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Born Reading

by Jason Boog & Betsy Bird – Touchstone (July 15, 2014)

A program for parents and professionals on how to raise kids who love to read, featuring interviews with childhood development experts, advice from librarians, tips from authors and children’s book publishers,...

The English is Coming!

by Leslie Dunton-Downer – Touchstone (September 14, 2010)

English has fast become the number one language for everything from business and science, diplomacy and education, entertainment and environmentalism to socializing and beyond—virtually any human activity...

The First Five Pages

by Noah Lukeman – Touchstone (August 31, 2010)

IF YOU'RE TIRED OF REJECTION, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU.

Whether you are a novice writer or a veteran who has already had your work published, rejection is often a frustrating reality. Literary agents and editors...

Informal English

by Jeffrey Kacirk – Touchstone (April 05, 2005)

Gleaned from antiquated dictionaries, dialect glossaries, studies of folklore, nautical lexicons, historical writings, letters, novels, and miscellaneous sources, Informal English offers a captivating treasure...

How to Read a Book

by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren – Touchstone (May 10, 2011)

With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material.

A CNN Book of...

The Art of Dramatic Writing

by Lajos Egri – Touchstone (February 15, 1972)

Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books that have appeared in recent years, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play-construction. This book does that -- and its principles are so...

The Word Museum

by Jeffrey Kacirk – Touchstone (February 28, 2001)

ENTER A GALLERY OF WIT AND WHIMSY

As the largest and most dynamic collection of words ever assembled, the English language continues to expand. But as hundreds of new words are added annually, older ones are...

How to Write a Dirty Story

by Susie Bright – Touchstone (January 08, 2002)

For aspiring erotica writers -- and authors in any genre who want to make the "good" parts great

Susie Bright is the first and reigning queen of contemporary erotica. In How to Write a Dirty Story she reveals...