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|  | Ellsworth's Extraordinary Electric Ears and Other Amazing Alphabet Anecdotes by Valorie Fisher
Description not available.Photographs depict twenty-six scenes, one for each letter of the alphabet. AUTHOR: Valorie Fisher
PUBLISHER: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference 
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 | African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Finding a voice, and finding an agent once that voice is honed, are among the many topics explored in this how-to. Expert tips from the likes of Maya Angelou and Edwidge Danticat deepen the advice. AUTHOR: Jewell Parker Rhodes
PUBLISHER: Broadway Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Living out Loud by Anna Quindlen
Quindlen's New York Times columns of the 1980s. AUTHOR: Anna Quindlen
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Self-Exposure
Few features of contemporary American culture are as widely lamented as the public's obsession with celebrity--and the trivializing effect this obsession has on what appears as news. Nevertheless, America's culture of celebrity remains misunderstood, particularly when critics discuss its historical roots. In this pathbreaking book, Charles Ponce de Leon provides a new interpretation of the emergence of celebrity. Focusing on the development of human-interest journalism about prominent public figures, he illuminates the ways in which new forms of press coverage gradually undermined the belief that famous people were great, instead encouraging the public to regard them as complex, interesting, even flawed individuals and offering readers seemingly intimate glimpses of the real selves that were presumed to lie behind the calculated, self-promotional fronts that celebrities displayed in public. But human-interest journalism about celebrities did more than simply offer celebrities a new means of gaining publicity or provide readers with inside dope, says Ponce de Leon. In chapters devoted to celebrities from the realms of business, politics, entertainment, and sports, he shows how authors of celebrity journalism used their writings to weigh in on subjects as wide-ranging as social class, race relations, gender roles, democracy, political reform, self-expression, material success, competition, and the work ethic, offering the public a new lens through which to view these issues.
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
From the writer of the best-selling Operating Instructions comes this timely tract on the art of writing--an anecdotal, frank step-by-step guide on how to write and how to manage a writer's life. Offers advice on getting started, character, plot, dialogue, writer's block, writing groups, publication, and more. AUTHOR: Anne Lamott
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | French Now! by Christopher Kendris
Description not available.Provides instruction in spoken French helping listeners to develop verbal skills. AUTHOR: Christopher Kendris
PUBLISHER: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Reference
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