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As a journalist for the Independent, Emma Bamford is swept along with the London rat race, lost among the egos of Fleet Street. Surrounded by budget cuts a...

We All Know The Basics Of Punctuation. Or Do We? A Look At Most Neighborhood Signage Tells A Different Story. Through Sloppy Usage And Low Standards On The ...

Selected by Anne Harvey, an experienced actress, director, writer and adjudicator, these scenes are suitable for performance at auditions, solo acting clas...

These Classic Phonic Stories, Illustrated By Stephen Cartwright, Are Being Fully Updated. The Text Has Been Revised, Puzzles Have Been Added And The Page Co...

Here are the most remarkable stories imaginable of maroons, castaways, and other survivors from the 1500s to the present - their moral dilemmas, their per...

Make your descriptions fresh and they'll move your story forward, imbue your work with atmosphere, create that tang of feeling that editors cry for and read...

Open your spirit. Deepen your writing. Find your personal Truth. With more than 85 exercises engaging ritual, poetry, dreamwork, journaling, visualization,...

READY, SET, WRITE! The friendly characters of The Reading House help young children in preschool learn early writing skills in this colorful, inviting workb...

random House Spanish-english English-spanish Dictionary Reliable, Detailed, And Up-to-date * More Than 60,000 Entries • Two Sections, Spanish-english And ...

Immortalizes Damon Runyon in a biography of the Roaring Twenties journalist who covered the Mexican Revolution, World War I, the Lindbergh kidnapping, sport...

Jack-the-lad, wheeler-dealer, and international playboy (just ask the manageress of El Sid's, Torremolinos, 1978), this was a man destined for greatness. On...

Foreword: Not Just A Pretty Face (or Two) / Keith R.a. Decandido -- Introduction / Supernatural.tv -- We're Not Exactly The Bradys / Tanya Huff -- The Burde...

This trade paperback sized thesaurus is a treasury of word choices in alphabetical arrangement for easy lookups. Contains 150,000 synonyms, related words, ...

The Story Of How Six Men And One Woman Made Maritime History In April 1993, By Sailing The Pacific On A Bamboo Raft To Test The Theory That Asian Sailors Re...

First Published In 1926, A Dictionary Of Modern English Usage Is One Of The Most Celebrated Reference Books Of The Twentieth Century. Commonly Known As 'fow...

Jamaica Kincaid's Among Flowers: A Walk In The Himalaya Is The Classic Travel Memoir About A Master Novelist's Journey To The Himalaya In Search Of Seeds......

“devious, Delicious, And Gasp-worthy.” (kathleen Glasgow, New York Times Bestselling Author Of Girl In Pieces) In This Genre-defying Page-turner From Ly...

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to...

Xiomara Batista Feels Unheard And Unable To Hide In Her Harlem Neighborhood. Ever Since Her Body Grew Into Curves, Xiomara Batista Has Learned To Let Her Fi...

A National Book Award Longlist Title! Fans Of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, And Jason Reynolds Will Fall Hard For This Astonishing New York Times-bestsell...

Here is a family guide to classic novels, contemporary fiction, myths and legends, science fiction and fantasy, folktales, Bible stories, picture books, bi...

This is the legendary travel diary that the twenty-four-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his formative journey through Souther...

Centered around Common Core State Standards, Common Core: Types of Text is designed to help students understand the characteristics of different types of te...

Jehovah's Witness Literature: A Critical Guide to Watchtower Publications.Categories: Reference Writing, Research & Publishing Guides Publishing & B...

In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller Front Row at the White House, the dean of the White House press corps presents a vivid and personal presi...

Do you know how to use semicolons, where to put your apostrophes and when to use commas? Do you know the difference between affect and effect, if and whethe...

The reporter who filed the last dispatch before falling with Custer at his "last stand" against the Sioux.The Honolulu bureau chief who looked up from his ...

In Her Early Thirties, [the Author] Had Everything A Modern American Woman Was Supposed To Want - Husband, Country Home, Successful Career - But Instead Of ...

With a coastline that rivals California’s, Maine attracts millions of visitors each year who come to swim, fish, hike, or just enjoy the views. Many of th...

Hilarious, cringe-inducing stories about teachers, students and parents, from CBC star of Mr. D, one of Canada's hottest comedic talents. Gerry Dee is a ris...

French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North Am...

Over six editions, Essay Essentials with Readings has developed a loyal following because of its reputation for being straightforward and practical, providi...

a Passionate And Inspiring Guide To Creating A Life Built Around The Creative Process. this Groundbreaking New Work From The Bestselling Author Of the A...

A storehouse of rhymes and rhythms for poets—as handy a tool for a writer as a thesaurus. Is your ballad a touch pallid? Is you...

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in ...

The Author Describes What She Has Learned About Teaching, Writing, And Reading Over Twenty-five Years As An English Teacher, Focusing On Her Experiences Aft...

The First Edition Of Garner's Modern American Usage Established Bryan Garner As An American Equivalent Of Fowler (library Journal). With More Than 23,500 Co...

Turn Every Page -- Robert Moses. The City-shaper ; Carbon Footprint ; Sanctum Sanctorum For Writers -- Lyndon Johnson. Lbja ; Why Can't You Do A Biography O...

Following the triumph of thier trip through France to Carcassonne, these two pensioners (and thier whippet, Jim) now cast off in thier narrowboat down the I...

a Story Is A Living Thing. So Begins way Of The Screenwriter, A Book With A Novel, Refreshing Approach To The Long-practiced Art Of Screenwriting. Amnon B...

Promote a "can do" attitude with inspiring activities that help students master that very important writing unit--the paragraph. Busy teachers appreciate th...

A fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, authors of the best-selling 642 Things series. Focus on a single aspect of the craft of writing wi...

From the author of Hostage to Fortune; The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy ("Superb" —Michael Beschloss; "Remarkable" —Arthur Schlesinger), the galvanizin...

Spanning the globe with dozens of top places to go each season, National Geographic's expert travel writers and photographers invite you to experience the w...

Get to know your grandma with your own investigation! This colorful notebook has double the fun. One side includes tons of questions for Grandma (and you!)...

From The #1 New York Times Bestselling World Almanac® Comes A Full-color, Full-of-fun, Oversize Book Packed With Thousands Of Awesome Facts About Science, ...

The pictures that made history as they traveled around the world on their only exhibition tour: more than a hundred masterpieces of modern French painting ...