If I Were Writing This

If I Were Writing This

Author: Robert Creeley

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2008-08

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780811217569

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New poetry from the winner of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Before Columbus Fdtn., and a Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.


If You Were a Writer

If You Were a Writer

Author: Joan Lowery Nixon

Publisher: Perfection Learning

Published: 1995-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780780770065

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Melia wants to be a writer just like her mother. With a few helpful suggestions and lots of encouragement, she is soon on her way. Young writers will find (the book) a source of inspiration, written at their level.--Booklist. Full color.


Why I Write

Why I Write

Author: George Orwell

Publisher: Renard Press Ltd

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 15

ISBN-13: 1913724263

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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times


If I Were You

If I Were You

Author: Leslie Margolis

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2015-05-12

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0374300690

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Katie's reasons why it's better to be Melody: -She's a boy magnet. I'm more like a boy repellent. -Her parents never make her do any chores. Meanwhile, I get stuck babysitting almost every day. -Melody's parents are still married. Mine are, too . . . to other people. Why Melody thinks Katie has the ideal life: -Her house is fun and lively. My house is empty and lonely. -They have family dinners practically every single night. My dad almost never comes home. -Everyone always talks about how pretty I am, like that's the most important thing, like that's all I am . . . Twelve-year-old Katie is insanely jealous of her best friend, Melody. Turns out Melody is jealous of Katie, too. When they both wish for the exact same thing at the exact same time, to redo summer as each other, their wishes come true. Katie is Melody and Melody is Katie and neither one has the experience she expected. In this be-careful-what-you-wish-for tale, two best friends learn that the grass is not always greener on the other side


If I Were Other Than Myself

If I Were Other Than Myself

Author: Sue Hardy-Dawson

Publisher: Troika

Published: 2020-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781909991859

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A collection of poetry, full of magical fantasy and dreamlike inventions.


Out of Love

Out of Love

Author: Hazel Hayes

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 059318453X

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One of E! News' 13 Books to Read This September | One of Bookish's Debuts to Read in the Second Half of 2021 | One of Medium's Best Releases Out Today “Hazel Hayes writes with such honesty and casual confidence and flowing dialogue, you feel you are overhearing it rather than reading it. The writing sparkles with wit and a poignant emotional reality. I love it.”—Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight Library “A smart, touching, time-bending romance. Funny and affecting.”—David Nicholls, bestselling author of One Day and Sweet Sorrow For anyone who has loved and lost, and lived to tell the tale, this gorgeously written debut is a love story told in reverse, a modern novel with the heart of a classic: truthful, tragic, and ultimately full of hope. Out of Love begins at the end. A couple call it quits after nearly five years, and while holding a box of her ex-boyfriend’s belongings, the young woman wonders: How could they have spent so long together? When did they fall out of love? Were there good times before the bad? These are the questions we obsess over when a relationship ends, even when obsessing can do no good. But instead of moving forward through the emotional fallout of a break-up, Out of Love moves backward in time, weaving together an already unraveled tapestry, from tragic ending to magical first kiss. Each chapter jumps further into the past, mining their history for the days and details that might help us understand love; how it happens and why it sometimes falls apart. Readers of Normal People; Goodbye, Vitamin; and One Day will adore this bittersweet romance, a sparkling debut that you won’t want to miss.


If I Were President

If I Were President

Author: Catherine Stier

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0807592854

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2000 SSLI Honor Book-Social Studies (Grades K-6) IRA Los Angeles' 100 Best Books A multicultural cast of children imagines what it would be like to be president. Imagine living in the White House, a mansion where you wouldn't have to leave home to go bowling or see a movie! Imagine a chef to cook anything you like. "Two desserts, Madam President? No problem!" If you were president, there would be a lot of work to do too. You would be in charge of the armed forces, give important speeches, and work with Congress to create laws for the whole country!


Eyes, Stones

Eyes, Stones

Author: Elana Bell

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2012-04-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0807144649

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In this debut collection, Eyes, Stones, Elana Bell brings her heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The poems invoke characters inexorably linked to the land of Israel and Palestine. There is Zosha, a sharp-witted survivor whose burning hope for a Jewish homeland helps her endure the atrocities of the Holocaust. And there is Amal, a Palestinian whose family has worked their land for over one hundred years -- through Turkish, British, Jordanian, and now Israeli rule. Other poems -- inspired by interviews conducted by the poet in Israel, the Palestinian territories, and America -- examine Jewish and Arab relationships to the land as biblical home, Zionist dream, modern state, and occupied territory.


Dragons at Crumbling Castle

Dragons at Crumbling Castle

Author: Terry Pratchett

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2015-02-03

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0544466594

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New York Times best-selling author Terry Pratchett's irreverent and irresistible tales for children in a lavishly designed and extensively illustrated volume.


The Distance Between Us

The Distance Between Us

Author: Reyna Grande

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-08-28

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1451661800

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In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home. Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.