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1000 Most Important Wordsby Norman SchurISBN 0345298632 (0-345-29863-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: '1000 Most Important Words'Book summary:Based on the contention that we do not utillize speech to its fullest extent, this guide is an essential aide to unlocking our "passive" vocabularies and developing a keener appreciation of the richness of language.
Indispensable For Writers, Speakers, Teachers!
-- Enrich your vocabulary
-- Express yourself clearly -- and beautifully
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20,001 Names for Babyby Carol WallaceISBN 0380762277 (0-380-76227-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,001 Names for Baby'Book summary:Choosing your baby2s name is one of your first and most delightful responsibilities. 20,001 Names for Baby will help you make that all-important choice from one of the most complete, up-to-date alphabetical listings available.
Your decision will be guided by additional information, including:
Origins and meanings of names
Popular nicknames
Names made popular by famous people
Fascinating facts of historical interest
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All Is Vanityby Christina SchwarzISBN 0345439112 (0-345-43911-2)
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American Screenwriters / the Insider's Look at the Art, the Craft, and the Business of Writing Moviesby Karl Schanzer, Thomas Lee WrightISBN 0380767279 (0-380-76727-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Anne Green GablesISBN 0340715006 (0-340-71500-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square Books
Find This BookBook summary:A brother and sister send for a boy to help them on their farm, Green Gables. By mistake they are sent an 11-year-old girl. She picks a fight with anyone who mentions the colour of her hair and causes havoc, but ends up being loved. The author wrote "Anne of Avonlea" and "Anne of Ingleside". [via]
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Anne of Green GablesISBN 0333593359 (0-333-59335-9)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
Find This BookBook summary:When Marilla Cuthbert's brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, "But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl." It's not long, though, before the Cuthberts can't imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables--but not for the original reasons they sought an orphan. Somewhere between the time Anne "confesses" to losing Marilla's amethyst pin (which she never took) in hopes of being allowed to go to a picnic, and when Anne accidentally dyes her hated carrot-red hair green, Marilla says to Matthew, "One thing's for certain, no house that Anne's in will ever be dull." And no book that she's in will be, either. This adapted version of the classic, Anne of Green Gables, introduces younger readers to the irrepressible heroine of L.M. Montgomery's many stories. Adapter M.C. Helldorfer includes only a few of Anne's mirthful and poignant adventures, yet manages to capture the freshness of one of children's literature's spunkiest, most beloved characters. There's just enough to make beginning readers want more--luckily, there's a lot more in the originals! Illustrator Ellen Beier creates vibrant pictures to portray the beauty of the land around Green Gables and the spirited nature of Anne herself. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Approaches to Writingby Paul HorganISBN 0374105693 (0-374-10569-3)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Art Of The Short Storyby Not Available, R. S. GwynnISBN 0321337220 (0-321-33722-0)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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The Art of the Short Storyby R.S. Gwynn, Dana GioiaISBN 0321363639 (0-321-36363-9)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of the Short Story'Book summary:This affordably-priced collection presents masterpieces of short fiction from 52 of the greatest story writers of all time. From Sherwood Anderson to Virginia Woolf, this anthology encompasses a rich global and historical mix of the very best works of short fiction and presents them in a way students will find accessible, engaging, and relevant. The book's unique integration of biographical and critical background gives students a more intimate understanding of the works and their authors. [via]
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The Art of Travelby Alain De BottonISBN 0375725342 (0-375-72534-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Travel'Book summary:Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so. In The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton, author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, explores what the point of travel might be and modestly suggets how we can learn to be a little happier in our travels. [via]
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Asimov on Science Fictionby Isaac AsimovISBN 0380585111 (0-380-58511-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Asimov on Science Fiction'Book summary:What was it like being one of the few struggling science fiction writers in the 30's? Who wrote the first true science fiction? What's the difference between sf and Sci-fi? Who, more than anyone else, changed and developed science fiction? How is Russian science fiction different from American science fiction? Why should you reread 1984? Who should be considered the Dean of Science Fiction? From Frankenstein to Heinlein to "Star Trek," Isaac Asimov knows everybody and everything in science fiction. And now he reveals the thoughts of a lifetime on the subject: from sf conventions to "Close Encounters," from writers to readers, from personalities to predictions of the future. Here are critiques, tips, anecdotes, information, and observations of every kind - a treasure trove for sf fans. [via]
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Behind The Short Story: From First To Final Draftby Ryan Van Cleave, Ryan G. Van Cleave, Todd James PierceISBN 0321117247 (0-321-11724-7)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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The Book Thiefby Markus ZusakISBN 0375831002 (0-375-83100-2)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book Thief'Book summary:Its just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusaks groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she cant resistbooks. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
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Breakfast of Championsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385283644 (0-385-28364-4)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast of Champions'Book summary:"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
Breaking the Rules: Liberating Writers Through Innovative Grammar Instructionby Ed SchusterISBN 0325004781 (0-325-00478-1)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Bridget Jones's Diaryby Helen FieldingISBN 0330332767 (0-330-33276-7)
Hardcover, Picador
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridget Jones's Diary'Book summary:In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year's resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent.
At the beginning of Helen Fielding's exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she'll have made a good start. As far as she's concerned, "We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, 'How's your marriage going? Still having sex?'"
This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people's "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones's Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don't sound half as sensible to Bridget when she's sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it's impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Capote : A Biographyby Gerald ClarkeISBN 0345360788 (0-345-36078-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capote : A Biography'Book summary:From instant celebrity at age 23 to overweight, alcoholic loner in his 50s, Truman Capote streaked across the middle of this century on a comet of genius, self-destruction, and fame. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with Capote and with nearly everyone who knew him, and with exclusive access to personal papers, Gerald Clarke has written the definitive biography of an incomparable man and his time.
"Extraordinary . . . Rich in intelligence and compassion . . . One can't put the book down. Few literary biographies in recent memory have been so vivid and absorbing." -- Bruce Bawer, The Wall Street Journal [via]More editions of Capote : A Biography:
Conferences; Conversations: Listening to the Literate Classroomby Douglas KaufmanISBN 0325002711 (0-325-00271-1)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: I & Eyeby B. Minh Nguyen, Porter ShreveISBN 0321198174 (0-321-19817-4)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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The Courage for Truth: The Letters of Thomas Merton to Writersby Thomas Merton, Christine M. BochenISBN 0374130558 (0-374-13055-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Crafting Authentic Voiceby Tom RomanoISBN 0325005974 (0-325-00597-4)
Softcover, Heinemann
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The Curious Researcher: A Guide to Writing Research Papersby Bruce BallengerISBN 0321175212 (0-321-17521-2)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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The Dancing Mind: Speech upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the Sixth of November, Nineteenby Toni MorrisonISBN 037540032X (0-375-40032-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Daphne's Bookby Mary Downing HahnISBN 0380723557 (0-380-72355-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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A Dictionary of Literary Termsby J.A. CuddonISBN 0385127138 (0-385-12713-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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Dreaming by the Bookby Elaine ScarryISBN 0374143986 (0-374-14398-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Eyre Affairby Jasper FfordeISBN 0340820470 (0-340-82047-0)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eyre Affair'Book summary:The first of Fforde's superior literary mysteries featuring Thursday Next and set in a strange, parallel 1985 where you can make a dodo from a home-cloning kit and the arch-villain hijacks beloved characters from the citizenry's favorite books. Author's first novel. [via]
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For Argument's Sake : A Guide to Writing Effective Argumentsby Katherine J. MayberryISBN 0321245091 (0-321-24509-1)
Softcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For Argument's Sake : A Guide to Writing Effective Arguments'Book summary:This concise, student-friendly rhetoric provides clear, highly practical advice for writing arguments, including the four most common types: factual, causal, evaluation, and recommendation. Structured around the three main phases of writing focusing, supporting, and reviewing, For Argument's Sake helps readers find and focus a claim, identify an audience, work through the support process, and then refine and polish their argument. Numerous sample arguments illustrate the principles and strategies including several pieces written by students. Ideal for individuals looking for a short text offering practical advice on how to write persuasive arguments. [via]
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Games for Writing: Playful Ways to Help Your Child Learn to Writeby Peggy KayeISBN 0374524270 (0-374-52427-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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A Girl from Yamhillby Beverly ClearyISBN 0380727404 (0-380-72740-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Guide to Rapid Revisionby Daniel D. Pearlman, Paula R. Pearlman, Edward Steven ShearISBN 0321107578 (0-321-10757-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guide to Rapid Revision'Book summary:This new edition retains the hallmarks of its predecessors: brevity, accessibility, and practicality at an economical price. The Guide to Rapid Revision gives students immediate answers to specific problems, offers sufficient information to solve them, and does so with extreme brevity and clarity. With a table of correction symbols that doubles as a table of contents, and extensive cross-referencing, students can easily find answers to specific problems or grammatical queries. Instructors can use the added, topically organized table of contents as an aid to focusing on certain topics such as punctuation during the semester. The book is alphabetized according to common correction symbols, setting it apart from all other handbooks that are designed to help students in revising. [via]
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The Hours: A Novelby Michael CunninghamISBN 0374172897 (0-374-17289-7)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hours: A Novel'Book summary:The Hours is both an homage to Virginia Woolf and very much its own creature. Even as Michael Cunningham brings his literary idol back to life, he intertwines her story with those of two more contemporary women. One gray suburban London morning in 1923, Woolf awakens from a dream that will soon lead to Mrs. Dalloway. In the present, on a beautiful June day in Greenwich Village, 52-year-old Clarissa Vaughan is planning a party for her oldest love, a poet dying of AIDS. And in Los Angeles in 1949, Laura Brown, pregnant and unsettled, does her best to prepare for her husband's birthday, but can't seem to stop reading Woolf. These women's lives are linked both by the 1925 novel and by the few precious moments of possibility each keeps returning to. Clarissa is to eventually realize:
There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined.... Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more.
As Cunningham moves between the three women, his transitions are seamless. One early chapter ends with Woolf picking up her pen and composing her first sentence, "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." The next begins with Laura rejoicing over that line and the fictional universe she is about to enter. Clarissa's day, on the other hand, is a mirror of Mrs. Dalloway's--with, however, an appropriate degree of modern beveling as Cunningham updates and elaborates his source of inspiration. Clarissa knows that her desire to give her friend the perfect party may seem trivial to many. Yet it seems better to her than shutting down in the face of disaster and despair. Like its literary inspiration, The Hours is a hymn to consciousness and the beauties and losses it perceives. It is also a reminder that, as Cunningham again and again makes us realize, art belongs to far more than just "the world of objects." --Kerry Fried [via]More editions of The Hours: A Novel:
How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for Youby Ralph FletcherISBN 038079702X (0-380-79702-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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How's It Going?: A Practical Guide to Conferring With Student Writersby Carl AndersonISBN 032500224X (0-325-00224-X)
Softcover, Heinemann
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I Stand Corrected: More on Languageby William SafireISBN 0380700492 (0-380-70049-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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A Is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United Statesby Jill LeporeISBN 0375704086 (0-375-70408-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Libby on Wednesdayby Zilpha Keatley SnyderISBN 0385299796 (0-385-29979-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Literary Journalistsby Norman Sims, Mark KramerISBN 0345382226 (0-345-38222-6)
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Literary Terms: A Dictionaryby Karl BecksonISBN 0374512256 (0-374-51225-6)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Literary Womenby Ellen MoersISBN 0385074271 (0-385-07427-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Little Womenby Louisa May Alcott, Susan CheeverISBN 0375756728 (0-375-75672-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Women'Book summary:It is no surprise that Little Women, the adored classic of four sisters and their enduring devotion to and protection of one another, was loosely based on Louisa May Alcott's own life. Alcott drew from her own personality to create a unique protagonist: Jo, willful, headstrong, and undoubtedly the backbone of the March family, is a heroine unlike any seen before. Follow the sisters from innocent adolescence to sage adulthood, with all the joy and sorrow of life in between, and fall in love with them and this endearing story.
Praised by Madeleine Stern as "a book on the American home, and hence universal in its appeal," Little Women has been an avidly read, and reread, tale for generations. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes newly written notes that offer more description and insight than those of previous editions. [via]More editions of Little Women:
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The Little, Brown Essential Handbook for Writers: Includes 2003 Mla Updatesby Jane E. AaronISBN 0321202570 (0-321-20257-0)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Little, Brown Essential Handbook for Writers: Includes 2003 Mla Updates'Book summary:Brief, accessible, and inexpensive, The Little Brown Essential Handbook for Writers, Fourth Edition, answers common and not-so-common questions about the writing process, usage, grammar, punctuation, mechanics, document design, research writing, and documentation. Minimal terminology, clear explanations and examples, and pointers for ESL writers help students at all levels. Extensive sections on document design and source documentation support writers in all disciplines, both in and out of school. The convenient pocket size, four-color design, spiral binding, and numerous reference aids make the book convenient to carry and easy to consult. [via]
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The Long Secretby Louise FitzhughISBN 0385327846 (0-385-32784-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Long Secret'Book summary:Harriet the Spy refuses to become ruffled when an unidentified person starts leaving disturbing notes all over the quiet little beach town of Water Mill. Shes determined to discover the author of the notes. And she drags her friend, mousy Beth Ellen, into all kinds of odd and embarrassing situations in her efforts to reveal the culprit. Observing in her own special, caustic way with her ever-present notebook, Harriet the Spy is on the case. But will she be ready to face the truth when she finds it? [via]
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The Longman Pocket Writer's Companionby Robert A. Schwegler, Marcia F. Muth, Christopher M. AnsonISBN 0321288262 (0-321-28826-2)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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The Longman Writer's Companion: With Mycomplabby Robert A. Schwegler, Marcia F. Muth, AnsonISBN 0321233042 (0-321-23304-2)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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The Lost Road and Other Writings: Language and Legend before The Lord of the Ringsby J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher TolkienISBN 0345406850 (0-345-40685-0)
Softcover, Del Rey
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Edited by Christopher Tolkien
INKLINGS OF GREATNESS . . .
J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis were friends and fellow members of the literary circle known as The Inklings. It is hardly surprising that, at one point, these talented gentlemen embarked on a challenge: Lewis was to write on "space-travel" and Tolkien on "time-travel."
Lewis' novel, Out of the Silent Planet, became the first book of a science fiction trilogy. Tolkien's unfinished story, The Lost Road, chronicles the original destruction of Númenor, a pivotal event of the Second Age of Middle-earth.
In this fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth, Christopher Tolkien brings Middle-earth to its state at the writing of The Lord of the Rings. Entertaining and informative, THE LOST ROAD AND OTHER WRITINGS offers fresh insights into the evolution of one of the world's most enduring fantasies. [via]More editions of The Lost Road and Other Writings: Language and Legend before The Lord of the Rings:
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The Masterby Colm ToibinISBN 0330485652 (0-330-48565-2)
Hardcover, Picador
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Monster: Living Off the Big Screenby John Gregory DunneISBN 037575024X (0-375-75024-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Muggie Maggieby Beverly ClearyISBN 0380710870 (0-380-71087-0)
Softcover, Camelot
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The New Comprehensive American Rhyming Dictionaryby Sue YoungISBN 0380713926 (0-380-71392-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Comprehensive American Rhyming Dictionary'Book summary:An essential tool for writers, poets, punsters, lyricists, wits, and language lovers everywhere! THE NEW COMPREHENSIVE AMERICAN RHYMING DICTIONARY is, by far, the sassiest, most fun, complete andup-to-date book of its kind on the market. This remarkablecompendium contains over 65,000 words, phrases, andcolloquialisms--a gold mine of rhyme certain to aid anddelight everyone who works with language, from the amateurpoet to the professional wordsmith. [via]- Why rhyme "moon" with "June"...when you can use "Brigadoon", "Daniel Boone", or "picayune" instead?
- A cornucopia of rhymes for exasperating, difficult-to-match words...such as "system", "hemophilia", and "Khrushchev".
- Easy-to-use and read, with entries arranged by sound rather than spelling.
- Authoritative and up-to-the-minute...including the latest in slang, idioms and buzz words.
Whether you're a composer searching for the perfect songlyric or a wit who revels in constructing limericks, here isyour key to a bold new world of creative cleverness-an idealreference book for the Cole Porter in all of us!
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Our Town: A Play in Three Actsby Thornton Niven WilderISBN 0380005573 (0-380-00557-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Oxford American Dictionaryby Eugene H. EhrlichISBN 0380607727 (0-380-60772-7)
Softcover, Avon Books
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Publishing A Blog With Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guideby Elizabeth CastroISBN 0321321235 (0-321-32123-5)
Softcover, Peachpit Pr
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Writing in a journal is all well and good, but when you're ready to share your musings with the world (and you think the world is ready to receive them!), a blog is the way to go. For just $12.99, this compact guide shows you how! Using big, bold full-color pictures and streamlined instructions, it covers just the need-to-know essentials that will get you blogging with leading free blog software--Googles Blogger--in a matter of minutes. Best-selling author Elizabeth Castro takes you through each step of the blogging process--from acquainting you with the interface to setting up your blog, creating your profile, posting email, adding pictures and audio, and more. Occasional sidebars and tips point out other useful blogging tips and tricks.More editions of Publishing A Blog With Blogger: Visual QuickProject Guide:
Random House Webster's Build Your Power Vocabularyby Random House StaffISBN 0375702474 (0-375-70247-4)
Softcover, Random House Information Group
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Reading Culture: Contexts for Critical Reading And Writingby Diana George, John TrimburISBN 0321391691 (0-321-39169-1)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Culture: Contexts for Critical Reading And Writing'Book summary:Acclaimed for its compelling readings and provocative images, Reading Culture provides students with outstanding instruction on how to read and write critically about the culture that surrounds them.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Booksby Azar NafisiISBN 0375504907 (0-375-50490-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books'Book summary:An inspired blend of memoir and literary criticism, Reading Lolita in Tehran is a moving testament to the power of art and its ability to change and improve people's lives. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran due to repressive policies, Azar Nafisi invited seven of her best female students to attend a weekly study of great Western literature in her home. Since the books they read were officially banned by the government, the women were forced to meet in secret, often sharing photocopied pages of the illegal novels. For two years they met to talk, share, and "shed their mandatory veils and robes and burst into color." Though most of the women were shy and intimidated at first, they soon became emboldened by the forum and used the meetings as a springboard for debating the social, cultural, and political realities of living under strict Islamic rule. They discussed their harassment at the hands of "morality guards," the daily indignities of living under the Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, the effects of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, love, marriage, and life in general, giving readers a rare inside look at revolutionary Iran. The books were always the primary focus, however, and they became "essential to our lives: they were not a luxury but a necessity," she writes.
Threaded into the memoir are trenchant discussions of the work of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and other authors who provided the women with examples of those who successfully asserted their autonomy despite great odds. The great works encouraged them to strike out against authoritarianism and repression in their own ways, both large and small: "There, in that living room, we rediscovered that we were also living, breathing human beings; and no matter how repressive the state became, no matter how intimidated and frightened we were, like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom," she writes. In short, the art helped them to survive. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Rereadingsby Anne FadimanISBN 0374530548 (0-374-53054-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rereadings'Book summary:Is a book the same book-or a reader the same reader-the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never.[via]
The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris (FSG, 1998) will find this volume especially satisfying. Her chosen authors include Sven Birkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante; the objects of their literary affections range from Pride and Prejudice to Sue Barton, Student Nurse. Each has selected a book or a story or a poem--or even, in one case, the lyrics on the back of the Sgt. Pepper album--that made a deep impression in his or her youth, and reread it to see how it has changed in the interim. (Of course, what has really changed is the reader.)
These essays are not conventional literary criticism; they are about relationships. The relationship between reader and book is a powerful one, and as these writers attest, it evolves over time. Rereadings reveals at least as much about the reader as about the book: each is a miniature memoir that focuses on that most interesting of topics, the protean nature of love. And as every bibliophile knows, no love is more life-changing than the love of a book.
Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Workby Philip RothISBN 0375714138 (0-375-71413-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Short Guide to Writing About Biologyby Jan A. PechenikISBN 0321159810 (0-321-15981-0)
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The Simple Art of Murderby Raymond ChandlerISBN 0345349377 (0-345-34937-7)
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Student's Book of College English: Rhetoric, Readings, Handbookby David Skwire, Harvey S. WienerISBN 0321217144 (0-321-21714-4)
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The Summer of the Great-Grandmotherby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0374271747 (0-374-27174-7)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readingsby Diana C. ReepISBN 0321333500 (0-321-33350-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, And Readings'Book summary:Technical Writing: Principles, Strategies, and Readings offers a flexible combination of instructional chapters and readings that reflect the variety of emphases in today's technical writing classroom. The fifteen instructional chapters offer a general introduction to technical communication, while 24 articles from professional journals and Web sites--which constitute about one-fourth of the text--offer insight and advice on specific communication topics, including writing for the Web. Strategy Boxes in each chapter also introduce students to important subjects related to technical communication, such as voice mail and videoconferencing. Each concise and self-contained instructional unit includes extended models and exercises which can be used in class or for collaborative or homework assignments. Students who study technical writing as part of their career preparation in science, business, engineering, social services, and technical fields will find this text particularly useful. [via]
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The Trouble with Tribblesby David GerroldISBN 0345347889 (0-345-34788-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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A True And Faithful Narrativeby Katherine SturtevantISBN 0374378096 (0-374-37809-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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True Stories: A Guide for Writing from Your Lifeby Rebecca Rule, Susan WheelerISBN 0325000468 (0-325-00046-8)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Ulyssesby James Joyce, Danis RoseISBN 033035230X (0-330-35230-X)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ulysses'Book summary:Ulysses has been labeled dirty, blasphemous, and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book--although he found it sufficiently unobscene to allow its importation into the United States--and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession." None of these adjectives, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in a close-focus sort of way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language.
Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Walden; Or, Life in the Woodsby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0385095031 (0-385-09503-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Weather of Wordsby Mark StrandISBN 0375709703 (0-375-70970-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Weather of Words'Book summary:From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a brilliant and witty collection of writings on the art and nature of poetry -- a master class both entertaining and provocative.
The pieces have a broad range and many levels. In one, we sit with the teenage Mark Strand while he reads for the first time a poem that truly amazes him: "You, Andrew Marvell" by Archibald MacLeish, in which night sweeps in an unstoppable but exhilarating circle around the earth toward the speaker standing at noon. The essay goes on to explicate the poem, but it also evokes, through its form and content, the poem's meaning -- time's circular passage -- with the young Strand first happening upon the poem, the older Strand seeing into it differently, but still amazed.
Among the other subjects Strand explores: the relationship between photographs and poems, the eternal nature of the lyric, the contemporary use of old forms, four American views of Parnassus, and an alphabet of poetic influences.
We visit as well Strandian parallel universes, whose absurdity illuminates the lack of a vital discussion of poetry in our culture at large: Borges drops in on a man taking a bath, perches on the edge of the tub, and discusses translation; a president explains in his farewell address why he reads Chekhov to his cabinet.
Throughout The Weather of Words, Mark Strand explores the crucial job of poets and their readers, who together joyfully attempt the impossible -- to understand through language that which lies beyond words.
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The Weather of Words : Poetic Inventionby Mark StrandISBN 0375409114 (0-375-40911-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary of the English Languageby Random HouseISBN 0375425764 (0-375-42576-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Well of Lost Plotsby Jasper FfordeISBN 0340825928 (0-340-82592-8)
Softcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Well of Lost Plots'Book summary:Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in 'Mill on the Floss' - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it ...With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'. In the words of one critic: 'Don't ask. Just read it.' [via]
What Do I Do Monday?by John HoltISBN 0385291574 (0-385-29157-4)
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Wild About Booksby Judy Sierra, Marc Tolon BrownISBN 037582538X (0-375-82538-X)
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William Safire on Languageby William SafireISBN 0380564572 (0-380-56457-2)
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Word Smart: Building an Educated Vocabularyby Adam Robinson, Princeton ReviewISBN 0375762183 (0-375-76218-3)
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Write to Discover Yourselfby Ruth VaughnISBN 0385159129 (0-385-15912-9)
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Writing Through Childhood: Rethinking Process and Productby Shelley HarwayneISBN 0325002908 (0-325-00290-8)
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The Zen Of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Lifeby John Daido LooriISBN 0345466330 (0-345-46633-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Zen Of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life'Book summary:For many of us, the return of Zen conjures up images of rock gardens and gently flowing waterfalls. We think of mindfulness and meditation, immersion in a state of being where meaning is found through simplicity. Zen lore has been absorbed by Western practitioners and pop culture alike, yet there is a specific area of this ancient tradition that hasnt been fully explored in the West. Now, in The Zen of Creativity, American Zen master John Daido Loori presents a book that taps the principles of the Zen arts and aesthetic as a means to unlock creativity and find freedom in the various dimensions of our existence. Loori dissolves the barriers between art and spirituality, opening up the possibility of meeting life with spontaneity, grace, and peace.
Zen Buddhism is steeped in the arts. In spiritual ways, calligraphy, poetry, painting, the tea ceremony, and flower arranging can point us toward our essential, boundless nature. Brilliantly interpreting the teachings of the artless arts, Loori illuminates various elements that awaken our creativity, among them still point, the center of each moment that focuses on the tranquility within; simplicity, in which the creative process is uncluttered and unlimited, like a cloudless sky; spontaneity, a way to navigate through life without preconceptions, with a freshness in which everything becomes new; mystery, a sense of trust in the unknown; creative feedback, the systematic use of an audience to receive noncritical input about our art; art koans, exercises based on paradoxical questions that can be resolved only through artistic expression. Loori shows how these elements interpenetrate and function not only in art, but in all our endeavors.
Beautifully illustrated and punctuated with poems and reflections from Looris own spiritual journey, The Zen of Creativity presents a multilayered, bottomless source of insight into our creativity. Appealing equally to spiritual seekers, artists, and veteran Buddhist practitioners, this book is perfect for those wishing to discover new means of self-awareness and expressionand to restore equanimity and freedom amid the vicissitudes of our lives. [via]More editions of The Zen Of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life:
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