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1) 100 Days
Author
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When in March 2020 the Covid pandemic led the Government to impose a total lockdown Gabriel Josipovici decided that he would respond to a unique situation by writing an essay a day for a hundred days, prefacing each with a diary entry, keeping track of the changing seasons as well as the pandemic. As organising and generating principle for the essays he chose the alphabet, and the result is a stimulating kaleidoscope of topics from Aachen to Zoos,...
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Personal reflections on the vital role of the notebook in creative writing, from Dorianne Laux, Sue Grafton, John Dufresne, Kyoko Mori, and more. This collection of essays by established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops -- places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum to develop...
Author
Publisher
Mango Media / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Journaling Techniques for Growing, Healing, and Creativity “When Lynda [Monk] talks about her own journaling practice, a spirit of flexibility infuses her approach.” -- Rebecca Kochenderfer , Journaling.com #1 Best Seller in Writing Skills Writing Guides The Great Book of Journaling provides calming tools for quelling worry and anxiety from psychotherapist Eric Maisel. As well as expert writing tips from Lynda Monk, Director of the International...
Author
Publisher
Quarry Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Inspiration and guidance for creating journals or scrapbooks for self-healing and inner strength while managing life’s difficult moments. In follow up to Faith Books & Spiritual Journaling , author Sharon Soneff shows that there is a richer, deeper reward to creative journals beyond the beauty they supply. In this new volume, Art Journals & Creative Healing , she demonstrates with real excerpts from artistic journals that the process of journaling...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Life on board the world's most famous ship, in the words of the passengers themselvesUtilizing many documents not seen since 1912, here Titanic's passengers and crewmen are permitted to tell the story of the disaster entirely in their own words via the texts of letters, postcards, diary entries, and memoirs that were written before, during, and immediately after the maiden voyage itself. Many of the presailing documents were written by people who...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In a flash, Valerie's world comes tumbling down. She and Peter were sharing their dreams. Now she and Peter share a problem . . . Except it turns out to be Val's problem. Peter says he loves her, but he has to get on with his life. Valerie wishes she could get on with her life. But she lives each day with the reality Peter wants to forget-and it is she who must make the impossible choices . . . when love has no answers.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"I couldn't put Dear Haiti, Love Alaine down!" -- New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory "An enchanting and engrossing novel full of wit and laughter." -- Edwidge Danticat, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory "Remarkable, funny, and whip-smart." -- Ibi Zoboi, author of American Street , National Book Award finalist "Maika and Maritza Moulite have created quite the masterpiece." -- NPR.org "Alaine's sarcastic quips ... are worth the price of...
Author
Publisher
ABC Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Heartfelt and hilarious, this is a book for anyone who has tried to imagine what their dog was thinking. Human beings often write about their dogs, but the dogs don't usually get a right of reply. In Love, Clancy, Richard Glover has collated the letters sent by Clancy to his parents in the bush. They are full of a young dog's musings about the oddities of human behaviour, life in the big city, and his own attempts to fit in. You'll meet Clancy as...
11) The diary
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adult daughters of Elizabeth Marshall set out to learn the truth when they discover a diary written by their mother, who is near death following a stroke, in which she tells of the painful choice she made as a young woman between two men.
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The activist and author of A People's History of the United States records an in-depth and personal account of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into the historic protests occurring across Atlanta. At the time, Howard Zinn was a history professor at Spelman and served as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A revealing look at the life of this "extraordinary and unconventional writer" during the mid-1920s ( The New York Times Book Review ). In this volume of her earlier series of personal diaries, Anais Nin tells how she exorcised the obsession that threatened her marriage -- and nearly drove her to suicide. "Through sheer nerve, confidence, and will, Nin made of the everyday something magical. This was a gift, indeed, and it's a fascinating process...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
May Sarton discovers the liberation of old age in this life-affirming journal On the second day of her 80th year, May Sarton began a new journal. She wrote it because she wanted "to go on a little while longer;" to discover "what is really happening to me." This triumphant sequel to Endgame-Sarton's journal of her 79th year-is filled with the comforting minutiae of daily life, from gardening to planning dinners and floral arrangements to answering...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As she battles debilitating illnesses, May Sarton looks back on her life, cherishes new and old friendships, and finds hope in the brave new world of old age "I always imagined a journal that would take me through my seventy-ninth year," May Sarton writes, "the doors opening out from old age to unknown efforts and surprises." Instead of musing calmly on the philosophical implications of aging, the writer found herself spending most of her energy battling...
Author
Publisher
ABC Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A cooking school, a farm, a household of eccentric animals and 250 delicious recipes from Tasmania's queen of the kitchen, Sally Wise. Renowned cook Sally Wise always wanted her own cooking school - and her own farm, where she could grow the produce she wanted to cook with. One day she and her husband came across a property in Tasmania's Derwent Valley with an orchard full of fruit trees, and a funny old chalet out the back. A plan began to take shape...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
During the Second World War, over 1.5 million women found themselves thrust into the previously male dominated domain of the workplace, having to learn new skills within a matter of weeks. Their contribution to the war effort often remains unheralded, but it is without doubt that these women played a central role in an Allied victory. Kathleen Church-Bliss and Elsie Whiteman were two such women. The previous owners of a genteel restaurant, they volunteered...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous." --
19) The Cannibals
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Unlike me, life isn't always pretty," says Tiffany Spratt--a cheerleader destined for fame who will do " anything " to get there Tiffany is " definitely " glad that the best-looking boy in the universe just transferred to her high school. Her boyfriend, Wally, got caught hacking into the Pentagon's computer system and was sent to boarding school, so she almost didn't have a date for the Homecoming dance! But Tiffany knows that she'll look " fabulous...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An intimate and uplifting memoir chronicling May Sarton's efforts to regain her health, art, and sense of self after suffering from a stroke Feeling cut off and isolated-from herself most of all-after suffering a stroke at age 73, May Sarton began a journal that helped her along the road to recovery. She wrote every day without fail, even if illness sometimes prevented her from penning more than a few lines. From her sprawling house off the coast...
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