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Summary: "Yes, nouns are people, places, and things, but get ready to learn much more about these kinds of words. This motivating volume helps emerging readers spot both common and proper nouns-and the difference between them-as well as comprehend how nouns feature in the structure of a sentence, such as whether they are subjects or objects of verbs. Relatable examples paired with lively, colorful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 428.2 ROESankovitch, Nina.
Summary: "Witty, moving, informative, and inspiring, Signed, Sealed, Delivered begins with Nina Sankovitch's discovery of trunk filled with a trove of hundred-year old letters in an old house she has just bought with her husband. They are from a Princeton freshman to his mother. Sankovitch cannot help think of her own son, who is about to go off to Harvard, and of the letters she's kept and cherished...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.6 SANMoore, Christopher J.
Summary: " The quintessential A to Z guide to British English-perfect for every egghead and bluestocking looking to conquer the language barrier Oscar Wilde once said the Brits have "everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." Any visitor to Old Blighty can sympathize with Mr. Wilde. After all, even fluent English speakers can be at sixes and sevens when told to pick up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 427 MOORoesser, Marie
Summary: "Adjectives describe nouns and pronouns. They make our sentences more accurate, detailed, and engaging. In a way, they help color our ideas! Readers of this engaging volume will learn why adjectives are so helpful and the many different types, including colors, sizes, and even weather words. Quiz questions throughout the text support important skills of language arts curricula and help readers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 428.2 ROERoesser, Marie
Summary: "Adverbs bring a lot to otherwise boring sentences. Adding "swiftly," "boldly," and "frighteningly" to a sentence explains a lot to the reader! Adverbs can really make a difference in both a reader's level of interest in a text and their level of understanding of the text. This enlightening book helps budding linguists identify adverbs in many sentences, aiding them in their mastery of these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 428.2 ROEHorobin, Simon
Summary: Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the reader on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 420 HORBudgell, Gill
Summary: A visually exciting vocabulary book for 5-7 year olds that develops children's language skills while introducing information about many core school subjects. From verbs that are used in sports and nouns that name mathematical shapes to adjectives that describe materials, each page strengthens children's language skills and is visually exciting, accessible, and appealing.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK, Dorling Kindersley Limited 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 428.1 BUDSanders, Ella Frances.
Summary: "An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word to describe the reflection of the moon across the water? The nuanced beauty of language is even more interesting and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 410 SANPetras, Kathryn
Summary: "An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinating etymologies and tangled histories of use and misuse"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428.1 PETBeaver, David I.
Summary: "In much of the theory of meaning, philosophers and linguists have focused on the use of language in conveying information in cooperative informational exchanges. As a result, political uses of speech, of the sort that political propaganda exemplifies, have not been taken to be a central case of language use. In this book, Jason Stanley and David Beaver focus on the political use of speech as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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Summary: "The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language "mistakes" and how they came to be accepted as correct-or not. English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 428 SHEEverett, Caleb
Summary: "A guide to how languages around the world differ from one another far more than we realize and point to fundamental differences in how people conceive of everything from time to color to smell"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.44 EVEBergen, Benjamin K
Summary: "Everyone swears. Only the rare individual can avoid ever letting slip an expletive, whether after a few cocktails, a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet at the same time, we all accept all limits on swearing--tacitly, through censorship, and actively, as we hold our tongues around children in the vain effort to shield them. We even punish children for uttering, in passing, the very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 400 BERMcCulloch, Gretchen
Summary: "A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 302.23 MCCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.23 MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word McCullochDickson, Paul.
Summary: "William Shakespeare's written vocabulary consisted of 17,245 words, including hundreds that were coined or popularized by him. Some of the words never went further than their appearance in his plays, but others--like bedazzled, hurry, critical, and anchovy--are essential parts of our standard vocabulary today. Many other famous and lesser-known writers have contributed to the popular lexicon....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 801.3 DICWarner, John
Summary: "For anyone aiming to improve their skill as a writer, a new approach to establishing robust writing practices inside and outside the classroom. After a decade of teaching writing using the same methods he'd experienced as a student many years before, writer, editor, and educator John Warner realized he could do better. Drawing on his classroom experience and the most persuasive research in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 WARBooth, Wayne C.
Summary: "With more than a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has guided generations of readers at all levels to become better researchers, thinkers, and communicators. The original authors--all of them legendary teachers--believed that research is a communal activity and illustrated how to choose meaningful topics, make sound and compelling arguments, and convey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.4 BOOYan, Lianke
Summary: "From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priest. At the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religions-Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam-gather...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANSpence, Annie
Summary: This librarian's snarky, laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to books in her life is a perfect listen for book lovers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808.3 SPESpence, Annie
Summary: The author presents a collection of love letters and break-up notes addressed to the books she's encountered throughout her career as a librarian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 SPECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 SPEMohseni, Saad
Summary: "From Time 100 honoree Saad Mohseni, the deeply moving and surprising story of the attempt to build a truly independent media company in contemporary Afghanistan. Saad Mohseni, chairman and CEO of Moby Group, Afghanistan's largest media company, charts a twenty-year effort to bring a free press to his country after years of Taliban rule, and how that effort persists even after the Taliban's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2024
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Summary: "For most of the 2,000-plus years since its foundation as a discipline by ancient Greek thinkers, rhetoric-the art of using language to persuade-was a keystone of a Western education. But in the early 20th century, studying rhetoric fell out of fashion. In The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself, Robin Reames, one of the world's leading scholars of rhetoric, argues that it's high time to bring...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 REAMiura, Shion
Summary: "After shoplifting some bread one chilly night, former high school track-and-field star kakeru Kurahara runs through the city streets. Though he has grown disillusioned with the sport, he feels as if he could keep running forever. However, his reverie is broken by a mysterious boy on a bike: Haiji Kiyose, a fellow runner who also happens to attend Kakeru's univeristy. impressed by Kakeru's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpervia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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Summary: This librarian's snarky, laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to books in her life is a perfect listen for book lovers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017