Language Arts & Disciplines
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Language and Life on Ocracoke: The Living History of the Brogue
$25.00 Add to cartIn this follow-up to the celebrated Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram, and Candy Gaskill have produced the most comprehensive linguistic look at Ocracoke yet. Many visitors ar… [more below]
- Author: Reaser, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1469685299
- Language: English
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Write Now: 100 Writing Prompts to Kick-Start Your Creativity
$19.99 Read moreWriting for yourself is a wonderful way to explore personal creativity – each of these 100 prompts will enhance your skill and confidence and get you closer to being the writer you want to become.
Writ
- Author: Griffey, Harriet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1784887676
- Language: English
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No Experience Necessary Writer’s Course
$16.00 Add to cartA unique stress-free approach for anyone who has ever wanted to write.
- Author: Edelstein, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 299
- Publish Date: January 02 1994
- ISBN10: 0812831349
- Language: English
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Women in Independent Publishing: A History of Unsung Innovators, 1953-1989
$29.95 Add to cartWomen in Independent Publishing is a collection of interviews with and resources about women actively engaged in small-press publishing between the 1950s and the 1980s. The interviewees include Hettie
- Author: Anderson, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0826367070
- Language: English
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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
$29.99 Add to cartThe enthralling story of how today’s largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world’s population, descended from one ancient dialect.
Daughter. Duhit?r-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these Englis- Author: Spinney, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1639732586
- Language: English
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Writing Tools for the College Admissions Essay: Write Your Way Into the School of Your Dreams
$19.99 Add to cartThe essential guide to writing a winning college admissions essay, from America’s favorite writing coach.
Most high school students never have received any instruction in how to write a personal essa- Author: Clark, Roy Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0316567671
- Language: English
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The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime Ne… [more below]
- Author: Trillin, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593596463
- Language: English
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Speaking in Tongues
$26.99 Add to cartLanguage, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues–taking the form of a … [more below]
- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096454
- Language: English
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Montell, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 006299316X
- Language: English
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Spinning Toward the Sun: Essays on Writing, Resilience, & the Creative Life
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Carpenter, Nora Shalaway
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1961853078
- Language: English
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The Met Gala: Red Carpet Style, Iconic Moments of Fashion from the World’s Most Exclusive Event, Perfect for Fans of Icons of Style and the Little Boo
$18.99 Add to cartIconic fashion moments from the world’s most exclusive event
Since 1948, The Met Gala has attracted an A-list crowd to the steps of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on the first Monday in May eac
- Author: Design, Harper By
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1460767357
- Language: English
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The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition
$26.00 Add to cartA thoroughly revised edition of the comprehensive guide to building and maintaining a successful career in writing.
Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Friedman, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 18 2025
- ISBN10: 022683865X
- Language: English
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Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words
$32.95 Add to cartA beautiful and intimate exploration of first and last words–and the many facets of how language begins and ends–from a pioneering language writer.
With our earliest utterances, we announce ourselve- Author: Erard, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049422
- Language: English
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Lazy Susan: The Origin Stories of Eponyms
$9.99 Add to cartDo you ever wonder where certain expressions come from? Phrases such as Lazy Susan, Bloody Mary, and Just Joshing have been with us for as long as most of us can remember, but who created these terms
- Author: Nance, Andrew Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218589905
- Language: English
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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible
- Author: Perlin, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0802164196
- Language: English
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Changing My Mind
$14.95 Add to cartBestselling author Julian Barnes illuminates the process of how minds are changed–about politics, books, words, memories, and more–in this wise and fascinating new book.
“We always believe that chan- Author: Barnes, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1912559692
- Language: English
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Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create
$30.00 Add to cartWho am I to tell my story? And how can we grant ourselves permission to write the stories we’re compelled to tell when we’ve been told we shouldn’t?
Without fail, almost every writer–new or experienc- Author: Altman, Elissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1567927637
- Language: English
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So, You Have Cancer…
$12.99 Add to cart- Author: Repetti, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992054705
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
$12.00 Read moreLiterary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past
- Author: Tenen, Dennis Yi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105054
- Language: English
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The Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need, Updated Edition: Your One-Stop Source for Mastering English Grammar
$13.99 Add to cartMaster the art of English grammar with this updated edition of the bestselling guide, The Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need, featuring fresh examples and quizzes to test your knowledge, making it an … [more below]
- Author: Thurman, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1507223684
- Language: English
