Vogler, Christopher

Summary: This edition of the well-known text on the connection between mythology and storytelling contains a revised chapter on the Star Wars series, new illustrations and diagrams, and new chapters (presented in the appendices) on life force operating in stories, the mechanism of polarity in storytelling, the wisdom of the body, catharsis, and other concepts. The book is meant for all types of writers...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Wiese Productions 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.2 VOG

Summary: When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees as well.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tears 2003

Contents: Story of your life / Ted Chiang -- Mars is no place for children / Mary A. Turzillo -- Cost of doing business / Leslie What -- Parable of the talents / Octavia E. Butler -- Wedding album / David Marusek -- Radiant Doors / Michael Swanwick -- Judas danced / Brian W. Aldiss -- Algernon, Charlie, and I: a writer's journey / Daniel Keyes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEB

Chambers, Veronica

Summary: "Michelle Obama is unlike any other First Lady in American History. From her first moments on the public stage, she has challenged traditional American notions about what it means to be beautiful, to be strong, to be fashion-conscious, to be healthy, to be First Mom, to be a caretaker and hostess, and to be partner to the most powerful man in the world. As Hillary Clinton has said, admiringly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 CHA

Tan, Amy

Summary: "In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate, revealing the truths and inspirations that underlie her extraordinary fiction. By delving into vivid memories of her traumatic childhood, confessions of self-doubt in her journals, and heartbreaking letters to and from her mother, she gives evidence to all that made it...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TAN, AMY TAN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B TAN TAN