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The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative. Memoir and personal narrative urge writers to face the intimacies of the self and ask what is true.

In The Memoir and the Memoirist, critic and memoirist Thomas Larson explores the craft and purpose of writing this new form. Larson guides the reader from the autobiography and the personal...

My book recounts stories from my sixty-plus years of service and adventure as a Bible translator. Whether I was about to be drowned in a whirlpool in the Peruvian jungle, stranded alone in the African country side, arriving from a flight across the Pacific Ocean only to be told the borders are closed to my destination, or needing to buy a new house, each event shows the presence or intervention of God on my behalf. Some might say it was just a coincidence, but I say it was God.

A thought-provoking experiment that challenges the way we live now. This mind-bending odyssey of the capitalist world will leave you contemplating life as we live it... and leave it.

Northeast Pacific Shark Biology, Research and Conservation, Part A, Volume 77 highlights the biological attributes of, and the conservation efforts targeted at, populations of vulnerable sharks in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean bordering the west coast of the United States, one of the most economically and ecologically important oceanic regions in the world. Updates in this new volume include chapters on Biodiversity, Conservation and Life History of Northeastern Pacific Chondrichthyans, a Review of current genetic analyses of Northeast Pacific sharks and conservation implications,...

So what if her house is a shambles? Who cares when she last changed her clothes? If an eighty-two-year-old widow wants to live on junk food, pills, and cigarettes, hasn't she earned the right? When her kids force her into The Palisades, an assisted living facility, Cora takes to her bed, planning to die as soon as possible. But life isn't finished with her yet, not by a long shot.

Deciding that truth is the best revenge, Cora begins to write a tell-all...