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While ideal for a younger audience, this guide to being a better writer by veteran children's authors Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter is also a useful resource for anyone who wants to improve their writing skills. Mazer and Potter take turns performing their own work, and their distinct voices add a lot of fun and interest to topics such as the importance (or not) of outlines, where to find inspiration, and how to create believable characters. Potter is the cheerleader of the pair, and her perky voice contrasts well with Mazer's mature, sympathetic tone. Listeners will particularly enjoy the "I Dare You" portions that challenge them to get writing.
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Prompted by a neverending stream of letters pleading for advice on how to be a better writer, successful children’s authors Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter put their heads together to create this useful guide. With dozens of books and decades of experience between them, the authors brought their distinct personal styles to the advice they had to offer. Now they have done the same for this audio version, with each author narrating her own sections. Along the way they call in some friends for some delightful bits of storytelling to illustrate their points.
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Get to know Natalie Goldberg
- De Sven Severin en 04-21-15
De: Natalie Goldberg
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The Memoir Project
- A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text For Writing & Life
- De: Marion Roach Smith
- Narrado por: Marion Roach Smith
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Whether or not one has lived an exceptional or dramatic life, we inherently understand that writing memoir—whether it’s a book, blog, or just a letter to a child - is the single greatest portal to self-examination. Stop treading water in writing exercises or hiding behind “writer’s block” and learn how to write with intent. Marion Roach Smith’s disarmingly frank but wildly fun tactics offer you simple and effective guidelines that work. Your legacy beings now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazing what you can learn from brevity
- De Schwartz-Burrill en 09-15-11
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
- Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
- De: Annie Spence
- Narrado por: Stephanie Spicer
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 67
Librarians spend their lives weeding - not weeds, but books - books that have reached the end of their shelf life both literally and figuratively. They remove books that patrons no longer check out, and they put back books they treasure. Annie Spence, who has a decade of experience as a Midwestern librarian, does this not only at her Michigan library but also at home, for her neighbors, at cocktail parties - everywhere. In Dear Fahrenheit 451, she addresses those books directly.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Totally captivating
- De Grace Smith en 03-24-18
De: Annie Spence
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My Life with Bob
- Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
- De: Pamela Paul
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens, Pamela Paul
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 62
Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for 28 years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk - reliable if frayed, anonymous-looking yet deeply personal. This book has a name: Bob. Bob is Paul's Book of Books, a journal that records every book she's ever read.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An uncanny mirror and a celebration of book love
- De Cherilyn Parsons en 07-28-19
De: Pamela Paul
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Reading Like a Writer
- De: Francine Prose
- Narrado por: Nanette Savard
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 147
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 142
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire listeners to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Practical, literate, generous
- De Gare en 04-13-08
De: Francine Prose
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Educating Esme
- De: Esme Raji Codell
- Narrado por: Esme Raji Codell
- Duración: 2 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
We all have a lot to learn from the diary of a teacher named Esmé Raji Codell, an educator who has struggled to maintain individuality in the face of bureaucracy and whose defiant stand against mediocrity will reverberate in companies as well as classrooms everywhere.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent inspiration for educators....
- De S. Connolly en 08-05-03
De: Esme Raji Codell
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Art & Soul, Reloaded
- A Year-Long Apprenticeship for Summoning the Muses and Reclaiming Your Bold, Audacious, Creative Side
- De: Pam Grout
- Narrado por: Pam Grout
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
With her trademark humor, enthusiasm, and no-nonsense guidance, Pam Grout, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of E-Squared, invites you on a yearlong "apprenticeship" to recognize and unleash your innate creativity. Making art does not necessarily mean painting a gallery-worthy still life or belting out a Grammy-winning song. It simply means finding a way to give your inner muse a voice in this world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A firestarter!
- De ATC en 11-03-17
De: Pam Grout
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The Enchanted Hour
- The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
- De: Meghan Cox Gurdon
- Narrado por: Meghan Cox Gurdon
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 242
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 213
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 210
A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful, and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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advice to take to heart
- De Brian en 04-30-20
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Where the Past Begins
- A Writer's Memoir
- De: Amy Tan
- Narrado por: Amy Tan
- Duración: 14 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 151
Moving from her childhood in Oakland and growing up with her Chinese parents through her success as a novelist, Amy Tan delves into her creative interests in music, the paralysis of beginning a new project, journal writing, and travelling. Where the Past Begins chronicles the making of a writer. With characteristic humor and poignant observation, Tan weaves a nontraditional introspective narrative that is as complex and vibrant as this beloved American novelist's fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Narration Issues
- De Sara en 12-14-17
De: Amy Tan
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Life, Animated
- A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
- De: Ron Suskind
- Narrado por: Ron Suskind
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 402
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 344
This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood. The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song; until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life, Animated ... is Love, Animated *****
- De Tom T. Rumble en 04-12-14
De: Ron Suskind
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If You Find This Letter
- My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
- De: Hannah Brencher
- Narrado por: Jorjeana Marie
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Fresh out of college, Hannah Brencher moved to New York and found a city full of people who knew where they were going and what they were doing. Lonely and depressed, she noticed a woman who looked like she felt the same way on the subway. Hannah did something strange - she wrote the woman a letter. When she realized that it made her feel better, she started writing and leaving love notes all over the city - in doctors' offices, in coat pockets, in library books, and in bathroom stalls.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Love Letter to Dreamers
- De Daryl en 09-19-15
De: Hannah Brencher
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Bookworm
- A Memoir of Childhood Reading
- De: Lucy Mangan
- Narrado por: Lucy Mangan
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 30
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one. She was whisked away to Narnia and Kirrin Island and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She wandered the countryside with Milly-Molly-Mandy and played by the tracks with the Railway Children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love this!
- De M. Ashby en 03-12-20
De: Lucy Mangan
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Harry, a History
- The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life Inside the Harry Potter Phenomenon
- De: Melissa Anelli
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 10 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 286
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 194
With remembrances from J. K. Rowling's editors, agents, publicists, fans, and Rowling herself, Melissa Anelli takes us on a personal journey through every aspect of the Harry Potter phenomenon - from his very first spell to his lasting impact on the way we live and dream.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relive the magic!
- De Heather en 03-19-09
De: Melissa Anelli
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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Ann Patchett
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,683
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,504
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,487
Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto examines her deepest commitments: to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband in This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Together, these essays, previously published in The Atlantic, Harper, Vogue, and The Washington Post, form a resonant portrait of a life lived with loyalty and with love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining, engrossing, and elucidative essays
- De Bonny en 01-07-14
De: Ann Patchett
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The Coincidence Makers
- A Novel
- De: Yoav Blum
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 122
What if the drink you just spilled, the train you just missed, or the lottery ticket you just found was not just a random occurrence? What if it's all part of a bigger plan? What if there's no such thing as a chance encounter? What if there are people we don't know determining our destiny? And what if they are even planning the fate of the world? Enter the Coincidence Makers - Guy, Emily, and Eric - three seemingly ordinary people who work for a secret organization devoted to creating and carrying out coincidences. What the rest of the world sees as random occurrences, are, in fact, carefully orchestrated events.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- De Gal Wolff en 07-31-18
De: Yoav Blum
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
- A Life of David Foster Wallace
- De: D. T. Max
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 382
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 341
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 340
David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his generation, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallace’s tormented, anguished, and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist as he fights off depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, Infinite Jest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Max avoids hagiography or a sycophant's biography
- De Darwin8u en 06-11-13
De: D. T. Max
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A Stitch of Time
- The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life
- De: Lauren Marks
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Lauren Marks was 27 when an aneurysm ruptured in her brain and left her fighting for her life. She woke up in a hospital soon after with serious deficiencies to her reading, speaking, and writing abilities, and an unfamiliar diagnosis: aphasia. This would be shocking news for anyone, but Lauren was a voracious reader, an actress, director, dramaturg, and pursuing her PhD. At any other period of her life, this diagnosis would have been a devastating blow. But she woke up...different.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely wonderful book
- De SJMT en 01-27-19
De: Lauren Marks