Roy Peter Clark

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

English

55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools.

Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best loved books on writing available.

Organized into four sections, "Nuts and Bolts," "Special Effects," "Blueprints for Stories," and "Useful Habits," Writing Tools is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature. This new edition includes five brand new, never-before-shared tools.

Accessible, entertaining, inspiring, and above all, useful for every type of writer, from high school student to novelist, Writing Tools is essential reading.

Writing Tools (10th Anniversary Edition)

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Kate Williams

Michigan

The Making of Our Queen

'Young Elizabeth' explores the sheltered upbringing of the young princess, with a gentle father and domineering mother, her complicated relationship with her sister, Princess Margaret, and her dependence on her nanny, Marion Crawfie Crawford.

Young Elizabeth

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

Transforming Practice in the English Classroom

An Unquiet Pedagogyargues for a new approach to teaching English in the high school and college classroom, one that reconceives the relationship of literacy and the learner. The title is taken from an essay by Paulo Freire in his book with Donaldo Macedo entitled Literacy: Reading the Word and the World. Like Freire, the authors believe that pedagogy must be critical -- that it must examine the assumptions that teachers and students bring to any educational enterprise, that it must take into account the contexts of learners' lives, and that it must question, rather than quietly accept, existing practices.

Voices of beginning and experienced teachers are heard often in the book, exploring how such an unquiet pedagogy might come to be. The authors examine the experiences of these teachers, as well as their own, showing how the classroom can become a place of inquiry for both teachers and students and how theory and research that provide an integrated perspective on language, literacy, and culture must inform teaching practice. Their aim is to transform the English classroom into a place where the imagination becomes central and where learners construct knowledge in the development of real literacy.

An Unquiet Pedagogy

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Pennsylvania

Eats, Shoots and Leaves : The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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#paperback #english #literature #textbook #educational #composition #writing

Georgia

The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

A primer on persuasive writing for business, political, and educational writers, originally published as a best-selling college textbook, counsels practitioners on key principles without using cluttered language, in a straightforward guide that is complemented by user-friendly templates.

They Say / I Say

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Barbara Kingsolver

2001, first HarperTorch paperback printing, 323 pages. The cover is still shiny, but has corner and edge wear and a lot of spine creases. The pages are clean but yellowed from age. ￼

North Carolina

A Novel

Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places. Available for the first time in mass-market, this edition of Barbara Kingsolver's bestselling novel, The Bean Trees, will be in stores everywhere in September. With two different but equally handsome covers, this book is a fine addition to your Kingsolver library.

The Bean Trees

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Beverly Lewis

Alabama

Longing to find her missing mother and uncover the secrets that led to her leaving three weeks earlier, Grace befriends the non-Amish Heather, and the two travel together in hopes of finding Grace's mother and bringing her home.

The Missing

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SparkNotes

Ray Bradbury

Washington

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.

Fahrenheit 451 SparkNotes Literature Guide

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Ayn Rand

Leonard Peikoff

Florida

Equality 7-2521 dares to defy the ideals of collectivism in a futuristic state

Anthem

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Loretta Chase

Texas

Difficult Dukes

A 2017 RT Reviewer's Choice Nominee for Best Historical Love & Laughter!

Not all dukes are created equal. Most are upstanding members of Society. And then there's the trio known as Their Dis-Graces.

Hugh Philemon Ancaster, seventh Duke of Ripley, will never win prizes for virtue. But even he draws the line at running off with his best friend's bride. All he's trying to do is recapture the slightly inebriated Lady Olympia Hightower and return her to her intended bridegroom.

For reasons that elude her, bookish, bespectacled Olympia is supposed to marry a gorgeous rake of a duke. The ton is flabbergasted. Her family's ecstatic. And Olympia? She's climbing out of a window, bent on a getaway. But tall, dark, and exasperating Ripley is hot on her trail, determined to bring her back to his friend. For once, the world-famous hellion is trying to do the honorable thing.

So why does Olympia have to make it so deliciously difficult for him . . . ?

A Duke in Shining Armor

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Kentucky

OOP English Manga

Love Circumstances

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Mexico

The Norton Introduction to Literature, Eleventh Edition, is a diverse, flexible, and balanced text that offers the most carefully edited apparatus and the most interesting and useful treatment of the contexts of literature. A best seller since its first edition, The Norton Introduction to Literature continues to meet the needs of today's students and instructors, offering trusted guidance for analyzing texts, writing thoughtfully, and appreciating literature.

The Norton Introduction to Literature

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The second edition of The Elements of Reasoning retains the accessible and succinct approach that made the first edition the best treatment of the essentials of argumentation. KEY TOPICS: It presents the principles that govern the composition of effective argumentative discourse and includes brief examples, with analyses that show students the underlying structure of the argument presented and the ways in which the rhetoric was persuasive. MARKET: For anyone interested in rhetoric and reasoning.

The Elements of Style

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Walch Publishing Staff

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New York

Turn downtime into learning time

This book presents a daily paragraph for students to read and correct. It will reinforce skills in grammar, usage, mechanics, and spelling; sharpens students writing and composition skills.

Daily Warm-Ups for Common English Idioms Level I

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Deepen your students' vocabulary! Turn downtime into learning time. Help students read, understand, write, and communicate more effectively. Develops critical-thinking skills and sharpens reasoning skills. Provides word attack strategies.

Daily Warm-Ups for Vocabulary Level I

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Turns downtime into learning time. Develops writing vocabulary and devices. Builds the writing habit. Provides stimulating, quick activities to inspire creativity. Readies students for standardized tests.

Daily Warm-Ups for Writing

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Kaye Hagler

Connecticut

180 Bell-Ringers That Build Critical Thinking Skills

Kaye Hagler's unique bell-ringers for language arts help you transform the first chaotic five minutes of class into authentic opportunities to practice critical-thinking skills while also addressing the Common Core State Standards and providing support in the school's curriculum.Students in grades 3-9 exercise their mental muscles as they work collaboratively, warming them up to tackle your standards-based lessons. Whether your students are inventing secret codes, concocting potions, rewriting history, making conjunction paper chains, or thinking like newspaper editors, these diverse and creative prompts will have them looking forward to the part of the day when they're asked to "Take Five" for critical thinking. The 180-plus prompts set up your teaching day from the minute that students step into your class. Each ready-to-use prompt includes: corresponding standards; supply lists; language arts links; teacher tips; assessment options; rubrics; and digital connections that add more than 100 extension lessons Begin every day of the school year with a burst of critical thinking--and fun-- with this comprehensive resource. Ready? Set? Take Five!

Take 5! For Language Arts

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Maud H. Lovelace

Withdrawn library book. Considerable mileage. Binding break between pges 196-197.  Water stains at the edge. Price mark on inner jacket. Despite flaws pages are in good shape. No dog ears or scribbles. Please see photos for reference.

Ohio

Maud Hart Lovelace--internationally famed author of the Betsy-Tacy children's books--joined literary forces with her husband, Delos, to produce Gentlemen from England, first published in 1937. It's the fictionalized story of a real nineteenth-century English colony near Fairmont, Minnesota, located not far from Maud Lovelace's hometown of Mankato. Tales of the immigrant British men and women, striving to recreate English country estates on the Minnesota prairie, intrigued the Lovelaces. The authors' thorough research became the basis for this vivid novel of colorful fox hunts, festive balls, and English family life set on the huge bean farms bought from a land speculator. A new introduction by Borealis Books editor Sarah P. Rubinstein sketches the history of the English colony and tells how the Lovelaces worked together to bring it alive in this delightful book.

Gentlemen from England

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Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize–winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames. This edition includes a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.

On the Battersea Reach, a mixed bag of the slightly disreputable, the temporarily lost, and the patently eccentric live on houseboats, rising and falling with the tides of the Thames.

There is good-natured Maurice, by occupation a male prostitute, by chance a receiver of stolen goods. And Richard, an ex-navy man whose boat, much like its owner, dominates the Reach. Then there is Nenna, an abandoned wife and mother of two young girls running wild on the muddy foreshore, whose domestic predicament, as it deepens, will draw this disparate community together.

A novel the Booker judges deemed "flawless," Offshore is one of Fitzgerald’s greatest triumphs.

Offers a portrait of a group of eccentrics living in houseboats on the river Thames and describes how their disparate lives intertwine and complicate matters for everyone

Offshore

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Norman Lewis

The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary

Word Power Made Easy is a comprehensive vocabulary‑building system created by legendary grammarian Norman Lewis that provides a simple, step‑by‑step method to increase your knowledge and mastery of the English language.

Word Power Made Easy is the best and quickest means to a better vocabulary in the English language. As you complete the exercises in this book, you will learn how to tell if you're using the right word as well as how to pronounce and spell it. You will also learn how to avoid illiterate expressions and how to speak grammatically, without making embarrassing mistakes.

A complete handbook for building a superior vocabulary, Word Power Made Easy will teach you how to speak and write with confidence as well as how to read more effectively and efficiently. It will help you to learn more quickly, develop social contacts, and increase your earning power.

Each chapter ends with review. Each section ends with a progressive check. Numerous tests will help you increase and retain the knowledge you acquired. Word Power Made Easy does more than just add words to your vocabulary; it teaches ideas and a method of broadening knowledge as an integral part of the vocabulary building process.

Word Power Made Easy

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

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George L. McMichael

David Bradley

Joseph Csicsila

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

James S. Leonard

Dana D. Nelson

it is an older book, but besides the cover is in generally decent condition, filled with poetry, short stories and tons of American Literature. Used in my college english class.

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

This two-volume series represents America's literary heritage from colonial times through the American renaissance to the contemporary era of post-modernism. Volume I offers early contextual selections from Christopher Columbus and Gaspar Perez de Villagra, as well as an excerpt from the Iroquois League's Constitution of the Five Nations, and ends with an extensive selection of the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. This anthology is best known for its useful pedagogy, including extensive and straightforward headnotes and introductions, as well as its balanced approach to editorial selection process

Anthology of American Literature

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Lucile Vaughan Payne

Nebraska

Words, Sentences, Style and Technique -- an Essential Guide to One of Today's Most Necessary Skills

An essential refernce for writers--both new and experienced--that will help improve your writing skills and style and help you say exactly what you want to say.

Students, teachers, businessmen, aspiring authors, and complaining consumers all have one thing in common--the need to express successfully ideas, opinions, arguments, problems, explanations, or instructions through the medium of the written word. And The Lively Art of Writing is the perfect guide to the mastery of this essential skill. It will answer all of your questions, provide you with the best techniques, and offer important information about:

* Choosing a subject
* Working with words
* The sound of sentences
* The power of paragraphs
* Essentials of style
* Essays, theses, and term papers
* And much, much more...

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Roy Peter Clark

Writing Tools (10th Anniversary Edition)

Kate Williams

Young Elizabeth

Eleanor Kutz; Hephzib Roskelly; Paulo Freire (Foreword by)

An Unquiet Pedagogy

Lynne Truss

Eats, Shoots and Leaves : The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Gerald Graff; Cathy Birkenstein

They Say / I Say

Barbara Kingsolver

The Bean Trees

Beverly Lewis

The Missing

SparkNotes; Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 SparkNotes Literature Guide

Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff

Anthem

Loretta Chase

A Duke in Shining Armor

Aco Oumi

Love Circumstances

Kelly J. Mays (Editor)

The Norton Introduction to Literature

William Strunk; E. White; William Strunk

The Elements of Style

Walch Publishing Staff

Daily Warm-Ups for Common English Idioms Level I

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Daily Warm-Ups for Vocabulary Level I

Walch Publishing Staff

Daily Warm-Ups for Writing

Kaye Hagler

Take 5! For Language Arts

Maud H. Lovelace

Gentlemen from England

Penelope Fitzgerald

Offshore

Norman Lewis

Word Power Made Easy

H. G. Wells

Tono-Bungay

Gerald Graff; Cathy Birkenstein

They Say / I Say

George L. McMichael; David Bradley; Joseph Csicsila; Shelley Fisher Fishkin; James S. Leonard; Dana D. Nelson

Anthology of American Literature

Lucile Vaughan Payne

The Lively Art of Writing