Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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Or Did You Ever See The Other Side?
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Internationally acclaimed ekphrastic poet Hedy Habra's most recent collection is luminous and powerful in its exploration of women and art. Or Did ...
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Serious Face: Essays
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From the discovery of the author's face in a century-old photograph to a triple-amputee hospice director working at the border of life and death, h...
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Comforts of the Abyss: The Art of Persona Writing
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Throughout his growth as a writer, acclaimed poet Philip Schultz has battled with the dark voice in his head--the "shitbird," as his late friend th...
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Massaging the Medium: Seven Pechakuchas
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A series of poetic probes and philosophical musings based on 7 pechakucha presentations, and featuring 140 original collage illustrations, Massagin...
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Martian: The Saint of Loneliness
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the 2021 Academy of American Poets James Laughlin Award A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Poetry A blistering exploration o...
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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling. "There's no...
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Writing Poetry in the Dark
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Writing Poetry in the Dark brings together some of the most successful contemporary genre poets to discuss topics related to creating dark and fant...
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Making Myths and Magic: A Field Guide to Writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Do you daydream about dragons, robots, and time-traveling shenanigans? It's time to get that fantastic world that's been stuck in your head onto p...
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Land of the Dead: Lessons from the Underworld on Storytelling and Living
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /From Brian McDonald, an expert on the narrative arts, comes a remarkable non-fiction graphic novel about the art of storytelling.There is wisdom in...
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A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to...
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Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Unforgettable Short Stories
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories that touch the hearts and minds of readers. "A writer," Nobel Prize winner Saul Be...
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Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read . . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in natur...
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Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Celebrate Robert Frost's 150th birthday with a deluxe keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems—with brilliant essays highlighting his ...
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The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems...
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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they sa...
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The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awar...
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The Best of Royko: The Tribune Years
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /For more than 30 years, Mike Royko was a part of the daily fabric of Chicagoans' lives, penning often humorous and always honest columns first for ...
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on wha...
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Why Do We Say That? - 404 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings & Facts! An English Idiom Dictionary To Become A Native Speaker By Learning Colloquial Expressions,
HardcoverOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Curious about the fascinating origins and historical context behind certain common expressions, such as "up in the air" or "brain drain"? Ever wond...
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A Dance Horizontal
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A Dance Horizontal redefines contemporary poetry. In his first book, Lyon shares over a hundred unique poems that explore a multitude of enthrallin...
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Reading Between the Lines: Parish Libraries and Their Readers in Early Modern England, 1558-1709
HardcoverOriginal price $167.00 - Original price $167.00Original price $167.00$181.99$181.99 - $181.99Current price $181.99| /This book provides an overview of the establishment and use of parish libraries in early modern England and includes a thematic analysis of survivi...
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All of Us: The Human Experience
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Multiple Authors: Magalitto, Antimony Daedalian, Clinton Clark, Selinda Kennedy-Bryant, Syreeta Wright Dougherty, Winona Patterson, Hope PennedAll ...
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A Robin's Egg Renaissance: Chicago Modernism & the Great War
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The history of modernism in Chicago, as told by the writers who were there. London, Paris, and New York all have their chroniclers, and now Chicag...
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Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship ...
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