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The Book of Questions: Love & Sex
by Gregory Stock
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
by Robert McKee
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18 Academy Awards...107 Emmy Awards...19 Writers Guild of America Awards...16 Directors Guild of America Awards...Plus, hundreds of nominations... For the first time in book form, Robert McKee's Story reveals the award-winning methods of the man... (read more)

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by Laura Stanfill
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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
by Natalie Goldberg
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading between the Lines
by Thomas C. Foster
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Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids
by Ken Jennings
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Telling True Stories (07 Edition)
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Made in America
by Bill Bryson
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The Mother Tongue
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The Official SAT Study Guide
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The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
by Noah Lukeman
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Screenplay Revised & Updated Edition
by Syd Field
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Bartletts Book of Anecdotes Rev Edition
by Clifton Fadiman
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They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings
by Gerald Graff
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In addition to explaining the basic moves, this book provides writing templates that show students explicitly how to make these moves in their own writing. Now available in two versions, with and without an anthology of 32 readings.... (read more)

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Writing Down the Bones
by Natalie Goldberg
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For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no... (read more)

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
by William Zinsser
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On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e... (read more)

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Vivid & Continuous: Essays and Exercises for Writing Fiction
by John Mcnally
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