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The Official SAT Study Guide
by College Board
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The Book of Questions: Love & Sex
by Gregory Stock
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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
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The Mother Tongue
by Bill Bryson
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
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Telling True Stories (07 Edition)
by Mark Kramer
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The writer's guide to everyday life in the 1800s
by Marc Mccutcheon
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Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide
by Laurie G Kirszner
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On Writing
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The Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life: Inspiration and Advice from Celebrated Women Authors Who Paved the Way
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The Writer Who Stayed
by William Zinsser
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The Knowledge Book: Everything You Need to Know to Get by in the 21st Century
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Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form
by Madison Smartt Bell
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Social Q's: How to Survive the Quirks, Quandaries and Quagmires of Today
by Philip Galanes
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