Books like Method and madness by Alice LaPlante

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

On Writing blends Stephen King’s memoir with practical guidance, offering a personal look at his path to success and essential lessons for aspiring writers.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

Gavin Guile, the powerful Prism who governs as high priest and emperor, must complete five impossible goals in five years while concealing a son’s existence that threatens the fragile peace of his world.

A devoted dog reflects on life, love, and racing while watching his owner, a race car driver, navigate family trials and professional ambition.

A practical, humorous guide to writing, Anne Lamott shares her insights, anecdotes and advice on how to tackle any writing project bird by bird, step by step.

When a mysterious psychic arrives in 1969 Lower East Side, New York, four siblings learn the day they will die, setting off a life‑long quest that tests fate, choice, family and the search for meaning.

Steering the Craft offers practical guidance on fundamental elements of narrative prose, including point of view, sentence structure, syntax, indirect narration, grammar, punctuation, and the musicality of writing.

A collection of Arthur Quiller‑Couch’s 1913‑14 Cambridge lectures on writing, covering rhetoric, style, and the nature of verse and prose.

When Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara becomes entangled in the mysterious past of ex‑pilot Ricardo Laverde, a series of murders, drug trafficking and a relentless pursuit of truth thrust him into a world of danger and obsession.

A concise, step‑by‑step handbook that guides students through the process of writing about literature, blending critical thinking with practical research and paper‑writing strategies for fiction, drama, and poetry.

Write to the Point teaches readers how to combine strict rules of grammar and punctuation with instinctive, context‑aware writing, empowering them to craft clear, persuasive prose for essays, cover letters, emails and texts.

A concise guide for everyday speakers and writers, offering practical rules and common pitfalls to help readers communicate correctly in everyday language.

"All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator, but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth.". "How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the reliable narrator who will tell the story that needs to be told? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks, and answers. Using some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Vivian Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, and Oscar Wilde.". "This book, which grew out of fifteen years of teaching in M.F.A. programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own."--BOOK JACKET.

A practical guide that distills 15 years of teaching into exercises and examples, taking writers from the spark of an idea through to polished manuscripts.