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9781616200763 | Algonquin Books, November 13, 2012, cover price $24.95

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9781611749021 | Highbridge Co, November 13, 2012, cover price $36.95

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Product Description: How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into LiteratureFrom drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers...read more
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9781582975276, titled "Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature" | 2 revised edition (Writers Digest Books, July 1, 2008), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into LiteratureFrom drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers.

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A thoughtful meditation on the richness of country life describes the natural wonders and wildlife around his home in Farmington, Maine, his life as an 'outsider' amid a close-knit rural community, and the world of the colorful characters in the neighborhood. By the author of the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning Big Bend. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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9780385336550 | Reprint edition (Dial Pr, May 30, 2006), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A thoughtful meditation on the richness of country life describes the natural wonders and wildlife around his home in Farmington, Maine, his life as an 'outsider' amid a close-knit rural community, and the world of the colorful characters in the neighborhood.

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Product Description: John Hodgkins was eight years old when his father was drafted into the army and left for Europe for fight in WWII. After his return, his father never spoke much of the war. After his father's death, John opened his father's diary and two boxes of memorabilia.
By John E. Hodgkins and Bill Roorbach (foreword by)
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9780892727162 | Down East Books, January 30, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: John Hodgkins was eight years old when his father was drafted into the army and left for Europe for fight in WWII.

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A thoughtful meditation on the richness of country life describes the natural wonders and wildlife around his home in Farmington, Maine, his life as an 'outsider' amid a close-knit rural community, and the world of the colorful characters in the neighborhood. By the author of the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning Big Bend. 30,000 first printing.
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9780385336543 | Dial Pr, July 26, 2005, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In a meditation on the richness of country life, the author describes the natural wonders around his home in Farmington, Maine, and his life as an outsider amid a close-knit rural community.

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Product Description: In a trio of wonderful long essays, three quite different writers--one a nature and outdoor writer, another a poet, and the third an essayist and novelist--let us sit in on their friendship and what draws them, inexorably, to the same small pond in Maine...read more
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9780884482628 | Tilbury House Pub, May 1, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: In a trio of wonderful long essays, three quite different writers--one a nature and outdoor writer, another a poet, and the third an essayist and novelist--let us sit in on their friendship and what draws them, inexorably, to the same small pond in Maine.

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A Flannery O'Connor Award-winning collection of nine short stories take place in a variety of settings across the United States and feature men who experience passion, challenges to their typically sweet natures, and the folly of bad luck and poor advice. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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9780820322834 | Univ of Georgia Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, this intriguing anthology of stories explores the complex twists and turns of human relationships in such works as 'Fog,' 'Thanksgiving,' and the title story, about a grieving widower, feeling the onslaught of age, who finds himself attracted to a young birdwatcher no older than his daughter.

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9781582432571 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, December 1, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A Flannery O'Connor Award-winning collection of nine short stories take place in a variety of settings across the United States and feature men who experience passion, challenges to their typically sweet natures, and the folly of bad luck and poor advice.

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Thirty years after his brother goes missing, Coop Henry finds himself unable to let go of his need to discover what happened, and despite the promise of a new relationship, he fears for his mental stability if he is unable to learn the truth. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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9781582432526 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, November 25, 2002), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Thirty years after his brother goes missing, Coop Henry finds himself unable to let go of his need to discover what happened, and despite the promise of a new relationship, he fears for his mental stability if he is unable to learn the truth.

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9780268031626 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $18.95

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9780268031633 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $22.01

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The thirty-year-old secret about what happened to his older brother haunts Coop Henry, but when cracks begin to form in the family's tight facade, he will be forced to confront the truth. 30,000 first printing.
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9781582431529 | Counterpoint, October 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The thirty-year-old secret about what happened to his older brother haunts Coop Henry, but when cracks begin to form in the family's tight facade, he will be forced to confront the truth.

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Product Description: The most inclusive collection of creative nonfiction available, Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Truth is the only anthology that brings together examples of all three of the main forms in the genre: the literary memoir, the personal essay, and literary journalism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Bill Roorbach (editor)
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9780195135565 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 4, 2001, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: The most inclusive collection of creative nonfiction available, Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Truth is the only anthology that brings together examples of all three of the main forms in the genre: the literary memoir, the personal essay, and literary journalism.

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Amazon.com Review: Bill Roorbach is a chatty writer: his instruction is informal, colloquial, abounding in parenthetical remarks and droll asides. But Roorbach (Summers with Juliet) seems able to inspire even the most recalcitrant writers to uncover memories and ideas they didn't know they had and turn them into something the rest of us would want to read...read more
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9781884910364 | Story Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Amazon.

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9781884910470 | Story Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Amazon.

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Product Description: They met in a bar on Marthas Vineyard. Bill was instantly smittenher cool beauty, her insouciance, her sassy youthbut Juliet was unimpressed. Even so, a courtship began, and for the next eight summers, in sublime settings across North America, Bill Roorbach and Juliet Karelsen made circuitous progress toward a lasting love, and finally, marriage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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Hardcover:

9780395573235 | Houghton Mifflin, February 1, 1992, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The author tells how he met, courted, and married his sweetheart, and chronicles the rediscovery of his childhood enchantment with nature

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9780814250525 | Ohio State Univ Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: They met in a bar on Marthas Vineyard.

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