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28 produkter
Beautiful Useful Things: What William Morris Made
Av Beth Kephart
Inbunden, 2022
151 kr
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A poetic story about the life and work of William Morris, maker of beautiful, useful things, sure to engage young dreamers and artists alikeWilliam Morris is best known for his colorful wallpapers and textiles, inspired by the English forests and wild foliage where he grew up. But did you know this …
Undercover
Av Beth Kephart
E-bok, 2009
58 kr
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Like a modern-day Cyrano de Bergerac, Elisa ghostwrites love notes for the boys in her school. But when Elisa falls for Theo Moses, things change fast. Theo asks for verses to court the lovely Lila—a girl known for her beauty, her popularity, and a cutting ability to remind Elisa that she has none …
No Such Thing as the Real World
Av Jacqueline Woodson, An Na m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
57 kr
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Graduation from high school? A senior thesis? A betrayal by someone you love? A loss of innocence? The death of a parent? Losing the family you always wished you had? Facing a harsh reality? What''s the line that separates childhood from the "real world"? And what happens when it''s nothing you …
Heart Is Not a Size
Av Beth Kephart
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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Georgia knows what it means to keep secrets. She knows how to ignore things. She knows that some things are better left unsaid. . . . Or are they? When Georgia and her best friend, Riley, travel along with nine other suburban Pennsylvania kids to Anapra, a squatters'' village in the heat-flattened …
Still Love in Strange Places
Av Beth Kephart
Häftad, 2003
228 kr
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When Beth Kephart met and fell in love with the artist who would become her husband, she had little knowledge of the place he came from—an exotic coffee farm high in the jungle hills of El Salvador, a place of terrifying myths and even more frightening realities, of civil war and devastating …
Slant of Sun
One Child's Courage
Av Beth Kephart
Häftad, 1998
296 kr
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For Beth Kephart’s son, the diagnosis was "pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified"—a broad spectrum of difficulties, including autistic features. As the author and her husband discover, all that label really means is that their son Jeremy is "different in a million wonderful ways, …
Seeing Past Z
Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World
Av Beth Kephart
Häftad, 2004
271 kr
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Kids today seem to be under more competitive pressure than ever, while studies show that reading, writing, and the arts in schools are suffering. Is there any place for imagination in kids' lives anymore? In a dog-eat-dog world, why dream things that aren't there?In gorgeous prose and through …
Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent
Av Beth Kephart
Häftad, 2013
195 kr
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Flavored by the oddities of historic personalities and facts, Dr. Radway’s Sarsaparilla Resolvent is set in Bush Hill, Philadelphia, 1871-home to the Baldwin Locomotive Works and a massive, gothic prison. Acclaimed writer Beth Kephart captures the rhythms and smells of an extraordinary era as …
Wife | Daughter | Self
A Memoir in Essays
Av Beth Kephart
Ljudbok, 2021
248 kr
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Wife | Daughter | Self investigates identity and the writing life through the perspective of one of the nation’s top memoir teachers and critics. Curiously, inventively, Beth Kephart reflects on the iterative, composite self in her new memoir—traveling to lakes and rivers, New Mexico and Mexico, …
Small Damages
Av Beth Kephart
E-bok, 2012
147 kr
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Juno meets Under the Tuscan Sun It''s senior year, and while Kenzie should be looking forward to prom and starting college in the fall, she discovers she''s pregnant. Her determination to keep her baby is something her boyfriend and mother do not understand. So she is sent to Spain, where she will …
Handling the Truth
On the Writing of Memoir
Av Beth Kephart
E-bok, 2013
171 kr
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In the tradition of Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird , a critically acclaimed National Book Award finalist shares inspiration and practical advice for writing a memoir. Writing memoir is a deeply personal, and consequential, undertaking. As the acclaimed author of five memoirs spanning significant …
Love
A Philadelphia Affair
Av Beth Kephart
Inbunden, 2015
332 kr
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Philadelphia has been at the heart of many books by award-winning author Beth Kephart, but none more so than the affectionate collection Love. This volume of personal essays and photographs celebrates the intersection of memory and place. Kephart writes lovingly, reflectively about what …
My Life in Paper
Adventures in Ephemera
Av Beth Kephart
Inbunden, 2023
366 kr
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Paper both shapes and defines us. Baby books, diaries, sewing patterns, diplomas, resumes, letters, death certificates-we find our stories in them. My Life in Paper is Beth Kephart’s memoiristic exploration of the paper legacies we forge and leave.Kephart’s obsession with paper began in the wake of …
Wild Blues
Av Beth Kephart
E-bok, 2018
133 kr
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“Readers will be entranced by this exceptional offering.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “By turns a mystery, a thriller, and an adventure, this richly woven story will provide much for readers to tease apart long after it’s finished.” — Booklist (starred review) “Thought-provoking and …
Great Upending
Av Beth Kephart
E-bok, 2020
143 kr
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When a troubled children’s book author moves to their farm, two kids with troubles of their own hatch a scheme to swipe the ending of the final book in a bestselling series to get a reward from the book’s publisher in this gorgeously written novel in the tradition of Wonder and Out of My Mind . …
Tell the Truth. Make It Matter
A memoir writing workbook
Av Beth Kephart
Häftad, 2017
227 kr
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Flow
The Life and Times of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River
Av Beth Kephart
Häftad, 2014
176 kr
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From acclaimed writer Beth Kephart, author of A Slant of Sun, comes a short, imaginative telling of the life of the Schuylkill River, which has served as the source of Philadelphia's water, power, industry, and beauty for the city's entire life. Before that, it fed the indigenous people who …
Wife | Daughter | Self
A Memoir in Essays
Av Beth Kephart
Häftad, 2021
236 kr
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Wife | Daughter | Self investigates identity and the writing life through the perspective of one of the nation’s top memoir teachers and critics.Curiously, inventively, Beth Kephart reflects on the iterative, composite self in her new memoir—traveling to lakes and rivers, New Mexico and Mexico, the …
Wife | Daughter | Self
A Memoir in Essays
Av Beth Kephart
E-bok, 2021
138 kr
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Wife | Daughter | Self investigates identity and the writing life through the perspective of one of the nation’s top memoir teachers and critics. How are we shaped by the people we love? Who are we when we think no one else is watching? How do we trust the choices we make? The answers shift as the …
Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News
A Philadelphia Story
Av Beth Kephart
Häftad, 2025
276 kr
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Love
A Philadelphia Affair
Av Beth Kephart
Häftad, 2017
186 kr
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Philadelphia has been at the heart of many books by award-winning author Beth Kephart, but none more so than the affectionate collection Love. This volume of personal essays and photographs celebrates the intersection of memory and place. Kephart writes lovingly, reflectively about what …
This Is the Story of You
Av Beth Kephart
Inbunden, 2016
145 kr
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On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira's mother and brother on the mainland. …
Flow
The Life and Times of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River
Av Beth Kephart
Inbunden, 2007
345 kr
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From acclaimed writer Beth Kephart, author of A Slant of Sun, comes a short, imaginative telling of the life of the Schuylkill River, which has served as the source of Philadelphia's water, power, industry, and beauty for the city's entire life. Before that, it fed the indigenous people who …
