<p>What is the writer's method? How does a writer get strings of inspired words from his mind onto the page? Not very well if you're Ben Halaby, filled with dedication but grappling with writer's block. Halaby stumbles across a book on creativity: Julia Cameron's the <i>The Artist's Way</i>. The essence of Cameron's book is to write three pages nonstop first thing in the morning for 84 days to break out of a block. Halaby heeds Cameron's advice, and what we see, as the words come gushing out of his pen and soul, is not only the creative process in action, but we see a man turning into his old storytelling self again.</p>

Morning Pages: The Almost True Story of My Life

Literature & Fiction

Sutton, Joseph

Short Stories & Anthologies

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From Beginning to Beginning: An Autobiography

Biographies & Memoirs

Levitch, Edward J.

Memoirs

So This Is College?

Alvarez, Adrian Astur

Humor & Satire

Write Now! is a BIG/little book about writing, writer's block, getting published and selling your book. It's about the urge to write, writing mentors, fighting against complacency, when to start to write and what to write. If you're a writer or have an interest in writing, Write Now! will lead you into the writer's life--to the life of rejection, questioning your writing abilities, wondering if you'll ever get published and what to do when no one comes to your book reading. This important book is not only the story of the making of a writer, it's also a book that will make you want to write.

Write Now! On the Road to Getting Published or How I Learned to Sell My Book

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Random History Lessons

Lockett, Reginald

Poetry

The year is 1969. Joshua Sampson, a white history teacher in a black ghetto high school in South Central Los Angeles, finds the only way to break through a brick wall of apathy is to let his students teach. Sampson's students, with his guidance, start leading discussions on Black Power, the Vietnam War, capital punishment, premarital sex, the grading system, drugs, freedom, and whether Sampson is teaching them or not. They hold trials, have weekly debates, sign petitions and drop notes and essays into the "Ideas and/or Complaints" box. It's a participatory democracy in action. The only thing wrong is, the principal doesn't like the way Sampson is running his classes.

A Class of Leaders

Contemporary

When the woman Jake Massry lives with leaves him for another man because he can't succeed as a writer, and his Old World father, on his deathbed, orders him to get a "real" job, Jake hits the highways of America in his worn-out VW bus in search of himself and his country. It's spring 1974 and President Nixon is embroiled in the Watergate fiasco. As he travels from place to place, Jake meets America: sexy women, gays, born-again Christians, philosophers, racists, bullies and Gary Morse, a 19-year-old hitchhiker who possesses a large "red ruby" given to him by a young heiress.

Highway Sailor: A Rollicking American Journey

Action & Adventure

Driving to work, skilled San Jose Internist and Addiction Specialist Richard Drinkwater is ambushed and shot by a masked man -- fortunately, one with poor aim.Police are stymied. The doc soon suspects one of his patients who thinks Drinkwater gave confidential, medical information to a legal panel resulting in disbarment and criminal charges.Drinkwater's wife battles cancer while aggressive actions and threats continue against Drinkwater. The police attempt protection. Drinkwater won't hide and is reluctant to arm himself. The book describes how he joins his wife in waging “Righteous War” on their two foes.* * This story is dedicated to those who have had to put aside their long-held, societal wisdom, personal religious beliefs, even the law, and react to protect themselves and loved ones. These individuals confront unique challenges with what they feel are ethical choices and behaviors. Those who make such decisions, only after long, agonizing reflection instead of reacting to impulse, deserve even more praise.

Thee Needs Killing, Marly

Breithaupt MD, David

Genre Fiction

Every writer at one point or another hits a bump in their literary road, the dreaded writer's block. Rather than lament his sorry fate, Sutton pledged to himself to write an essay a week about the writing process. Not only did this yearlong process keep him inspired and writing, but he has now completed an insightful, clear and gentle manual for all the other writers out there facing their own fears. This book has many wise, simple (and achievable) tips and ideas for keeping the creative juices flowing.

My Writing Year: Making Sense of Being a Writer

Sutton, Joesph

Words, Language & Grammar

After the Giants moved from New York to San Francisco in 1958, it took them 53 years to win their first World Series in 2010. Incredible. Their next title came in 2012. Miraculous. Then, in 2014, they became world champions again. Magical. Drawn from his personal journal, Joseph Sutton has combined all three of the Giants' World Series seasons into this one book. His unique observations will bring back a flood of memories for Giants fans, both young and old, on how the Giants, underdogs each year, reached the pinnacle of the baseball world three times in five years.What makes this book truly distinct is that it's interwoven with the story of how baseball has influenced Sutton's relationship with his son Ray, from the time Ray was a Little Leaguer through high school. It shows how the game of baseball, ever since its very beginnings, has cemented relationships between fathers and sons, and some daughters, too.

San Francisco Giants: A Fan's Journal 2010, 2012, 2014

Sports & Outdoors

Baseball

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