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How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies

Sweet and Savory Secrets for Surviving the Writing Life

By: Amy Wallen

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How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies

Sweet and Savory Secrets for Surviving the Writing Life

By: Amy Wallen

As a novelist, memoirist, and associate director of the New York State Summer Writers Institute, Amy Wallen has a few things to say about the writing world, many of them irreverent and snarky. From her perspective as a teacher, mentor, and published author, her belief is that the way to survive the hard knocks of writing a book and trying to get published is to bust a gut working, laughing, and eating pie. With chapters including "Oh Agent, Where Art Thou?", "Revising, Rewriting, and Reimagining," and "The Joy of Rejection," Wallen balances out the challenging stages of the writing process with both sweet and savory goodness, featuring recipes for chocolate pecan pie, salmon and portobello pie, and the recipe for the best cherry pie ever. Throughout the book, Wallen demystifies the vagaries of the publishing business, providing delicious recipes that will keep your belly full even when you're staring at an empty page. Her writing advice is neatly paired with the brilliant illustrations of Emil Wilson, who shares her sharp wit, sardonic look at the demands of the writing life, and her mad love of pie. Combined, the stories, lessons, images, and recipes will provide encouragement and camaraderie for the novel-writing journey, from putting pen to page, to finding an agent, to celebrating publication—all with a piece of pie.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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1524882674

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9781524882679

When We Were Ghouls

A Memoir of Ghost Stories

By: Amy E. Wallen

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When We Were Ghouls

A Memoir of Ghost Stories

By: Amy E. Wallen

The essay 'When We Were Ghouls' was originally published in the Gettysburg Review 29, no. 1 (Spring 2016).

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293

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803296959

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9780803296954

Distant Flickers

Stories of Identity & Loss

By: Multiple Contributors,Rita Baker,John Casey,Elizabeth Gauffreau,Carol LaHines,Keith Madsen,Jim Metzner,Donna Koros-Stramella,Joyce Yarrow,Amy E. Wallen

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Distant Flickers

Stories of Identity & Loss

By: Multiple Contributors,Rita Baker,John Casey,Elizabeth Gauffreau,Carol LaHines,Keith Madsen,Jim Metzner,Donna Koros-Stramella,Joyce Yarrow,Amy E. Wallen

~ 8 Accomplished Authors ~10 Memorable Stories ~ Compelling Characters at a Crossroads ~ What Choices Will They Make? The emotive stories in this anthology take readers to the streets of New York and San Francisco, to warm east coast beaches, rural Idaho, and Italy, from the early 1900s, through the 1970s, and into present day. A sinister woman accustomed to getting everything she wants. A down-on-his luck cook who stumbles on goodness. A young mother who hides $10 she received from a stranger. The boy who collects secrets. A young woman stuck between youth and adulthood. Children who can’t understand why their mother disappears. The distinct and varied characters in Distant Flickers stand at a juncture. The loss of a spouse, a parent, a child, one’s self. Whether they arrived at this place through self-reflection, unexpected change, or new revelations—each one has a choice to make.

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109

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Paul Stream Press, LLC

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1735929247

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9781735929248

How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies

Sweet and Savory Secrets for Surviving the Writing Life

By: Amy Wallen

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Sweet and Savory Secrets for Surviving the Writing Life

By: Amy Wallen

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Moon Pies and Movie Stars

By: Amy Wallen

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Moon Pies and Movie Stars

By: Amy Wallen

Setting out in a Winnebago after seeing her runaway daughter in a television commercial, Ruby Kincaid engages in a madcap road trip from the dusty flats of Texas to the glitter of Hollywood, accompanied by two friends and a pair of unruly grandchildren. A first novel. Reprint.

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324

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Penguin

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0452288959

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9780452288959

Spies without Cloaks

The KGB's Successors

By: Amy Knight

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Spies without Cloaks

The KGB's Successors

By: Amy Knight

This book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of what happened to the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed and the world's most powerful and dangerous secret police organization was uncloaked. As Amy Knight shows, the KGB was renamed and reorganized several times after it was officially disbanded in December 1991--but it was not reformed. Knight's rich and lively narrative begins with the aborted August 1991 coup, led by KGB hard-liners, and takes us through the summer of 1995, when the Russian parliamentary elections were looming on the horizon. The failed coup attempt was a setback for the KGB because it led to demands from Russian democrats for a complete overhaul of the security services. As a result, the KGB's leaders were fired, its staff reduced, and its functions dispersed among several agencies. Even the elite foreign intelligence service was subjected to budget cuts. But President Yeltsin was reluctant to press on with reforms of the security services, because he needed their support in his struggle against mounting political opposition. Indeed, by the spring of 1995, the security services had regained much of what they had lost in the wake of the August coup. Some observers were even saying that they had acquired more power and influence than the old KGB. This story told by one of the foremost experts on the Soviet/Russian security services and enriched by face-to-face interviews with security professionals in Moscow, is crucial to understanding Russian politics in transition. It will fascinate scholars, policymakers, and general readers interested in the fate of the KGB.

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333

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Princeton University Press

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1400821878

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9781400821877

Marketing Recorded Music

How Music Companies Brand and Market Artists

By: Tammy Donham,Amy Sue Macy,Clyde Philip Rolston

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Marketing Recorded Music

How Music Companies Brand and Market Artists

By: Tammy Donham,Amy Sue Macy,Clyde Philip Rolston

This fourth edition of Marketing Recorded Music is the essential resource to help you understand how recorded music is professionally marketed. Updated to reflect the digital era, with new chapters on emerging media, streaming, and branding, this fourth edition also includes strategies for independent and unsigned artists. Fully revised to reflect international marketing issues, Marketing Recorded Music is accompanied by a companion website with additional online resources, including PowerPoints, quizzes, and lesson plans, making it the go-to manual for students, as well as aspiring and experienced professionals.

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602

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CRC Press

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100058514X

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9781000585148

Taking the Field

Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers

By: Amy Kohout

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Taking the Field

Soldiers, Nature, and Empire on American Frontiers

By: Amy Kohout

Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. In the late nineteenth century, at a time when Americans were becoming more removed from nature than ever before, U.S. soldiers were uniquely positioned to understand and construct nature's ongoing significance for their work and for the nation as a whole. American ideas and debates about nature evolved alongside discussions about the meaning of frontiers, about what kind of empire the United States should have, and about what it meant to be modern or to make "progress." Soldiers stationed in the field were at the center of these debates, and military action in the expanding empire brought new environments into play. In Taking the Field Amy Kohout draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers in both the Indian Wars and the Philippine-American War to explore the interconnected ideas about nature and empire circulating at the time. By tracking the variety of ways American soldiers interacted with the natural world, Kohout argues that soldiers, through their words and their work, shaped Progressive Era ideas about both American and Philippine environments. Studying soldiers on multiple frontiers allows Kohout to inject a transnational perspective into the environmental history of the Progressive Era, and an environmental perspective into the period's transnational history. Kohout shows us how soldiers--through their writing, their labor, and all that they collected--played a critical role in shaping American ideas about both nature and empire, ideas that persist to the present.

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479

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496234308

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9781496234308

Thin Films: Heteroepitaxial Systems

By: Amy W K Liu,Michael B Santos

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Thin Films: Heteroepitaxial Systems

By: Amy W K Liu,Michael B Santos

Heteroepitaxial films are commonplace among today's electronic and photonic devices. The realization of new and better devices relies on the refinement of epitaxial techniques and improved understanding of the physics underlying epitaxial growth. This book provides an up-to-date report on a wide range of materials systems. The first half reviews metallic and dielectric thin films, including chapters on metals, rare earths, metal-oxide layers, fluorides, and high-Tc superconductors. The second half covers semiconductor systems, reviewing developments in group-IV, arsenide, phosphide, antimonide, nitride, II-VI and IV-VI heteroepitaxy. Topics important to several systems are covered in chapters on atomic processes, ordering and growth dynamics.

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706

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World Scientific

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9814496405

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9789814496407

REMEX

Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era

By: Amy Sara Carroll

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REMEX

Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era

By: Amy Sara Carroll

REMEX presents the first comprehensive examination of artistic responses and contributions to an era defined by the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994–2008). Marshaling over a decade’s worth of archival research, interviews, and participant observation in Mexico City and the Mexico–US borderlands, Amy Sara Carroll considers individual and collective art practices, recasting NAFTA as the most fantastical inter-American allegory of the turn of the millennium. Carroll organizes her interpretations of performance, installation, documentary film, built environment, and body, conceptual, and Internet art around three key coordinates—City, Woman, and Border. She links the rise of 1990s Mexico City art in the global market to the period’s consolidation of Mexico–US border art as a genre. She then interrupts this transnational art history with a sustained analysis of chilanga and Chicana artists’ remapping of the figure of Mexico as Woman. A tour de force that depicts a feedback loop of art and public policy—what Carroll terms the “allegorical performative”—REMEX adds context to the long-term effects of the post-1968 intersection of D.F. performance and conceptualism, centralizes women artists’ embodied critiques of national and global master narratives, and tracks post-1984 border art’s “undocumentation” of racialized and sexualized reconfigurations of North American labor pools. The book’s featured artwork becomes the lens through which Carroll rereads a range of events and phenomenon from California’s Proposition 187 to Zapatismo, US immigration policy, 9/11 (1973/2001), femicide in Ciudad Juárez, and Mexico’s war on drugs.

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University of Texas Press

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1477311033

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9781477311035

Steele's Colon and Rectal Surgery

By: Scott R. Steele,Justin A. Maykel,Amy L. Lightner,Joshua I.S. Bleier

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Steele's Colon and Rectal Surgery

By: Scott R. Steele,Justin A. Maykel,Amy L. Lightner,Joshua I.S. Bleier

Offering comprehensive coverage of all diseases and conditions affecting the colon, rectum, and anus, Steele’s Colon and Rectal Surgery provides authoritative guidance on the full range of today’s operative procedures. Edited by Dr. Scott R. Steele, Chairman of the Department of Colorectal Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, and section editors Drs. Justin A. Maykel, Amy L. Lightner, and Joshua I.S. Bleier, this new reference contains 81 concise, tightly focused chapters that take you step by step through each procedure, guided by the knowledge and expertise of key leaders in the field from across the world.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975152913

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9781975152918

When We Were Ghouls

A Memoir of Ghost Stories

By: Amy E. Wallen

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When We Were Ghouls

A Memoir of Ghost Stories

By: Amy E. Wallen

When Amy E. Wallen’s southern, blue-collar, peripatetic family was transferred from Ely, Nevada, to Lagos, Nigeria, she had just turned seven. From Nevada to Nigeria and on to Peru, Bolivia, and Oklahoma, the family wandered the world, living in a state of constant upheaval. When We Were Ghouls follows Wallen’s recollections of her family who, like ghosts, came and went and slipped through her fingers, rendering her memories unclear. Were they a family of grave robbers, as her memory of the pillaging of a pre-Incan grave site indicates? Are they, as the author’s mother posits, “hideous people?” Or is Wallen’s memory out of focus? In this quick-paced and riveting narrative, Wallen exorcizes these haunted memories to clarify the nature of her family and, by extension, her own character. Plumbing the slipperiness of memory and confronting what it means to be a “good” human, When We Were Ghouls links the fear of loss and mortality to childhood ideas of permanence. It is a story about family, surely, but it is also a representation of how a combination of innocence and denial can cause us to neglect our most precious earthly treasures: not just our children but the artifacts of humanity and humanity itself.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496205405

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Moon Pies and Movie Stars

By: Amy Wallen

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By: Amy Wallen

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How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies

How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies

When We Were Ghouls

When We Were Ghouls

Distant Flickers

Distant Flickers

How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies

How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies

Moon Pies and Movie Stars

Moon Pies and Movie Stars

Spies without Cloaks

Spies without Cloaks

Marketing Recorded Music

Marketing Recorded Music

Taking the Field

Taking the Field

Thin Films: Heteroepitaxial Systems

Thin Films: Heteroepitaxial Systems

REMEX

REMEX

Steele's Colon and Rectal Surgery

Steele's Colon and Rectal Surgery

When We Were Ghouls

When We Were Ghouls

Moon Pies and Movie Stars

Moon Pies and Movie Stars

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