The Weighty Word Book

Author : Paul M. Levitt
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826345557
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weighty Word Book written by Paul M. Levitt and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each of these twenty-six short stories takes an elaborate, circuitous path that leads to a 'weighty' one-word punch line."--School Library Journal

Author : Paul M. Levitt
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826345581
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weighty Words, Too written by Paul M. Levitt and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young readers will build their vocabularies with this new, amusing collection of weighty words.

Author : Paul M. Levitt
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826345573
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weighty Word Book written by Paul M. Levitt and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The Weighty Word Book] will appeal to kids who want to sound as smart as they are. It offers a clever, funny way to introduce new words into the vocabulary. . . . There's one word for every letter of the alphabet--wait until you see what they do with dogmatic, juxtapose and zealot."--The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colorado) "Each of these twenty-six short stories takes an elaborate, circuitous path that leads to a 'weighty' one-word punch line. . . . It's a creative and humorous approach to vocabulary building, and a natural lead in to having students create their own tall tales with multisyllabic conclusions."--School Library Journal

Author : Howard Rheingold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781889330464
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Have a Word for it written by Howard Rheingold and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Have a Word for It takes the reader to the far corners of the globe to discover words and phrases for which there are not equivalents in English. From the North Pole to New Guinea, from Easter Island to Tibet, Howard Rheingold explores more than forty familiar and obscure languages to discover genuinely useful (rather than simply odd) words that can open up new ways of understanding and experiencing life. --Sarabande Books.

Author : Chris Cander
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525654682
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weight of a Piano written by Chris Cander and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY BESTSELLER In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, on which she discovers an enrichening passion for music. Yet after she marries, her husband insists the family emigrate to America—and loses her piano in the process. In 2012, in Bakersfield, California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy is burdened by the last gift her father gave her before he and her mother died in a terrible house fire: a Blüthner upright she has never learned to play. Now a talented and independent auto mechanic, Clara’s career is put on hold when she breaks her hand trying to move the piano, and in sudden frustration she decides to sell it. Only in discovering the identity of the buyer—and the secret history of her piano—will Clara be set free to live the life of her choosing.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501144529
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinner written by Stephen King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “extraordinary” (Booklist) novel of a cursed man’s quest to find the source of his nightmare and to reverse it before he becomes…nothing at all. This #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, “pulsates with evil…[and] will have you on the edge of your seat” (Publishers Weekly). “You can’t do anything… It’s gone too far. You understand, Halleck? Too…far. Attorney Billy Halleck seriously enjoys living his life of upper-class excess. He’s got it all­—an expensive home in Connecticut, a loving family…and fifty extra pounds that his doctor repeatedly warns will be the death of him. Then, in a moment of carelessness, Halleck commits vehicular manslaughter when he strikes a jaywalking old woman crossing the street. But Halleck has some powerful local connections, and gets off with a slap on the wrist…much to the fury of the woman’s mysterious and ancient father, who exacts revenge with a single word: “Thinner.” Now a terrified Halleck finds the weight once so difficult to shed dropping effortlessly—and rapidly—by the week. Soon there will be nothing left of Billy Halleck…unless he can somehow locate the source of his living nightmare and reverse what’s happened to him before he utterly wastes away…

Author : James Wood
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374173401
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Fiction Works written by James Wood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely—from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings—Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step by step. The result is nothing less than a philosophy of the novel—plainspoken, funny, blunt—in the traditions of E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style. It sums up two decades of insight with wit and concision. It will change the way you read.

Author : Kate DiCamillo
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763667242
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flora & Ulysses written by Kate DiCamillo and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 Newbery Medal Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo. It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen to You!, is just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the squirrel) has been born anew, with powers of strength, flight, and misspelled poetry — and that Flora will be changed too, as she discovers the possibility of hope and the promise of a capacious heart. From #1 New York Times best-selling author Kate DiCamillo comes a laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric, endearing characters and featuring an exciting new format — a novel interspersed with comic-style graphic sequences and full-page illustrations, all rendered in black-and-white by up-and-coming artist K. G. Campbell.

Author : Chuck Wendig
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316706248
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dust & Grim written by Chuck Wendig and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! Miss Peregrine meets The Graveyard Book in this middle grade adventure about rival siblings running a monster mortuary. ​ Thirteen-year-old Molly doesn't know how she got the short end of the stick—being raised by her neglectful father—while Dustin, the older brother she's never met, got their mother and the keys to the family estate. But now the siblings are both orphaned, she's come home for her inheritance, and if Dustin won't welcome her into the family business, then she'll happily take her half in cash. There's just one problem: the family business is a mortuary for monsters, and Molly's not sure she's ready to deal with mysterious doors, talking wolves, a rogue devourer of magic, and a secret cemetery. It's going to take all of Dustin's stuffy supernatural knowledge and Molly's most heroic cosplay (plus a little help from non-human friends) for the siblings to figure it out and save the day...if only they can get along for five minutes. Bestselling author Chuck Wendig's middle grade debut is equal parts spooky, funny, and heartfelt—perfect for Halloween and year-round reading!

Author : Milner S. Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226036274
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Word and the Law written by Milner S. Ball and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milner Ball takes an experimental journey into the inner life of law and the careers of men and women who use it to help disadvantaged people and to strengthen the fabric of the communities in which they live. At the center of this book are portraits of seven contemporary legal practitioners—lawyers, judges, and advocates—who have devoted their lives to an unconventional vision of the law. In their work, in areas from New York City housing court to the Warm Springs reservation in Oregon, the law exemplifies fundamental human values, manifestations of what Ball calls the "Word," the presence of God in life. To develop this concept of the Word, Ball explores its workings in familiar literary and biblical texts, primarily William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Toni Morrison's Beloved, the Book of Isaiah, and the Gospel of Mark.