Words Fail Me

Author : Patricia T. O'Conner
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547546874
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words Fail Me written by Patricia T. O'Conner and published by HMH. This book was released on 2000-09-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Woe Is I: A guide to grammar fundamentals that’s sympathetic to the struggling writer and often just plain funny” (The Seattle Times). Whether you need to improve your skills for work or school, or aspire to the Great American Novel, a grounding in grammar, spelling, and punctuation is essential—not just to make you look like a professional but to communicate effectively in emails, essays, or anything you need to write. This painless, practical book is filled with short, snappy chapters, crystal-clear examples, and a “playful sense of humor” (The New York Times Book Review)—covering everything from “Pronoun Pileups” and “Verbs That Zing” to “What to Do When You’re Stuck.” With these simple, straightforward tips, you can learn how to sort your thoughts and make sentences that make sense. “Students writing papers, employees preparing reports, and those who just want to be understood in print may benefit from this fun-to-use answer to Strunk and White. O’Connor uses humor as she takes apart sentences and their parts and shows how each element is used effectively.” —Booklist

Author : Teresa Monachino
Publisher : Polygon
ISBN 13 : 9781846975233
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words Fail Me written by Teresa Monachino and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this reissue of the bestselling Words Fail Me, Teresa Monachino rounds up and breaks down a variety of unruly words: words lacking in integrity, misleading words that do not mean what they say, words that mean more than they say, words with inconsistent pronunciation or spellings that are just plain cruel! Using striking and witty graphic design the author demands answers to such troublesome questions as, why is abbreviation such a long word, does monosyllabic really need five syllables and why is lisp so hard to say if you have one?

Author : Ed Vulliamy
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783783389
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Words Fail written by Ed Vulliamy and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can music make the world a better place? Can it really 'belong' to anyone? Can the magic, mystery and incertitude of music - of the human brain meeting or making sound - can it stop wars, rehabilitate the broken, unite, educate or inspire? From Jimi Hendrix playing 'Machine Gun' at The Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 to the Bataclan under siege in 2015, Ed Vulliamy has lived the music, met the legends, and asked, when words fail, might we turn to music? There's only one way to find out, and that is to listen...

Author : Nick Wallis
Publisher : Bath Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1838439056
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Post Office Scandal written by Nick Wallis and published by Bath Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Post Office Scandal is the extraordinary story behind the recent ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office. This gripping page-turner recounts how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from Horizon, the flawed computer system designed by Fujitsu, and how a group of them, led by Alan Bates, took their fight to the High Court. Their eventual victory in court vindicated their claims about the defects of the software and exposed the heavy handed attempts by the Post Office to suppress them. The book also chronicles how successive senior managers, business leaders, lawyers, civil servants and Government ministers, at best failed to expose the injustice or, even worse, sought to cover it up, resulting in one of the largest miscarriages of justice in UK history. The author, Nick Wallis, is a journalist and broadcaster who has been reporting on the scandal for over ten years and who acted as script consultant on Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the ITV drama that brought the affair into the national consciousness. As the public inquiry reaches its climax, and senior figures such as Paula Vennells come to be questioned, The Great Post Office Scandal reveals the full scale of what happened and will leave you enraged at how so many of our trusted institutions allowed the saga to go on for nearly a quarter of a century, shattering the lives of thousands of innocent people.

Author : Jennifer Donnelly
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 035806368X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Northern Light written by Jennifer Donnelly and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.

Author : Una LaMarche
Publisher : Razorbill
ISBN 13 : 1595148175
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Fail Me Now written by Una LaMarche and published by Razorbill. This book was released on 2015 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interracial half-siblings come together for the first time and embark on a cross-country road trip to confront their absentee father before he dies.

Author : Scott Blackwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Our House written by Scott Blackwood and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scott Blackwood's debut collection of thematically linked stories, people live on the cusp of the past and present, saddled with the knowledge that "sometimes what you're thinking can't be dovetailed with what you do.” Set in Austin, Texas, the nine stories are told in spare language freighted with a sense of loss and dread, responsibility and fate. The characters in Blackwood's narratives face the result of the irrevocable choice they've made, accept their losses, and attempt to forge something meaningful out of what remains of their frayed connections to one another. In "Alias,” a man grapples with the decision to kidnap his step-daughter's child and raise her himself. During a medical crisis, a woman in "New Years" is forced to confront her growing estrangement from her teenage son and comfort her ex-husband's lover. In "Worry," a fifteen-year-old faces his father's infidelity and his own darkening vision of himself and the world around him. And in the title story, neighbors ponder what, if anything, they can do about the disappearance from their midst of Odie Dodd, an aging physician who witnessed the Jonestown mass suicide in Guyana. The moments Blackwood takes his stories to are small and quiet, but they contain whole worlds with wisdom coming at you--slow, certain, indelible.

Author : Kathy Fogg Berry
Publisher : Kregel Academic
ISBN 13 : 0825445590
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Words Fail written by Kathy Fogg Berry and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encouragement and guidance for ministering to those with dementia Millions of Christians suffer from dementia diseases such as Alzheimer's, making ministry to them difficult as they lose memories and the ability to communicate. Drawing on her years of experience as a long-term care chaplain, Kathy Berry provides practical information and tools to equip ministers and lay leaders to meet the spiritual and pastoral needs of those living with dementia. Chapters cover vital topics, including these: · Identifying those who may be showing signs of dementia and learning how to support them as they seek a diagnosis · Communicating with dementia patients as their language skills decline · Meeting the emotional, spiritual, and physical needs of people with dementia--and the needs of their caregivers An invaluable resource to meet a growing need for congregations around the country, When Words Fail equips readers to answer Christ's call to minister to "the least of these."

Author : Hayley Long
Publisher : Hot Key Books
ISBN 13 : 1471404781
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sophie Someone written by Hayley Long and published by Hot Key Books. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award. A remarkable tale of confusion and betrayal - and a very special girl called Sophie. 'Some stories are hard to tell. Even to your very best friend. And some words are hard to get out of your mouth. Because they spell out secrets that are too huge to be spoken out loud. But if you bottle them up, you might burst. So here's my story. Told the only way I dare tell it.' Sophie Nieuwenleven is sort of English and sort of Belgian. Sophie and her family came to live in Belgium when she was only four or five years old, but she's fourteen now and has never been quite sure why they left England in the first place. Then, one day, Sophie makes a startling discovery. Finally Sophie can unlock the mystery of who she really is. This is a story about identity and confusion - and feeling so utterly freaked out that you just can't put it into words. But it's also about hope. And the belief that, somehow, everything will work out OK. SOPHIE SOMEONE is a tale of well-intentioned but stupid parenting, shock, acceptance and, ultimately, forgiveness, written in a brave, memorable and unique language all of its own.

Author : Jonty Claypole
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782835083
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words Fail Us written by Jonty Claypole and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'TIMELY' David Mitchell 'MOVING ... REMARKABLE' SUNDAY TIMES 'ONE OF THOSE RARE BOOKS I HADN'T REASLISED I'D BEEN WAITING FOR UNTIL I READ IT.' Owen Sheers 'OPEN-MINDED, THOUGHTFUL AND WISE... A LIBERATING BOOK' Colm Toibin In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what if hyper-fluency is not only unachievable but undesirable? Jonty Claypole spent fifteen years of his life in and out of extreme speech therapy. From sessions with child psychologists to lengthy stuttering boot camps and exposure therapies, he tried everything until finally being told the words he'd always feared: 'We can't cure your stutter.' Those words started him on a journey towards not only making peace with his stammer but learning to use it to his advantage. Here, Jonty argues that our obsession with fluency could be hindering, rather than helping, our creativity, authenticity and persuasiveness. Exploring other speech conditions, such as aphasia and Tourette's, and telling the stories of the 'creatively disfluent' - from Lewis Carroll to Kendrick Lamar - Jonty explains why it's time for us to stop making sense, get tongue tied and embrace the life-changing power of inarticulacy.