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From Children of a Lesser God to Dancing with the Stars, to Switched at Birth, Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actress Marlee Matlin shares her incredible life story in a moving and often surprising memoir, I'll Scream Later. More than twenty years after becoming...

This expansive history of Black political thought shows us the origins--and the echoes--of anticolonial liberation on a global scale. On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two world wars. From the 1920s...

When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive "somewhere better"--someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose values she has difficulty sharing,...

In 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. They began their harrowing journey on bicycles, pedaling to Southern France with children's book manuscripts among their few possessions. Louise Borden combed primary resources, including Hans Rey's pocket diaries,...

"I find it so easy to forget / that I'm just a girl who is expected / to live / without thoughts." Opposing slavery in Cuba in the nineteenth century was dangerous. The most daring abolitionists were poets who veiled their work in metaphor....

"No one mulling this gentle record will fail to be moved."--San Francisco Chronicle Poet, publisher, bookseller, activist--this is the story of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the bookshop he made a landmark in San Francisco, and a life beautifully lived with writers and books. In the mid-1950s...

An ingeniously constructed teaching memoir from the author of the bestselling On Writing Well -- You learn without knowing it. (Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes)Written with elegance, warmth, and humor, this highly original teaching memoir by William Zinsser--renowned bestselling author of On Writing...

Revised and updated, the autobiography of the Master of Fright, RL Stine The autobiography of RL Stine, creator of the Goosebumps series, now a motion picture in theaters October 16, 2015 Has he had a horrifying life?-Was RL Stine a SCARY kid?-Did he have...

Come for the behind-the-scenes stories.stay for the cutest picture of a kitten-covered Stephen King ever. -- O, The Oprah Magazine Every great writer needs a mews: Mark Twain, Alice Walker, Haruki Murakami, Ursula K. Le Guin--this volume celebrates many famous authors who have shared...

Engine Running explores debut author Cade Mason's gradual distancing from home and old selves alongside an increasingly fractured family doing the same. Starting at the beginning of his parents' love and working past its end, he combs through memory to piece together a portrait...

Once upon a time there was a story. It was a lovely story with absolutely NO BEARS in it--not a SINGLE BEAR anywhere.Then one day...MORE BEARS!KENN NESBITT is possibly the funniest and most sought-after children's poet writing today. When he's not writing, podcasting, updating...

A beautiful and fascinating picture book biography that follows the lives of Robert McCloskey, creator of Make Way for Ducklings, and sculptor Nancy Schön, whose famous bronze ducks grace Boston Public Garden. In the beginning, there was a boy named Robert McCloskey, growing up...

A 1990 Caldecott Honor Book Bill Peet tells his life story, including his years with Disney, with illustrations on every page.Author: Bill PeetPublisher: Clarion BooksPublished: 03/28/1994Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.90h x 8.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9780395689820Audience: Ages 9-12Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.9Point Value: 3Interest Level:...

An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work "[An] electrifying portrait of Charles Lamb."--New Yorker A pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834) found inspiration in London's markets, theaters, prostitutes, and bookshops. He prized...

Celebrate Black Historical Figures Who Changed HistoryEmbrace Black girl magic and learn about the Black historical figures who made their impact on society as we know it. Female, Gifted and Black, the follow-up to The Book of Awesome Black Women, celebrates the power of...

Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes. Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly...

Essential reading for the creative writer.Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should...

A son's poignant letter to his father--from the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. - "One of the great confessions of literature." --The New York Times Book Review Franz Kafka wrote this...

Finalista del Booker Prize 2022 Un libro del que no se sale, hermoso, doloroso, irónico y profundo como las historias de Lucia Berlin o Alice Munro, por la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y el Premi Llibreter entre otros, con tres millones y medio de...

"Leonard S. Marcus... has masterfully written about a fascinating woman who in her short life changed literature for the very young. I was throroughly enchanted."--Eric CarleNearly fifty years after her sudden death at the age of forty-two, Margaret Wise Brown remains a legend and...