The New Well-tempered Sentence

The New Well-tempered Sentence

Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780618382019

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The basic rules governing the use of periods, semicolons, hyphens, commas, and other punctuation marks are illustrated by original explanations and humorous sample sentences. Reprint.


On the Same Page

On the Same Page

Author: Janet Allen

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1040289231

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Maya Angelou says, Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning. On the Same Page celebrates the use of our voices in shared reading with students to help them gain deeper understanding of the texts we read. If you have enjoyed the increased engagement and motivation that accompany reading with your students and wondered how to extend those benefits throughout the day, this book offers support for using this approach as a foundation for learning across content areas. On the Same Page explores the use of shared reading as an instructional approach for readers and writers at all levels of language proficiency. Janet Allen provides research, resources, practical ideas, and strategies for building from shared reading to increase students' literate experiences in a variety of curricular and instructional areas:strategic reading and comprehension;building background knowledge for content literacy;personal, academic, and public writing;transitions to independent reading;community knowledge and literature circles;increased vocabulary;modeled fluency. On the Same Page is enriched with a wide range of student work as well as extensive appendices of additional resources, graphic organizers, suggested reading lists, and teaching guides for implementation of shared reading in your classroom.


The Disheveled Dictionary

The Disheveled Dictionary

Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780618381968

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Uses imaginative examples to illustrate the meaning of words from abrogate, brouhaha, and cachinnate to susurration, truculence, and voluble.


The Deluxe Transitive Vampire

The Deluxe Transitive Vampire

Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 1993-08-10

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0679418601

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Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.


Sin and Syntax

Sin and Syntax

Author: Constance Hale

Publisher: Three Rivers Press

Published: 2001-12-04

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0767908929

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Today’s writers need more spunk than Strunk: whether it's the Great American e-mail, Madison Avenue advertising, or Grammy Award-winning rap lyrics, memorable writing must jump off the page. Copy veteran Constance Hale is on a mission to make creative communication, both the lyrical and the unlawful, an option for everyone. With its crisp, witty tone, Sin and Syntax covers grammar’s ground rules while revealing countless unconventional syntax secrets (such as how to use—Gasp!—interjections or when to pepper your prose with slang) that make for sinfully good writing. Discover how to: *Distinguish between words that are “pearls” and words that are “potatoes” * Avoid “couch potato thinking” and “commitment phobia” when choosing verbs * Use literary devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, and metaphor (and understand what you're doing) Everyone needs to know how to write stylish prose—students, professionals, and seasoned writers alike. Whether you’re writing to sell, shock, or just sing, Sin and Syntax is the guide you need to improve your command of the English language.


Paris Out of Hand

Paris Out of Hand

Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 1996-08

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9780811809696

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An illustrated guide to a surrealist Paris. At the Cinema l'Ange des Sables, they show only movies shot in the desert, while in the Cafe Dada you insert food into an automatic dispenser and get money. By the author of The Red Shoes.


Called Out of Darkness

Called Out of Darkness

Author: Anne Rice

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0307270475

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The first memoir from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Interview with a Vampire—a "very affecting story of a well-known prodigal’s return ... [a] vivid, engaging tale of the journey of a soul into light” (Chicago Sun-Times). Anne Rice was raised in New Orleans as the devout child in a deeply religious Irish Catholic family. Here, she describes how, as she grew up, she lost her belief in God, but not her desire for a meaningful life. She used her novels—beginning with Interview with a Vampire—to wrestle with otherworldly themes while in her own life, she experienced both loss (the death of her daughter and, later, her beloved husband, Stan Rice) and joys (the birth of her son, Christopher). And she writes about how, finally, after years of questioning, she experienced the intense conversion and re-embracing of her faith that lie behind her most recent novels about the life of Christ.


The Light Has Been Broken: 560+ Macabre Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Dark Tales

The Light Has Been Broken: 560+ Macabre Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Dark Tales

Author: Wilhelm Hauff

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2023-12-26

Total Pages: 13808

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Bram Stoker: Dracula The Squaw... John William Polidori: The Vampyre James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Peckett Prest: Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado The Masque of the Red Death The Premature Burial Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental... H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House... Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Haunted House... Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Woman in White Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet... Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla... Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan... William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates The Night Land E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Terror by Night... Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables... Thomas Hardy: What the Shepherd Saw The Grave by the Handpost Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Guy de Maupassant: The Horla Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Rudyard Kipling: My Own True Ghost Story The City of Dreadful Night The Mark of the Beast... Stanley G. Weinbaum: The Dark Other Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian: The Man-Wolf... Amelia B. Edwards: The Phantom Coach... Pedro De Alarçon: The Nail Walter Hubbell: The Great Amherst Mystery Some Real American Ghosts Some Chinese Ghosts...


A Good Night for Evil

A Good Night for Evil

Author: J.C. Jeanes

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-03-13

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1483445100

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Evil haunts the halls of a Georgia plantation mansion named Pike House. The rich and powerful Gordon family, who live there, greedily protect their dark secrets. The family is plagued by a terrifying curse and and an evil force that has stalked the corrupt family for generations. The evil has come for its final retribution and this time it will not be denied. The catalyst for the family's downfall is Anna, an outsider. Anna travels with John Crawford to meet his cousin, Addison Booker Gordon, the patriarch of the Gordon clan and Addisons extended family who live at the mansion. Anna finds herself entangled in the terrifying web of supernatural events swirling around the Gordon family. She feels the presence of evil and witnesses the annihilation of the family as the evil consumes the souls of those who live in Pike House.