Write Away : One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life

Elizabeth George
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Bestselling author Elizabeth George has spent years teaching writing, and in Write Away she shares her knowledge of the creative process. George combines clear, intelligent, and functional advice on fiction writing with anecdotes from her own life, t ...

Escaping Into the Open : The Art of Writing True

Elizabeth Berg
Paperback - $20.95

Both autobiography and primer, "Escaping into the Open" interweaves Berg's story of her own journey from working mother to published novelist with encouraging advice on how to create stories that spring from the deep within the heart. She provides he ...

Made in America

Bill Bryson
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Bill Bryson, author of the national bestseller The Mother Tongue, takes an informed and affectionate look at the history of the U.S. from the perspective of language and popular culture..

The Mother Tongue

Bill Bryson
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The author of the acclaimed The Lost Continent now steers us through the quirks and byways of the English language. We learn why island, freight, and colonel are spelled in such unphonetic ways, why four has a u in it but forty doesn't, plus bizarre ...

The Best American Crime Writing

Thomas H. Cook
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This annual collection encompasses the most intelligent and gripping crime journalism published during the year.

Value Judgments

Ellen Goodman
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In "Value Judgments", Ellen Goodman takes the measure of contemporary American life with the originality, common sense, and humane insight that have made her one of our most trusted and admired commentators. This book collects more than 120 of the be ...

The Power of Babel : A Natural History of Language

John McWhorter
Paperback - $23.95

There are approximately 6,000 languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, a noted linguistics professor argues that language i ...

A Broom of One's Own : Words on Writing, Housecleaning, and Life

Nancy Peacock
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The Language Instinct : How the Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker
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In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of exampl ...

Words and Rules : The Ingredients of Language

Steven Pinker
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One of the most visible intellectuals in the new field of cognitive science explains the mysteries of language and mind in an entirely new way, and explores the use of regular and irregular verbs with the help of jokes, cartoons, song lyrics, and mor ...