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Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	The Revenge of Anguished English More Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language Richard Lederer St. Martin's Griffin Richard Lederer has been called Attila the Pun, Conan the Grammarian, and the Viceroy of Verbivores. In The Revenge of Anguished English, Lederer leaves us...

Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	The Art of the Poetic Line James Longenbach Graywolf Press Paper

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	The Plot Thickens 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life Noah Lukeman St. Martin's Griffin As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on...

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Present Like a Pro

The Field Guide to Mastering the Art of Business, Professional, and Public Speaking

Cyndi Maxey, CSP, and Kevin E. O'Connor, CSP St. Martin's Griffin

Sales calls. Weddings. Business conferences. Weekly meetings. We’re all called on to speak in public. Often, professional success and advancement depend on it....

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Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary

The First Dictionary For The Internet Age

Anne Soukhanov, General Editor St. Martin's Press

"Aimed straight at what today's students need . . . This book fills a long-needed gap."—The Wall Street Journal

"Encarta is indeed unique and innovative . . . [A] successful effort to create a user-friendly dictionary . . . Encarta will appeal to thousands of college students."—Kathleen McWhorter, Niagara County Community College

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The Story of French

Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow St. Martin's Griffin

Imagine a language watched over by a group of “Immortals” wearing Napoleonic hats and brandishing swords, one with rules so complex that mastery is a farce,...

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Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	The Art of Attention A Poet's Eye Art of... Donald Revell Graywolf Press Paper The Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction,...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	A Writer's Workbook Daily Exercises for the Writing Life Caroline Sharp; Foreword by Elizabeth Gilbert St. Martin's Griffin "Opened-hearted, ardent, and encouraging. A must-have book for students and teachers alike."—Elise Paschen, Executive Director, Poetry Society of America, and author of Infidelities

Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	The Art of Time in Fiction As Long as It Takes Art of... Joan Silber Graywolf Press Paper Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible,” asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, Second Edition What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice With Analysis by the Staff of the Harvard Crimson St. Martin's Griffin You've been told a million times how selective and random the college process is, how the personal essay is your one chance to speak directly to admissions...

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	How They Got into Harvard 50 Successful Applicants Share 8 Key Strategies for Getting into the College of Your Choice By the Staff of the Harvard Crimson St. Martin's Griffin Proven Admissions Strategies from Successful Students In How They Got into Harvard, fifty successful applicants to Harvard University share their tips and...

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Unstuck A Supportive and Practical Guide to Working Through Writer's Block Jane Anne Staw, Ph.D. St. Martin's Griffin No one is immune to writer's block. From well-known novelists to students writing term papers, Ph.D. candidates, and associates in business and law firms, most...

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Stein On Writing A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies Sol Stein St. Martin's Griffin Stein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for all writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether they are newcomers or old hands, students or...

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	How to Grow a Novel The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them Sol Stein St. Martin's Griffin As slaves, African-Americans were virtually invisible in American history. Although photography was introduced to this country in l840, precious few images of...

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The Grammar Bible

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Grammar but Didn't Know Whom to Ask

Michael Strumpf and Auriel Douglas Holt Paperbacks

"[The authors] move logically from the parts of speech to the parts of the sentence and then to spelling, vocabulary, and punctuation, even encompassing thorny issues (e.g., sexist language, split infinitives) and complex grammatical terms (e.g., objective complements, gerund phrases). The authors also include a useful list of collocations and intersperse informative and often amusing 'Hot Line' queries throughout."—Library Journal

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Writers on Writing, Volume II More Collected Essays from The New York Times The New York Times; Introduction by Jane Smiley Times Books "Glimpses into writers and the circumstances that shape them . . . Valuable gleanings."-Kirkus Reviews In a second volume of original essays drawn from...

Trade Paperback : $17.95 Buy	The Screenwriter's Handbook The Essential Companion for all Screenwriters Barry Turner, Editor St. Martin's Griffin "At last, all the essential information in one place"—Jake Eberts, Executive Producer of Dances With Wolves, Chicken Run, and A River Runs Through It

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	If You Want to Write A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit Brenda Ueland; New Introduction by Andrei Codrescu Graywolf Press Paper But we must try to find our True Conscience, our True Self, the very Center, for this is the only first-rate choice-making center. Here lies all originality,...

Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	Letters to a Young Novelist Mario Vargas Llosa; Translated by Natasha Wimmer Picador “Under the persiflage of Letters to a Young Novelist, Vargas Llosa gives us his take on writers and writing [which] gives new insight into the creative process.”—Mark Axelrod, The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Trade Paperback : $12.00 Buy	The Art of Syntax Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song Art of... Ellen Bryant Voigt Graywolf Press Paper With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings...