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Author: Alton A. Adams
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-04-02
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0520251318
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Adams's memoirs, here edited and placed in historical context by Mark Clague, with a foreword by Samuel Floyd, Jr., reveal an inspired cultural activist who believed that music could change the world, mitigate racism, and help bring lasting prosperity to his island home."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: James E. Birren
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1991-06
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780801842139
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Author: Francis E. Kazemek
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781891661266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSenior adults can turn their vast experiences into fascinating memoirs, fiction, poetry, children's storybooks, and more using these step-by-step instructions. Practical tips are included for getting started, generating ideas, working with a first draft, revising, editing, and sharing one's writing with others. The writing novice who has just retired and now wants to put pen to paper will find the book an invaluable tool, while more experienced writers will discover creative activities and exercises to help expand and improve their writing. Seniors wanting to write memorable stories for their grandchildren, capture significant events of their lives as a legacy for their family and friends, or simply try their hand at fiction or poetry will find this encouraging and easy to use.
Author: Beth Finke
Publisher:
Published: 2017-04-30
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780998442921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2004, blind writer Beth Finke reluctantly agrees to teach a memoir-writing class to older adults in downtown Chicago. Over the next decade, she comes to love her students and the community that forms around her courses. Filled with humor, poignancy, and stories in the students' own voices, this book will move and inspire readers of any age.
Author: Lily Caverton
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2017-03-17
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 1524588512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSenior Year is a memoir and a mature teen novel detailing a young girls very raw and personal struggles with mental illness during her senior year in high school. Seventeen-year-old Lily befriends the dramatic and intense Kelly Grange, a woman in her late thirties who introduces her to the new world of partying and alcohol. Due to her influence, Lily dramatically changes from an honor-roll student into a reckless party girl. After making decisions that alter the course of her life forever, she sinks into a deep depression where she experiences terrifying hallucinations and delusions that force her to question the meaning of life and her purpose. After nearly attempting suicide, Lily commits herself to a psychiatric ward. This novel is a true account of a young girl tainted by emotional abuse who is forced to learn excruciating lessons that ultimately test her ability to survive. Senior Year is colored by passionate friendships and dark secrets, the struggle to fit in with peers and how some decisions have consequences unforeseeable. Harrowing and emotional, Senior Year navigates the struggles many teens face today and the crises that so often catapult them into adulthood, sometimes long before they are ready.
Author: Karen L. Pepkin
Publisher:
Published: 2014-04-10
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780615892665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSenior Wonders: People Who Achieved Their Dreams After Age 60 introduces you to twenty-five individuals who achieved extraordinary success, for the first time, after the age of sixty. The twenty-five brief biographies in this uplifting book showcase men and women from a variety of races, ethnicities, religions, and cultures, who each overcame unique challenges and obstacles in life to accomplish a remarkable feat. Despite their differences in backgrounds and fields of interest, they have one thing in common-they didn't let their age stop them from fulfilling their dreams.From actors, artists, athletes, to humanitarians, authors, and a Nobel Laureate, these individuals will inspire you, and not just with their achievements. Their hard work, determination, and positive outlook on life will touch you and, most importantly, open your eyes to your own potential.If you've ever felt like life is passing you by and there's not enough time left to catch up, let alone achieve your dreams, Senior Wonders: People Who Achieved Their Dreams After Age 60 will show you it's never too late to go after what you want out of life. It will encourage you to rekindle the dreams you placed on the backburner long ago and help you take the first steps toward attaining those goals that once seemed too far out of reach.
Author: Jack Canfield
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-09-11
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1453280448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection offers readers loving insights and wisdom--all centering on the prime of life. Contributors to this volume include Erma Bombeck, Ruth Stafford Peale, Tom Landry, Florence Littauer, Roy Rogers and Max Lucado.
Author: James E. Birren
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 2001-07-05
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780801866340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBirren has conducted more than twenty-five years of autobiography groups, where participants recall, write, and share their life stories. He offers "how-to" tips for organizing, complementing, and understanding oral history works. He finds that the exercise is rewarding for adults entering periods of transitions, such as the elderly population, and encourages the sharing of experiences with others on the same journey.
Author: Nan Phifer
Publisher:
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780984206001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide gently leads writers from accessible subjects into the heart of meaningful experiences. This easy-to-follow process produces profound, polished memoirs. For both classrooms and individuals. Clear instructions, examples, writing tips. The guide identifies subjects for chapters, prompts spontaneous writing, shows how to breathe life into your writing, and transforms your most significant experiences into compelling memoirs. Furthermore, you will gain insights and appreciation of your inner life as you tell your story, a story that will be irrevocably lost unless written during your lifetime. This revised and updated second edition contains new chapter material, an entire new chapter, and a forward by popular writing teacher Hal Zina Bennett. This edition has been completely redesigned in a larger format with lay-flat binding for ease of use while writing.
Author: Anne Hart
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2005-12
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0595380832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn what questions to ask and how to interview people for the significant moments in their life stories, and then write, publish, and bind by hand exquisitely-crafted personal gift books, memoirs, or business success stories. Words in memoirs or life success story gift books have a life of their own. The purpose of a hand-made, finely bound memoirs or business success-story gift book is to show how two or more people bring out the best in one another. You'd be surprised how many people are satisfied to pay up to $10,000 (or more depending upon the publisher) to have only one copy of a hand-bound hardcover book published about their event or life story. What does it take to create and publish a memoirs gift book commemorating a Bar Mitzvah, confirmation, wedding, or true experience? What quality of personal book do you want to make from scratch-writing, printing, and binding? As far as printing and binding, you can make one finished book at a cost to you of only $1.50-$4.50. What you charge a client depends on what it costs you. If you create and publish a custom gift book, you'd publish only one copy of a hand bound, hard-cover book. The tome would contain anywhere from 60 to 100 photos. Text material based on phone or live interviews running at least two hours for one person (or more if needed and about two hours spent per each interview) would be about 80 to 120 published pages-slightly more, but only if necessary. Look at yourself as a designer, writer, interviewer, and book binder. Learn how to make your own pop-up books for all ages.
