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Word Play

  • Updated 12 months ago
  • 84 Books
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The word snoop
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
O Thou Improper, Thou Uncommon Noun
Punctuation Celebration
The Interrogative Mood
Between You & Me
The Word Eater
Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft
A River of Words
Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer
Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France
Not quite what I was planning
Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak: by Writers Famous and Obscure
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
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It All Changed in an Instant

Noah Webster and His Words
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Word Freak
The Last Word on First Names: The Definitive A-Z Guide to the Best and Worst in Baby Names by America's Leading Experts
Sea Change
Word by Word
An Excessive Alphabet: Avalanches of As to Zillions of Zs
If the S in Moose Comes Loose
Alma and How She Got Her Name
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How I Became a Spy

The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
TransAtlantic
Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
The Wonderful O
The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants
The Importance of Being Earnest
My Great Grandfather and I
The Word Collector
Punctuation for President
Sign Off
Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
Zombies Don't Eat Veggies!
My Name Is Wakawakaloch!
Big and Little: A Story of Opposites
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Spoken Here

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When in French

In Other Words : A Language Lover's Guide to the Most Intriguing Words Around the World
Strange Planet
Notes from a Public Typewriter
I Really Needed This Today: Words to Live by
300 Arguments
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
How to Say I Love You in 5 Languages
Fox in Socks
Ella Minnow Pea
Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Stranger Planet
The Library of the Unwritten
From Ed's to Ned's
The Alphabet's Alphabet
Every Little Letter
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The Chicken who Thought She was a Goat

Pugtato Finds a Thing
Once Upon an Alphabet
Greek to Me
The Book of Ichigo Ichie
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The Superior Person's Second Book

The Superior Person's Book of Words
Happiness--Found in Translation: A Glossary of Joy from Around the World
No Reading Allowed: The WORST Read-Aloud Book Ever
The Wordy Book
Billan the Bard
Let's Say I Love You
The Book Of Hard Words
In Other Words
The Anomaly
The Puzzler
Oxymoronica
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And We Rise

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Absurd Words

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Penny, the Engineering Tail of the Fourth Pig

Bumblebee Grumblebee
Hornswoggled!
A Penny's Worth
In Concrete
Stacey's Extraordinary Words

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