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  • Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives

    Memory in Memoir and Fiction

    by Alan Astro, Malena Chinski, Erika Dreifus, Jessica Lang, Paule Lévy, Avinoam Patt, Henri Raczymow, Alan Berger, Gary Weissman, Victoria Aarons ...
    This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the inter-generational transmission of trauma and memory. This collection demonstrates the ways in which memory of the Holocaust has been passed along inter-generationally from survivors to the second-generation—the children of survivors—to a contemporary generation of grandchildren of survivors—those writers who have ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Writer in the Well

    On Misreading and Rewriting Literature

    by Gary Weissman ...
    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    In The Writer in the Well: On Misreading and Rewriting Literature, Gary Weissman takes readers inside Ira Sher’s short story “The Man in the Well,” about a group of children who discover a man trapped in an old well and decide not to help him. While absorbing readers in the pleasurable activity of interpreting this haunting tale, Weissman draws on dozens of his students’ responses to the short ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    Organize and Revise Any Manuscript with the Book Architecture Method

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    The first draft is the easy part…In Blueprint Your Bestseller, Stuart Horwitz offers a step-by-step process for revising your manuscript that has helped bestselling authors get from first draft to final draft. Whether you’re tinkering with your first one hundred pages or trying to wrestle a complete draft into shape, Horwitz helps you look at your writing with the fresh perspective you need to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Writing Westerns

    How to Craft Novels that Evoke the Spirit of the West

    by Mike Newton ...
    Craft a novel that evokes the spirit of the WestWestern Movies don't appear as frequently today as they did in the 1960s, but those that make the cut in Hollywood prompt frequent Oscar buzz. Nor have Western novels been eclipsed. In 2010, Amazon.com offered 213 new Western novels for sale, plus many reprints of older classics.Writing Westerns examines what a Western is, while teaching you how to ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Four Seasons of Creative Writing

    1,000 Prompts to Stop Writer's Block

    by Bryan Cohen ...
    Have You Ever Had Writer's Block?Do Want a Book That Could Keep It Away for Good?Writing prompts are questions and hypothetical situations that are able to cure writer's block instantly. This book gives you exactly one thousand idea-generating prompts that focus on the coldest, warmest, toughest and funniest days of the four seasons. These 1,000 prompts work for blogs, scripts, stories, poems, ... Read more

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  • Coach Yourself to Writing Success

    Boost Motivation, Increase Creativity and Achieve Your Writing Goals

    by Bekki Hill ...
    You know how to woo publishers. You know how to write. But do you know how to overcome the things that prevent you being published? This book is the first personal coach for writers. If you write, whether professionally, for fun, or with dreams of doing both, it will help you to change your relationship with your writing, to be more motivated, to be more creative, less challenged and, ultimately, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 100 Ways to Publish and Sell Your Own E-Book – and make it a bestseller

    by Conrad James, Darin Jewell ...
    If you’ve published an e-book, or are planning to do so, you’ll need this essential guide. It provides expert advice on every step of the process, from production through to all-important promotion. To ensure your e-book reaches its intended audience, at the very least you have to: • design the cover and format it a certain way • know your options in terms of publishing platforms and choose the ... Read more

    $8.87 CAD

  • The Sky-Crasher

    by L. Ron Hubbard ...
    Series series Historical Fiction Short Stories Collection
    They don't call him Caution Jones for nothing. An ace pilot, ever since his barnstorming father was killed in an air stunt, Jones has stuck strictly to business—as the no-nonsense general manager of Trans-Continental Airlines. But, like Robert Redford in The Great Waldo Pepper, he's about to find that, sometimes, if you want to get anywhere, you have to throw caution to the wind.The race is on for ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • BAX 2015

    Edited by Seth Abramson, Jesse Damiani, Douglas Kearney ...
    Series series Best American Experimental Writing
    BAX 2015 is the second volume of an annual literary anthology compiling the best experimental writing in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. This year's volume, guest edited by Douglas Kearney, features seventy-five works by some of the most exciting American poets and writers today, including established authors—like Dodie Bellamy, Anselm Berrigan, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Cathy Park Hong, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vernacular Eloquence

    What Speech Can Bring to Writing

    by Peter Elbow ...
    Since the publication of his groundbreaking books Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power, Peter Elbow has revolutionized how people think about writing. Now, in Vernacular Eloquence, he makes a vital new contribution to both practice and theory. The core idea is simple: we can enlist virtues from the language activity most people find easiest-speaking-for the language activity most people ... Read more

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  • The Heart of the Humanities

    Reading, Writing, Teaching

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    From one of America's great professors, a collection of works exploring the importance of reading, writing, and teaching well, for anyone invested in the future of the humanities.In his series of books Why Read?, Why Teach?, and Why Write? Edmundson, a renowned professor of English at the University of Virginia, explored the vital worldly roles of reading, teaching, and writing, earning a vocal ... Read more

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  • What's the Story?

    Try your Hand at Fiction and Learn the Art of Writing

    by Rudolph H. Weingartner, Isaias Zelkowicz ...
    Have you ever thought that you might want to write a story but simply couldn't find a way to get started? This book, What's the Story?, just might launch you on the road to writing fiction. It consists of twenty casts of characters - made up of three to seven personages, with each character described in a paragraph. Both the individuals and the casts differ greatly from one another. Most are ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD