Martin Levin

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Connecticut

English

In this groundbreaking book, a prominent publishing insider (an executive at several big New York houses, and now respected literary lawyer) offers the insights and hard-to-get information that every aspiring author yearns for--from pitching the book to finding the ideal editor, from getting the most out of a contract to getting the book produced correctly.

Be Your Own Literary Agent

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Gerald Graff

Cathy Birkenstein

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

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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Piccadilly Enterprises Inc. Staff

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

Write The Story

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#paperback #teaching #education #writing #scholastic #writing-guide #reference #scholastic-guide

New York

This easy-to-use all-purpose writing guide gets a fresh, new cover design for Fall 2002.

This easy-to-use reference book gives you models and tips you can follow for all of your writing needs, such as:
*Science and social studies reports
*Book reports
*Answering essay questions
*Movie and TV reviews
*Letters to friends and relatives
*Complaints and requests
*Business letters
PLUS special sections in the back with other writing tools

Putting It in Writing

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Ruled/ Lined Journal, Moleskine inspired. By the event Rise in Revolution. Color: Red. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

Blank Journal 

Barbara Wilson

Fundations Student Notebook 1 Second Edition

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learn how to write and improve your fiction writing. dozens of exercises to strengthen your skills. paperback book in very good condition

Maryland

Get your stories off to a roaring start.
Keep them tight and crisp throughout.
Conclude them with a wallop.

Is the story or novel you've been carrying around in your head the same one you see on the page? Or does the dialogue suddenly sound flat and predictable? Do the events seem to ramble?

Translating a flash of inspiration into a compelling story requires careful crafting. The words you choose, how you describe characters, and the way you orchestrate conflict all make the difference--the difference between a story that is slow to begin, flounders midway, or trails off at the end--and one that holds the interest of readers and editors to the final page.

By demonstrating effective solutions for potential problems at each stage of your story, Nancy Kress will help you...

 * hook the editor on the first three paragraphs
 * make--and keep--your story's "implicit promise"
 * build drama and credibility by controlling your prose

Dozens of exercises help you strengthen your short story or novel. Plus, you'll sharpen skills and gain new insight into...
 * the price a writer pays for flashbacks
 * six ways characters should "reveal" themselves
 * techniques for writing--and rewriting

Let this working resource be your guide to successful stories--from beginning to end.

Beginnings, Middles and Ends

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Janet Evanovich

Ina Yalof

See pics for condition.  Residue on front cover 

Nevada

Secrets of a Bestselling Author

In a handbook for aspiring writers, the best-selling author of the Stephanie Plum novels answers important questions about how she comes up with her plots, the creation of memorable characters, what the life of a full-time writer is like, what prospective writers need to know about the publishing industry, how to deal with rejection, and more. Original. 350,000 first printing.

How I Write

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#paperback ##writing #MLA #APA #CSE #ChicagoStyle #Grammar

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Kentucky

Your students need clear, complete answers to their questions about research, writing, and grammar--and they often need them at a moment's notice. As their teacher, you are their greatest resource, but you can't be available 24/7. For help with work in class and at home and especially for questions at odd hours, students can turn to A Pocket Style Manual. The thoughtfully revised seventh edition makes it even easier for students to effectively and independently address their writing and research challenges. With 325 documentation models in four styles and coverage of drafting thesis statements, writing correctly and effectively, finding and evaluating sources, and writing research papers, A Pocket Style Manual supports writers across the disciplines. Our newest set of online materials, LaunchPad Solo, provides all the key tools and course-specific content that you need to teach your class. The LaunchPad Solo for A Pocket Style Manual includes exercises, sample student writing, and LearningCurve game-like adaptive quizzing. To package LaunchPad Solo free with A Pocket Style Manual, use ISBN 978-1-319-01282-3.

A Pocket Style Manual

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South Carolina

Reading & Language Arts

Alphabet Learning Workbook 

Carson-Dellosa Publishing Staff

Every day, your child encounters language arts in many different situations. The activities in Creative Kids Language Arts make learning language arts fun while also challenging your child to use language arts skills in different subject areas. The activities include stories, games, science experiments, and crafts! In Creative Kids Language Arts, your kindergartner will: --¥ Practice simple reading comprehension and tracing words. --¥ Identify basic parts of speech and punctuation. --¥ Classify and name scientific objects. --¥ Create fun costumes and write words in sand gardens.

Language Arts, Grades K - 1

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Learn to read and write all the letters of the alphabet 

Educational Workbook 

Letters And Writing 

Memoir

Herself

Margalit Fox

Indiana

The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer

"A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it's about so much more than crime."--Tana French, author of In the Woods
 
A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue--a true story.    

After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater, an immigrant Jewish cardsharp. Though he was known to be innocent, Slater was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor. Outraged by this injustice, Arthur Conan Doyle, already world renowned as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, used the methods of his most famous character to reinvestigate the case, ultimately winning Slater's freedom.

With "an eye for the telling detail, a forensic sense of evidence and a relish for research" (The Wall Street Journal), Margalit Fox immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection and illuminates a watershed moment in its history, when reflexive prejudice began to be replaced by reason and the scientific method.

Praise for Conan Doyle for the Defense

"Artful and compelling . . . [Fox's] narrative momentum never flags. . . . Conan Doyle for the Defense will captivate almost any reader while being pure catnip for the devotee of true-crime writing."--The Washington Post

"Developed with brio . . . [Fox] is excellent in linking the 19th-century creation of policing and detection with the development of both detective fiction and the science of forensics--ballistics, fingerprints, toxicology and serology--as well as the quasi science of 'criminal anthropology.'"--The New York Times Book Review

"[Fox] has an eye for the telling detail, a forensic sense of evidence and a relish for research."--The Wall Street Journal

"Gripping . . . The book works on two levels, much like a good Holmes case. First, it is a fluid story of a crime. . . . Second, and more pertinently, it is a deeper story of how prejudice against a class of people, the covering up of sloppy police work and a poisonous political atmosphere can doom an innocent. We should all heed Holmes's salutary lesson: rationally follow the facts to find the truth."--Time

Conan Doyle for the Defense

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Oregon

The Humble Argument: An Introduction to Argument and the College Essay

Naomi Epel

A tool kit for writers. Ideas to help creativity flow. Unused. A great holiday gift. 

Massachusetts

A Tool Kit for Writers

"Offers inspiration and practical advice from today's greatest writers ... secrets to approaching work with renewed creativity --Container.

Observation Deck

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#paperback #writing #essays #painlesswriting #school #jeffreystrausser

Kansas

Titles in Barron's Painless Series are textbook supplements designed especially for classroom use by middle-school and high school students. The approach of each title is an appeal to students who think that the subject is boring, or too difficult, or both. The authors, all experienced educators, take a light approach, showing kids what is most interesting about each subject, and how seemingly difficult problems can be transformed into fun quizzes, brain-ticklers, and challenging puzzles with rational solutions. Here is practical advice that transforms essay writing into a satisfying experience for middle school and senior high school students. The author offers tips on enlivening writing with vivid images, smoothing out sentences, silencing the dull passive voice, and adding rhythm to writing. He also shows how to create a template that students can use when writing research papers for all subjects. In addition, students will find web site reference s cited throughout the text, which they can access. Brain ticklers (short quizzes) appear throughout the book with an answer key at the back.

Painless Writing

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Virginia

A Memoir of the Craft

On Writing

Georgia

The Step-by-Step Way of Writing Children's Stories

This book is an exceptional, simple step-by-step guide that leads the reader through the steps necessary to successfully write children's stories. Each step motivates creativity by allowing the reader's style of writing to surface.The book has examples and exercises that assist the reader in creating their own unique story. It also takes the reader through picture book layout and gives an exercise for writers block.This book is designed to be a practical, helpful writing book for writers and teachers. The 12 steps in the book apply to all fictional writing.

Young at Heart

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Lori G. Wilfong

Excellent condition from a smoke free home.

Ohio

Do This--Not That!

In this dynamic book, bestselling author Lori G. Wilfong takes you through today's best practices for teaching writing and how to implement them in the classroom. She also points out practices that should be avoided, helping you figure out how to update your teaching so that all students can reach success.

Writing Strategies That Work

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#hardcover #history #dictionary #words #writing

Michigan

The Secret Life of Dictionaries

Do you have strong feelings about the word "irregardless"? Have you ever tried to define the word "is"? Brimming with intelligence and personality, this vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made is a must-read for word mavens.

Many of us take dictionaries for granted, and few may realize that the process of writing dictionaries is, in fact, as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence, Kory Stamper cracks open the complex, obsessive world of lexicography, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it, to the knotty questions of usage in an ever-changing language. She explains why small words are the most difficult to define, how it can take nine months to define a single word, and how our biases about language and pronunciation can have tremendous social influence. And along the way, she reveals little-known surprises--for example, the fact that "OMG" was first used in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917.

Word by Word brings to life the hallowed halls (and highly idiosyncratic cubicles) of Merriam-Webster, a startlingly rich world inhabited by quirky and erudite individuals who quietly shape the way we communicate. Certain to be a delight for all lovers of words, Stamper's debut will make you laugh as much as it makes you appreciate the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.

Word by Word

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#education #scarystories #homeschool #teach #language #writing #writingskills #classroom #fiction #workbook

New Jersey

Write Your Own Scary Stories!

More Scary Story Starters is a unique workbo ok that promotes fun, creativity and self-confidence. Each a ctivity challenges children by providing storytelling and wr iting exercises in the form of scary story ''skeletons'' for t hem to complete. '

More Scary Story Starters

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#hardcover #biography #history #memoir #art #author #writing #nonfiction

Utah

Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination

Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon; his work has defined our childhoods, and even more than twenty-five years after his death his books continue to find new readers. Theodor Geisel, however, led a life that goes much deeper than the prolific and beloved children's book author. He had a successful career as a political cartoonist, and his political leanings can be felt throughout his books. Jones introduces us to this complicated man, who introduced generations to the wonders of reading while teaching young people about empathy and how to treat others well. -- adapted from jacket

Becoming Dr. Seuss

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Katie Heaney

The debut novel from the author of the popular memoir Never Have I Ever. College junior Harriet, the anonymous creator of the advice column Dear Emma, imparts weekly wisdom to the students around her struggling with relationships, academics, and existential crises. But her own life isn't in such great shape, especially since her Spanish Civilization classmate and crush Keith has gone radio silent on her. When she learns that Keith is dating beautiful and brilliant Remy, the girl she's started sharing a library work-study shift with, she immediately decides that her new coworker is the enemy. But just as Harriet begins to warm to her despite herself, the enemy gives Dear Emma an opportunity to change the course of her relationship with Keith. As Harriet ponders the power her column holds in her own life, she begins to wonder if it's worth losing a new friendship just to get back at Keith.

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Martin Levin

Be Your Own Literary Agent

Gerald Graff; Cathy Birkenstein

They Say / I Say

Piccadilly Enterprises Inc. Staff

Write The Story

Steven Otfinoski; Steve Otfinoski

Putting It in Writing

Rise in Revolution

Blank Journal

Barbara Wilson

Fundations Student Notebook 1 Second Edition

Nancy Kress

Beginnings, Middles and Ends

Janet Evanovich; Ina Yalof

How I Write

Diana Hacker; Nancy Sommers

A Pocket Style Manual

Bendon

Alphabet Learning Workbook

Carson-Dellosa Publishing Staff

Language Arts, Grades K - 1

The Clever Factory, Inc

Letters And Writing

Madeline l'engle

Herself

Margalit Fox

Conan Doyle for the Defense

Roy K. Humble

The Humble Argument: An Introduction to Argument and the College Essay

Naomi Epel

Observation Deck

Jeffrey Strausser; Denise Gilgannon (Illustrator)

Painless Writing

Stephen King

On Writing

Violet M. Ramos

Young at Heart

Lori G. Wilfong

Writing Strategies That Work

Kory Stamper

Word by Word

Julie Koerner

More Scary Story Starters

Brian Jay Jones

Becoming Dr. Seuss

Katie Heaney

Dear Emma