Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
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Memoir as Medicine: The Healing Power of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect, Unruly (But Gorgeously Yours) Life Story
$17.95 Add to cartA wonderfully fresh and frank guide to why and how to write personal stories that will heal, liberate, inspire — and entertain — both writer and reader
Writing has been medicine for Nancy Slonim Ar- Author: Aronie, Nancy Slonim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1608688070
- Language: English
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
$29.95 Read moreThis remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of ‘basic stories’ in the world. Using a wealth of examples,
- Author: Booker, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1472976185
- Language: English
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Cursive Handwriting Workbook for Adults: Learn Cursive Writing for Adults (Adult Cursive Handwriting Workbook)
$19.97 Add to cartFrom the trusted authority in handwriting and penmanship teaching comes the Cursive Handwriting Workbook for Adults.
Specially designed for adults, this 110-page comprehensive workbook features age-app
- Author: Scholdeners
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1913357643
- Language: English
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185 Tips on World Building
$13.99 Add to cartFrom his best selling series, The Art of World Building, author and world building strategist Randy Ellefson has collected some of his best advice from every chapter in small, bite-sized tips. All thr
- Author: Ellefson, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: March 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1946995339
- Language: English
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The Lost Art of Handwriting: Rediscover the Beauty and Power of Penmanship
$16.99 Add to cartRevisit the lost art of writing with these fun prompts, worksheets, exercises–and more –and experience the many benefits of writing by hand, including increased focus and memory, relaxation, and cre… [more below]
- Author: Jordan, Brenna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1507209363
- Language: English
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Teaching English Language Learners Across the Content Areas
$45.27 Add to cartEnglish language learners (ELLs) often face the difficult challenge of learning both a new language and new subject matter at the same time. In Teaching English Language Learners Across the Content Ar
- Author: Haynes, Judie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 183
- Publish Date: February 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1416609121
- Language: English
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The Magic Words: Writing Great Books for Children and Young Adults
$21.99 Add to cartThe best children’s and young adult novels take readers on wonderful outward adventures and stirring inward journeys. In The Magic Words, editor Cheryl B. Klein guides writers on an enjoyable and prac
- Author: Klein, Cheryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06, 2016
- ISBN10: 039329224X
- Language: English
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
$35.00 Add to cartThe best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material.
A CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read b- Author: Adler, Mortimer J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1476790159
- Language: English
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The Language Hoax
$16.98 Add to cartJapanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does langu… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 190468890
- Language: English
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American Sign Language Concise Dictionary: Revised Edition
$16.32 Add to cartA concise edition of “the most comprehensive and clearly written dictionary of sign language ever published.” —Los Angeles Times
Introducing the first revised edition to the original and most extensiv
- Author: Sternberg, Martin L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 16 1994
- ISBN10: 0062740105
- Language: English
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Voice First: A Writer’s Manifesto
$23.95 Add to cartThough it is foundational to the craft of writing, the concept of voice is a mystery to many authors, and teachers of writing do not have a good working definition of it for use in the classroom. Writ… [more below]
- Author: Huber, Sonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496231317
- Language: English
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Wordcraft: The Complete Guide to Clear, Powerful Writing
$22.00 Read moreLegendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at the Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize win… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Hart, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 09 2021
- ISBN10: 022674907X
- Language: English
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Bilingual Families: A Practical Language Planning Guide
$19.95 Add to cartThis insightful, practical book can be used as a stand-alone guide for families on their language journey, or as an accompaniment to the author’s successful seminars for families and schools. Learn fr
- Author: Crisfield, Eowyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1788929330
- Language: English
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The Story of Spanish
$21.00 Add to cartThe authors of The Story of French are back with a new linguistic history of the Spanish language and its progress around the globe.
Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern- Author: Nadeau, Jean-Benoit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1250049040
- Language: English
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Let Me Tell You a Story
$19.95 Add to cartIn Let Me Tell You a Story, Tim Waggoner continues what he started in the Bram Stoker Award-winning Writing in the Dark (2020) and Writing in the Dark: The Workbook (2022), both of which focus on the
- Series: Writing in the Dark
- Author: Waggoner, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1947879642
- Language: English
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How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” —Adam Haslett, Financial Times
“A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the Engli
- Author: Fish, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 006184053X
- Language: English
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The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
$18.99 Add to cartThe beloved teacher and author of the million-and-a-half copy bestseller Writing Down the Bones reveals a new method of writing in “a priceless distillation of her accumulated wisdom and experience as… [more below]
- Author: Goldberg, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1451641257
- Language: English
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Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts: From the Welsh Chronicle of the Six Ages of the World
$18.95 Add to cartThe original Welsh stories of these beloved characters and their world for the first time in English
The stories in Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts deal with well-known figures from medie- Series: World Literature in Translation
- Author: Gruffydd, Elis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0520390253
- Language: English
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Blueprint for a Book
$18.99 Add to cartHow to write a novel in the most efficient way by tackling the hardest part before you start to write, from top book coach Jennie Nash
“This process makes me want to write, and it makes what I’m writin
- Author: Nash, Jennie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 173325112X
- Language: English
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme–And Other Oddities of the English Language
$23.99 Add to cartMaybe you’ve been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily business done, or you’re an expert with a red pen who neve… [more below]
- Author: Okrent, Arika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0197539408
- Language: English
