Author: Mignon Fogarty
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: tips, quick, dirty, amp, writing, girl, grammar
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-07-08
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0805088318
ISBN-13: 9780805088311

Online sensation Grammar Girl makes grammar fun and easy in this New York Times bestsellerAre you stumped by split infinitives? Terrified of using “who” when a “whom” is called for? Do you avoid the words “affect” and “effect” altogether?Grammar Girl is here to help! Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, is determined to wipe out bad grammar—but she’s also determined to make the process as painless as possible. A couple of years ago, she created a weekly podcast to tackle some of the most common mistakes people make while communicating. The podcasts have now been downloaded more

Author: Mignon Fogarty
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: tips, grammar, quick, amp, dirty, girl, successful, devotional, daily, writing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-10-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0805091653
ISBN-13: 9780805091656

Millions of fans around the globe punctuate properly and communicate clearly thanks to Mignon Fogarty’s practical and easy-to-remember advice about writing style and word usage. Her first book, Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 20 million times and hailed by USA Today as “authoritative but warm.” Now, in tip-of-the-day form, Grammar Girl serves up 365 lessons on language that are sure to inspire. Filled with new, bite-size writing tips, fun quizzes and  puzz

Author: Mignon Fogarty
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Keywords: tips, writing, dirty, quick, girl, grammar
Published: 2008-07-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1427204349
ISBN-13: 9781427204349

Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, is determined to wipe out bad grammar—but she’s also determined to make the process as painless as possible. One year ago, she created a weekly podcast to tackle some of the most common mistakes people make while communicating. More than seven million episodes have now been downloaded, and Mignon has dispensed grammar tips on Oprah and appeared on the pages of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. With the trademark wit, warmth, and approachability that the podcasts are known for, Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Wr

Author: Mignon Nixon
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: files, october, hesse, eva
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2002-10-18
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 026264049X
ISBN-13: 9780262640497

Eva Hesse’s distinctive process-based art exerted a powerful influence on minimalist artists of the 1960s and continues to inspire artists today. Using industrial materials such as latex and fiberglass, she exploited their flexibility to produce works with an unsettling psychic and corporeal resonance. Hesse, who was born in Germany in 1936 and raised in New York City, died of cancer in New York in 1970. Eva Hesse focuses on the body of criticism that has developed since the last major retrospective of Hesse’s work, at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1992. The book’s publication co

Author: Mignon F. Ballard
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: goodnight, augusta, heavenly, recipes, mysteries, mystery, herald, screamed, hark, angel
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-11-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0312376677
ISBN-13: 9780312376673

It’s Christmastime in the seemingly tranquil town of Stone’s Throw, South Carolina, but amid all the caroling, cookies, and cheer, a murderer casts a not-so-jolly pall on the holiday season. Augusta Goodnight, guardian angel, sometime sleuth, and welcome boarder with longtime resident Lucy Nan Pilgrim, comes to the aid of her friends when, as Lucy Nan is searching for the perfect Christmas tree on her grandmother’s abandoned estate, a mysterious stranger plummets to his death from the mansion’s balcony. Lucy Nan can’t shake off childhood stories of the ghost of a girl who fell from

Author: Mignon G. Eberhart
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: hunting, mystery
Number of Pages: 341
Published: 1998-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0803267371
ISBN-13: 9780803267374

The Sand Hills of Nebraska, where Mignon G. Eberhart lived as a newlywed, inspired the setting of this 1930 chiller. Smack in the middle of the rolling desolation is Hunting’s End, a weekend lodge owned by the rich Kingery family. To that place socialite Matil Kingery invites a strange collection of guests—the same people who were at the lodge when her father died of “heart failure” exactly five years ago. She intends to find out which one of them murdered him. Posing as another guest is the dapper young detective Lance O’Leary. At his recommendation Matil has engaged Nurse Sarah Keate

Author: Robin J. Fogarty
Publisher: Corwin Pre
Keywords: classrooms, compatible, brain
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1412938872
ISBN-13: 9781412938877

Summarizing research from theorists such as Robert J. Marzano and Daniel Goleman, this revised volume helps educators understand and utilize brain research to build high-achievement classrooms.