Strictly English

Hardcover | 336 pages | Random House Books | Language Arts - Linguistics
978-1-84794-630-0 (1-84794-630-5)

November 23, 2010 | $34.95

Strictly English

Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Random House Books | Language Arts - Linguistics
978-1-84794-631-7 (1-84794-631-3)

November 23, 2010 | $27.95

Advice to Writers

eBook | 240 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Language Arts - Reference; Reference - Quotations
978-0-307-55415-4 (0-307-55415-5)

November 17, 2010 | $21.00



Here from more than four hundred of the world's most celebrated writers and booksmiths--from Euripides and Eudora Welty to Cynthia Ozick and P. J. O'Rourke--is a treasury of useful advice on the world and work of writing. Compiled by the author of The Rich Are Different and the best-selling Portable Curmudgeon...

The Art of the Interview

eBook | 480 pages | Three Rivers Press | Language Arts - Journalism; Reference - Writing Skills
978-0-307-51330-4 (0-307-51330-0)

November 17, 2010 | $20.00



THE ULTIMATE INSIDER’S LOOK AT THE FINE ART OF INTERVIEWING

“I had a fantasy the other night that this interview is so great that they no longer want me to act—just do interviews. I thought of us going all over the world doing interviews—we’ve signed for three interviews a day for six...

Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes and Heroines

eBook | 216 pages | Lone Eagle | Language Arts - Authorship
978-0-307-87512-9 (0-307-87512-1)

November 17, 2010 | $21.95

Learn to Sign the Fun Way!

eBook | 216 pages | Three Rivers Press | Language Arts - Sign Language
978-0-307-55734-6 (0-307-55734-0)

November 17, 2010 | $16.95



The perfect guide to signing for everyone!
Never before has learning to sign been so simple and so much fun! Whether you are a teacher or a parent, this lively self-guided book of American Sign Language (ASL) will quickly become your kids' new favorite teacher!
Learn to Sign the Fun Way goes beyond...

Madrigals Magic Key to Spanish

eBook | 512 pages | Main Street Books | Language Arts - Reference
978-0-307-75487-5 (0-307-75487-1)

November 17, 2010 | $17.99



Anyone can read, write, and speak Spanish in only a few short weeks with this unique and proven method, which completely eliminates rote memorization and boring drills.

Original B & W illustrations.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Screenplay Workbook

eBook | 208 pages | Lone Eagle | Language Arts - Composition & Creative Writing; Performing Arts - Film - Screenwriting
978-0-307-87520-4 (0-307-87520-2)

November 17, 2010 | $22.95

The Weekend Novelist

eBook | 288 pages | Billboard Books | Language Arts - Authorship
978-0-307-87505-1 (0-307-87505-9)

November 17, 2010 | $21.00



Who doesn't dream of writing a novel while holding on to a day job? Robert J. Ray and coauthor Bret Norris can help readers do just that, with this proven practical and accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends. The Weekend Novelist shows writers...

Guardian Style, 3rd edition

Hardcover | 384 pages | Guardian Books | Language Arts - Journalism; Reference - Writing Skills
978-0-85265-222-0 (0-85265-222-4)

October 26, 2010 | $54.95

Tokyo Vice

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage | True Crime - Organized Crime; Language Arts - Journalism; Travel - Asia - Japan
978-0-307-47529-9 (0-307-47529-8)

October 5, 2010 | $18.95



From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime...

A Family of Readers

Hardcover | 368 pages | Candlewick | Education - Parent Participation; Language Arts - Readers; Reference
978-0-7636-3280-9 (0-7636-3280-5)

September 28, 2010 | $26.00

The Last Speakers

Hardcover | 304 pages | National Geographic | Social Science - Anthropology; Social Science - Anth/Cultural; Language Arts - Linguistics
978-1-4262-0461-6 (1-4262-0461-2)

September 21, 2010 | $32.00



Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach disappearing languages to younger...

Page Fright

Trade Paperback | 360 pages | Emblem Editions | Language Arts - Authorship; History; Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-7710-1713-1 (0-7710-1713-8)

September 21, 2010 | $21.00



A witty round-up of writers' habits that includes all the big names, such as Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hemingway
At public events readers always ask writers how they write. The process fascinates them. Now they have a very witty book that ranges around the world and throughout history to answer their questions. All...

Naked, Drunk, and Writing

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Ten Speed Press | Language Arts - Composition & Creative Writing
978-1-58008-480-2 (1-58008-480-X)

August 31, 2010 | $16.99



An instructive, inspiring, and refreshingly irreverent guide that shows aspiring writers how to cast off self-doubt and concoct a stellar memoir.

The award-winning author of an autobiographical newspaper column, Adair Lara has written more than ten books, including the memoir Hold Me Close, Let Me Go. Packed with insight and humor, Naked...