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Publisher
Quidetam Ltd
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (68 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In this instructional video, Anne references her quintet of novels about World War I to demonstrate the various themes which need to be considered when you first pick up that pen. Although writing a book can be like climbing Everest, the advice you find here will save some troublesome extra drafts, and give you a head start towards an enjoyable writing experience and a successful novel."--Container.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 232 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A travel narrative following three ancient roads and looking at more than two thousand years of history of Ancient Rome through the modern eye. In 66 B.C., young, ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia. He borrowed significant sums to restore the ancient highway. It was a way to curry favor from Roman citizens in villages along the route, built from Rome to Brindisi between 312-191 B.C. He...
3383) Unstuck
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lyla sets out to write the perfect fantasy novel in her creative writing class, but discovers some unexpected twists and turns, both on and off the page. Includes twenty-five ways to overcome writer's block.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Want to write a book? Well, the spunky, know-it-all narrator of this side-splitting story can tell you just how to do it. Packed with her signature wit and charm, bestselling author Lloyd-Jones--with whimsical illustrations from beloved illustrator Layton--delivers an outrageously silly story that is sure to have young readers--and writers!--howling with laughter"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the face of widespread misinformation and misunderstanding, a climate scientist ventures into the vast heart of America's new oil country on just two wheels. Recently recovered from his epic bicycle journey that took him from the Delaware shore to the Oregon coast, distinguished climate scientist David Goodrich sets out on his bike again to traverse the Western Interior Seaway--an ancient ocean that once spread across half of North America. When...
3387) I do not like Yolanda
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bianca likes sending letters. Bianca likes stamps, too, and she collects them. She likes drawing and writing and dogs and watering her plants. But she does not like Yolanda who works at the post office. Will Yolanda ruin Bianca's Five-Letter Day? Or will Bianca find a way to solve her Yolanda problem?" -- Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a creative writing professor in a bucolic Vermont town, Gil's quiet life is indelibly changed when he receives shocking news: His sister, Sharon, and her husband have been killed in a car accident, and their only son, seventeen-year-old Matthew, is coming to live with Gil and his family. It's with apprehension that Gil and his wife, Molly, greet Matthew. Yes, he has just lost both his parents. But they haven't seen him in seven years, and the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xv, 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the world, attracting millions of visitors to the British Museum ever year, and yet most people don't really know what it is. Discovered in a pile of rubble in 1799, this slab of stone proved to be the key to unlocking a lost language that baffled scholars for centuries. Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages-in Greek using Greek letters, and...
3394) Even darkness sings: from Auschwitz to Hiroshima : finding hope in the saddest places on Earth
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
376 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawn to dark places, an award-winning crime novelist, in this deeply personal memoir, travels to some of the earth's most tragic locales where he finds the light that can illuminate the darkness within each one of us. --wordery.com.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In See You Again in Pyongyang, Travis Jeppesen, the first American to complete a university program in North Korea, culls from his experiences living, traveling, and studying in the country to create a multifaceted portrait of the country and its idiosyncratic capital city in the Kim Jong Un Era. Anchored by the experience of his five trips to North Korea and his interactions with citizens from all walks of life, Jeppesen reveals how the North Korean...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
ix, 307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One of the most significant works on our evolutionary ancestry since Richard Leakey's paradigm-shattering Origins, The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world--the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language. Imagine yourself as a caveman or woman. The place: Europe. The time: 25,000 years ago, the last Ice Age. In reality, you live in an open-air...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A debut book by the education columnist for Slate traces her experiences as a Jewish teen intellectual whose fateful relationship with a boy who introduced her to Kafka inspired her love for German language and culture,"--NoveList
3399) Pinkalicious: story time
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Pinkalicious meets her favorite author, she is inspired to write her own stories and can't wait to use her imagination in a school writing festival.
3400) The Bedford reader
Publisher
Bedford/St.Martin's
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xlvii, 746 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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