Product Description: Write vibrant scenes and essential summaries"Show—don't tell." How many times have you heard this standard bit of writing advice? It's so common in writing courses and critiques that it has become a cliche. Writers are often told to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary—but it's misguided advice...read more

'Documents the author's experiences in the Soviet Union in an American Field Service exchange program during the last years of the Cold War. Looks at the lives of ordinary Russians and the difficulties of American/Soviet relations'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: In 1969 Kim Janik was a young man shining with promise—handsome, brilliant, studying at Harvard on a physics scholarship—and he was in love with Laurie Alberts, a troubled teenager from a wealthy Boston suburb. Twenty-five years later, when Kim’s naked and decomposing body was discovered on the Wyoming prairie, one photograph—that of the Harvard junior and the seventeen-year-old—was found in his abandoned car...read more

Haunted by the memory of the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years earlier, Allie Heller decides to search for her daughter, only to discover a shocking deception

Product Description: A rich, multigenerational novel narrates a Vermont family's saga of suffering and survival, of loyalty to the land and escape from it.

Product Description: In this fiction anthology, Laurie Albert explores the lives of a wide range of characters seeking to reinvent themselves in an effort to escape the past, or at least to understand it.

Allie Heller moves to the fishing village of Vladimir, Alaska in hopes of starting a new life