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The joy of writing: a guide for writers, disguised as a literary memoir
By Pierre Berton. 2003
Pierre Berton shares his own experiences in learning to write and in improving during his writing career. Includes information about…
editors, tips for writer's block, and story development through many drafts. 2003.Agatha Christie's secret notebooks: fifty years of mysteries in the making
By Agatha Christie, John Curran. 2009
Literary advisor to the bestselling queen of crime's estate describes, excerpts, and discusses the seventy-plus notebooks discovered at Christie's family…
home after her daughter's 2004 death. Includes notes about Christie's books, alternative plot ideas, and two previously unpublished stories featuring her long-running protagonist Hercule Poirot. c2009.The author, editor, and literary critic offers his William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization, which…
he delivered at Harvard in 1994. In a prologue and three essays, the author reflects on his experiences, especially in the field of literature, before, during, and after World War II. He discusses contemporary writers and literary trends of the time. 1995.Writers at work: the Paris review interviews, sixth series (Writers At Work Ser. #6)
By George Plimpton. 1984
Words still count with me: a chronicle of literary conversations
By Herbert Mitgang. 1995
A series of impressionistic portraits drawn from interviews with more than sixty of the twentieth century's great authors, including E.B.…
White, Rebecca West, and Norman Mailer. Gives insights into their personalities and creative lives. 1995.Words with power: being a second study of the Bible and literature
By Northrop Frye. 1990
Frye shows how the elements of myth have given structure to literature. He also examines the influence that the Bible…
has had on the literature of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Shelley, Blake and T.S. Eliot. Sequel to "Great code".William Carey: father of missions (Heroes of the faith ; #6)
By Sam Wellman. 1997
A shoemaker turned missionary, William Carey was one of the first missionaries to India. He mastered the languages there and…
spent his life preaching, teaching, translating, and distributing Bibles. Amidst the millions of committed Christians in each generation, a handful rise to special prominence. Learn more about their exciting and inspiring lives in Barbour's "Heroes of the Faith" series. 1997.William Blake: [part work]
By Edward Larrissy. 1985
Why Indigenous literatures matter (Indigenous studies series)
By Daniel Heath Justice. 2018
Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter…
asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today. In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the heart of Indigenous kinship traditions: How do we learn to be human? How do we become good relatives? How do we become good ancestors? How do we learn to live together? Blending personal narrative and broader historical and cultural analysis with close readings of key creative and critical texts, Justice argues that Indigenous writers engage with these questions in part to challenge settler-colonial policies and practices that have targeted Indigenous connections to land, history, family, and self. More importantly, Indigenous writers imaginatively engage the many ways that communities and individuals have sought to nurture these relationships and project them into the future. 2018.When words deny the world: the reshaping of Canadian writing
By Stephen Henighan. 2002
A look at the evolution of Canadian writing in the 1990's, when it became a commercial enterprise, through the eyes…
of one Canadian writer. Topics include the Giller Prize, Toronto-centrism, and the literary languages of the Americas. 2002.As a multilingual, medical missionary stationed in Jerusalem, the author witnessed one of the most momentous years in the history…
of the Jewish people, in 1948. A personal record of this time. 1998.Unlikely angel: the untold story of the Atlanta hostage hero
By Stacy Mattingly, Ashley Smith. 2005
Ashley Smith recalls the fateful day in March 2005 when she became the hostage, for several hours, of Brian Nichols,…
who was fleeing a courthouse shooting in which he had killed several officials. 2005.Under the overpass: A Journey Of Faith On The Streets Of America
By Michael Yankoski. 2005
Mike and Sam found their beds under bridges and received handouts from strangers for five months... by their own choice.…
This is their story, providing insight into the reality of street life. 2005.Un coeur intelligent: lectures
By Alain Finkielkraut. 2009
Le roman comme antidote au totalitarisme, à l'oppression, à l'isolement, avec à l'appui neuf exemples puisés dans la littérature moderne:…
Kundera, Grossman, Haffner, Camus, Roth, Conrad, Dostoievski, James et Blixen. Quelques descriptions de violence. 2009.Tyrant: Shakespeare on politics
By Stephen Greenblatt. 2018
Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright's insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I…
clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes, the psychological roots, and the twisted consequences of tyranny. In exploring the psyche (and psychoses) of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolanus, and the societies they rule over, Stephen Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution. Cherished institutions seem fragile, political classes are in disarray, economic misery fuels populist anger, people knowingly accept being lied to, partisan rancor dominates, spectacular indecency rules---these aspects of a society in crisis fascinated Shakespeare and shaped some of his most memorable plays. With uncanny insight, he shone a spotlight on the infantile psychology and unquenchable narcissistic appetites of demagogues---and the cynicism and opportunism of the various enablers and hangers-on who surround them--and imagined how they might be stopped. As Greenblatt shows, Shakespeare's work, in this as in so many other ways, remains vitally relevant today. 2018.Twelve extraordinary women: how God shaped women of the Bible and what He wants to do with you
By John MacArthur. 2005
Spiritual lessons drawn directly from the trials and successes of Jesus' ancestors and earliest followers. Many of these women were…
ordinary, common or in some cases low-caste, yet each was made extraordinary by her life changing encounter with God. 2005.A staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code' has stood atop The New York Times Bestseller…
List for well over a year, with millions of copies in print. But this fast-paced mystery is unusual in that the author states up front that the historical information in the book is all factually accurate. But is this claim true? As historian Bart D. Ehrman shows in this informative and witty book, 'The Da Vinci Code' is filled with numerous historical mistakes. 2004.Treasure Island revisited
By Jack Fitzgerald. 2005
The story of Captain Keating and the Cocos Island treasure, also known as "The lost treasure of Lima", was the…
inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Treasure Island". Hundreds of adventurers from all over the world, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt, sought Keating's treasure, estimated to be worth three hundred million dollars. An examination of the tale of Captain Keating, and of the connections between his story and Stevenson's classic. 2005.Torches of joy
By John Dekker. 1985
After 12 years of soul refining fires, the Meyers family left everything, trusted God and followed a dream - sailing…
on a hospital ship bringing hope and healing to the world's forgotten poor. While training at the Mercy Ships International Operations Center, a health crisis left them in shock and the dream sank before launching. Trust in God returned as they faced dangers of the sea, lessons in mercy and a quiet miracle. c2007.