The Imaginary World of...
10 best books like The Imaginary World of... (Keri Smith): Destroying Avalon, By Any Other Name, Joe Gould's Secret, Melody Burning, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer, The Convent, Live What You Love: Notes from an Unusual Life, Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story, Truth and Dare: 20 Tales of Heartbreak and Happiness, The Treehorn Trilogy: The Shrinking of Treehorn, Treehorn's Treasure, and Treehorn's Wish
| Author | Kate McCaffrey |
| ISBN | 1921064579 |
When Avalon moves to the city her life is turned upside down. Starting at a new high school, she finds herself at the centre of a brutal cyber-bullying campaign. She is inundated with obscene text messages, and subject to increasingly vicious web site postings, as things spiral out of control.
Miserable...
| Author | Laura Jarratt |
| ISBN | 1405256737 |
Nobody can know the truth—her life depends on it. A tale of family, identity, and trust, about a girl struggling with life in the witness protection program.
I picked up the book and thumbed through the pages. Names in alphabetical order, names with meanings, names I knew, names I'd never...
| Author | Joseph Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0375708049 |
Now a major motion picture starring Ian Holm, Hope Davis, and Stanley Tucci, who also directs.
Joseph Mitchell was a legendary New Yorker writer and the author of the national bestseller Up in the Old Hotel, in which these two pieces appeared. What Joseph Mitchell wrote about, principally,...
| Author | Whitley Strieber |
| ISBN | 0805093273 |
Beresford doesn’t remember much about his past or how he came to live in the chutes and crawl spaces of the posh high-rise that shares his name. But when rock star and teen sensation Melody McGrath moves to an apartment on the fiftieth floor, he knows he has to be near her. Although she doesn’t realize...
Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0764959476 |
Edward Gorey and Peter Neumeyer met in the summer of 1968. Gorey had been contracted by Addison-Wesley to illustrate "Donald and the...," a childrens story written by Neumeyer. On their first encounter, Neumeyer managed to dislocate Goreys shoulder when he grabbed his arm to keep him from falling...
| Author | Maureen McCarthy |
| ISBN | 1742375049 |
A breathtaking novel that follows the hidden and intertwined lives of four young women as they face difficult, life-changing, impossible choices during the 1920s, 1960s, and the present
'I woke up with a feeling about today,' Stella says dreamily. 'Something truly amazing is going...
| Author | Robert Blanchard |
| ISBN | 1402728425 |
Bob and Melinda Blanchard's first book, "A Trip to the Beach," sold more than 85,000 copies and became inspiration for countless people who were ready to start living their dreams. Comprising stories, reflections, notes, insights, and a bit of advice, "Live What You Love" is the Blanchard's warm,...
| Author | Sera Beak |
| ISBN | 1622030532 |
When one person dares to speak her truth, it challenges us all to live our own. With Red Hot and Holy, Sera Beak offers a provocative and intimate view of what it means to get up close and personal with the divine in modern times.
With a rare combination of audacious wit, scholarly acumen, and tender...
| Author | Liz Miles |
| ISBN | 0762441046 |
Truth & Dare is a collection of short stories confirming the truth we all know-- high school is painful--and written for those who dare to be different. These edgy short stories are told from the point of view of the quirky, cool, but not necessarily popular teens, who are dealing with all the pressures...
| Author | Florence Parry Heide |
| ISBN | 0810959941 |
Long ago I was a young reader growing up in the middle of nowhere (eleven miles from each of the three nearest towns, in fact). I didn't often get to the library, but I had a number of magazines and books thoughtfully delivered by the USPS. One of those magazines, a little digest-sized thing, included The...
| Author | Vicki Noble |
| ISBN | 0062510851 |
For over a decade, Motherpeace has been an inspiration and oracle for women all over the world. Motherpeace recovers the positive, nurturing peace-oriented values of prepatriarchal times, and brilliantly combines art, history, mythology, folklore, philosophy, and comparative religion with...
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1617690848 |
From fill-in art journals to self-help books on creativity, more than ever the public is striving to bring artistic enlightenment into their everyday lives. In Living Color, one of the country’s most celebrated writers expounds on her own path to artistic inspiration. Tailored to a new generation...
| Author | Anaïs Nin |
| ISBN | 0804006946 |
A very thoughtful book indeed! What I liked most about the book is the voice that is so much hers. The thoughts expressed on a broad range of issues are heartfelt and lived. It is not like one theory is talking to another; it is more a zen-like person speaking to us a friend, and sharing what seems worth sharing....
| Author | Maurice Gee |
| ISBN | 0143019414 |
When Celia Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a secluded West Auckland park one Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer. Celia's death and the violence which follows send Prior back to examine the past - which proves as...
| Author | Shane Morgan |
| ISBN | 0692230424 |
Pain never truly goes away, until you find something deeper and meaningful that cures the heart and fills it with love.
That is what Aurora desperately wants to believe. That somehow her music can save her, or even touch the unreachable heart of the guy she has liked for years.
Rora yearns...
Anna's bruised and upset by the collapse of her parents' marriage. So much of the fallout - including responsibility for her wayward younger sister - seems to be heading in her direction. All she wants is to get the exam results she needs to get herself to university - and away from this mess. She certainly...
| Author | Karen Benke |
| ISBN | 1590308123 |
Here are the ideas, experiments, and inspiration to unfold your imagination and get your writing to flow off the page! This is the everything-you-need guide to spark new poems and unstick old stories, including lists of big, small, gross-out, and favorite words; adventurous and zany prompts to leap...
The Collage Workbook: How to Get Started and Stay Inspired
| Author | Randel Plowman |
| ISBN | 1454701994 |
Both a popular hobby and a recognized art form, collage encompasses a wide range of creative styles and techniques—explored here by the creator of the popular A Collage a Day blog. Offering step-by-step instruction, visual inspiration, and even a library of copyright-free images, this hands-on...
The Artist in the Office: How to Creatively Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week
| Author | Summer Pierre |
| ISBN | 0399535640 |
A guide to living a creative life from 9 to 5 and beyond.
Based on the hit handmade 'zine, The Artist in the Office is an inspirational, interactive book for any artist living in the real world. It encourages small acts of creativity and a simple shift of perspective to help readers bring their...
DOING GERMANY is a series of books for those who are looking for an easy read and to laugh.
Agnieszka Paletta did what most of us only dream about doing – she quit her job, family and friends and travelled to live in a foreign country. And what’s more, she did this more than once. Call it reckless...
Creative Block: Get Unstuck, Discover New Ideas. Advice & Projects from 50 Successful Artists
| Author | Danielle Krysa |
| ISBN | 1452118884 |
Creative block presents the most crippling—and unfortunately universal—challenge for artists. No longer! This chunky blockbuster of a book is chock-full of solutions for overcoming all manner of artistic impediment. The blogger behind The Jealous Curator interviews 50 successful international...
The Organic Artist: Make Your Own Paint, Paper, Pigments, Prints and More from Nature
| Author | Nick Neddo |
| ISBN | 1592539262 |
It's time to go back to basics! If you're interested in art, but find that it's becoming an increasingly expensive hobby, The Organic Artist is just the book for you!
The Organic Artist encourages you to return to those days when art was made with all-natural materials, like charcoal and birch...
Vector Basic Training: A Systematic Creative Process for Building Precision Vector Artwork (Voices that Matter)
| Author | Von Glitschka |
| ISBN | 0321749596 |
Listen up, designers, and wipe those grins off your faces It's time to get serious about your design work. For too long you've allowed yourself to go soft, relying on your software to do all of your creative work for you. This book will NOT show you how to use every tool and feature in Adobe Illustrator. This...
Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Photoshop
| Author | Nykolai Aleksander |
| ISBN | 0955153077 |
Beginner’s Guide to Digital Painting in Photoshop is a new series dedicated to providing a comprehensive guide to the basics of digital painting in this versatile program. Whether you’re new to this artistic medium or simply looking to improve existing skills, this book offers up a wealth...
| Author | Katherine Easer |
| ISBN | 1599906287 |
Sarah Weaver wasn't looking forward to starting at an all-girls school. But that was before she met Maddy. Maddy and her best friend, Agnes, are fun and rich and interesting-and for some reason, they seem to really like Sarah. Before long, Maddy and Agnes have moved Sarah into a big house off campus, where...
