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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott Publisher Comments "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir by William Zinsser Publisher Comments An indispensable book by writers who have experienced firsthand the rewards and challenges of crafting a memoir Anyone undertaking the project of writing a memoir knows that the events, memories, and emotions of the past often resist the orderly... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing by Gerald Graff Publisher Comments The best-selling new composition book published in this century, in use at more than 1,000 schools, They Say / I Say has essentially defined academic writing, identifying its key rhetorical moves, the most important of which is to summarize what others... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life by Dinty W. Moore Publisher Comments One need not be a Buddhist, of course, to be mindful and alert. In fact, seeing how often non-Buddhist writers offer advice that seems entirely compatible to what I encounter in my Buddhist studies reinforces all that I have come to believe about the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers) by Mla Publisher Comments The seventh edition is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to research and writing in the online environment. It provides an authoritative update of MLA documentation style for use in student writing, including simplified guidelines for citing works... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs Publisher Comments 33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language by American Heritage Publisher Comments The much-anticipated Fifth Edition of The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language is the premier resource about words for people who seek to know more and find fresh perspectives. Exhaustively researched and thoroughly revised, the... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - 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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Write Movie in 21 Days by Viki King Publisher Comments The ultimate survival guide, < I> How to Write a Movie in 21 Days< /I> takes the aspiring screenwriter the shortest distance from blank page to complete script. < P> Viki King& #39; s Inner Movie Method is a specific step-by-step... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Kaplan New GMAT: Strategies, Practice, and Review [With Access Code] by Kaplan Publisher Comments The brand-new tool from the test prep experts that provides focused, in-depth strategies, practice, and review to help you achieve a high score on the new GMAT! The GMAT is changing in June 2012. The new GMAT will have a new Integrated Reasoning section... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Publisher Comments What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface — a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch Publisher Comments Nina Sankovitch has always been a reader. As a child, she discovered that a trip to the local bookmobile with her sisters was more exhilarating than a ride at the carnival. Books were the glue that held her immigrant family together. When Nina's eldest... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Publisher Comments In this forceful manifesto, Hirsch argues that children in the U.S. are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. Includes 5,000 essential facts to know.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Writing by Stephen King From Powells.com "In On Writing, Stephen King celebrates his influences, shares his first attempts at writing, sheds new light on some of his own books, reveals his process, offers his advice, and relates in vivid detail the story of the 1999 roadside accident that... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A history of reading by Alberto Manguel Publisher Comments One of America’s leading humorists and author of the bestseller Closing Time examines his own obsession with books Joe Queenan became a voracious reader as a means of escape from a joyless childhood in a Philadelphia housing project. In the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Elements of Style Illustrated by William Strunk Publisher Comments Every English-language writer knows Strunk and White's famous little writing manual, The Elements of Style. Many people between the ages of seventeen and seventy can recite the book's mantra — make every word tell — and still refer to their... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Novelist's Essentials Guide To Grafting Scenes (00 Edition) by Raymond Obstfeld Publisher Comments Writing page-turning fiction depends on your ability to create rock-solid, believable scenes. Scenes act as dynamic structures that thrust both your characters and readers forward through conflict, baiting them with goals that may–or may not–be... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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History in English Words by Owen Barfield Publisher Comments Owen Barfield's original and thought-provoking works over three-quarters of a century have made him a legendary cult figure. History in English Words, his classic historical excursion through the English language, is now back in print after five years... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author by Janet Evanovich Publisher Comments How many people would kill to be a bestselling novelist? Especially one like Janet Evanovich.Writers want to know how a bestselling author thinks, writes, plans, and dreams her books. And they are primed for a book from Janet Evanovich that tells, in a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University by Mark Kramer Publisher Comments Inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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