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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive ScrabblePlayers

by Stefan Fatsis

Published: 2002-07-30

Paperback: 416 pages

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Scrabble may be truly called America's game. But for every group of "living-room players" there is someone who is "at one with the board." In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis introduces readers to those few, exploring the underground world of colorful characters for which the Scrabble game is lif...

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Words

by Ginny L. Yttrup

Published: 2011-02-01

Paperback: 339 pages

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"I collect words. I keep them in a box in my mind. I'd like to keep them in a real box, something pretty, maybe a shoe box covered with flowered wrapping paper. Whenever I wanted, I'd open the box and pick up the papers, reading and feeling the words all at once. Then I could hide the box....

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Words Get In the Way

by Nan Parson Rossiter

Published: 2012-04-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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The modest ranch house where Callie Wyeth grew up looks just as she remembers it - right down to the well-worn sheets in the linen closet. But in the years since Callie lived here, almost everything else has changed. Her father, once indomitable, is in poor health. And Callie is a single mother with...

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Words in a French Life

by Kristin Espinasse

Published: 2006-04-25

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Based on the popular blog (french-word-a-day.com) and newsletter with thousands of subscribers -- a heart-winning collection from an American woman raising two very French children with her French husband in Provence, carrying on a lifelong love affair with the language. Imagine a former...

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Words Spoken True: A Novel

by Ann H. Gabhart

Published: 2012-02-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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Adriane Darcy was practically raised in her father's newspaper offices. She can't imagine life without the clatter of the press and the push to be first to write the news that matters. Their Tribune is the leading paper in Louisville in 1855. Then Blake Garrett, a brash young editor from t...

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Words That Matter: A Little Book of Life Lessons

by The Oprah Magazine Editors Of O

Published: 2010-04-01

Hardcover: 176 pages

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O, The Oprah Magazine is celebrating its tenth anniversary with this powerful little book, which offers more than six hundred inspiring ideas and quotations selected from the pages of the magazine. Words That Matter is a gathering of some of the greatest wisdom to appear in the magazine o...

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Words Unspoken

by Elizabeth Musser

Published: 2009-05-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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Lissa Randall's future was bright with academic promise until the tragic accident that took her mother's life--and brought her own plans to a screeching halt. Eighteen months later, she still can't get back behind the wheel. A casual recommendation to Ev McAllistair's driving school set...

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The Wordy Shipmates

by Sarah Vowell

Published: 2008-10-07

Hardcover: 272 pages

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The Work and the Glory, Vol. 1: Pillar of Light

by Gerald N. Lund

Published: 2004-11-01

Paperback: 456 pages

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One man's remarkable vision; one family's desperate struggle With more than two million copies of the nine-volume series in print since its initial release in 1990, The Work and the Glory is one of the most popular historical fiction series ever published by a religious publisher. Pill...

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Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America

by Jay Mathews

Published: 2009-01-20

Paperback: 329 pages

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When Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin signed up for Teach for America right after college and found themselves utter failures in the classroom, they vowed to remake themselves into superior educators. They did that?and more. In their early twenties, by sheer force of talent and determination n...