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  • The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

    • UPC: 884543576440
    • ASIN: 038542339X
    • ISBN: 038542339X
    • Brand: Anchor Books
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    For more than four hundred years, the personal  essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant  of all literary forms. Distinguished from the  detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational  tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward  candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay  seizes on the minutiae of daily life-va... [Read More]

  • The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442155878
    • ASIN: 0618155872
    • ISBN: 0618155872
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America’s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that are both intimate and important, essays that move from personal experience to la... [Read More]

  • Dream College Acceptance: How to Write a College Application Essay That Gets You into Your Dream College

    • ASIN: 1520614594
    • ISBN: 1520614594
    • Manufacturer: Independently published

    Could It be this EASY to write college application essays that COMPEL admissions judges to accept you, even if you don’t have high grades or SAT scores? The answer is “Yes”! – and if you want to eliminate every possibility of getting rejected from colleges because of your application essay, and start writing an essay that gets you into your... [Read More]

  • Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps, Third Edition: Crafting a Winning Personal Statement

    • ASIN: 0399578692
    • ISBN: 0399578692
    • Brand: TEN SPEED
    • Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press

    The definitive guide to writing an amazing essay and mastering the college applications process.Writing a memorable personal statement can seem like an overwhelming project for a young college applicant, but college essay coach Alan Gelb's organized and encouraging step-by-step instructions take the intimidation out of the process, enabling applica... [Read More]

  • Life As We Know It: A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com

    • ASIN: 0743476867
    • ISBN: 0743476867
    • Brand: Brand: Washington Square Press
    • Manufacturer: Washington Square Press

    "...these essays are jewels of the unexpected, and in introducing them, I don't want to steal any of their surprise. Suffice it to say that family life...is alive and well, but it is not like anything you ever read about before in your life." -- Jane Smiley, from the foreword The nuclear family peaked in 1960 with 45 percent of the American popula... [Read More]

  • College Essay Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Successful College Admissions Essay

    • UPC: 760789258534
    • ASIN: 149263512X
    • ISBN: 149263512X
    • Brand: Ethan Sawyer
    • Manufacturer: Sourcebooks

    Writing an amazing college admission essay is easier than you think!So you're a high school senior given the task of writing a 650-word personal statement for your college application. Do you tell the story of your life, or a story from your life? Do you choose a single moment? If so, which one? The options seem endless.Lucky for you, they're not. ... [Read More]

  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

    • ASIN: 0399588191
    • ISBN: 0399588191
    • Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Esquire • Ne... [Read More]

  • Best American Essays 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544812107
    • ISBN: 9780544812109
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Best American Paper

    A true essay is “something hazarded, not definitive, not authoritative; something ventured on the basis of the author’s personal experience and subjectivity,” writes guest editor Jonathan Franzen in his introduction. However, his main criterion for selecting The Best American Essays 2016 was, in a word, risk. Whether the risks involved champi... [Read More]

  • Crafting The Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction

    • UPC: 884381314006
    • ASIN: 1582977968
    • ISBN: 1582977968
    • Brand: Writer's Digest
    • Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books

    Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"—a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is that the personal essay is an ever-changing creati... [Read More]

  • The Norton Book of Personal Essays

    • ASIN: 0393036545
    • ISBN: 0393036545
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

    • ASIN: 0812993268
    • ISBN: 0812993268
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world. Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy—who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow wit... [Read More]

  • The Julia Rothman Collection: Farm Anatomy, Nature Anatomy, and Food Anatomy

    • ASIN: 1612128521
    • ISBN: 1612128521
    • Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
    • Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC

    This handsome box set provides hours of enlightening entertainment for those curious about farm life, the natural world, and food. Best-selling author and illustrator Julia Rothman presents Farm Anatomy, Nature Anatomy, and Food Anatomy in a specially designed slipcase with 10 framable prints. Rothman’s popular line drawings offer a whimsical an... [Read More]

  • The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)

    • ASIN: 0060555661
    • ISBN: 9780060555665
    • Brand: HarperBusiness
    • Manufacturer: Collins Business

  • 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology

    • ASIN: 1319043720
    • ISBN: 1319043720
    • Manufacturer: Bedford/St. Martin's

    50 Essays: A Portable Anthology is the best-selling value-priced reader in the country because its virtues don't stop at the price. The book’s carefully chosen selections include both classic essays and high-interest, high-quality contemporary readings to truly engage students. The editorial apparatus is flexible and unobtrusive enough to support... [Read More]

  • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

    • ASIN: 0385494785
    • ISBN: 0385494785
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    National Bestseller A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including Krakauer's--in guilt-ridden dis... [Read More]

  • Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

    • ASIN: 0812995708
    • ISBN: 0812995708
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The perfect graduation gift: A sharp, funny grammar guide they’ll actually want to read, from Random House’s longtime copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language gurus “Essential (and delightful!)”—People, “Book of the Week” We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of em... [Read More]

  • Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

    • ASIN: 0399563245
    • ISBN: 0399563245
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

    Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the pow... [Read More]

  • The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

    • UPC: 971487957524
    • ASIN: 1572245379
    • ISBN: 1572245379
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: New Harbinger Publications/ Noetic Books

    #1 New York Times Bestseller What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to discover inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul offers simple yet profound answers to these questions.Whether this is your first exploration of inner space, or you’ve devoted your life to the... [Read More]

  • The Premed Playbook: Guide to the Medical School Personal Statement: Write Your Best Story. Secure Your Interview.

    • ASIN: 168350853X
    • ISBN: 168350853X
    • Manufacturer: Morgan James Publishing

    The Premed Playbook: Guide to the Medical School Personal Statement helps guide students in crafting their stories for the medical school Admission Committees. It's not only a collection of essays from students who got into top schools, but is a showcase of essays that started badly and were honed to tell great stories. Ryan Gray, MD shares the sto... [Read More]

  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

    • UPC: 884852638297
    • ASIN: 1571313567
    • ISBN: 1571313567
    • Brand: Ingramcontent
    • Manufacturer: Milkweed Editions

    As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit a... [Read More]

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