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Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White Publisher Comments You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Mass Market 
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Painless Grammar (Barron's Painless) by Barrons Publisher Comments (back cover) Really. This won't hurt at all . . . The thought of having to learn English grammar once turned brave students into cowards . . . but no more! THE PAIN VANISHES WHEN YOU TRANSFORM GRAMMAR PROBLEMS INTO FUN-- Learn correct ways to construct... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of Style (08 Edition) by Paul G. Butler Publisher Comments Paul Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among scholars of rhetoric and composition, arguing that the loss of stylistics from composition in recent decades left it alive only in the popular imagination as a set of grammar... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Novel Voices: 17 Award Winning Novelists on How to Write, Edit, and Get Published by Jennifer Levassuer Synopsis This collection provides a rare glimpse into the writing lives of 15 contemporary authors, including Charles Baxter, Elizabeth McCracken, and Charles Johnson. How-to sidebars on improving prose and breaking into publishing guide readers in getting a jump... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour by Mark Leyner Publisher Comments One year after the phenomenal success of WHY DO MEN HAVE NIPPLES?, Mark Leyner and Dr. Billy Goldberg have discovered that there is just no end to people's curiosity when it comes to our bodies' oddities. The number of folks interrupting their happy hour... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $1.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Writing Life by Annie Dillard Publisher Comments Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood; the Northwest pioneer epic The Living; and the nonfiction narrative Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. A gregarious recluse, she is a member of the American... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sell Your Novel Tool Kit: Everything You Need to Know about Queries, Synopses, Marketing & Breaking in by Elizabeth Lyon Publisher Comments Writers often spend years perfecting their first novel—then hit a dead end when it comes to getting it published. Learning to market your novel will make it stand out from the thousands of other books clamoring for the attention of an ever... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Guinness World Records (Guinness Book of Records) by Guinness World Records Publisher Comments It's an Olympic year, and to celebrate, the latest incarnation of the world's biggest selling annual unveils its most thrilling edition yet- with a dynamic new widescreen design, thousands of new and classic records, never-before-seen photos and an... (read more) Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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How to Make a Journal of Your Life by Dan Price Publisher Comments As nomad artist and free spirit, Dan Price is fond of noting, "Seems there's tons of empty journal books, but not too many on how to fill 'em up!" In this book, Dan answers the call, teaching readers how to tap into those pent-up creative juices and... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Break-through Rapid Reading by Peter Kump Publisher Comments The former National Director of Education for Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics. presents his do-it-yourself program for increasing reading speed and boosting comprehension. This program distills fundamental principles and skills chat can be learned at home... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser Publisher Comments Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity — six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction by Dinty W Moore Publisher Comments Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to the pursuit of mental rabbits--a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss Publisher Comments We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Why Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg Publisher Comments Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, everyone is familiar with the tired clichés: women are bad drivers and are not good with money; only guys play video games and they give bad directions. Dan Abrams tackles the toughest case of his career in Man Down.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crash Course for the GRE (Princeton Review) by Princeton Review Publisher Comments 10 Simple Steps to a Higher Score–in Less Than One Week! Crash Course for the GRE is designed for the student who has put off studying until the last minute, and it details the most critical tools and rules you need to get a good score with only... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Artful Sentences: Syntax As Style by Virginia Tufte Publisher Comments In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte presents — and comments on — more than a thousand excellent sentences chosen from the works of authors in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The sentences come from an extensive search... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Get Known Before the Book Deal: Use Your Personal Strengths to Grow an Author Platform by Christina Katz Publisher Comments Sell Your First Book & Develop a Successful and Sustainable Writing Career Before you can land a book deal–before you can even attract the interest of agents and editors–you need to be visible. How do you become visible? You develop a platform... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them--A Misstep-By-Misstep Guide by Howard Mittelmark Publisher Comments "What do you think of my fiction book writing?" the aspiring novelist extorted. "Darn," the editor hectored, in turn. "I can not publish your novel! It is full of what we in the business call 'really awful writing.'" "But how shall I absolve this... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Libraries and Google by William Miller Publisher Comments Discover the benefits--and drawbacks--of Google(R) Google(R) has become a nearly omnipresent tool of the Internet, with its potential only now beginning to be realized. How can librarians effectively integrate this powerful search engine to provide... (read more) List Price $42.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spanish Grammar by Not Available (na) Publisher Comments Basics of Spanish grammar in our easily accessible format. x0D; 4-page laminated guide includes: - rules of stress - syllabification & capitalization - nouns & pronouns - articles & adverbs - comparatives & superlatives - adjectives & prepositions... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Miscellaneous
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