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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Cloister Walk, a book about Christianity, spirituality, and rediscovered faith.
Struggling with her return to the Christian church after many years away, Kathleen Norris found it was the language of Christianity that most distanced her from faith. Words like "judgment," "faith," "dogma," "salvation," "sinner"—even "Christ"—formed...
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Cloister Walk, a book about Christianity, spirituality, and rediscovered faith.
Struggling with her return to the Christian church after many years away, Kathleen Norris found it was the language of Christianity that most distanced her from faith. Words like "judgment," "faith," "dogma," "salvation," "sinner"—even "Christ"—formed...
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"Letta, charged with collecting and saving words, uncovers a sinister plan to suppress language, robbing the people of Ark of the power of speech, and realizes she must also save the culture, itself"--Provided by publisher.
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Jerome enjoys collecting and using words that he hears, reads, or sees, and then decides to share his collection with others.
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This recondite caboodle of glosses panegyrizes the boggles of our palaver.*
Words confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate.
The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of Grandiloquent Word of the Day accordingly presents a voluptuary of verbiage encompassing rare and obscure terms that confound or delight, antiquated argot from
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William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
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Learn & Master Sign Language is a comprehensive course to learn all about the art of this beautiful and expressive language. In each lesson, you will learn vocabulary, practice signing and reception skills with sentences, questions, dialogues, and narratives. There are over 2000 vocabulary words. You will also learn about expansion features in ASL, finger spelling, numbers, and facts about Deaf culture.
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This vocabulary workbook takes a bite out of tedious studying with a new way to master your vocabulary skills for the SAT, ACT, GED, and SSAT exams. You'll use this workbook side-by-side with your own copy of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight. Each chapter of the workbook gives you eight words taken from Twilight, with page references for you to find the words in the context of your favorite novel. You'll attempt to define the words on your own before turning...
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Four models sign each vocabulary word contained in all 22 lessons of the text, A basic course in American sign language by Humphries, Paddden, and O'Rourke. In addition, the alphabet and numbers are presented. Featured models are deaf and are native signers. Accompanying text is available.
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