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Using examples from five novels and five short stories, young adult writer M. E. Kerr offers insights into ways writers can get ideas and create successful stories.

Based on a true story, Tania is a young sniper recruited by the Soviet Union to seek out and assassinate German officers. He is chosen to lead a handpicked unit to seize the commander of the invading army during the Battle of Stalingrad in the Second World War.

Alva, not quite fifteen, is content with the strict rules that define her life in Pineridge, the walled community where she lives with her father, his seven wives, and her twenty-nine siblings until she is caught giving her long-time crush an innocent first kiss and forced to marry a violent, fifty-year-old man.

A collection of essays in which forty-three contemporary authors explore the art of writing and their own creative inspirations, processes, and successes.

Explores how many bioethical and medical debates related to recent advances in science and technology have been addressed in various literary works.

Contains essays in which author Joyce Carol Oates discusses various aspects of the art and craft of writing and shares her personal experiences as a novelist, poet, and essayist.