Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs)
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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 Read moreThe 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
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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 Read moreNew 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 Read moreGive 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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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 Add to cartPart 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
