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New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith distills creativity and the craft of writing with a practical guide perfect for fans of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic and Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird.
Drawing from her twenty years of teaching experience and her bestselling Substack newsletter, For Dear Life, Maggie Smith breaks down creativity into ten essential elements: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise, vulnerability, restlessness, tenacity, connection, and hope. Each element is explored through short, inspiring, and craft-focused essays, followed by generative writing prompts. Dear Writer provides tools that artists of all experience levels can apply to their own creative practices and carry with them into all genres and all areas of life.
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Life is nothing other than a series of transitions. Whether you’re graduating from college and trying to decide what’s next, coping with divorce, putting the pieces back together after a death or a diagnosis, moving to a new city, or thinking about leaving one career path for another, these transitions—planned or unplanned—are an inevitable part of life. But as inevitable as transitions are, they can still be intimidating. You’re venturing from the familiar into the unfamiliar, and that journey is often murky and filled with moments of uncertainty, grief, and self-doubt.
De: Cassidy Krug
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The Book of Alchemy
- A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
- De: Suleika Jaouad
- Narrado por: Suleika Jaouad, Vidish Athavale, Fabian Cook Jr., y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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From the time she was young, Suleika Jaouad has kept a journal. She’s used it to mark life's biggest occasions and to weather its most ferocious storms. Journaling has buoyed her through illness, heartbreak, and the deepest uncertainty. And she is not alone: for so many people, keeping a journal is an essential tool for navigating both the personal peaks and valleys and the collective challenges of modern life. More than ever, we need a space for puzzling through.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So powerful!
- De pjb en 05-10-25
De: Suleika Jaouad
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Hello, Cruel World!
- Science-Based Strategies for Raising Terrific Kids in Terrifying Times
- De: Melinda Wenner Moyer
- Narrado por: Melinda Wenner Moyer
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
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In the blink of an eye, our kids will be adults facing countless serious threats—climate change, gun violence, political polarization, and disinformation, to name but a few. We’re not going to be able to solve all these intractable problems before our kids grow up—so how are we to prepare them for an impossibly complex and scary future? Plagued by this question, award-winning science journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer interviewed parenting experts and researchers across multiple fields—psychology, education, information literacy, technology, business, and even addiction.
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Writing Creativity and Soul
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Duración: 8 h
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When Sue Monk Kidd was in high school, a home economics teacher wrote a list of potential occupations for women on the blackboard: teacher, nurse, librarian, secretary. “Writer” was nowhere to be found. On that day, Kidd shut the door on her writerly aspirations and would not revisit the topic until many years later when she announced to her husband and two children that she was going to become a writer. And so began her journey into the mysteries and methods of the writerly life.
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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Goldenrod
- Poems
- De: Maggie Smith
- Narrado por: Maggie Smith
- Duración: 1 h y 6 m
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With her breakout bestseller Keep Moving, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her “meditations on kindness and hope” (NPR). Now, with Goldenrod, the award-winning poet returns with a powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love, and memory.
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Powerful Collection
- De BookishMarginalia en 07-28-21
De: Maggie Smith
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Four Days a Week
- The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter
- De: Juliet Schor
- Narrado por: Helen Laser
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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Bestselling author, leading sociologist and economist Juliet Schor makes the case for a four-day work week, persuasively showing how this model can address major challenges such as burnout, AI and the climate crisis, and how employees, companies, and governments can work together to make it a reality.
De: Juliet Schor
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How to Submit
- Getting Your Writing Published with Literary Magazines and Small Presses
- De: Dennis James Sweeney
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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This essential guide is the first of its kind to chart a path to publication that is writer led, community based, and accessible to all. How to Submit speaks to writers who want to publish short stories, essays, or poems in literary magazines, as well as to those looking for a fresh route to publishing a full-length book. Whether you’re a first-time submitter or you have experience sending out your work, How to Submit provides you with the tools and knowledge to successfully share your writing.
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Maggie Smith
- A Biography
- De: Michael Coveney
- Narrado por: Sian Thomas
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm, or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith. Michael Coveney's biography shines a light on the life and career of a truly remarkable performer, one whose stage and screen career spans six decades.
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Steeped in Theater History
- De Jean en 01-04-16
De: Michael Coveney
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Always Kiss Me Goodbye
- De: Jennifer Osler-Bolton
- Narrado por: Jennifer Osler-Bolton
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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After losing her high school sweetheart, Ryan, a California firefighter, in the line of duty, Jennifer was left to rebuild her life as a young widow with two children. Struggling to navigate grief and questioning God’s plan, Jennifer’s journey takes an unexpected turn when she meets Michael, a firefighter from Northern Ireland, years later at an event in California. Despite the odds and miles between them, their undeniable connection reveals a shared history, launching them into an unplanned, but divinely orchestrated, future together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You won't want to put this down...
- De Monica Thompson en 04-09-25
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Enough
- Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest
- De: Melissa Arnot Reid
- Narrado por: Melissa Arnot Reid
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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At twenty-seven, when Melissa Arnot Reid accepted a tank of oxygen just short of the summit of Mount Everest, she felt ravaged by defeat. Driven by a relentless, lifelong quest to prove to herself, her family, and the world that she was enough, she had set herself an incredible goal—to become the first American woman to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen. The failure battered her spirit and left her struggling to keep her tenuous grip on hope.
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Astonishingly brave story about finding oneself through darkness
- De Meg Taylor en 05-07-25
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Me, but Better
- De: Olga Khazan
- Narrado por: Olga Khazan
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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In recent years, Olga Khazan had been spiraling toward an existential crisis. Though she treasured her loving, long-term relationship and her dream job, she often caught herself snatching dissatisfaction from the jaws of happiness. Her neurotic overachieving had always been a professional asset, but lately, Olga felt that her brittle disposition could shatter under the weight of just one more thing. She knew something had to give—but was it really possible to change her entire approach to life?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for introverts who want to be more social
- De ShawnaJ en 03-19-25
De: Olga Khazan
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Writing Tools (10th Anniversary Edition)
- 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
- De: Roy Peter Clark
- Narrado por: Neil Kaplan
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost 30 years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of 50 short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best loved books on writing available. This new edition includes five brand-new, never-before-shared tools.
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Refreshing
- De Danielle en 06-15-21
De: Roy Peter Clark
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The Next Day
- Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward
- De: Melinda French Gates
- Narrado por: Melinda French Gates
- Duración: 3 h y 44 m
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In a rare window into some of her life’s pivotal moments, Melinda French Gates draws from previously untold stories to offer a new perspective on encountering transitions. Melinda will reflect on some of the most significant transitions in her own life, including becoming a parent, the death of a dear friend, and her departure from the Gates Foundation. The stories she tells illuminate universal lessons about loosening the bonds of perfectionism, helping friends navigate times of crisis, embracing uncertainty, and more.
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So much wisdom
- De Michelle Hicks en 04-16-25
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The Family Dynamic
- A Journey into the Mystery of Sibling Success
- De: Susan Dominus
- Narrado por: Susan Dominus
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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An Olympic athlete. An award-winning novelist. A successful entrepreneur. All raised under one roof. What can we learn from those families whose children aim high and succeed, sometimes in widely varied fields? Just as important: What were the costs along the way, and what can we glean from their travails and triumphs? The acclaimed New York Times journalist Susan Dominus offers compelling profiles of six such families in search of the factors that led to their success—was it an inherited quality, a specific way of parenting, the influence of a sibling, or a twist of luck?
De: Susan Dominus
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Wild Life
- Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World
- De: Rae Wynn-Grant
- Narrado por: Rae Wynn-Grant
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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Wild Life follows Rae on her adventures and explorations in some of the world’s most remote locales. Hers is a story about a nearly twenty-year career in the wild—carving a niche as one of very few Black female scientists—and the challenges she had to overcome, expectations she had to leave behind, and the many lessons she learned along the way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Honest and Inspirational
- De Debbie A Bettis en 02-09-25
De: Rae Wynn-Grant
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Moral Ambition
- Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
- De: Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore
- Narrado por: Boris Hiestand, Rutger Bregman
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
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In Moral Ambition, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman reveals how our conventional definitions of success are harming us and the planet, and shows how we can shift the focus from personal gain to societal benefit. In the process, he explains, we will join a growing movement of pioneers who are already living out this ethos. They're the builders, the problem-solvers, the doers who have chosen a path less traveled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The answer to the overwhelming feeling of insignificance in the face of the worlds horrors
- De Shareena en 05-07-25
De: Rutger Bregman, y otros