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Join David and Leigh Eddings on a fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of the extensive background materials they compiled before beginning the masterpiece of...

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 ...

Describes Travel Experiences In Vanuatu And Fiji, Which Include Coping With Mother Nature--typhoons, Earthquakes, Volcanoes--and Observing The Relaxed Lifes...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocativ...

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...

Flirtin' with the Monster pulls back the curtain on Ellen Hopkins' smart and daring books Crank and Glass and explores their appeal and originality through ...

Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our premier chr...

The Controversial Conservative Radio Personality Presents A Collection Of His Observations On The Clinton Administration, Liberals, And Other TopicsCategori...

The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. The Barnes &am...

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Eleven Powerful Pieces First Published In The New Yorker Recall The Path Terror In The Middle East Has Taken From A More Peaceful Time In 1990s Israel To Th...

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...

Part 1. Introduction. Lessons From The Past : Science And Christian Faith -- Levels Of Explanation -- Should There Be A Christian Psychology? -- Part 2. Bio...

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 ...

In 2002 Lynne Truss presented Cutting a Dash, a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation, which led to the writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. ...

An Exhilarating, Anti-colonial Reclamation Of Nature Writing And Memoir, Rooted In The Forests And Flatlands Of Taiwan From The Winner Of The Rbc Taylor Pri...

Cursive Handwriting Practice Workbook For 3rd 4th 5th Graders -this Cursive Practice Workbook Is Essential For Beginners With Uppercase And Lowercase Letter...

the Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need Is The Ideal Resource For Everyone Who Wants To Produce Writing That Is Clear, Concise, And Grammatically Excellent....

In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, the celebrated bard of Tuscany (New York Times) lyrically chronic...

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, ...

Just in case you want to exercise your inner Gauguin, Troost here presents about a hundred reasons why you should stay in the 'burbs. He spent two years on...

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...

What if everything we've been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron, award-winning author of such national bestse...

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...

imagine That All Fantasy Novels--the Ones Featuring Dragons, Knights, Wizards, And Magic--are Set In The Same Place. That Place Is Called Fantasyland. the ...

a Shimmering Evocation, By Turns Intimate And Panoramic, Of One Of The World’s Great Cities, By Its Foremost Writer. Orhan Pamuk Was Born In Istanbul And S...

A Lot Of Plays Are Bad. And One Bad Play, It Seems, Can Turn Us Off Theater For Good. So, What Can We Learn From The Bad Play? Jordan Tannahill, After Talki...

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...

this Book Is Not Intended To Persuade You To Take Up Writing Novels Or Short Stories – “it’s Going To Be A Lot Of Work,” Jack Hodgins Warns. Nor Will It T...

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...