Writers and Their Notebooks


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Personal reflections on the vital role of the notebook in creative writing, from Dorianne Laux, Sue Grafton, John Dufresne, Kyoko Mori, and more. This collection of essays by established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops—places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum to develop their writing voice, whether crafting fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Some include sample journal entries that have since developed into published pieces. Through their individual approaches to keeping a notebook, the contributors offer valuable advice, personal recollections, and a hearty endorsement of the value of using notebooks to document, develop, and nurture a writer’s creative spark.




Team Cheer: Brooke's Quest for Captain


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Brooke believes she is meant to be the leader of her cheerleading squad, so she is shocked when she learns that the team will have two co-captains this year. Just when she starts to get used to the idea of sharing the role, her grades start to slip. Is Brooke losing everything she's dreamed of just as she gets it?




Poems from My Purple Notebook


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This book of poetry I wrote while I was in high school. I would carry around a purple notebook and write in it. I would write my thoughts, ideas, how I was feeling. I never set out to write poems its just something that seemed to happen and before I knew it my notebook was filled. Since then I have written a lot of poems. When I decided to publish my work I figured I should start at the beginning.




The Notebook


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THE STORY: THE NOTEBOOK follows the relationships of two students with each other and with their fabled English teacher, Miss Thorne, at a private school in Manhattan. Warren lives to read, and his enthusiasm and literary talent make him Miss Thorn




Cheerleading Camps


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Cheerleading camps started more than 70 years ago. Since then, they have become popular all over the United States. Find out more in Cheerleading Camps, one of the titles in the Cheerleading series.




Writing Ethnography (Second Edition)


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A concise, engaging guide to writing qualitative research.




Cheer!


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A behind-the-scenes tour of competitive college cheerleading describes every aspect of the sport from spring tryouts through the NCA Nationals, drawing on the personal experiences of accomplished athletes from three top cheer schools. Reprint.




The Liar


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This "brilliant" novel, an Elle Magazine Best Book of the Year about "lying and the lure of fame" (Joan Siber, National Book Critics Circle and PEN/Faulkner award-winning author), reveals how one mistake can have a thousand consequences. Nofar is an average teenage girl -- so average, in fact, that she's almost invisible. Serving customers ice cream all summer long, she is desperate for some kind of escape. One afternoon, a terrible lie slips from her tongue. And suddenly everyone wants to talk to her: the press, her schoolmates, and even the boy upstairs. He is the only one who knows the truth, and he is demanding a price for his silence. Then Nofar meets Raymonde, an elderly immigrant whose best friend has just died. Raymonde keeps her friend alive the only way she knows how, by inhabiting her stories. But soon, Raymonde's lies take on a life of their own. Written with propulsive energy, dark humor, and deep insight, The Liar reveals the far-reaching consequences of even our smallest choices, and explores the hidden corners of human nature to reveal the liar, and the truth-teller, in all of us.




Ofelia


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Ofelia is a story about a love that could not be easily lost or forgotten. During the early 1900s, a young teenage couple who end up falling in love seem destined to be together. Cody Parker,the very handsome, high spirited young man was working as a horse trainer for the Heart family. Ms. Ofelia Heart was growing up wealthy and proper. Despite their circumstances, they were on the verge of getting engaged but on one unfortunate day, Cody ends up losing his life in an accident while saving his ten year old brother Mike. Ofelia Heart is devastated and was never able to recover from the loss of her beloved. However, decades later, a young girl named Socorro finds herself coming across a sacred world meant to heal and save those in need and no sooner after finding this peaceful world, she comes across the main guardian of this wonderful place. Oddly enough, she feels a strange sense of familiarity towards him and while she later learns it is forbidden, she finds herself falling in love with him. While Cody was well aware of the forbidden feelings that all guardians are forbidden to feel towards mortal humans, Cody could not control the love he instantly felt towards Socorro the moment he brought her into his world and during their time together, not only do they find out more about each other but also, why they found each other.




Coaching Cheerleading Successfully


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The definitive how-to guide for cheer coaches, sponsors, and parents, this book covers both support and competitive cheering. It explains cheer techniques and tactics, as well as how to plan and develop cheerleading programs. And all skills and stunts follow the National Federation of State High School Association's safety guidelines. 100 illustrations.