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  • The Best American Essays, College Edition

    • ASIN: 1133310346
    • ISBN: 1133310346
    • Brand: Brand: Cengage Learning
    • Manufacturer: Cengage Learning

    THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, Seventh College Edition, presents highly regarded contemporary authors at their best. The essays are thematically arranged and selected from the popular trade series of the same name. They also cover common rhetorical modes, including narration and argumentation, providing instructors optimal flexibility with respect to co... [Read More]

  • Fiske Guide to Colleges 2020

    • UPC: 760789271250
    • ASIN: 1492664944
    • ISBN: 1492664944
    • Manufacturer: Sourcebooks

    "The best college guide you can buy."―USA TodayEvery college and university has a story, and no one tells those stories like former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske. That's why, for more than 35 years, the Fiske Guide to Colleges has been the leading guide to 320+ four-year schools, including quotes from real students and informati... [Read More]

  • The Official SAT Study Guide, 2018 Edition (Official Study Guide for the New Sat)

    • ASIN: 1457309289
    • ISBN: 1457309289
    • Brand: COLLEGE BOARD
    • Manufacturer: College Board

    Review every skill and question type needed for SAT success – now with eight total practice tests.The 2018 edition of The Official SAT Study Guide doubles the number of official SAT® practice tests to eight – all of them created by the test maker. As part of the College Board's commitment to transparency, all practice tests are available on th... [Read More]

  • The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

    • ASIN: 0385528205
    • ISBN: 0385528205
    • Brand: Spiegel & Grau
    • Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

    Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and b... [Read More]

  • Small Great Things: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0345544978
    • ISBN: 0345544978
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult.SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE “[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism i... [Read More]

  • Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition

    • ASIN: 0316438529
    • ISBN: 9780316438520
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

    The 75th anniversary edition of this classic bestseller. This stunningly illustrated, hardcover edition will be beloved by fans of Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology of all ages.Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a ... [Read More]

  • The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need: A One-Stop Source for Every Writing Assignment

    • UPC: 045079208551
    • ASIN: 1580628559
    • ISBN: 9781580628556
    • Brand: Adams Media
    • Manufacturer: Adams Media

    Never stress over a comma, colon, or dash again! The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need is the ideal resource for everyone who wants to produce writing that is clear, concise, and grammatically excellent. Whether you're creating perfect professional documents, spectacular school papers, or effective personal letters, you'll find this handbook indis... [Read More]

  • On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

    • ASIN: 0060891548
    • ISBN: 9780060891541
    • Brand: Anchor Productions
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, ... [Read More]

  • Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)

    • ASIN: 074347712X
    • ISBN: 9780743477123
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Hamlet: An UPDATED EDITION from the Folger Shakespeare LibraryHamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however, lies in its uncertainties. ... [Read More]

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    • UPC: 800759284993
    • ASIN: 0486284999
    • ISBN: 9780486284996
    • Brand: Dover Publications
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a... [Read More]

  • The Color Purple

    • ASIN: 0156028352
    • ISBN: 9780156028356
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickWinner of the Pulitzer Prize * Winner of the National Book Award   Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters—one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South—who sustain their ... [Read More]

  • The Best American Essays 2015 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: 0544569628
    • ISBN: 0544569628
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “Writing an essay is like catching a wave,” posits guest editor Ariel Levy. “To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water.” This year’s writers are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide range of pieces awash in a diversity of moods, voices, and stances. Leaving an abusive marriage, parting with a younger se... [Read More]

  • Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

    • ASIN: 1433805596
    • ISBN: 9781433805592
    • Brand: American Psychological Association
    • Manufacturer: American Psychological Association (APA)

    In addition to providing guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APA style, this manual offers an authoritative reference and citation system. It also covers the treatment of numbers, statistical and mathematical data, tables and figures.

  • The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

    • ASIN: 0877798508
    • ISBN: 9780877798507
    • Brand: Merriam-Webster
    • Manufacturer: Merriam Webster Mass Market

    An alphabetical listing of words, with synonyms, antonyms, definitions, and examples, includes cross references from all the words listed in each expanded entry.

  • The Friend: A Novel

    • ASIN: B0721HK732
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE VIEW'S SUMMER READ 2019 PICKS!"A beautiful book … a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love." —Wall Street Journal"A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...Nunez has a wry, withering wit." —NPR"Dry, allusive and charming…the ... [Read More]

  • Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

    • ASIN: B07CR1L3ZN
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The perfect graduation gift: A sharp, funny grammar guide they’ll actually want to read, from Random House’s longtime copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language gurus “Essential (and delightful!)”—People, “Book of the Week” We all write, all the time: books, blogs, emails. Lots and lots of em... [Read More]

  • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

    • ASIN: 014303653X
    • ISBN: 014303653X
    • Brand: Neil Postman
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever."It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNNOriginally publ... [Read More]

  • The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition)

    • ASIN: 0805210601
    • ISBN: 0805210601
    • Brand: Schocken
    • Manufacturer: Schocken

    A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more.While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying m... [Read More]

  • The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

    • ASIN: B01BHH8OIY
    • Manufacturer: DK

    A global look at the greatest works of Eastern and Western literature and the themes that unite them, for students and lovers of literature and reading. The Literature Book is a fascinating journey through the greatest works of world literature, from the Iliad to Don Quixote to The Great Gatsby. Around 100 crystal-clear articles explore landmark no... [Read More]

  • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition

    • ASIN: 0684843323
    • ISBN: 9780684843322
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway's short stories, readers will delight in the author's most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first t... [Read More]

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