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America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction (Penguin Classics) -
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| More than three decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this original collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply engaged in the world around him. In addition to the complete text of Steinbeck's last published book, America and Americans, this volume brings together for the first time more than fifty of Steinbeck's finest essays and jouralistic pieces.
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Writer's Guide to Nonfiction (Writer's Compass) -
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| This first book in the Writer's Compass series from professional writing instructor Elizabeth Lyon helps writers navigate the art and craft of writing nonfiction, including: ? essays ? memoirs ? how-to ? travel ? technical ? feature articles ? food/recipes ? and more This informative guide also addresses the business side of writing, including targeting your audience, drafting cover letters, and marketing advice.
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It Was Never About a Hotdog and a Coke -
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| On August 27, 1960, more than 200 whites with ax handles and baseball bats attacked members of the Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP in downtown Jacksonville who were sitting in at white lunch counters protesting racism and segregation. Referred to as Ax Handle Saturday, "It was never about a hot dog and a Coke" chronicles the racial and political climate of Jacksonville, Florida in the late fifties, the events leading up to that infamous day, and the aftermath.
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Writing Creative Nonfiction: Fiction Techniques for Crafting Great Nonfiction -
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| WRITING CREATIVE NON-FICTION outlines the tried-and-tested techniques that successful writers use to craft brilliant essays, articles and book-length works, making the tools of the trade accessible to those of us who have always dreamed of making our mark in publishing. Learn how to write gripping opening sentences, and use dialogue and even overheard conversations to bring characters to life on the page. Learn how you too can become a cultural critic, biographer or esteemed essayist.
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The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction -
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| This introduction to creative nonfiction illustrates the influence of individual voice and narrative strategies on nonfiction prose. Essays from contemporary nonfiction writers such as Henry Louis Gates, Norma Elia Cantú, Pico Iyer, Joan Didion, and others are integrated directly into the text to illustrate concepts. Individual chapters are devoted to detail and description, characterization and scene, distinctive voice, intimate point-of-view, and the various ways in which writers discover the significance or universality of their work. For writers wanting to explore creative nonfiction.
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Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Grade 2 -
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Teaching Text Structures: A Key to Nonfiction Reading Success: Research-Based Strategy Lessons With Reproducible Passages for Teaching Students to Comprehend ... Textbooks, Reference Materials & More -
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| Two professors share their research-based, field-tested approach for helping students identify and analyze the most common expository text structures in order to better comprehend the nonfiction they read. Students gain valuable experience recognizing descriptive, sequential, problem-solution, and cause-effect patterns in texts. Using graphic organizers helps them visualize and remember key information in the article. Detailed lesson plans with companion reproducible articles and diagrams help teachers confidently put theory into practice. For use with Grades 4?6.
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The Good American: A Novel Based On True Events -
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| Against the backdrop of a country destroyed by war, two women struggle to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives in the Allied territories of Western Germany in 1948. Their tenacity and resourcefulness to conquer hunger and poverty--perennial guests in their crammed attic room--become a testimony to the strength and resilience of the human spirit. Ruth, a young widow with two small children, Penelope and Eva, lost her husband to suicide after WWII. Hannah, incarcerated by the Russians in Eastern Germany for vagrancy--she had no identification papers, which her alcoholic husband burned in a fit of rage--has had to leave her five-year old daughter, Pauli, behind in Berlin when she escapes from prison camp and makes her way to Ruth's meager attic room. When the Russians threaten to blockade Berlin, foreshadowing a permanent division of Germany, Ruth, who has a passport, decides to get the child. Her journey through enemy territory becomes an unforeseen odyssey of ingenuity and sheer pluck. Some forty years later, prompted by her own childhood memories of growing up in a world utterly broken, Penelope Karstens writes a novel of her mother's perilous journey, and of Ted Whitman, the American pilot, who fell in love with her the moment she stood before him in her mended dress and her borrowed jewelry, her proud demeanor and her defiant air that seek to mask her abominable poverty. Titled The Good American, the manuscript, unwittingly, becomes a document of redemption for Ted's estranged son, Alex, now himself a pilot who, reluctantly, seeks out the attractive Penelope to carry out one of his father's last wishes.
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Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction -
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| Demonstrating the range of creative nonfiction from memoir to travel writing to the lyric essay, Tell It Slant combines practical guidance with an illustrative anthology of 34 essays from Margaret Atwood, David Sedaris, E.B. White, Virginia Woolf, and others. The result is a stimulating collection of writing and activities that makes it easy and enjoyable for students to begin to write and to try new modes of writing..
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Documentary Storytelling, Second Edition: Making Stronger and More Dramatic Nonfiction Films -
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| Documentary Storytelling offers a unique in-depth look at story and structure as applied not to Hollywood fiction, but to films and videos based on factual material and the drama of real life. With the growing popularity of documentaries in today's global media marketplace, demand for powerful and memorable storytelling has never been greater. This practical guide offers advice for every stage of production, from research and proposal writing to shooting and editing, and applies it to diverse subjects and film styles, from vérité and personal narrative to archival histories and more. Filled with real-world examples drawn from the author's career and the experiences of some of today's top documentarians, Documentary Storytelling includes special interview chapters with Ric Burns, Jon Else, Nick Fraser, Susan Froemke, Sam Pollard, Onyekachi Wambu and other film professionals. This second edition has been brought up to date with a more international focus, a look at lower-budget independent filmmaking, and consideration of newer films including Super Size Me, Murderball, So Much So Fast, and When the Levees Broke. * Storytelling techniques are one of the most powerful tools in the documentary filmmaker's arsenal--learn how to harness them with this book* Top documentary filmmakers provide their storytelling strategies* Covers a wide range of documentary styles
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