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Mastering the Process: From Idea to Novel by Elizabeth George

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391257 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391257] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mastering the Process: From Idea to Novel Author: Elizabeth George Narrator: Maggie-Meg Reed, Elizabeth George Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 38 minutes Release date: April 7, 2020 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: As the author of twenty-four novels, Elizabeth George is one of the most successful--and prolific--novelists today. In Mastering the Process, George offers readers a master class in the art and science of crafting a novel. This is a subject she knows well, having taught creative writing both nationally and internationally for over thirty years. 'I have never before read a book about writing that is so thorough, thoughtful, and most of all, helpful.' --Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women For many writers, the biggest challenge is figuring out how to take that earliest glimmer of inspiration and shape it into a full-length novel. How do you even begin to transform a single idea into a complete book? In these pages, award-winning, number one New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George takes us behind the scenes through each step of her writing process, revealing exactly what it takes to craft a novel. Drawing from her personal photos, early notes, character analyses, and rough drafts, George shows us every stage of how she wrote her novel Careless in Red, from researching location to imagining plot to creating characters to the actual writing and revision processes themselves. George offers us an intimate look at the procedures she follows, while also providing invaluable advice for writers about what has worked for her--and what hasn't. Mastering the Process gives writers practical, prescriptive, and achievable tools for creating a novel, editing a novel, and problem solving when in the midst of a novel, from a master storyteller writing at the top of her game. *Includes a PDF of research images, a character prompt sheet, and recommended reading.

In Pursuit of Disobedient Women: A Memoir of Love, Rebellion, and Family, Far Away by Dionne Searcey

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387713 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/387713] to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Pursuit of Disobedient Women: A Memoir of Love, Rebellion, and Family, Far Away Author: Dionne Searcey Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 10, 2020 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: When a reporter for The New York Times uproots her family to move to West Africa, she manages her new role as breadwinner while finding women cleverly navigating extraordinary circumstances in a forgotten place for much of the Western world.   “A story you will not soon forget.”—Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award–winning director of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty In 2015, Dionne Searcey was covering the economy for The New York Times, living in Brooklyn with her husband and three young children. Saddled with the demands of a dual-career household and motherhood in an urban setting, her life was in a rut. She decided to pursue a job as the paper’s West Africa bureau chief, an amazing but daunting opportunity to cover a swath of territory encompassing two dozen countries and 500 million people. Landing with her family in Dakar, Senegal, she quickly found their lives turned upside down as they struggled to figure out their place in this new region, along with a new family dynamic where she was the main breadwinner flying off to work while her husband stayed behind to manage the home front.   In Pursuit of Disobedient Women follows Searcey’s sometimes harrowing, sometimes rollicking experiences of her work in the field, the most powerful of which, for her, center on the extraordinary lives and struggles of the women she encounters. As she tries to get an American audience subsumed by the age of Trump and inspired by a feminist revival to pay attention, she is gone from her family for sometimes weeks at a time, covering stories like Boko Haram–conscripted teen-girl suicide bombers or young women in small villages shaking up social norms by getting out of bad marriages. Ultimately, Searcey returns home to reconcile with skinned knees and school plays that happen without her and a begrudging husband thrown into the role of primary parent.   Life, for Searcey, as with most of us, is a balancing act. She weaves a tapestry of women living at the crossroads of old-fashioned patriarchy and an increasingly globalized and connected world. The result is a deeply personal and highly compelling look into a modern-day marriage and a world most of us have barely considered. Readers will find Searcey’s struggles, both with her family and those of the women she meets along the way, familiar and relatable in this smart and moving memoir.

Society and the Internet, 2nd Edition: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives by Tbd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393358 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/393358] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Society and the Internet, 2nd Edition: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives Author: Tbd Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 19, 2019 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Internet provides key information for students, scholars, and those interested in understanding the interactions of the Internet and society. This multidisciplinary collection of theoretically and empirically anchored chapters addresses the big questions about one of the most significant technological transformations of this century, through a diversity of data, methods, theories, and approaches. Drawing from a range of disciplinary perspectives, Internet research can address core questions about equality, voice, knowledge, participation, and power. By learning from the past and continuing to look toward the future, it can provide a better understanding of what the ever-changing configurations of technology and society mean, both for the everyday life of individuals and for the continued development of society at large.

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391142 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391142] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century Author: Steven Pinker Narrator: Arthur Morey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 28 minutes Release date: October 31, 2019 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In this funny, thoughtful book about the modern art of writing, Steven Pinker shows us why we all need a sense of style. More than ever before, the currency of our social and cultural lives is the written word, from Twitter and texting to blogs, e-readers and old-fashioned books. But most style guides fail to prepare people for the challenges of writing in the 21st century, portraying it as a minefield of grievous errors rather than a form of pleasurable mastery. They fail to deal with an inescapable fact about language: it changes over time, adapted by millions of writers and speakers to their needs. Confusing changes in the world with moral decline, every generation believes the kids today are degrading society and taking language with it. A guide for the new millennium, writes Steven Pinker, has to be different. Drawing on the latest research in linguistics and cognitive science, Steven Pinker replaces the recycled dogma of previous style guides with reason and evidence. This thinking person's guide to good writing shows why style still matters: in communicating effectively, in enhancing the spread of ideas, in earning a reader's trust and, not least, in adding beauty to the world. Eye-opening, mind-expanding and cheerful, The Sense of Style shows that good style is part of what it means to be human. Winner, Plain English Campaign's International Award 2014: 'a superbly and clearly written celebration of the best, least fuzzy kind of writing.' ©2014 Steven Pinker (P)2019 Penguin Audio

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391143 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/391143] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature Author: Steven Pinker Narrator: John Chancer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 29 minutes Release date: October 31, 2019 Genres: Language Instruction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. In The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Steven Pinker looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are. Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions or the divine? Why do some children's names thrive while others fall out of favour? Why do we threaten and bribe and seduce in such elaborate, often comical ways? How can a choice of metaphor damn a politician or start a war? And why do we rarely say what we actually mean? Language, as Steven Pinker shows, is at the heart of our lives, and through the way we use it - whether to inform, persuade, entertain or manipulate - we can glimpse the very essence of what makes us human. ©2008 Steven Pinker (P)2019 Penguin Audio