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 Writing Fiction (6th Edition)Best Price: $42.25 I definitely recommend this book. It has helped me so much in my writing. She breaks things down... |  Great Expectations (Cliffs Notes)Best Price: $0.41 This was my summer reading. Never once touched the actual book... read about the characters and... |  1984 (Cliffs Notes)Best Price: $2.54 I'm usually the type to read a book and not use the Cliffs Notes for it (mainly because their... |  Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World MythsBest Price: $56.40 This text is interesting in that it reads more like an anthology than a textbook. It is mostly... |  The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (4th Edition)Best Price: $51.94 I've been using this book in a career writing class where we have been focusing on learning how... |
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