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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.) by Francine Prose Staff Pick Reading Like a Writer is a treasure chest. You can crack it open at any chapter and come away enriched. Prose is one of the best teachers around, and for the price of a paperback, you are getting an Ivy League education in writing. For people who love... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary — and literary... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester Staff Pick Krakatoa is the eloquent narrative of the cataclysmic destruction in 1883 of the volcanic island of the same name. Killing nearly 40,000 people (mostly from the resultant tsunamis), this violent eruption was "the most violent explosion ever recorded and... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (P.S.) by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Broom of One's Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning, and Life (P.S.) by Nancy Peacock Publisher Comments Peacock explores what it means to be a writer, and provides advice on subjects such as inspiration, craft, and criticism, and offers hilarious anecdotes about the houses she cleans. With its warmth and wit, "A Broom of One's Own" is an encouragement to... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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