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Publisher
Graphic Arts Books
Language
English
Description
"25 fantastic read-aloud stories for kids, written and illustrated by members of our local children's literature community. While the stories reflect a diverse range of topics, tones, and sytles, they're unified by one common theme: Oregon. The book is a celebration of our state, our kids, and our families--and the power of books and reading in forming our experiences, paths, and passions."--back cover.
Author
Language
English
Description
""Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of These Precious Days is the title essay, a surprising and moving meditation on an unexpected friendship that explores "what it means to be seen, to find someone...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Karr breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, opening our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminating the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate.
Publisher
Spiritfish Nation Verbal Construction Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prose, poetry, photographs and drawings contributed by S. Buckley, Denise Cacace, Walter Doerfler, Leah Furnas, Gary Lark, Sharon Lovie, John Noland, Dave Polhamus, Estelle Rivers, Susan Risley, Glenn Rogie, Ashly Salmon, Robert "Black Bear" Scott, Gary Sharp, Ed Woodmansee
Series
Oregon literature volume 3
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
A collection of prose writings which present the hopes and expectations of many different Oregonians from varied time periods and cultural backgrounds
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Christian Wiman, a thinker "at the very source of theology" (Marilynne Robinson), braids poetry, memoir, and criticism to create an inspired, career-defining work"--
Few contemporary writers ask the questions about faith, morality, and God that Christian Wiman does, and even fewer--perhaps none--do so with his urgency and eloquence. Wiman, an award-winning poet and the author of My Bright Abyss, lays the motion of his mind on the page in this genre-defying...
10) Book lovers
Author
Language
English
Description
"A by-the-book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. Nora Stephens' life is books--she's read them all--and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Let me say at the outset that this book is not about Bear (he would be spoken of in the singular and masculine, capitalized and without an article), or it is only incidentally about him. I am less interested in defining the being of Bear than in trying to understand something about the spirit of wilderness, of which Bear is a very particular expression... Bear is a template of the wilderness.
Since receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his novel...
12) Shortcut
Author
Publisher
Houghton
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Visual clues provide answers to the mysterious interrelationship of a series of brief stories
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From the legendary music producer, a savant at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book, many years in the making, that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. "I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." -Rick Rubin Many famed music producers, however brilliant, become known for a particular sound which...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bestselling author of The Artist's Way draws on her many years of personal experience as both a writer and a teacher to uncover the difficult soul work that artists must do to find inspiration.
In The Sound of Paper, Julia Cameron delves deep into the heart of the personal struggles that all artists experience. What can we do when we face our keyboard or canvas with nothing but a cold emptiness? How can we begin to
...Author
Language
English
Description
The chief art critic for The New York Times writes on the creative impulse that emerges in all of us when we realize that the art of making art starts with the art of living. This wide-ranging book explores art as life's great passion, revealing what we can learn of life through works of art and the people who make them. It assures us that art--points of contact with the exceptional that are linked straight to the heart--can be found almost anywhere...
17) Tablet & pen: literary landscapes from the modern Middle East : a Words without borders anthology
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Series
Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 7
Publisher
A.A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"With reproductive freedom under unprecedented attack, Choice Words, edited by poet Annie Finch, takes back the cultural conversation on abortion. A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making, the book spans continents and centuries. This collection magnifies the voices of people reclaiming the sole...
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