Books written by Richard Lederer
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Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation
Comma Sense is full of easy-to-understand guidance for the grammatically challenged---and loads of laughs besides!
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Richard Lederer's Literary Trivia
Titles The Call of the Wild Catch-22 David Copperfield The Da Vinci Code The Good Earth The Grapes of Wrath Harry ... Franz Kafka Nineteen Eighty-Four The Old Man and the Sea One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Paul Clifford A Portrait of ...
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Cienfuegos Architecture: Art of the Cuba
Cienfuegos Architecture and La arquitectura de Cienfuegos interpret the architecture of Cuba's sugar barons, which was influenced by Roman, French, and Moorish architecture.
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Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation
But this book is way more than a flight of whimsy.
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Presidential Trivia
Four pairs of presidents defeated each other in successive elections: • John Adams won over Thomas Jefferson in 1796; ... the election: • Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but lost the election to John Quincy Adams (1824); Samuel J.
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Presidential Trivia
Our Tallest? Who played golf? Who played poker? Filled with games, anagrams, poems, speeches, and an abundance of tidbits, details, and fascinating facts, this book is perfect for the novice to the history buff.
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American Trivia Quiz Book
Test your knowledge of our great nation with this comprehensive volume of United States trivia, complete with quizzes to challenge—and stump—your friends.
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American Trivia: What We Should All Know About U.S. History, Culture & Geography
Learn fascinating facts about the history, culture, leaders, and heroes of our great nation in this comprehensive volume of U.S. trivia.
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Anguished English
Lampooning the myriad mistakes that crop up in the everyday use of the English language this collection presents faux pas from students' essays, newspaper headlines, accident reports, and everyday grammar mistakes
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Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon the English Language
Anguished English is the funniest book I have ever read.”—Sidney Sheldon
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More Anguished English
During the six years since tbe publication of Anguished English, Richard Lederer has collected more than 15,000 new examples of embarrassing, excruciating, and egregious errors in English. Two thousand of the best are in this book.
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A Man of My Words: Reflections on the English Language
Both punderful romp and passionate reverie, "A Man of My Words shimmers with wit and wisdom. This is Lederer's most personal and powerful book yet, the golden culmination of a life in letters." -- Rob Kyff, a.k.a.
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Adventures of a Verbivore
Richard Lederer Jane Rosenman. "PERHAPS NO ONE HAS MORE FUN WITH THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THAN RICHARD LEDERER." SAYS ANN LLOYD MERRIMAN OF THE RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH. JOIN LEDERER ON A JOURNEY CULLED FROM A LIFETIME OF LOVING ENGLISH.
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American Trivia Quiz Book
The American Trivia Quiz Book brims with fascinating facts about the people, places, and events that make our nation great, with a series of fun and informative quizzes on subjects ranging from Columbus to baseball.
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The Revenge of Anguished English: More Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
Fourth in the Anguished English series, this updated collection of verbal bloopers will have word nerds in stitches.
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More Anguished English
To help all you super - duper blooper snoopers to select which goodies to send me , I offer a concise guide and official grading system . No item winged my way is ever stigmatized with a failing grade , but only solid A's and B's make ...
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The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos
... of bloopers make your life even more delicious—tastier, sweeter, spicier, juicier, even meatier—and a lot easier to swallow. If you would like to contribute to the next feast of flubbery, please send your most super-duper bloopers ...
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The Revenge of Anguished English: More Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
I had already shared the insurance and school note bloopers as read - alouds . The students usually laugh so loudly that I will only share Anguished ... If you'd like to share your super - duper bloopers with me , please wing them to ...
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Fractured English
I am sometimes asked if I invent any of the bloopers that appear in my collections. ... Sure, I happen to happen on some items myself, but the vast bulk are sent me by a conspiracy of super duper blooper snoopers all around our globe.
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Crazy English
In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter ...