Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)
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Memoir as Medicine: The Healing Power of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect, Unruly (But Gorgeously Yours) Life Story
$17.95 Add to cartA wonderfully fresh and frank guide to why and how to write personal stories that will heal, liberate, inspire — and entertain — both writer and reader
Writing has been medicine for Nancy Slonim Ar- Author: Aronie, Nancy Slonim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1608688070
- Language: English
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How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times
$18.99 Add to cartAmerica’s most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing.
In How to Write Short, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a- Author: Clark, Roy Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 19 2014
- ISBN10: 0316204323
- Language: English
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Wordcraft: The Complete Guide to Clear, Powerful Writing
$22.00 Read moreLegendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at the Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize win… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Hart, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 09 2021
- ISBN10: 022674907X
- Language: English
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How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” —Adam Haslett, Financial Times
“A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the Engli
- Author: Fish, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 006184053X
- Language: English
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Mom Tell Me Your Story: A Memory Journal
$9.98 Add to cartCapture wonderful memories and family history with this guided journal.
- Each page contains a prompt about Mom’s life.
- Topics range from family lore to her childhood to love and marriage to her hopes and
- Series: Tell Me Your Story
- Author: New Seasons
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1645586189
- Language: English
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Being Michael Swanwick
$20.95 Add to cartIn 2001, Michael Swanwick published the book-length interview Being Gardner Dozois. Now Swanwick himself becomes the subject of inquiry. During a year of conversations, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Traveler of
- Author: Zinos-Amaro, Alvaro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1958880140
- Language: English
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Blueprint for a Memoir: How to Write a Memoir for the Marketplace
$18.99 Add to cartTop book coach Jennie Nash teaches you how to think about memoir in a whole new way.
“The surest thing a writer has, in a genre that’s never that sure, is Jennie’s hard won, no-stone-left-unturned Blue
- Author: Nash, Jennie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1733251162
- Language: English
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The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English
$19.99 Add to cartEarly in the history of English, the words “grammar” and “glamour” meant the same thing: the power to charm. Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools, aims to put the glamour back in grammar with this… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Roy Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0316027901
- Language: English
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The Great Book of Journaling: How Journal Writing Can Support a Life of Wellness, Creativity, Meaning and Purpose (How to Journaling Self-Help)
$22.99 Add to cartThe Great Book of Journaling provides calming tools for quelling worry and anxiety, as well as expert writing tips and evidence-based research, to introduce a younger generation to the immense benefit… [more below]
- Author: Maisel, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1642508543
- Language: English
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The Writer Who Inhabits Your Body: Somatic Practices to Enhance Creativity and Inspiration
$18.99 Read moreA practical, body-oriented program to enliven your creative abilities
– Provides a comprehensive, step-by-step program for writers to use their bodies to expand their creative capacity on the page and- Author: Gregorio, Renée
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1644119234
- Language: English
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Vigil: Notes from a Hospice Life
$11.99 Add to cartIn Vigil: Notes from a Hospice Life, A.J. Land reflects upon her work as a hospice social worker, caring for people who are ill and dying. This is the type of daily work that fosters endless introspec
- Author: Land, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798868929625
- Language: English
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Leaping from the Burning Train: A Poet’s Journey of Faith
$20.00 Add to cartThis is a book about a girl who left home without quite meaning to. One evening, doing her algebra homework, the sixteen-year-old abruptly realizes the tight-knit fundamentalist community she has been
- Author: Walker, Jeanne Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821449
- Language: English
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Lectures on Literature
$24.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others–with an introduction by John Updike.
In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first emba… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027755
- Language: English
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Daily 6-Trait Writing, Grade 7 Teacher Edition
$29.99 Add to cartGive your seventh graders scaffolded, focused writing practice with Daily 6-Trait Writing!
Each of the 25 weekly units provides trait-based writing activities that cover the essential traits of strong
- Series: Daily 6-Trait Writing
- Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1609638794
- Language: English
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The Craft of Science Writing: Selections from The Open Notebook
$0.00 Read moreScience journalism has perhaps never been so critical to our world–and the demands on science journalists have never been greater. On any given day, a science journalist might need to explain the det
- Author: Carpenter, Siri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: February 01, 2020
- ISBN10: 1734028009
- Language: English
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Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
$19.99 Add to cart“Memoir writers, buy this book, put it on your personal altar, or carry it with you as you traverse the deep ruts of your old road.” –Tom Spanbauer, author of The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon O… [more below]
- Author: Goldberg, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 1416535039
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Window and Other True Tales: An Anthology with Tips for Finding, Reporting, and Writing Nonfiction Narratives
$22.50 Read morePart anthology and part craft guide, this collection of pieces from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offers something for readers and writers alike. Lane DeGregory loves true stories, intimate de… [more below]
- Author: Degregory, Lane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 022677127X
- Language: English
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Storycraft, Second Edition: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
$33.00 Add to cartJack Hart, master writing coach and former managing editor of the Oregonian, has guided several Pulitzer Prize-winning narratives to publication. Since its publication in 2011, his book Storycraft has… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Hart, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2021
- ISBN10: 022673692X
- Language: English
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The Lost Bali Stories: Volume II
$19.99 Add to cartThe Lost Bali Stories – Vol. II are true tales of wanderers following the winds of fate from 1985 into the ’90s. Searching for the sweet taste of pleasure, the sensual winds of every moment, a spirit
- Series: The Lost Bali Stories #2
- Author: Franklin, Leslie Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 17 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985581416
- Language: English
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The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
$18.00 Add to cartA guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love
All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experi- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0374528586
- Language: English
