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                            The Secret Lives of Booksellers & LibrariansJames Patterson
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                            Reading LessonsCarol Atherton
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                            Why Animals TalkArik Kershenbaum
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                            Word MonkeyChristopher Fowler
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                            The WordJohn Barton
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                            My Little Black Book: A BlacktionaryMaggie Semple, Jane Oremosu
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                            The Language GameMorten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater
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                            Kingdom of CharactersJing Tsu
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                            Index, A History of theDennis Duncan
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                            CreativityJohn Cleese
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                            The Bilingual BrainAlbert Costa
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                            Have You Eaten Grandma?Gyles Brandreth
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                            Thank You for ArguingJay Heinrichs
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                            First You Write a Sentence.Joe Moran
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                            How to Argue with a CatJay Heinrichs
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                            Listen to Your ChildDavid Crystal
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                            This Is Me, Full Stop.Caz Hildebrand, Philip Cowell
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                            Horrible WordsRebecca Gowers
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                            The Penguin Guide to Literature in EnglishRonald Carter, John McRae
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                            ConfabulationsJohn Berger
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                            The Criminal AlphabetNoel 'Razor' Smith
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                            Mother TongueBill Bryson
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                            Troublesome WordsBill Bryson
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                            Austerity MeasuresKaren Van Dyck
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                            The Sense of StyleSteven Pinker
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                            The Language InstinctSteven Pinker
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                            Plain WordsRebecca Gowers, Ernest Gowers
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                            Shady CharactersKeith Houston
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                            Working On My NovelCory Arcangel
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