Macquarie Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition by Macquarie Dictionary
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Category: Words and Writing
The <b><i>Macquarie Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition</i></b> provides an up-to-date account of Australian English, with wide coverage to meet the needs of the general dictionary user. Based on the comprehensive <i>Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition</i>, this volume in ...Show more
Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
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Category: Words and Writing
Here's what started the phenomenon: the best seller, for over 15 years, that's been used by screenwriters around the world Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie business. "Save the Cat" is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and you ...Show more
Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Jeremy Butterfield (Editor)
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Category: Words and Writing | Series: Oxford Quick Reference Ser.
Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage is an invaluable reference work that offers the best advice on English usage. Known in previous editions as the 'Pocket Fowler', this third edition is a descendant of the original 1926 edition of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Henry Fowler. ...Show more
Catching the Light by Joy Harjo
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Category: Words and Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing "Harjo writes as if the creative journey has been the destination all along."--Kirkus Reviews In this lyrical meditatio ...Show more
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
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Category: Words and Writing
The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled the intellectual artistic advances of the Renaissance. At sea, the invention of the logbook expanded horizons on the journeys of Magellan and fellow discoverers. Ar ...Show more
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style: The UK Edition by Benjamin Dreyer
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Category: Words and Writing
''An utterly delightful book to read, Dreyer's English will stand among the classics on how to use the English language properly.'' ELIZABETH STROUT ''A complete joy. For those who care about words - and for those who don't - Dreyer's English is the book we have all been waiting for. Wise, funny, no-no ...Show more
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
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Category: Words and Writing
The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher. Draft No. 4is a master class on the writer's craft. John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his long career, and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most ...Show more
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
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Category: Words and Writing
A stunningly important piece of criticism that asks us not to look away when our shared culture proves so appallingly limited but instead to look harder. To think smarter. To read better.An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading - and our potential to become radically better reader ...Show more
Storytime: Growing up with Books by Jane Sullivan
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Category: Words and Writing
What was it exactly? Wonder, rapture delight, surprised recognition, laughter - but also darker feelings that made my heart beat fast and my stomach turn over, and sometimes a frantic urge to close the book before whatever it was sucked me in and destroyed me. But always, I read on. In Storytime, aut ...Show more
Always Take Notes: Advice from the world's greatest writers by Simon Akam
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Category: Words and Writing
Bestselling and award-winning authors share the secrets to their success, and the hard lessons they have learnt along the way. Where do the best ideas come from? How do you stay motivated? What does it take to become a published author? And how do you actually make money from your writing? For over five ...Show more
The Writer's Library - The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl; Jeff Schwager
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Category: Words and Writing
With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in this intimate, moving, and insightful colle ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading by Jennie Orchard
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Category: Words and Writing
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayis ...Show more