut,
- Author: Watson, Cecelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0062853066
- Language: English
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Ensouling Language: On the Art of Nonfiction and the Writer’s Life
$24.95 Add to cartThe first comprehensive work on nonfiction as an art form
– Shows how nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, can take on the same power and luminosity as great fiction – Develops processes to re- Author: Buhner, Stephen Harrod
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1594773823
- Language: English
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What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
$15.99 Add to cartWhat If? is the first handbook for writers based on the idea that specific exercises are one of the most useful and provocative methods for mastering the art of writing fiction.
With more than twenty-
- Author: Bernays, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 20 1991
- ISBN10: 0062720066
- Language: English
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Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis
$20.99 Add to cartExpert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer’s Home Companion
Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their stru- Author: Bolker, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 15 1998
- ISBN10: 080504891X
- Language: English
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Craft and Conscience: How to Write about Social Issues
$19.95 Add to cartThe first major book for writers to more effectively engage with complex socio-political issues–a critical first step in creating social change
Writers are witnesses and scribes to society’s conscien- Author: Das, Kavita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0807046493
- Language: English
