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English
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Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin's investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, begins to pitch and promote the nonexistent book despite Humlin's emphatic refusals. Then, when he travels to Gothenburg to give a reading, he finds himself...
Author
Series
Ernest Cunningham volume 02
Language
English
Description
"When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn't pan out. The program is a who's who of crime writing royalty: the debut writer (me!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster writer, the legal...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it's a dream come true. Writing is her passion, she loves Bruni's books, and going to that romantic and magical sinking city gives her the chance to solve a long-time family mystery about a Venetian poet deep in their lineage, Isabella Di Angelo, who just might be the real author of a very famous poem. Bruni's villa on the eerie island...
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English
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"DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbors keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation, and somehow bonds have formed. When one of them goes missing, Vera tracks the young woman down to the Writers House, a country retreat where aspiring authors work on their stories. Things get complicated when a body is discovered, and Vera's neighbor is found with a knife in her hand. Calling in the team, Vera knows that...
6) Workshop
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes, in rhyming text and illustrations, the characteristics of tools commonly found in most toolboxes.
Series
Writing from life volume Autumn 2018, 2
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A sampling of the writings of the Pearl River Public Library's Senior Writing Group.
Publisher
dGenerate Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Documentary YOUTH (SPRING) is driven by the thrum of industrial sewing machines just like the lives of the young garment workers it portrays. Zhili, about 95 miles from Shanghai, is a children's garment industry center. Workers in their teens and early twenties come from neighboring provinces to live in factory dorms and spend their days sewing clothes. YOUTH (SPRING), a remarkably intimate documentary filmed over 5 years, takes us into these independent...
16) Makerspaces
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Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Makers often come together to form communities where they can exchange ideas and equipment. Readers will set foot in some of the world's most interesting makerspaces and see what kinds of tools makers use to create their projects. They will also learn how to find makerspaces of their own.
Series
Writing from life volume 5
Publisher
[Pearl River Public Library Press]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Volume V of the Seniors' Writers Group of Pearl River Public Library - Memoirs, Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry!