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Authorship Fiction Authorship Mensonge Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Opinion publique Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Public opinion Public opinion Juvenile literature Russian poetry Translations into English Truthfulness and falsehood Truthfulness and falsehood Juvenile literature United StatesGale, Ryan
Summary: "Sparked by the secession of the Southern states and the creation of the Confederacy, the Civil War raged between 1861 and 1865. But many popular stories about the Civil War have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of the Civil War dives into the myths about the war fought over slavery and brings the truth to light. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.7 GALLondon, Martha
Summary: "Books, television shows, and movies have illustrated the adventures of cowboys, sharpshooters, and outlaws of the Wild West. But many popular stories about the American West have gotten some facts wrong and left others out altogether. Fact and Fiction of the Wild West dives into the myths about what life was like for settlers and Native American peoples in the West and brings the truth to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J978 LONGagne, Tammy
Summary: Every year on the Fourth of July, Americans celebrate the birth of the nation and the heroes who brought it about. But many popular stories about the American Revolution have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of the American Revolution dives into the myths about the war fought between the patriots and the redcoats and brings the truth to light....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Hustad, Douglas
Summary: When Russia sent Sputnik 1 into space, the country launched not only a satellite but a new age. Many popular stories about American advancements during the space age have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of the Space Age dives into the myths about the history of NASA and space exploration and brings the truth to light. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.9 HUSMetres, Philip
Summary: "This book attempts to provide a context for a poetics of resistance and refuge that predates the Trump Age and will be necessary long after it. In order to survive such moments, we need to glean the present and past for what might sustain us for the work ahead. The Sound of Listening gathers ten years of essays on poetry and builds on Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 METSummary: Whether you?re huddled around the campfire, composing an email to a friend, or sitting down to write a novel, storytelling is fundamental to human nature. But as any writer can tell you, the blank page can be daunting. It?s tough to know where to get started, what details to include in each scene, and how to move from the kernel of an idea to a completed manuscript.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 WRIGagne, Tammy
Summary: The telephone, the lightbulb, and the airplane are all inventions have changed the world for the better. But many popular stories about the creation of American inventions have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of American Invention dives into the myths about inventors and their inventions and brings the truth to light. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J670 GAGGagne, Tammy
Summary: In the years following Christopher Columbus's expedition, Europeans made homes for themselves in the Americas and pushed out the indigenous peoples already living there. Many popular stories about life in the early American colonies have gotten some facts wrong and left out others altogether. Fact and Fiction of American Colonization dives into the myths about colonization and brings the truth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: 973.2 GAGStoker, Bram
Summary: Presented here, for the first time since their publication over a century ago, are twelve previously unknown published works of fiction, poetry, and journalistic writing by Bram Stoker (1847-1912), three works by Stoker never before reprinted, twelve obscure period writings about Stoker, and the exceptionally rare 1913 estate sale catalogue of Stoker's personal library.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.8 STOFiles, Meg
Summary: "It's easy to write about your feelings in a journal. It's more difficult, however, to convert personal experiences into stories worthy of publication--fiction, non-fiction, or poetry. Filled with engaging exercises, Writing what you know will guide you in identifying story-worthy material and transforming your raw material into finished pieces, through conquering fears associated with personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Words FilesSummary: Overview: Though creative nonfiction has been around since Montaigne, St. Augustine, and Seneca, we've only just begun to ask how this genre works, why it functions the way it does, and where its borders reside. But for each question we ask, another five or ten questions roil to the surface. And each of these questions, it seems, requires a more convoluted series of answers. What's more, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 FARSummary: "A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of itskind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 PORFinkelstein, Norman
Summary: "This beautifully written work begins with an overview of the spiritual problematics found in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American poetry. Traveling slightly outside of the realm of the contemporary, Finkelstein's discussions of Emerson, Whitman, and Eliot yield to close readings of the works of Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Ronald Johnson, Michael Palmer, Susan Howe, Nathaniel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 FINLyons, Scott
Summary: "Clinical psychologist and mind-body expert Dr. Scott Lyons unpacks "drama addiction" with scientific insight, compassion, and empathy, providing strategies to identify and heal Many of us know someone who seems to thrive on chaos, a person who manufactures crisis where there is none. A person who makes mountains out of molehills, and whose very presence feels like an inescapable whirlwind. We...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.2 LYOContents: Furui, Y. Wedlock.--Kono, T. Bone meat.--Abe, K. Friends.--Yasuoka, S. Prized possessions.--Kojima, N. The American school.--Kurosawa, A. Ikiru.--Ozu, Y. Tokyo story.--Takeda, T. To build a bridge.--Kurahashi, Y. To die at the estuary.--Mishima, Y. The boy who wrote poetry.--Kawabata, Y. Seven very short stories.--Kaneko, M. Three poems.--Sekine, H. Three poems.--Tamura, R. Two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf : distributed by Random House 1977
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The most successful mystery writers in the business present an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries--from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 HOWMcDonell, Terry
Summary: Terry McDonell has top-edited some of the most influential publications in American journalism. His new book pulls back the curtain on his four-decade career as an editor, journalist, and media entrepreneur, with stops at more than a dozen magazines: from the launch of Outside through tenures at Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and, most recently, cofounding the literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCDONELL, TERRY MCDMcDermott, Alice
Summary: "A collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched "virtuoso of language and image" (Rebecca Steinitz, The Boston Globe)"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MCDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Essay McDermottBoyd, Brian
Contents: Introduction: animal, human, art, story -- Book 1: Evolution, art, and fiction -- Part 1: Evolution and nature -- Evolution and human nature? -- Evolution, adaptation, and adapted minds -- The evolution of intelligence -- The evolution of cooperation -- Part 2: Evolution and art -- Art as adaptation? -- Art as cognitive play -- Art and attention -- From tradition to innovation -- Part 3:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.3 BOYRyan, Kay.
Contents: The Niagara River -- Home to roost -- Carrying a ladder -- Sharks' teeth -- Felix Crow -- Weak forces -- The elephant in the room -- A ball rolls on a point -- The best of it -- Chinese foot chart -- Shipwreck -- The other shoe -- Atlas -- He lit a fire with Icicles -- Rats' tails -- Added significance -- Chop -- Desert reservoirs -- Hailstorm -- Expectations -- Green Hills -- Rubbing lamps --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 RYAJacob, Dianne
Summary: "Love sharing recipes and want to start a food blog? Interested in writing a cookbook? Like to be the first to discover restaurants in your town? Get 'Will Write for Food' and find all you need to put your passion onto the page. Cookbook coauthor, blogger, and writing coach Dianne Jacob gives both aspiring and accomplished food writers ways to succeed and thrive in this revised and updated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Lifelong 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.0666 JACSmiley, Jane
Summary: "Essays that show how Smiley draws inspiration from across literary history to invigorate her own writing. Among the authors she examines are Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldor Laxness, and Jessica Mitford"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813 SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SMICard, Orson Scott.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 1988