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Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winnin…

“Enthralling . . . Something to Do with Paying Attention has the spirit of [Wallace’s] best non-fiction . . . You open [the] text and it wakes. What is alive in it passes to the living. His attention becomes our attention.” —Patricia Lockwood, London Review of Books David Foster Wallace’s last, unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force “using the IRS the way Borges used the lipary and Kafka used the law-courts building: as an analogy for the world.” —John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ When David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a vast unfinished novel—some 1,100 pages of loose…

The bestselling Emotion Thesaurus, often hailed as “the gold standard for writers” and credited with transforming how writers craft emotion, has now been expanded to include 55 new entries! One of the biggest struggles for writers is how to convey emotion to readers in a unique and compelling way. When showing our characters’ feelings, we often use the first idea that comes to mind, and they end up smiling, nodding, and frowning too much. If you need inspiration for creating characters’ emotional responses that are personalized and evocative, this ultimate show-don’t-tell guide for emotion…

The essential guide to evoking emotional experiences in your readers Writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, but none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. You'll learn: • emotional modes of writing • beyond showing versus telling • your story's emotional world • moral stakes • connecting the inner and outer journeys • plot as emotional opportunities •…

Enter if you dare… The ghost-hunt is over! A horror-themed Would You Rather book is finally here! This is not your normal “Would You Rather” game book. This ghoulish Would You Rather horror activity book is full of spooky scenarios, unnerving ultimatums, and scary thought-provoking questions to provide hours of fearsome entertainment! Grab your friends and turn out the lights for this terrifyingly interactive question activity book. These questions are just as creepy as scary stories you tell in the dark! This unique would you rather book forces you to think and challenges your logic skills…