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In Writing Without Teachers, well-known advocate of innovative teaching methods Peter Elbow outlines a practical program for learning how to write. The core of Elbow's thinking is a challenge against traditional writing methods. Instead of editing and outlinig material in the initial steps of the writing process, Elbow celebrates non-stop or free uncensored writing, withough editorial checkpoints first, followed... (more)

Hot Gimmick, Vol. 6 (Hot Gimmick (Paperback))

Hot Gimmick, Vol. 6 (Hot Gimmick (Paperback))

by Miki Aihara, Pookie Rolf

The Off Season

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Life is looking up for D.J. Schwenk. She’s in eleventh grade, finally. After a rocky summer, she’s reconnecting in a big way with her best friend, Amber. She’s got kind of a thing going with Brian Nelson, who’s cute and popular and smart but seems to like her anyway. And then there’s the fact she’s starting for the Red Bend High School football team—the first girl linebacker in northern Wisconsin, probably. Which... (more)

Shug

by Jenny Han

Annemarie Wilcox, or Shug as her family calls her, is beginning to think there's nothing worse than being twelve. She's too tall, too freckled, and way too flat-chested. Shug is sure that there's not one good or amazing thing about her. And now she has to start junior high, where the friends she counts most dear aren't acting so dear anymore -- especially Mark...

Absolute Boyfriend, Volume 3 (Absolute Boyfriend (Graphic Novels))

Absolute Boyfriend: Book 3

Absolute Boyfriend, Volume 3 (Absolute Boyfriend (Graphic Novels))

by Yuu Watase

Shy high school student Riko Izawa aches for a boyfriend but guys just won't look her way. Then one day she signs up for a three-day trial of a mysterious "lover figurine," and the next thing she knows, a cute naked guy is delivered to her doorstep--and he wants to be her boyfriend! Has Riko died and gone to heaven? The cute naked guy turns out to be smart, super nice, stylish and a gourmet chef. Plus, he looks... (more)

Absolute Boyfriend: Book 4

Absolute Boyfriend (Volume 4)

by Yuu Watase

Rejected way too many times by good-looking (and unattainable) guys, shy Riiko Izawa goes online and signs up for a free trial of a mysterious Nightly Lover 'figure'. The very next day, a cute naked guy is delivered to her door, and he wants to be her boyfriend! Has Riiko died and gone to heaven? The cute guy turns out to be sweet, smart, a great cook, and lots more. And he looks like a million bucks, which is... (more)

You're Too Wonderful To Die

by Andrew Bomback

When his first child is stillborn, Alex Glassman, an intensive care specialist at a prestigious academic hospital, watches his seemingly perfect life crumble. He doesn t know how to console his wife, how to continue caring for critically ill patients, and how to reconcile an unsettling suspicion that he is being punished for his prior religious skepticism. Then Alex meets new patient Esme Jeffries, a freshman... (more)

Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing

Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing

by Debra Spark

Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing is a book about what makes fiction work. In nine entertaining and instructive essays, novelist and master teacher Debra Spark pursues key questions that face both aspiring and accomplished writers, including: How does a writer find inspiration? What makes a story's closing line resonate? How can a writer "get" style? Where should an author "stand" in relation to his... (more)

LONE PILGRIM

by Laurie Colwin

This collection of stories about love and privacy is serious , funny, tender, and alive with the elegance and spirit that characterize Laurie Colwin's work.In these stories, the reader moves among young men and women: pianists, historians, book illustrators, architects; women who are composed and inimitably sassy; and men who are magnetic, adventurous in love, or fiendishly elusive. They are people who are... (more)

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

by Brock Clarke

As a teenager, it was never Sam Pulsifer's intention to torch an American landmark, and he certainly never planned to kill two people in the blaze. To this day, he still wonders why that young couple was upstairs in bed in the Emily Dickinson House after hours. After serving ten years in prison for his crime, Sam is determined to put the past behind him. He fifinishes college, begins a career, falls in love,... (more)

The Plain Janes

by Cecil Castellucci

Noted young adult novelist Cecil Castellucci and artist Jim Rugg launch MINX with THE PLAIN JANES , a story about four girls named Jane who sit at the reject table at lunch. When transfer student Jane is forced to move from the confines of Metro City to Suburbia, she thinks her life is over. But there in the lunch room at the reject table she finds her tribe: three other girls named Jane.... (more)

The Odyssey

by Homer, Allen Mandelbaum, Stanley Lombardo, Geraldine McCaughrean, Richmond Lattimore

If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. ...

The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

"Quando Gregor Samsa despertou uma manhã na sua cama de sonhos inquietos, viu-se metamorfoseado num monstruoso inseto ".É deste modo que Kafka inicia a história de Gregor Samsa, um caixeiro-viajante "obrigado" que deixou de ter vida própria para suportar financeiramente todas as despesas de casa.Numa manhã, ao acordar para o trabalho, Gregor vê que se... (more)

The Joy Luck Club

Don Quixote Cervantes (Signet Classic)

This enchanting new transalation and abridgement of the immortal story of Don Quixote of La Mancha by the noted scholar Walter Starkie brings the modern reader Cervantes' great classic in its most enjoyable form. Humor, insight, compassion, and knowledge of the world underlie the antic adventures of the lanky knight clad in rusty armor and his earthy quire, Sancho Panza. The unforgettable characters they... (more)

Little White LiesGemma Townley

Little White Lies

by Gemma Townley

Yvain: The Knight of the Lion

by Burton Raffel, Chrétien de Troyes

A twelfth-century poem by the creator of the Arthurian romance describes the courageous exploits and triumphs of a brave lord who tries to win back his deserted wife's love.

Speaking With the Angel

by Nick Hornby

Speaking with the Angel : 12 completely new stories, narrated by 12 completely fabulous characters, written by 12 of the most celebrated voices in fiction today. Bestselling author Nick Hornby has brought together a star-studded group of writers to create this one-of-a-kind collection of first-person narratives. From the imaginations of Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, Irvine Welsh, Helen Fielding, Roddy Doyle,... (more)

Persepolis

The Story of a Childhood

by Marjane Satrapi

A New York Times Notable Book A Time Magazine “Best Comix of the Year” A San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times Best-seller Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow... (more)

The Art of Travel

by Alain De Botton

Any Baedeker will tell us where we ought to travel, but only Alain de Botton will tell us how and why. With the same intelligence and insouciant charm he brought to How Proust Can Save Your Life , de Botton considers the pleasures of anticipation; the allure of the exotic, and the value of noticing everything from a seascape in Barbados to the takeoffs at Heathrow. Even as de Botton takes the reader... (more)

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by Peter Elbow

by Miki Aihara, Pookie Rolf

by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

by Jenny Han

by Yuu Watase

by Yuu Watase

by Andrew Bomback

by Debra Spark

by Laurie Colwin

by Brock Clarke

by Cecil Castellucci

by Homer, Allen Mandelbaum, Stanley Lombardo, Geraldine McCaughrean, Richmond Lattimore

by Franz Kafka

by Gemma Townley

by Burton Raffel, Chrétien de Troyes

by Nick Hornby

The Story of a Childhood

by Marjane Satrapi

by Alain De Botton