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To the buyer of this language book starts you speaking Brazilian almost overnight! Cortina Institutes, originator of the recorded method of learning languages, would like you, as a student of the Cortina Method, to have one of their language cassettes. Therefore, you have this special opportunity. AUTHOR: Cortina Staff
PUBLISHER: Holt, Henry & Company, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference 
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 | You Can Write a Mystery by Gillian Roberts
Award-winning author Gillian Roberts takes the mystery out of writing for the stable and profitable whodunit market. In Part One, she defines the genre, concentrating on core elements of the category, from developing ideas and building character profiles to researching crimes and selecting point of view. Following her examples and exercises, readers will begin to create their own story as they construct an outline filled with hooks, cliffhangers, intriguing characters and red herrings. In Part Two, she offers expert advice for editing, revising and submitting a top-notch manuscript. AUTHOR: Gillian Roberts
PUBLISHER: F & W Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | How to Say It Best by Jack Griffin
This book gives you a wide choice of words, phrases, sentences, and whole paragraphs for 39 different speech-giving occasions to help you best express what you want to say--along with one or more sample speeches for each occasion you can follow as models. AUTHOR: Jack Griffin
PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | The Playful Way to Serious Writing by Roberta Allen
For anyone who has ever dreaded the blank page or struggled to find something to write, then agonized over how best to write it, or simply found writing to be hard work, THE PLAYFUL WAY TO SERIOUS WRITING helps break down common writing barriers and free the writer within. Drawing on decades of experience in teaching creative writing and a lifetime of free artistic expression, Roberta Allen, novelist and author of FAST FICTION, has created a unique and innovative book of writing exercises, packed with hundreds of verbal directives and visual cues. combining the spirit of Sark's INSPIRATION SANDWICH and the practicality of Betty Edward's DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN, THE PLAYFUL WAY TO SERIOUS WRITING is an endless source book of ideas as well as a trusted creative companion. The key, Allen says, is energy, the force behind the words, the desire to bring forth something that has never before existed. Here, Allen puts forth her energy method, which focuses creativity without interruption or that nagging inner critic. this method can be used for any type of creative effort at any level--stories, novels, plays, memoirs, sketches, journals. Attractive, engaging, and free-ranging, THE PLAYFUL WAY TO SERIOUS WRITING will appeal to aspiring writers of all ages and is an invaluable teaching tool. AUTHOR: Roberta Allen
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | How to Get Your Point Across in Thirty Seconds or Less by Milo O. Frank
Demonstrates a dramatically effective technique, an invaluable skill that can be applied to letter or memo writing, public speaking, asking for a raise or promotion, making a point or closing a sale AUTHOR: Milo O. Frank
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Audio
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Alfred Kazin, Barry Moser, Bob Blaisdell, Donald McKay, E. W. Kemble
Twain spent seven years writing this classic novel--the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on the Mississippi provides a panoramic view of Southern society, which Twain saw as beset by greed, violence, and coldhearted brutality. At the end, Huck definitively abandons the conventional cant which he has been raised to believe in when he makes the decision to go to hell rather than betray his friend Jim and send him back to slavery. The book has been banned from time to time, beginning with its publication when it was deemed too subversive for children, until in the late 20th century when, despite its sympathetic attitude toward blacks and is violent denunciation of slavery, it has been branded racist largely because Twain's use of dialect and offensive language. AUTHOR: Alfred Kazin, Barry Moser, Bob Blaisdell, Donald McKay, E. W. Kemble
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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