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The Great Book of Journaling: How Journal Writing Can Support a Life of Wellness, Creativity, Meaning and Purpose (How to Journaling Self-Help) - Paperback

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by Eric Maisel (Editor), Lynda Monk (Editor)The Great Book of Journaling provides calming tools for quelling worry and anxiety, as well as expert writing tips and evidence-based research, to introduce a younger generation to the immense benefits of journaling and provide all journal writers with the tools they need to grow, heal, and deepen their personal writing experience. Psychotherapist Eric Maisel, PhD, and Director of the International Association for Journal Writing Lydia Monk, MSW, RS...

How To Write A Book ASAP: The Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Your First Book Fast! - Paperback

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by Garrett Paul Pierson (Author)How To Write A Book ASAP by Garrett Pierson Have you ever wanted to write a book? Have you started to write your book, but weren't able to finish? Are you ready to learn how to get a book published? Discover inside secrets to: Writing a book fast Where and how to start writing your book Finding the time in your busy life to write and finish a book Publishing a book the easy way Achieving real and practical writing results This book is for those of us...

Navajo Alphabet: The Navajo Sound System: Vowels and Consonants - Paperback

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by Bernhard Michaelis (Author), Bernhard Michaelis (Photographer), Native Child Dinetah (Author)The letters in this Navajo Alphabet book are introduced with beautiful photos, reflecting Navajo culture, tradition and environment. Each Navajo word is spelled out in Din Bizaad (Navajo language), and its corresponding English translation. Putting the Navajo consonants and vocals into a cultural context, affirms the Navajo Child's language and identity and also introduces non native children to a...

Mitologia para curiosos: Escritura creativa - Paperback

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by Patricia Sanchez-Cutillas (Author)"Mitología para curiosos" está dirigido a lectores inquietos que quieren conocer el significado de los mitos, a escritores noveles o consagrados, a profesores. Habla de los mitos, los interpreta, los relaciona con la literatura universal y, al final de cada capítulo, hay una propuesta de escritura, llamada" Elección artística", con sugerencias e ideas para escribir basándose en lo contado. Si te gusta escribir y tienes bloqueos o quieres enriquecer tus esc...

Dirty Talk Guide: The Language of Lust - How to Talk Dirty to Your Partner, Become His Sexual Obsession and Realize Your Wildest Fantasi - Paperback

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by Kelly Kinsey (Author)HTML - Copy This to AmazonMaster The Art Of Dirty Talk & Make Your Partner Beg For More Using This AWESOME Guide Are you looking for a simple, practical way to spice up your love life and have your partner eating off the palm of your hand?Talk dirty to them Talking dirty may sound super simple, but majority of the human race beg to differ.Dirty talk is a make-or-break endeavor. When executed perfectly, it can send shivers down your partner's spine and make them qui...

Women Who Trust: Simple And Practical Tips To Create A Powerful Legacy, Growth And Impact - Paperback

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by Izdihar Jamil (Author)Embark on a transformative journey with "Women Who Trust," crafted by bold female leaders across the globe. This book goes beyond mere inspiration, offering actionable steps and key insights that empower you to create a lasting legacy.These pages resonate with simplicity and depth, covering topics such as entrepreneurial wisdom, embracing grief through poetry, expanding spirituality, and making bold, logical decisions.Discover how to trust the Universe's guidance and ...

Writing Tools for the College Admissions Essay: Write Your Way Into the School of Your Dreams

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Report copyright infringementby Roy Peter Clark (Author)The essential guide to crafting the winning college admissions essay that only you could write, from America's favorite writing coach. Most high school students never have received any instruction in how to write a personal essay. Yet at a time when getting admitted to their dream college is more competitive than ever, the admissions essay may turn out to be the single most important thing they will ever write. The stakes are high. In ...

Princeton Review AP English Language & Composition Premium Prep, 20th Edition: 8 Practice Tests + Digital Practice Online + Content Review

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Report copyright infringementby The Princeton Review (Author)PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5! Ace the newly-digital AP English Language & Composition Exam with this comprehensive study guide--including 8 practice tests with answer explanations, timed online practice, and thorough content review. Techniques That Actually Work- Tried-and-true strategies to help you avoid traps and beat the test- Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically- Essential tactics to help you work smarter, no...

Paying for College, 2026: Everything You Need to Maximize Financial Aid and Afford College

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Report copyright infringementby The Princeton Review (Author), Kalman Chany (Author), Geoffrey Martz (Author)A SMARTER WAY TO PAY FOR COLLEGE. Take control of your financial aid experience with this essential guide--the only annual guidebook with line-by-line instructions for completing the FAFSA aid forms! Includes guidance for how to handle delays to the redesigned FAFSA. "A first-rate guide through the financial aid maze." --Lynn Brenner, Newsday "Can save thousands in college bills." --J...

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Report copyright infringementby Amanda Montell (Author)"One of those life-changing reads that makes you see--or, in this case, hear--the whole world differently." --Megan Angelo, author of Followers"At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest thing about cults is that you don't realize you're in one till it's too late."--Refinery29.comThe New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Magical Overthinking and Wordslut anal...

Language and Life on Ocracoke: The Living History of the Brogue

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Reaser (Author), Walt Wolfram (Author), Candy Gaskill (Author)In this follow-up to the celebrated Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram, and Candy Gaskill have produced the most comprehensive linguistic look at Ocracoke yet. Many visitors are drawn to Ocracoke's natural beauty and fascinating dialect, known as the Ocracoke Brogue. During the summer on the island, despite the required ferry ride to even set foot there, tourists (or, ...

Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word

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Report copyright infringementby Megan C. Reynolds (Author)A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language.Few words in the English language are as misunderstood as "like." Indeed, excessive use of this word is a surefire way to make those who pride themselves on propriety, both grammatical and otherwise, feel compelled to issue correctives.But what the detractors of this word fail to understand is its true function and versatil...

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Spinney (Author)The enthralling story of how today's largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world's population, descended from one ancient dialect. Daughter. Duhit?r-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these English, Sanskrit, Armenian and Lithuanian words, all meaning the same thing, and you hear echoes of one of history's most unlikely journeys. All four languages-along with hundreds of others, from French and Gaelic, to Persian and Polish-trace their...

Your Stripped Bare Guide to Citing & Using History Sources

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Shown Mills (Author)This work is an abbreviated distillation of the evidence analysis found in Mrs. Mills' classic work, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, Fourth Edition (2024). This guide is stripped down to the bare essentials you need to know to do reliable history research: thirteen guidelines for evidence analysis, thirteen guidelines for documentation, and fourteen templates for citing any kind of history ...

Schott's Significa: A Miscellany of Secret Languages

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Schott (Author)From the author of the international bestseller Schott's Original Miscellany comes a visually rich book that breaks down the colorful language and systems of signs that make up the vocabulary of our world. Named a Best Book of October 2025 by Kirkus, Financial Times, and Town & Country Here is an obsessive and fascinating look at the systems of language and knowledge that surrounds us. Ben Schott breaks down the lingo, slang, and jargon ...

That Book Is Dangerous!: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Szetela (Author)An alarming exposé of the new challenges to literary freedom in the age of social media--when anyone with an identity and an internet connection can be a censor. In That Book Is Dangerous!, Adam Szetela investigates how well-intentioned and often successful efforts to diversify American literature have also produced serious problems for literary freedom. Although progressives are correct to be focused on right-wing attempts at legislative c...

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Report copyright infringementby J. M. Coetzee (Author), Mariana Dim?pulos (Author)Language, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues--taking the form of a dialogue between Nobel laureate novelist J. M. Coetzee and eminent translator Mariana Dim?pulos--examines some of the most pressing linguistic issues that plague writers and translators well into the twenty-first ce...

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Sinykin (Author), Johanna Winant (Author)A user's guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises Close reading--making an argument based in close attention to a text--is the foundation of literary studies. This book offers a guide to close reading, treating it as a skill that can be taught and practiced. It first explains what close reading is, what it does, and how it has been used across theore...

The Language-Lover's Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Blackburn (Author)Dreyer's English meets Schott's Original Miscellany in this delicious tour of the lesser-known wonders of the language world, perfect for language lovers, word nerds, and the incurably curious. A delightful rollick through language unlike any you've ever experienced. As the inventor of the bestselling game about words, League of the Lexicon, Joshua Blackburn has created an A-Z that's part-encyclopedia, part-treasure map, and an all-arou...

I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking: Collected Nonfiction

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Report copyright infringementby Joan Didion (Author), Griffin Dunne (Introduction by)This second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work, The Year of Magical Thinking. In her essay "Why I Write" (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained what lies behind her iconic nonfiction writing: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'...

Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

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Report copyright infringementby Yoko Tawada (Author), Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (Translator) I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not "imitation" per se. All of these things I learn leave traces that slowly grow to coexist with my accent. And that balancing act goes on changing indefinitely. How perfect that Yoko Tawada's first essay in English dives deep into her lifelong fascination with the possibilities op...

Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell

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Report copyright infringementby Gabe Henry (Author)A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter.Why does the G in George sound different from the G in gorge? Why does C begin both case and cease? And why is it funny when a philologist faints, but not polight to laf about it? Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to write in English has, at one time or another, struggled with its sp...

Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words

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Report copyright infringementby John McWhorter (Author)With his trademark humor and flair, bestselling linguist John McWhorter busts the myths and shares the history of the most controversial language topic of our times: pronouns The nature of language is to shift and evolve--but every so often, a new usage creates a whole lot of consternation. These days, pronouns are throwing curveballs, and it matters, because pronoun habits die hard. If you need a refresher from eighth-grade English: Pron...

Japan Now! a Japanese Language Reader: Bilingual Stories and Essays about Contemporary Japan (with Free Online Audio Recordings)

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Report copyright infringementby Sato (Author), Anna Sato (Author)Learn about contemporary Japan while improving your language skills! JAPAN NOW! A Japanese Language Reader contains 17 fascinating stories and essays about contemporary Japanese society in parallel Japanese and English versions on facing pages. The stories are written by a number of experienced commentators on Japan, each with a distinctive style and point of view. Vocabulary lists, notes, exercises and discussion questions make...

Arabic Folktales for Language Learners: Traditional Stories in Arabic and English (Free Bilingual Online Audio)

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Risha (Author)Learn about Arabic culture while improving your language skills! This fascinating book presents 28 traditional Arabic tales in parallel English and Arabic versions on facing pages. The stories all have charming black & white illustrations, and include: The Blue-Eyed Yamamah: The story of a legendary blue-eyed woman who has the amazing ability to see far into the distance Layla and the Wolf: The story of a little girl who faces grav...

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Report copyright infringementby Sue Monk Kidd (Author), Ann Kidd Taylor (Foreword by)From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings: an intimate work on the mysteries, frustrations, and triumphs of being a writer, and an instructive guide to awakening the soul. When Sue Monk Kidd was in high school, a home economics teacher wrote a list of potential occupations for women on the blackboard: teacher, nurse, librarian, secretary. "Writer" was nowhere to be found...

Abdullahi Haji: My Life Through News Media

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Report copyright infringementby Abdullahi Haji Abdi (Author), Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe (Editor), Ahmed Sh Mohamud (Editor) ABDULLAHI HAJI: MY LIFE THROUGH NEWS MEDIA captures the extraordinary journey of Abdullahi Haji Abdi, one of Somali broadcasting's pioneering voices whose career spanned the most transformative periods in Somali history.In Somali culture, news is community connection itself. For a predominantly oral society that endured colonial rule and didn't see official Somali orthogra...

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Report copyright infringementby Shay Rahm (Editor), Lani Riana Jones (Designed by)New Plains Review, a student-run literary journal at the University of Central Oklahoma, proudly receives hundreds of submissions from all over the world. Keeping with the University of Central Oklahoma's goals of both excellence and diversity, it is our mission to share with our readers thought-provoking, quality work from a diverse number of authors and artists around the world. We are eager to help these crea...

The Well-Spoken Woman: Your Guide to Looking and Sounding Your Best - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Christine K. Jahnke (Author)Sheryl Sandberg advises women to "lean in" to realize their full potential. To do so successfully, women need effective communication skills and a confident presentation style.In this must-have guide, one of the nation's premier speech coaches shares tested techniques from twenty years of coaching women on what works and what doesn't. The author details the practices and techniques of successful women to help all women improve their ...

Help! My Kid Hates Writing: How to Turn Struggling Students Into Brave Writers

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Report copyright infringementby Julie Bogart (Author)A practical resource to help you turn struggle into success and become the writing coach your kid needs--from the creator of the award-winning Brave Writer curriculum Writing is often hard--for kids and for adults. How can we help our children get past the difficulties and learn the writing skills that are so necessary for communication, creativity, and critical thinking? In Help! My Kid Hates Writing, Julie Bogart shares the secrets to bre...

Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Aleksic (Author)From linguist Adam Aleksic, known as @etymologynerd on social media, comes a captivating exploration of how internet algorithms are transforming language and communication in unprecedented ways. "Packed with fascinating facts, of-the-moment observations, and a sparkling voice, Algospeak is a gift to any word nerd. Deftly covering everything from emoji etymologies and trendbait to Taylor Swift fanilects... Adam Aleksic is the wise, yet acces...

Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Houston (Author)We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji's impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, Keith Houston follows emoji from its birth in 1990s Japan, traces its Western explosion in the 2000s, and considers emoji's ever-expanding lexicon. Named for the world's most popular pictogram, Face with Tears of Joy tells the whole story of em...