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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Great American novelist Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, returns with a luminescent novel about storytelling that reads like an instant classic. "Only an alchemist as wise and sure as Alvarez could swirl the elements of folklore and the flavor of magical realism around her modern prose and make it all sing . . . Lively, joyous . . . often witty, occasionally somber...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Language
English
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"A 30-time StorySLAM champion shows readers how to improve their storytelling skills, and how doing so can improve their relationships, careers, and overall well-being. Professional storyteller Matthew Dicks shares his techniques for great storytelling in this accessible guide for general readers. He discusses finding the beginning of a story, permissible lies, ways to keep a story compelling, telling a story in first person, words to include and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched summer of his youth, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town. And of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways. Decades later, Wilder returns to the town in an attempt to recount that summer's events in his memoirs. But as he writes,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From the bestselling, acclaimed, beloved author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collective"--
"From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories―personal and collective. Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on twenty-five years of experience from the storytelling experts at The Moth. Over the past twenty-five years, the directors of The Moth have worked with people from all walks of life-including astronauts, rock stars, Nobel Prize-winners, high school students, dental hygienists, and a retired pickpocket-to develop true personal stories that have moved and delighted millions...
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"If you're ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [his lessons inspire] epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script." ―LA Weekly John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood's most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Family storytelling offers many of the same advantages as book reading - and some new ones - for children's language and emotional development, coping skills, and sense of belonging. Tell Me a Story: Sharing Stories to Enrich Your Child's World shows parents how telling and sharing stories about family experiences can help children grow into healthy, happy adolescents and adults. Dr. Elaine Reese outlines the techniques that work best with children...
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Language
English
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""Ann Dávila Cardinal writes with the razored clarity of a surgeon, the spare and evocative beauty of a poet, and the immensely compelling passion of a natural born storyteller." —Andre Dubus III, New York Times bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog "Mystical, masterful storytelling." —Ms. Magazine From International Latino Book Award-winning author Ann Dávila Cardinal comes a gorgeously written family saga about a Puerto Rican woman...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, Brother Edik nurses her back to health, but when he uncovers her dangerous secret, she is sent away into the world with a goat and a boy.
16) The SOS file
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The students in Mr. Magro's class submit stories for the SOS file about their biggest emergencies, and then they read them aloud for extra credit.
17) The hero
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we have always had our heroes. The hero is at the centre of formative myths in every culture and persists to this day in world-conquering books, films and TV shows. But why do these characters continue to inspire us, and why are they so central to storytelling?Scalpel-sharp on the roots of storytelling and enlightening on the history and science of myth, The Hero is essential...
18) Three up a tree
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sam and Spider build a tree house and go there with Lolly to trade stories.
19) Three by the sea
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Three friends relax after their picnic lunch by each telling his or her best story.
20) Zen shorts
Author
Series
Zen books (Jon J Muth) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.
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