Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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How to Speak Midwestern
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Pittsburgh toilet, squeaky cheese, city chicken, shampoo banana, and Chevy in the Hole are all phrases that are familiar to Midwesterners but sou...
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The Soul of Central New York: Syracuse Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A group of strangers risk death along the New York State Thruway to save a soldier from a burning truck. The true story, as told by football lege...
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The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /CHOSEN BY THE ECONOMIST AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAn American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and Ameri...
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Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Hailed by book reviewers as a "masterpiece," "gorgeous and fascinating," and "sheer pleasure," Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape was...
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Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Are you considered a "dingbatter," or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks?Have you ever noticed a picture in your house hanging a little "si...
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Isle of Devils, Isle of Saints: An Atlantic History of Bermuda, 1609-1684
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$80.99$80.99 - $80.99Current price $80.99| /How can the small, isolated island of Bermuda help us to understand the early expansion of English America?First discovered by Europeans in 1505, t...
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God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed religion scholar, Stephen Prothero, captures the compelling and unique saga of twentieth-century Am...
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American Deadline: Reporting from Four News-Starved Towns in the Trump Era
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The dramatic events of 2020--the presidential election, the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for racial justice--affected every corner of American life....
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Jimmy Breslin: Essential Writings (Loa #377)
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Rediscover the golden age of journalism, when columns were events, through this collection of more than 70 pieces by a master stylist and larger-...
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The Library Book
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Susan Orlean's bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is "a sheer delight...as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the ...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /50th Anniversary Edition - With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalist This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the b...
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Tell Me a Story I Don't Know
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In Tell Me a Story I Don't Know, veteran sports reporter and broadcaster George Ofman shares his most fascinating conversations with some of the b...
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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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A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning...
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The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A look at the history of the idea of the objective journalist and how this very ideal can often be used to undercut itself. In The View from So...
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Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s In Impermanent ...
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