creative ability

"When community members work together with trucks and ships to clean up the town's riverfront, an artist and her child hammer, chisel, weld and zap the found materials into something beautiful"--OCLC.

"From the . . . author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short . . . book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince. Equipped with a fan's admiration and his trademark humor and wit, Nick Hornby invites us into his latest obsession: the cosmic link between two unlikely artists, geniuses in their own rights, spanning race, class, and centuries--each of whom electrified their different disciplines and whose legacy resounded far beyond their own time. When Prince's 1987 record Sign o' the Times was rereleased in 2020, the iconic album now came with dozens of songs that weren't on the original--Prince was endlessly prolific, recording 102 songs in 1986 alone. In awe, Hornby began to wonder, Who else ever produced this much? Who else ever worked that way? He soon found his answer in Victorian novelist and social critic Charles Dickens, who died more than a hundred years before Prince began making music. Examining the two artists' personal tragedies, social statuses, boundless productivity, and other parallels, both humorous and haunting, Hornby shows how these two unlikely men from different centuries 'lit up the world.' In the process, he creates a lively, stimulating rumination on the creativity, flamboyance, discipline, and soul it takes to produce great art"--Provided by publisher.

". . . a guide to the process of artistic self-discovery"--Provided by publisher.

"[The author puts forth] a simple process for discarding obsolete beliefs and cultivating independent thought [using] . . . leaders, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs [as examples] . . . [Varol argues that] great thinkers operate unconstrained by the opinions of others--or their own past opinions. They can act on new information regardless of the beliefs they once held, or identities they once adopted. They distinguish fact from manipulation. And just as importantly, they act first instead of reacting--creating new ideas and opportunities for themselves and others"--Provided by publisher.

"Extraordinary reference book of over eighty famous painters, their lives, their loves, and their iconic paintings"-- Provided by publisher.

Eighteen-year-old Laila Piedra is a biracial aspiring author whose creative writing teacher always told her she has a special talent, so when he suddenly dies and is replaced by Nadiya Nazarenko, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who is sadistically critical and perpetually unimpressed, Laila grows obsessed with gaining the woman's approval and is led to believe she must choose between perfection and sanity, but rejecting her all-powerful mentor may be the only way for Laila to thrive.

"Do you like to go to the post office? Now you can build and run your own! Learn how to get inspired, problem-solve, and work with others as you create your post office"--Provided by publisher.

"Do you like to go grocery shopping? Now you can build and run your own! Learn how to get inspired, problem-solve, and work with others as you create your store"--Provided by publisher.

"Do you like to eat in restaurants? Now you can build and run your own! Learn how to get inspired, problem-solve, and work with others as you create your restaurant"--Provided by publisher.

"Do you like to play games at arcades? Now you can build and run your own! Learn how to get inspired, problem-solve, and work with others as you create your arcade"--Provided by publisher.