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Rebel without a crew; or, How a 23-year-old filmmaker with $7,000 became a Hollywood player

1995
Texas filmmaker Robert Rodriguez shares the story of how he completed the feature film "El Mariachi" with one camera, no crew, and a mere seven-thousand-dollar budget.

Educating Esm?

diary of a teacher's first year
2001
Presents the diary of teacher Esm? Raji Codell's first year in charge of a fifth-grade classroom in an inner-city public school.

One man's wilderness

an Alaskan odyssey
1999
The author chronicles his experiences living in the wilderness of Alaska and recounts his day-to-day activities of building a log cabin and making what he needed from materials around him.

More readings from One man's wilderness

the journals of Richard L. Proenneke
2012
Diary entries chronicle Richard L. Proenneke's life living in the wilderness of Twin Lakes, Alaska from 1974 through 1980.

Traveling with Che Guevara

the making of a revolutionary
2004
Presents the diaries of Albert Granado describing his motorcycle journeys through South American in 1952 with Ernesto Guevara, later to be known as Che Guevara, and includes archival photographs and timeline.

The diary of Elizabeth Bacon Custer

on the plains with General Custer
2004
Presents the diary of the wife of General George Armstrong Custer, focusing on their life on the Great Plains from 1873 to 1876, when Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were clearing the way for the Northern Pacific Railroad and battling Native Americans.

No words to say goodbye

a young Jewish woman's journey from the Soviet Union into America--the extraordinary diaries of Raimonda Kopelnitsky
1994
Inspired by the diaries of Anne Frank, Raimonda records her journey to America via Europe with her family. Presents the transition from the nightmarish world of Soviet Russia to her bewilderments, challenges, and achievments in America.

A Maryland bride in the Deep South

the Civil War diary of Priscilla Bond
2006
Presents the diary of Priscilla Bond, a young woman who left the genteel Protestant seaboard culture of Chesapeake Bay and moved to a frontier plantation in south Louisiana with her husband in 1865, and witnessed the brutality of the Civil War.

You can never find a rickshaw when it monsoons

the world on one cartoon a day
2006
A collection of single panel comics that the author/illustrator used to record his daily impressions of places he visited while on a year-long journey around the world following his college graduation. Annotated by the author.

Journals

2002
Presents thoughts, lyrics, drawings, and letters that filled Nirvana singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain's notebooks from the late 1980s to his death in 1994.

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