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Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing

10 best books like Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing (Roger Rosenblatt): Dept. of Speculation, The Unteachables, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style, The Tradition, The River Why, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One, The Secret Window, Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation, West of Here

Dept. of Speculation
AuthorJenny Offill
ISBN0385350813
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.

Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love...
The Unteachables
AuthorGordon Korman
ISBN0062563912
What happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher?

The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues; Parker, who can’t read; Kiana, who doesn’t even belong in the class—or...
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
AuthorBenjamin Dreyer
ISBN0812995708
A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century Elements of Style.

As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has...
The Tradition
AuthorJericho Brown
ISBN1556594860
Jericho Brown’s daring new book The Tradition details the normalization of evil and its history at the intersection of the past and the personal. Brown’s poetic concerns are both broad and intimate, and at their very core a distillation of the incredibly human: What is safety? Who is this nation?...
The River Why
AuthorDavid James Duncan
ISBN0553344862
This captivating and exuberant tale is told by Gus Orviston, an irreverent young fly fisherman and one of the most appealing heroes in contemporary American fiction. Leaving behind a madcap, fishing-obsessed family, Gus decides to strike out on his own, taking refuge in a secluded cabin on a remote...
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
AuthorRoger McNamee
ISBN0525561358
The story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.

If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself...
How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
AuthorStanley Fish
ISBN0061840548
In this entertaining and erudite New York Times bestseller, beloved professor Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure. Drawing on a wide range of  great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it...
The Secret Window
AuthorBetty Ren Wright
ISBN0590427490
ahh the scholastic apple paperback. .
Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation
AuthorMary Lefkowitz
ISBN0801883105
This highly acclaimed collection provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes-from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. The third edition adds new...
West of Here
AuthorJonathan Evison
ISBN1565129520
At the foot of the Elwha River, the muddy outpost of Port Bonita is about to boom, fueled by a ragtag band of dizzyingly disparate men and women unified only in their visions of a more prosperous future. A failed accountant by the name of Ethan Thornburgh has just arrived in Port Bonita to reclaim the woman...
Love Poems for Married People
AuthorJohn Kenney
ISBN0525540008
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Based on his wildly popular New Yorker piece, Thurber Prize-winner John Kenney presents a hilarious collection of love poems for, well, married people.

Full of brilliant wit, dynamic energy, and a heavy dose of reality, Love Poems for Married People...
Travel Light, Move Fast
AuthorAlexandra Fuller
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived

Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: “Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the...
2020
AuthorKenneth Steven
IN 2020, BRITAIN IS AT BREAKING POINT...

In a country sorely divided, what happens to empathy and tolerance, to generosity of spirit? And can hope survive?

In 2020, years of economic turmoil, bitter debates over immigration, and anger at the political elites have created a maelstrom,...
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
AuthorEdward O. Wilson
ISBN1631495542
Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior...
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