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21) The spirit level
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In this collection, as ever with Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Short stories, anecdotes, cartoons, and columns are compiled in this amusing collection by male authors, such as Stephen King and Gordon Korman, who share their comical, sad, and strange memories of what life was like for them when they were boys and theimpact those moments had in their later lives.
28) The last word
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Evan is a professional author of suicide notes. He meets with his clients, gets a sense of what they want, then asks them to keep a journal of their thoughts for a few weeks. Then Evan produces a poetic, client-customized suicide note. When Evan attends the funeral of a client, his sister Charlotte follows him out of the service and asks him if he was a friend of her brother's. Evan lies, stating that he went to Cornell with him. Soon he and Charlotte...
29) The Kovak box
Publisher
First Look Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A sci-fi writer is invited to an island for a conference, only to discover that he's become lured into a trap.
Publisher
Feature Films for Families
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Timely advice from a friend leads the struggling author, Charles Dickens, into peril as he does some soul-searching involving his desire to write for finanacial security. This fuels his own fears and self-pity, but he receives unexpected help for a young girl, who reawakens in him a desire to refocus his priorities. Unless he can discover the healing power of a simple act of charity, his dream of truly making a difference will be as dead as a doornail....
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Visiting a friend in 1926 Derbyshire, Daisy learns that her friend has been ghost-writing a popular novelist's most recent, and more successful, works while the novelist succumbs to a suspicious illness, compelling Daisy to investigate other members of his household.
35) Life drawing
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Augusta and Owen are living a quiet country life of companionship and artistic creation--she a painter, he a writer--until Alison, a beautiful British woman, moves in to the previously unoccupied cottage next door. As Gus and Owen's life becomes intertwined with Alison's, past betrayals, losses, and new desires come to a head"--
36) Suburban girl
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Moving from the suburbs to the glittering metropolis of New York City, Brett is a naive associate book editor embarking on her first big job. Overwhelmed by the demands of her new position, she meets literary star Archie Knox and begins to gain confidence as he introduces her to a glamorous new world. Torn between her old boyfriend, career aspirations and romance, will Brett realize her dreams in the big city?
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