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Author: Leslie Schwartz Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525534644 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 217
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Leslie Schwartz's powerful, skillfully woven memoir of redemption and reading, as told through the list of books she read as she served a 90 day jail sentence In 2014, novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in Los Angeles County Jail for a DUI and battery of an officer. It was the most harrowing and holy experience of her life. Following a 414-day relapse into alcohol and drug addiction after more than a decade clean and sober, Schwartz was sentenced and served her time with only six months' sobriety. The damage she inflicted that year upon her friends, her husband, her teenage daughter, and herself was nearly impossible to fathom. Incarceration might have ruined her altogether, if not for the stories that sustained her while she was behind bars--both the artful tales in the books she read while there, and, more immediately, the stories of her fellow inmates. With classics like Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome to contemporary accounts like Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken, Schwartz's reading list is woven together with visceral recollections of both her daily humiliations and small triumphs within the county jail system. Through the stories of others--whether rendered on the page or whispered in a jail cell--she learned powerful lessons about how to banish shame, use guilt for good, level her grief, and find the lost joy and magic of her astonishing life. Told in vivid, unforgettable prose, The Lost Chapters uncovers the nature of shame, rage, and love, and how instruments of change and redemption come from the unlikeliest of places.
Author: Leslie Schwartz Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525534644 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 217
Book Description
Leslie Schwartz's powerful, skillfully woven memoir of redemption and reading, as told through the list of books she read as she served a 90 day jail sentence In 2014, novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in Los Angeles County Jail for a DUI and battery of an officer. It was the most harrowing and holy experience of her life. Following a 414-day relapse into alcohol and drug addiction after more than a decade clean and sober, Schwartz was sentenced and served her time with only six months' sobriety. The damage she inflicted that year upon her friends, her husband, her teenage daughter, and herself was nearly impossible to fathom. Incarceration might have ruined her altogether, if not for the stories that sustained her while she was behind bars--both the artful tales in the books she read while there, and, more immediately, the stories of her fellow inmates. With classics like Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome to contemporary accounts like Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken, Schwartz's reading list is woven together with visceral recollections of both her daily humiliations and small triumphs within the county jail system. Through the stories of others--whether rendered on the page or whispered in a jail cell--she learned powerful lessons about how to banish shame, use guilt for good, level her grief, and find the lost joy and magic of her astonishing life. Told in vivid, unforgettable prose, The Lost Chapters uncovers the nature of shame, rage, and love, and how instruments of change and redemption come from the unlikeliest of places.
Author: Larry Brooks Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1599632810 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 288
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What makes a good story or a screenplay great? The vast majority of writers begin the storytelling process with only a partial understanding where to begin. Some labor their entire lives without ever learning that successful stories are as dependent upon good engineering as they are artistry. But the truth is, unless you are master of the form, function and criteria of successful storytelling, sitting down and pounding out a first draft without planning is an ineffective way to begin. Story Engineering starts with the criteria and the architecture of storytelling, the engineering and design of a story--and uses it as the basis for narrative. The greatest potential of any story is found in the way six specific aspects of storytelling combine and empower each other on the page. When rendered artfully, they become a sum in excess of their parts. You'll learn to wrap your head around the big pictures of storytelling at a professional level through a new approach that shows how to combine these six core competencies which include: • Four elemental competencies of concept, character, theme, and story structure (plot) • Two executional competencies of scene construction and writing voice The true magic of storytelling happens when these six core competencies work together in perfect harmony. And the best part? Anyone can do it!
Author: Stephenie Muller Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0244355363 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 243
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50%%%% of the proceeds go to Bundy to the Farm Drought Aid. A trilogy of novellas.'Shadow Valley THE FINAL CHAPTERS', is the finale to the larger novel simply titled 'Shadow Valley'. If you have read 'Shadow Valley', this is an enthralling conclusion as the reader revisits the farm and life in Rathdowney. Otherwise this story stands alone.With twists and turns, devastation and chance encounters, there is a whole new dusty track to travel down. 'Foreign Fields', Another story with it's roots planted firmly in the country and following the life of an upstanding family who have lived on their farm for generations. But there's a secret being kept... Who will put the pieces together ? Who already knows? 'The Trolley Guy', This is a story that will keep you guessing to the end. Set largely in an underground car park, it is something quite different to the other two stories in the book. Car racing on a back road, two unlikely thieves and when body meets concrete, be prepared to let your imagination run wild...
Author: Jerome Loubry Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 1529350557 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
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Whatever you do, DON'T give away that ending... "Terribly addictive" * * * * * Three good friends. One tragic summer. A book that tells it all. "A tremendously compelling page-turner" * * * * * When little Julie goes missing in summer 1986, David and Samuel share the terrible secret of her disappearance. Thirty years later, David has become a famous author and Samuel his publisher. Both receive identical manuscript chapters telling the story of what really happened that tragic summer. Chapter after chapter, the author reveals their darkest secrets. They know the book will end with its 12th chapter. A race against time begins: will David and Samuel expose the mysterious author's identity before he exposes them? And did one of them kill Julie?
Author: Michael Dahl Publisher: Zone Books ISBN: 9781598893588 Category : Languages : en Pages : 240
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Meet the mysterious Librarian. Keeper of the world s most dangerous books, sworn enemy of monsters made of paper and ink, crusader of young people threatened by ancient curses. Enter the Library of Doom, where the Librarian s exploits merge heart-pounding tales with startling artwork"
Author: Michael Dahl Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1496538951 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 41
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In the heart of the Library of Doom, within the Librarian's secret chamber, is a sealed, invisible vault. It contains a single book -- a book so poisonous that it drains the Librarian's life away day by day, year by year. It is the price each Librarian must pay, because if anyone reads the final word in the story, the whole world will be destroyed! So when the book goes missing, the Librarian must track it down without delay. There's just one problem: only another Librarian would know where the book was located . . . Is there a traitor in the League of Librarians?
Author: Rodman Philbrick Publisher: Scholastic Inc. ISBN: 0545303877 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 228
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This fast-paced action novel is set in a future where the world has been almost destroyed. Like the award-winning novel Freak the Mighty, this is Philbrick at his very best.It's the story of an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz, who begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the planet. In a world where most people are plugged into brain-drain entertainment systems, Spaz is the rare human being who can see life as it really is. When he meets an old man called Ryter, he begins to learn about Earth and its past. With Ryter as his companion, Spaz sets off an unlikely quest to save his dying sister -- and in the process, perhaps the world.
Author: Patrick Dunleavy Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0230802087 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 311
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This engaging and highly regarded book takes readers through the key stages of their PhD research journey, from the initial ideas through to successful completion and publication. It gives helpful guidance on forming research questions, organising ideas, pulling together a final draft, handling the viva and getting published. Each chapter contains a wealth of practical suggestions and tips for readers to try out and adapt to their own research needs and disciplinary style. This text will be essential reading for PhD students and their supervisors in humanities, arts, social sciences, business, law, health and related disciplines.
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