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Song of the Plains

A Memoir of Family, Secrets, and Silence

By: Linda Joy Myers

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Song of the Plains

A Memoir of Family, Secrets, and Silence

By: Linda Joy Myers

Ever since she was a child, Linda Joy Myers felt the power of the past. As the third daughter in her family to be abandoned or estranged by a mother, she observed the consequences of that heritage on the women she loved as well as herself. But thanks to the stories told to her by her great-grandmother, Myers received a gift that proved crucial in her life: the idea that everyone is a walking storybook, and that we all have within us the key to a deeper understanding of life—the secret stories that make themselves known even without words. Song of the Plains is a weaving of family history that starts in the Oklahoma plains and spans over forty years as Myers combs through dusty archives, family stories, and genealogy online. She discovers the secrets that help to explain the fractures in her family, and the ways in which her mother and grandmother found a way not only to survive the great challenges of their eras, but to thrive despite mental illness and abuse. She discovers how decisions made long ago broke her family apart—and she makes it her life's work to change her family story from one of abuse and loss to one of finding and creating a new story of hope, forgiveness, healing, and love.

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Simon and Schuster

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1631522175

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9781631522178

Journey of Memoir

The Three Stages of Memoir Writing

By: Linda Joy Myers

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Journey of Memoir

The Three Stages of Memoir Writing

By: Linda Joy Myers

In Journey of Memoir you will find lessons on how to write a great scene; information on the difference between freewriting and outlining, and why you need both; timeline and turning point exercises to help create structure; and much more. This unique workbook gives you the tools you need to begin, develop, and complete your memoir.

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1938314271

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Don't Call Me Mother

A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness

By: Linda Joy Myers

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Don't Call Me Mother

A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness

By: Linda Joy Myers

“I wanted to tell the secret stories that my great-grandmother Blanche whispered to me on summer nights in a featherbed in Iowa. I was eight and she was eighty . . .” At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas, watching a train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be an only occasional—and always troubled—visitor who denies her the love she longs for. Linda Joy Myers’s compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir tells the story of three generations of daughters who, though determined to be different from their absent mothers, ultimately follow in their footsteps, recreating a pattern that they yearn to break. Accompany Linda as she uncovers family secrets, seeks solace in music, and begins her healing journey—ultimately transcending the prison of her childhood and finding forgiveness for her family and herself. This edition includes a new afterword in which Myers confronts her family’s legacy and comes full circle with her daughter and grandchildren, seeding a new path for them.

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Simon and Schuster

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1938314085

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9781938314087

The Forger of Marseille

A Novel

By: Linda Joy Myers

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The Forger of Marseille

A Novel

By: Linda Joy Myers

It’s 1939, and all across Europe the Nazis are coming for Jews and anti-fascists. The only way to avoid being imprisoned or murdered is to assume a new identity. For that, people are desperate for papers. And for that, the underground needs forgers. In Paris, Sarah, a young Jewish artist originally from Berlin, along with her music teacher and father figure, Mr. Lieb, meet Cesar, a Spanish Republican who knows well the brutality of fleeing fascism. He soon recognizes Sarah’s gift. She will become the underground’s new forger. When the war reaches Paris, the trio joins thousands of other refugees in a chaotic exodus south. In Marseille, they’re received by friends, but they’re also now part of a resistance the government is actively hunting. Sarah, now Simone, continues her forgery work in the shadows, expertly creating false papers that will mean the difference between life and a horrifying death for many. When Mr. Lieb is arrested and imprisoned in Les Milles internment camp, Simone, Cesar, and their friends vow to rescue him, enlisting the help of American journalist Varian Fry, known for plotting the escapes of high- profile people like Andre Breton and Marc Chagall. In this enlightening and thrilling story of war, love, and courage, author Linda Joy Myers explores identity, ingenuity, and the power of art to save lives.

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Simon and Schuster

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1647422329

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9781647422325

The Power of Memoir

How to Write Your Healing Story

By: Linda Myers

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The Power of Memoir

How to Write Your Healing Story

By: Linda Myers

A groundbreaking work for healing long-term emotional problems The Power of Memoir is a pioneering how-to book that provides a new step-by-step program to use memoir writing as a therapeutic process. By going through these steps you'll learn how to choose the significant milestones and turning points that make up a coherent story leading to a life-changing epiphany. Help uncover the secret stories that are the keys to healing Explore the dynamics and roles of dysfunctional families Heal old wounds, creating a better present and brighter future Using many examples from her students and clients, the author shows how creative, well-planned, and carefully researched memoir writing can offer a process for sorting out the truth from lies and family myths.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470508361

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9780470508367

Breaking Ground on Your Memoir

Craft, Inspiration, and Motivation for Memoir Writers

By: Brooke Warner,Linda Joy Myers

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Breaking Ground on Your Memoir

Craft, Inspiration, and Motivation for Memoir Writers

By: Brooke Warner,Linda Joy Myers

In Breaking Ground on Your Memoir, Linda Joy Myers (President of the National Association of Memoir Writers) and Brooke Warner (Publisher of She Writes Press) present from the ground up—from basic to advanced—the craft and skills memoirists can draw upon to write a powerful and moving story, as well as inspiration to write, finish, and polish their own story. Full of rich insights and practical advice and strategies, Breaking Ground on Your Memoir offers all the tools writers need to write a powerful, publishable memoir. In this book you will discover: • how to get focused on what your memoir is about—your themes. • how to build the structure of your story. • techniques to make your memoir come alive. • the secrets of craft: how to write a great scene, colorful and memorable descriptions, narration, and flashback. • how to connect with your reader using through-threads and takeaway so they’ll keep turning the pages, and learn something about their own lives by reading your book. Visit the authors online at WriteYourMemoirInSixMonths.com.

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Simon and Schuster

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1631520113

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The Power of Memoir

How to Write Your Healing Story

By: Linda Myers

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How to Write Your Healing Story

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Breaking Ground on Your Memoir

Craft, Inspiration, and Motivation for Memoir Writers

By: Brooke Warner,Linda Joy Myers

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Craft, Inspiration, and Motivation for Memoir Writers

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The Tell

A Memoir

By: Linda I. Meyers

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The Tell

A Memoir

By: Linda I. Meyers

Linda I. Meyers was twenty-eight and the mother of three little boys when her mother, after a lifetime of threats, killed herself. Staggered by conflicting feelings of relief and remorse, Linda believed that the best way to give meaning to her mother’s death was to make changes to her own life. Bolstered by the women’s movement of the seventies, she left her marriage, went to college, started a successful family acting business, and established a fulfilling career. Written with irony and humor and sprinkled with Yiddish, The Tell is one woman’s inspirational story of before and after, and ultimately of emancipation and purpose.

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Simon and Schuster

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1631523562

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Don't Call Me Mother

A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness

By: Linda Joy Myers

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Don't Call Me Mother

A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness

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Song of the Plains

A Memoir of Family, Secrets, and Silence

By: Linda Joy Myers

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A Memoir of Family, Secrets, and Silence

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Journey of Memoir

The Three Stages of Memoir Writing

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The Three Stages of Memoir Writing

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Redlined

A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago

By: Linda Gartz

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Redlined

A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago

By: Linda Gartz

Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Redlined exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even one black resident. As blacks move deeper into Chicago’s West Side during the 1960s, whites flee by the thousands. But Linda Gartz’s parents, Fred and Lil choose to stay in their integrating neighborhood, overcoming previous prejudices as they meet and form friendships with their African American neighbors. The community sinks into increasing poverty and crime after two race riots destroy its once vibrant business district, but Fred and Lil continue to nurture their three apartment buildings and tenants for the next twenty years in a devastated landscape—even as their own relationship cracks and withers. After her parents’ deaths, Gartz discovers long-hidden letters, diaries, documents, and photos stashed in the attic of her former home. Determined to learn what forces shattered her parents’ marriage and undermined her community, she searches through the family archives and immerses herself in books on racial change in American neighborhoods. Told through the lens of Gartz’s discoveries of the personal and political, Redlined delivers a riveting story of a community fractured by racial turmoil, an unraveling and conflicted marriage, a daughter’s fight for sexual independence, and an up-close, intimate view of the racial and social upheavals of the 1960s.

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163152321X

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Sky Ranch

Reared in the High Country

By: Linda M. Lockwood

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Sky Ranch

Reared in the High Country

By: Linda M. Lockwood

For fans of Tara Westover’s Educated and Ivan Doig’s This House of Sky comes a memoir about a girl’s isolated ranch childhood—and her adulthood journey to overcome grief and fear and discover the truth about her mother’s mental illness. At the age of eight, Linda Lockwood moves with her family to an isolated ranch in eastern Washington State. Within two years, she’s patrolling the ranch on horseback alongside her border collie—herding sheep, killing rattlesnakes, and defending the ranch’s livestock from coyotes, bears, and even trespassing hunters—and working tirelessly to realize her dream of training horses. But her most daunting challenge is one hard work can’t overcome: her mother is descending into madness. And Linda’s deepest fear is that she might inherit the schizophrenia that threatens to dismantle her family. At age twenty-five, Linda marries, but the joy of her first pregnancy is darkened by her mother’s suicide. Then she endures a painful miscarriage and the death of her beloved grandmother, traumatic events that send her back in time to the births and deaths of animals—domesticated and wild—that she loved in childhood. Eventually, her own family grows, but her happiness is haunted by questions people have tiptoed around all her life. How did her mother become schizophrenic? What did she endure as a patient in 1960s mental hospitals? Might Linda and even her children be next to battle that catastrophic mental disorder? Driven by the courage and will she sharpened as a rancher, Linda vows to find out.

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Simon and Schuster

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1647426359

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9781647426354

The Forger of Marseille

A Novel

By: Linda Joy Myers

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A Novel

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Don't Call Me Mother

Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment

By: Linda Joy Myers

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Don't Call Me Mother

Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment

By: Linda Joy Myers

I have long been one of those who avoided dealing with death, who dodged sentiment, who felt that stories about the loss of a loved one were a bit indulgent, a way of saying 'my pain is greater than your pain.' That was before I lost my father and my wife lost her mother, both within ten days. And that was before I read Linda Joy Myers's Don?t Call Me Mother. This is powerful stuff, richly layered, emotional without being manipulative, insightful without being indulgent. It's a wonderful read and a marvelous examination of life and its inevitable conclusion. I loved it." ?James Dalessandro, author of 1906 "Could you still love your mother, even if she left you? In this gut-wrenching, poetic memoir, Linda Joy Myers explores three generations of maternal abandonment in her family--and movingly explores her own quest to break the chain." ?Melanie Rigney, former editor, Writer's Digest

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Grace Notes Press

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0972394753

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9780972394758

Ivy Lodge

A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

By: Linda Murphy Marshall

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Ivy Lodge

A Memoir of Translation and Discovery

By: Linda Murphy Marshall

After both her parents die, Linda Murphy Marshall, a multi-linguist and professional translator, returns to her midwestern childhood home, Ivy Lodge, to sort through a lifetime of belongings with her siblings. Room by room, she sifts through the objects in her parents’ house and uses her skills and perspective as a longtime professional translator to make sense of the events of her past—to “translate” her memories and her life. In the process, she sees things with new eyes. All of her parents’ things, everything having to do with their cherished hobbies, are housed in a home that, although it looks impressive from the outside, is anything but impressive inside; in short, she now realizes that much of it —even the house’s fancy name—was show. By the time Murphy Marshall is done with Ivy Lodge, she has not only made new discoveries about her past, she has also come to a new understanding of who she is and how she fits into her world.

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Simon and Schuster

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1647423686

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9781647423681

Off Kilter

A Woman's Journey to Peace with Scoliosis, Her Mother, & Her Polish Heritage

By: Linda C. Wisniewski

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Off Kilter

A Woman's Journey to Peace with Scoliosis, Her Mother, & Her Polish Heritage

By: Linda C. Wisniewski

Growing up in the 1950s was not Ozzie & Harriet and Father Knows Best for Linda C. Wisniewski. Unlike the characters on her favorite TV shows, Linda learned to be quiet, atone for the sins of others, and just plain suffer as a way of life. Only when she came to terms with her Polish Catholic heritage, her physical deformity, and her widowed mother did she find inner peace and the keys to her own happiness. Readers of Angela's Ashes and The Joy Luck Club will enjoy this mother-daughter saga from sorrow to love. Author Susan Wittig Albert calls Off Kilter "a splendid first memoir about the difficult business of finding balance in our lives. Funny, honest, deeply moving, Off Kilter reminds us just how hard it is to adjust to the physical pain, the emotional loss, and even the surprising beauty of being fully who we are.

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Pearlsong Press

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1597190349

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9781597190343

Upside-down Brilliance

The Visual-spatial Learner

By: Linda Kreger Silverman

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Upside-down Brilliance

The Visual-spatial Learner

By: Linda Kreger Silverman

Do you know things without being able to explain how or why? Do you solve problems in unusual ways? Do you think in pictures rather than in words? If so, you are not alone. One-third of the population thinks in images. You may be one or you may live with one. If you teach, it is absolutely certain that some of your students.

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DeLeon Publishing, Incorporated

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193218600X

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9781932186000

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