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Hollywood Producers Joshua L. Ritter and Joe Salwen Teach How to Write a Screenplay From the Other Side of the Desk
Two Hollywood producers with Netflix and Academy Award credits distill years of reading scripts into a practical Levenger Master Class workbook for aspiring screenwriters.
Army Veteran and Nurse Nik Nanoski Releases DUMB 31, a Post-Apocalyptic Novel Ten Years in the Making
The San Antonio author spent a decade writing a science fiction novel where survival depends on teamwork, not lone heroes, drawing on twenty years as a combat medic and nurse.
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The Brexit Lie Has a Name — and the Men Who Told It Have Gone Very Quiet
Anthony Seldon's 'The Brexit Effect' is the most serious reckoning with the Brexit decade yet published. It is also, conspicuously, missing the voice of the man who has said plainest what many now believe: that Brexit was a con and that the people who sold it should be held to account. When you read it alongside Michael Heseltine's 'From Acorns to Oaks', you can see the full picture: what was lost, who lost it, and what a different Britain could still become.
The Healing Power of Poetry: A Medicine as Old as Writing Itself
The history of poetry and the science behind poetry therapy, from Ancient Egypt to modern expressive writing studies and why verse heals what prose cannot. Poetry has treated grief, trauma and loneliness for four thousand years, and modern research now shows exactly why it works.
Ulrich Brugger's Eternally New Is a Contemplative Answer to the Self-Help Industry
After more than sixty years of writing, the founder of The Ojai Retreat has published a collection of aphorisms that sets itself against the formulas of modern self-help.
Dr. Latrece Wright Shares the Health Scare Behind The Uninvited Pebble
In The Uninvited Pebble, Georgia minister Dr. Latrece Wright writes about the weeks of waiting after a routine mammogram found a solid mass, and the faith that carried her through them.
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Helpless
Jessica Knoll's fourth novel opens not with a body but with a funeral, and asks who owns a story once two people have lived it
Regime Change- Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Haberman and Swan report that in the summer of 2025 the White House Situation Room, the secure complex from which a president once watched the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, was turned to a very different purpose. According to their account, the most senior officials in the government gathered there, in the room built for the gravest decisions of national security, not to weigh a threat to the country but to manage a political crisis over the Jeffrey Epstein files. The authors describe a facility meant to protect the nation used instead to protect one man's reputation. If the reporting holds, it is the book's argument made concrete, the machinery of the state quietly turned towards the interests of the person at its head.
Poetry by Season
A simple guide to the verse that suits each turn of the year, for the person who likes their reading to keep time with the light
The Reading and Writing Room- What the Judges Are Reading
A glimpse inside the rooms where the great book prizes are decided, and what the people selecting the next Booker Prize or Pulitzer winner are actually looking for
Careless People: Sarah Wynn-Williams' Memoir revelling how the elite shaped world events
Sarah Wynn-Williams invented her own job at Facebook, then spent seven years watching it from the inside. Her memoir reads like literature and lands like testimony. The book gives you "a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them."
How Kathy Taylor Turned Two Stays in Marburg Into an Autobiographical Novel
A retired professor wrote The Birthing House across two decades and two stays in the same German town. It is a novel about grief, language, and how writing returns a woman to herself.