You Can Write Your Family History (Paperback)

You Can Write Your Family History (Paperback)
By Sharon DeBartolo Carmack

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There's no reason a fully documented family history can't read like a page-turning novel. In this concise and accessible book, Sharon DeBartolo Carmack shows genealogists, history buffs, and writers at all levels exactly how to record the fascinating tales of their ancestors. Based on her own extensive experience writing family histories, the author shares her best methods for: - Conducting historical and thematic research - Organizing materials - Outlining and plotting a story - Illustrating with pictures and charts - Making money writing the histories of other families The advice, inspiration and instruction in You Can Write Your Family History makes it possible for anyone - even those who've never written a single page - to successfully chronicle the lives of near or distant relatives. It's the next best thing to having a personal instructor by your side. Read more

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A Seat In the Middle (Kindle Edition)

A Seat In the Middle (Kindle Edition)
By Robert Soul

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In A Seat in the Middle, Marco Sebastian falls in love with the angelic April, a beautiful Hollywood executive. The downward spiral that ensues may be enough to take his life. Sebastian's friends and enemies have their opinions about his new life and he is caught in a seat in the middle. Battling the demons of murder, incest, alcoholism, and suicide, Marco tries to learn if grace can conquer all.

Robert Soul's first published novel will provide hours of entertainment and will leave you wanting and waiting for his next page-turner, Ruined My Rhythm, coming in 2012!In A Seat in the Middle, Marco Sebastian falls in love with the angelic April, a beautiful Hollywood executive. The downward spiral that ensues may be enough to take his life. Sebastian's friends and enemies have their opinions about his new life and he is caught in a seat in the middle. Battling the demons of murder, incest, alcoholism, and suicide, Marco tries to learn if grace can conquer all.

Robert Soul's first published novel will provide hours of entertainment and will leave you wanting and waiting for his next page-turner, Ruined My Rhythm, coming in 2012! Read more

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We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop (Paperback)

We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers' Workshop (Paperback)
By Eric Olsen

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“It was the best teaching-writing job I ever had.” —John Irving

We Wanted to be Writers is a rollicking and insightful blend of original interviews, commentary, advice, gossip, anecdotes, analyses, history, and asides with nearly thirty graduates and teachers at the now legendary Iowa Writers' Workshop between 1974 and 1978. Among the talents that emerged in those years-writing, criticizing, drinking, and debating in the classrooms and barrooms of Iowa City-were the younger versions of writers who became John Irving, Jane Smiley, T. C. Boyle, Michelle Huneven, Allan Gurganus, Sandra Cisneros, Jayne Anne Phillips, Jennie Fields, Joy Harjo, Joe Haldeman, and many others. It is chock full of insights and a treasure trove of inspiration for all writers, readers, history lovers, and anyone who ever "wanted to be a writer."

Jane Smiley on the Iowa writers' workshop: "In that period, the teachers tended to be men of a certain age, with the idea that competition was somehow the key-the Norman Mailer period. The story was that if you disagreed with Norman, or gave him a bad review, he'd punch you in the nose. You were supposed to get in fights in restaurants."

T.C. Boyle on his short story "Drowning": "I got $25 for it, which was wonderful . . . You know, getting $25 for the product of your own brain? You could buy a lot of beer in Iowa City back then for that."

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Tarranau: Book One of The Four Part Land (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Tarranau: Book One of The Four Part Land (Volume 1) (Paperback)
By James Tallett

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The Four Part Land simmers with discontent, as old rivalries and ancient grudges bubble to the surface. The great kingdoms plot and scheme against one another, looking to use treachery to gain an advantage in the upcoming conflict. Some will succeed, and some will fail, but each kingdom dares against all comers. Into this cauldron of malice is thrust a young mage named Tarranau. Exiled from his home, ripped from his friends and family, he is forced to undertake a perilous journey across The Four Part Land, in answer to a goal he does not yet understand. Along the way he finds unexpected friends and implacable enemies, and has his eyes opened to a world more sinister than any he had imagined. Read more

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Essay Apprentice Essay Writing System (Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned Teaching Guide) (Perfect Paperback)

Essay Apprentice Essay Writing System (Common Core and NCTE/IRA Standards-Aligned Teaching Guide) (Perfect Paperback)
By Kristen Bowers

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The perfect precursor to the best-selling Essay Architect, the Essay Apprentice Writing Program helps students who are unable to write a five-paragraph essay or need a lot of extra help with the essentials of good writing. By building the basic foundations of writing through simple, yet practical activities, students learn the step-by-step process of creating writing they can be proud of. Help students build autonomy and confidence through simple, practical, creative writing activities and exercises. Help struggling or anxious writers through the basics parts of an essay by working step-by-step on each part of the writing process. This unique, research-based, yet practical Essay Apprentice Writing Program includes: Creative Writing Exercises to focus on purposes and types of writing, including: Writing to Entertain: Cartoon Strip, Writing to Entertain: Horoscope, Writing to Entertain: Poetry, Writing to Inform: Recipe of Me, Writing to Inform: Quick Messages and Notes, Writing to Persuade: Personal Advertisement, Writing to Persuade: Magazine Advertisement, and more! Sentence Construction Activities focused on writing clean, succinct sentences that make sense: Sentence Structure, Fragments, Main and Subordinate Clauses, Simple and Compound Sentences, Punctuating Sentences, Expanding Sentences, Sentence Variety, Sentence Combining, Using Modifiers, and more! Paragraph Construction Activities to help students develop focused and coherent paragraphs: Paragraph Structure and Formatting, Developing Paragraph Details, Types of Writing, Writing Thesis Statements, Writing Introductions, Writing Conclusions, and more! Preparing for Formal Writing through whole-class and small group Activities: Structure of the Essay, Evaluating Essays, Verbal Discussion of Ideas, Organizing Ideas, Writing Group Essays, Evaluating Model and Non-Model Essays with: What Should an Essay Look Like?, Peer-Editing and Evaluation Activities, Sample Model and Non-Model Essays, and more! Preparing for Individual Writing with: Verbal Discussion of Ideas, Writing Thesis Statements, Individual Organization of Thoughts, Pre-Writing Process, Writing Individual Essays Resources, Tips, and Hints, including: Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus, Reading an Essay Prompt, Essay Templates, Show, Don't Tell, Using Idioms, Precise Word Choice, Vivid Verbs, Misspelled and Confusing Words, and more...plus 15 Essays for Editing and Evaluation! Read more

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Sling Words (Kindle Edition)

Sling Words (Kindle Edition)
By Joan Reeves

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Novelist and Freelance Writer Joan Reeves lives The Writing Life with all its triumphs and disappointments. Join her each day as she slings words about the art, craft, and business of writing.

Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day. Read more

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Confessions from the Realm of the Underworld (Also Known as High School) (Kindle Edition)

Confessions from the Realm of the Underworld (Also Known as High School) (Kindle Edition)
By Laura Josephsen

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"Write what you know."

Persephone "Sephie" Benson scoffs when her creative writing teacher throws that little gem out there. Maybe this advice would work for a professional skydiver or a baseball star or a ninja princess. It's not so great for a high school student who doesn't even know what to do with the rest of her life. Add in being the oldest of six girls, having Responsibilities with a capital R, and living in a town the size of a tick, and you've got a recipe for boring soup.

At least, that's what Sephie thinks until her senior year. Now, her grandfather is losing his house. One of her sisters plays a starring role in the local high school scandal. Even things with her best friend Joey aren't the same.

As Sephie deals with the changes in her life, she finds that nothing is quite what she expects—and that sometimes, the most extraordinary life can be the one that seems the most ordinary.
"Write what you know."

Persephone "Sephie" Benson scoffs when her creative writing teacher throws that little gem out there. Maybe this advice would work for a professional skydiver or a baseball star or a ninja princess. It's not so great for a high school student who doesn't even know what to do with the rest of her life. Add in being the oldest of six girls, having Responsibilities with a capital R, and living in a town the size of a tick, and you've got a recipe for boring soup.

At least, that's what Sephie thinks until her senior year. Now, her grandfather is losing his house. One of her sisters plays a starring role in the local high school scandal. Even things with her best friend Joey aren't the same.

As Sephie deals with the changes in her life, she finds that nothing is quite what she expects—and that sometimes, the most extraordinary life can be the one that seems the most ordinary.
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