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Defining Moments in Books: The Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events That Shook the Literary World by Lucy Daniel Publisher Comments Written and selected by a range of international writers, academics, and critics, heres an instantly accessible and intelligent look at literary history and criticism over the past century. From key novels to memorable protagonists, admired authors to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Bartlett's Words to Live by: Advice and Inspiration for Everyday Life by John Bartlett Publisher Comments For 150 years people have looked to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations for wisdom, inspiration, and pure fun. Here now is an elegant new collection of the best advice ever given, inspiring words from the world's wisest men and women. There is no cure for... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Naked, Drunk, and Writing: Shed Your Inhibitions and Craft a Compelling Memoir or Personal Essay by Adair Lara Publisher Comments The material is right there in front of you. You’ve known yourself for, well, a lifetime—and you finally feel ready to share your story with the world. Yet when it actually comes time to put pen to paper, you find that you’re stumped. &#... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! Enter If You Dare! by Ripleys Publisher Comments A compendium of incredible bizarre facts, stories, interviews and features, this year’s book also offers access to a fully-integrated website featuring astounding clips, and two 8-page pull out gatefold sections, one featuring vampires.... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing by Roger Rosenblatt Publisher Comments For more than forty years, distinguished author Roger Rosenblatt has also been a teacher of writing, guiding students with the same intelligence and generosity he brings to the page, answering the difficult questions about what makes a story good, an... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It . . . Successfully (Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How to Write) by Arielle Eckstut Publisher Comments The best, most comprehensive book for writers is now completely revised and updated to address ongoing changes in publishing. Published in 2005 as Putting Your Passion Into Print, this is the book that"s been praised by both industry professionals... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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True to the Letter: 800 Years of Remarkable Correspondence, Documents and Autographs by Pedro Correa Lago Publisher Comments The interest in rare letters and autographs has never been stronger "True to the Letter gives privileged insight into the private lives and minds of one hundred of the most significant figures in the worlds of literature, art and politics. This... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $8.97 Sale - Hardcover
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New Oxford American Dictionary 2ND Edition by Oxford Univ Publisher Comments Produced by Oxford's American Dictionaries Program, and drawing on the expertise of scores of American scholars and advisors, The New Oxford American Dictionary sets the standard of excellence for lexicography in this country. Here is the most accurate... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Bette by Leigh Phillips Publisher Comments Ladies: Are you sick of sitting on the bench while the men in your life talk Fantasy Football? Have you always wanted to know how to kick down a door? Build a fire? For any gal who's ready to go head-to-head with the guys on their own turf this book is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (Art Of...) by Dean Young Publisher Comments In Dean Youngs sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into art, and how can it excite in us a... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick Publisher Comments A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love 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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Star-Spangled Manners: In Wich Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (For a Change) by Judith Martin Publisher Comments American manners—a contradiction in terms? Not so,says the doyenne of etiquette, in this rendering of the revolutionary drama of our home-grown customs. Driven by our dreams of equality for all and stardom for each, we Americans have always been... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Merriam-Webster's Crossword Puzzle Dictionary by Websters Publisher Comments New edition! Created especially for crossword puzzle lovers. 350,000 answer words, including 50,000 new entries. Organized alphabetically and by number of letters. Newly formatted for greater legibility and ease of use, with comprehensive coverage of... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $1.98 Sale - Mass Market
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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Publisher Comments Virginia Woolf's landmark inquiry into women's role in society In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister—a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver Staff Pick I bought A Poetry Handbook when I entered my first poetry-writing class as an undergrad. My professor was a notorious curmudgeon who didn't spare anyone's feelings and expected each progressive class in the term "to separate the sheep from the goats." I... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Speak and Grow Rich, Revised and Expanded by Dottie Walters Publisher Comments The "bible" of the professional speaking industry, including ideas on how to pick strong topics for speeches, guidelines for setting fees, how to book oneself, and more. Sample worksheets and agreements to customize are also included.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation by Oxford Publisher Comments Fully revised and updated, the third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying & Quotation adds proverbs and sayings from across the world to memorable phrases and quotations from across the centuries. This rich collection is arranged under a... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Cartoon Guide to Physics by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments Anyone who thinks a negative charge is something that shows up on your credit card bill-or imagines that Ohm's Law dictates how long to meditate-or believes that Newtonian mechanics will fix your car-needs The Cartoon Guide to Physics. This handy... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Li: Dynamic Form in Nature (Wooden Books) by David Wade Publisher Comments David Wade has spent a lifetime gathering and organizing the extraordinary families of surface patterns that nature throws up at every scale. The study of these shapes—a subject virtually unknown in the West—was known in ancient China as Li and... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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