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Long Roads, Short Distances: Teaching Writing and Writing Teachers
 | author: Brenda Power asin: 0435072404 binding: Paperback list price: $18.00 USD amazon price: $18.00 USD |
- While many writers promise to open up their teaching, I have never read a book that quite does it the way this one does. . . . I see it as an essential survival manual for all of us trying to become the teachers we hope to be. read more »
Queens in the Kingdom: The Ultimate Gay and Lesbian Guide to the Disney Theme Parks (Kings in the Kingdom)
 | author: Jeffrey Epstein Eddie Shapiro asin: 155583745X binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 |
Think of them as the tour-guide version of Patsy and Edina from Absolutely Fabulous-if those two ever were sober enough to write a book. Knowing that the agenda of the average gay or lesbian traveler is a bit different from that of Mom and Pop Smith from Des Moines, Jeffrey Epstein and Eddie Shapiro proffer a guide book to the Disney resorts that specifically caters to gay and lesbian readers. While sniping at each other only occasionally, they offer candid, informative and always-humorous opinions on everything from hotels and attractions to restaurants and shows. read more »
The Writing and Revision Stylebook
 | author: Gregory Heyworth Rosette Liberman asin: 0970111304 binding: Paperback list price: $24.95 USD amazon price: $24.95 |
The Writing and Revision Stylebook is a practical and user-friendly guide to editing essays and business communications. It corrects grammar and punctuation, teaches logic, polishes style. Written by master teachers, it not only points out errors, but provides step-by-step practical instructions on how to correct them. It contains features available in other handbooks only in a limited way, if at all. It is the only handbook or stylebook on the market that contains 1000 exercises with answers and explanations of each exercise. read more »
The Summer of My Greek Taverna: A Memoir
 | author: Tom Stone asin: 0743205413 binding: Hardcover list price: $24.00 USD amazon price: $24.00 |
Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel -- and stayed twenty-two years. On Patmos, the tiny island where St. John received the apocalyptic visions recorded in the Book of Revelations, he fell in love with Danielle, a beautiful French painter. His novel completed and sold, he decided to stay a little longer. Seven idyllic years later, after the birth of their second child, they left Patmos for Crete, where Stone taught English to civil servants and Danielle painted icons for tourists. read more »
The Cooper Hill Stylebook: A guide to writing and revision
 | author: Gregory Heyworth Rosette Liberman asin: 0970111312 binding: Paperback list price: $28.95 USD amazon price: $28.95 USD |
Practical & user-friendly guide to accurate and persuasive writing. Simplifies grammar and editing. Cuts directly to writers’ most frequent errors. Every chapter is a self-contained lesson, with clear explanations, examples, and step-by-step short cuts to clear expression. Over 1000 exercises with answers & explanations to the answers found in no other handbook. Provides all the advantages & more of best-selling handbooks at half their price. Replicable systems turn high school and college students into independent learners and parents into master teachers. read more »
How They Said It: Wise and Witty Letters from the Famous and Infamous
 | author: Rosalie Maggio asin: 0735201323 binding: Hardcover list price: $16.00 USD amazon price: $16.00 |
In her bestseller, How to Say It (over 1 million copies sold), Rosalie Maggio took readers through the rudiments of effective letterwriting. Now the acclaimed author lets 500 remarkable missives speak for themselves. Pithy, charming, and humorous letters penned by historical, political, and literary figures illustrate that the ultimate hallmarks of any good letter are clarity, sincerity, and personality. read more »
The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker
 | author: Judith A. Ranta asin: 155553564X binding: Paperback list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $19.95 USD |
During the 1830s and 1840s, Betsey Guppy Chamberlain (1797-1886), a mixed-race writer of English and Algonkian heritage, labored in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, where she penned colorful stories and sketches for two workers' magazines -- the Lowell Offering and The New England Offering. A courageous and pioneering author, Chamberlain wrote the earliest known Native American fiction and published some of the earliest prose to challenge the persecution of Native people and affirm their dignity and worth. read more »
Great Letters for Every Occasion
 | author: Rosalie Maggio asin: 0735200815 binding: Paperback list price: $18.95 USD amazon price: $14.21 USD |
The bestselling author of How to Say It brings wisdom, inspiration, and fun to the art of letterwriting. Drawing from the author's personal collection of persuasive, moving, and humorous letters, this unique resource stresses the rules of form, tone, and word choice--and shows when to break them. Aimed at a general audience whose letterwriting needs may range from simple to sophisticated, Great Letters for Every Occasion combines the advantages of a model-letter book with guidelines that allow the reader to tailor them to specific needs. read more »
