Summary: After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WIFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wife 2019Copies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIFSummary: The story of Benjamin Purvis, a lovable loner whose life is turned upside down when a pretentious fantasy author steals his story at a writers' camp.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GENMitchell, Malcolm
Summary: Henley hates to read, so his homework assignment to bring in his favorite book seems an impossible challenge--until his mother shows him a box of books he made himself when he was younger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MITManushkin, Fran
Summary: Katie and her friends explore writing different kinds of poetry about themselves and their surroundings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MANSummary: During the spring of 1977, sci-fi-obsessed teenager Pat Johnson finds himself torn between making 8mm sequels to his favorite movies and pursuing the girl of his dreams, Linda. Desperate to help her son escape his likely future in Wadsworth, Illinois, (population 750), his mother Janet cold-calls the editor of 'American Cinematographer's magazine, and Pat soon finds himself on "the ultimate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FIVDee, Barbara
Summary: Twelve-year-old Lyla sets out to write the perfect fantasy novel in her creative writing class, but discovers some unexpected twists and turns, both on and off the page. Includes twenty-five ways to overcome writer's block.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEEGrimes, Nikki.
Summary: A group of high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRISaltzberg, Barney
Summary: Given blank books by their mother, Seymour, Fiona, and Wilbur let their imaginations fly, then put their stories, poems, and pictures together in a single, shared book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Appleseed 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SALHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: A child struggles to write a story until he finds inspiration outside his window.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books/Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOPKinney, Jeff
Summary: "Introducing the newest Wimpy Kid author: Rowley Jefferson! Rowley's best friend Greg Heffley has been chronicling his middle-school years in thirteen Diary of a Wimpy Kid journals . . . and counting. But it's finally time for readers to hear directly from Rowley in a journal of his own. In Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid, Rowley writes about his experiences and agrees to play the role of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD KINBirney, Betty G.
Summary: During a creative writing unit at Longfellow School, the students in Mrs. Brisbane's class practice using their imaginations with their own writing journals, and Humphrey finds out that writing from his imagination is harder than it looks.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Engle, Margarita
Summary: "Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she struggles to belong. But most of the time that's okay, because she enjoys helping her parents care for the many injured animals at their veterinary clinic. Then Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, moves to town, and aspiring writer Oriol finds herself opening up. As she...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ENGBruel, Nick
Summary: Author/illustrator Nick Bruel tries to explain to the reader how to write a story, but Bad Kitty is not at all happy about the plot, which has her going on a turnip diet to lose weight. Includes a recipe for roasted turnips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BRUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION BRUHenry, April
Summary: Bridget is R.M. Haldon's biggest fan. She and her mom sought refuge in Haldon's epic fantasy series Swords and Shadows while her mom was losing her battle with cancer. When Bridget met Haldon at one of his rare book signings, she impressed the author with her encyclopedic knowledge of the fantasy world he'd created. Bridget has been working for him ever since as he attempts to write the final...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HENMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Summary: "Emily's Quest" is the final tale in The Emily Starr Series, and tells the story of Emily being separated from her childhood sweetheart and agreeing to marry another man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Read Books Ltd. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MONSantos Donaldson, David
Summary: "A dazzling literary debut novel-within-a-novel, in the vein of The Prophets, about a young author writing about the forbidden love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl--in which Mohammed's story collides with his own, blending fact and fiction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONSteinberg, Avi
Summary: "Once upon a time there was a story no one has ever heard before, inspired by a carrot on the run, a knight who'd trade his sword for a pal, and an alien who just wants to get some rest and relaxation. It's a story about how to tell a story. From choosing a main character to crafting a problem to solve to arriving at a satisfying conclusion"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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Summary: On the eve of her husband's receipt of a prestigious literary award, Joan Castleman, who has put her own writing ambitions on hold to support her husband, evaluates her choices and decides to end the marriage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION WolitzerWolitzer, Meg.
Summary: A woman is forced to confront the sacrifices she's made in order to achieve the life she thought she wanted.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOLSummary: Set in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer in northern France, this captures a film within a film as it follows the production of a feature whose director turns to the local Cité Picasso housing project for casting. Eager to capture performances of gritty authenticity, the director selects four working class teenagers to act in the film to the surprise and consternation of the local community, who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WORBram, Elizabeth
Summary: Rather than a lemonade stand, Rufus sets up a story stand one summer and makes a series of trades with his friends--a story for a shell, for a kitten, for a surprise, and one more as a special birthday gift for his sister.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2015
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Summary: At the end of her rope, single mom Lily Anderson is determined to move her rebellious children in the right direction. That means taking away their cell phones, tablets, and computers--at least temporarily--and moving to the house where Lily grew up in the rural town of Comfort, Texas. But Lily has a bigger challenge than two sulking teens. The house comes with Mack Cooper, high school teacher...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BROFforde, Jasper.
Summary: Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to find out who drowned her husband of a month thirty-eight years ago while interacting with classic literature.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FFOGerstein, Mordicai.
Summary: "Once in a book by Mordecai Gerstein ... there lived a family of characters." This is the tale of one little girl's search for her own story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook 2009