Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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Lederer on Language: A Celebration of English, Good Grammar, and Wordplay
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this wide-ranging collection of essays, best-selling language writer Richard Lederer offers readers more of the irrepressible word play his fa...
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Good Grammar is the Life of the Party: Tips for a Wildly Successful Life
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /"Those who can't be bothered with another dry grammar guide owe it to themselves to give this a look." -Publishers Weekly Grammar rules! Good...
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The Big Book of Jewish Humor
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A joyous and giftable collection of Jewish humor from every source imaginable: literature, jokes, children’s books, magazines, comics, newspapers...
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The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay M ore Than Some Antics
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on human history....
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Flash Nonfiction Funny: 71 Very Humorous, Very True, Very Short Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From Dinty W. Moore, founding editor of the popular journal Brevity and prolific and pioneering author of several books of creative nonfiction, i...
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Vastly informative and vastly entertaining...A scholarly and fascinating book." --Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bil...
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Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published." -- Kevin Kelly, Cool ToolsThe renowned author of Understanding Comics offers brilliant instru...
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Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A sharp, funny grammar guide they'll actually want to read, from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter'...
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Blimey, I'm Knackered!: An American's Survival Guide to British English
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Brit Speak for Yanks! Back in 1887, Oscar Wilde wrote, "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language." O...
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Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian (a Funny Gift for Grammar Lovers)
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A fresh and democratic take on language by a gifted teacher." --Mary Norris"[Jovin] never hectors, never finger-points; she en...
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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times bestseller One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in o...
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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“A literate exploration of why we use—or mangle—our native tongue.”—USA Today Bill Bryson celebrates America’s magnificent offspring in the book ...
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Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"A truly delightful smorgasbord of history and linguistics that kept us entertained—and made us hungry."—Apple Books "Scrumptious...This book was...
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Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Entertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End “convey[s] the power of wit to refresh the mind” (Henry Hitchings, Wall Street Journal...
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How to Talk Minnesotan: Revised for the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A revised edition of the hilarious Minnesotan culture guide from a former writer for A Prairie Home CompanionFans of the Minnesota-set movie Farg...
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The Complete How to Speak Southern
HardcoverOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The laugh sensation that swept the nation, How to Speak Southern and More How to Speak Southern, is now collected in one complete–and completely ...
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