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1. The dictionary story

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Author:
Jeffers, Oliver
Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
©2024
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English
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"Dictionary wishes she could tell a story like other books. So one day, she decides to bring her words to life. How exciting it is to finally have an adventure on her very own pages! But what will she do when her characters collide and everything gets all in a jumble, causing the most enormous tantrum to explode? This isn't what she wanted at all! Luckily her friend Alphabet knows exactly what to do and sings a song that brings calm and order to Dictionary's...

2. The meaning of everything: the story of the Oxford English dictionary

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Winchester, Simon
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English
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"The greatest enterprise of its kind in history," was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a monumental achievement, gleaned from the efforts of hundreds of ordinary and extraordinary people who made it their mission to catalogue the English language in its entirety. In The Meaning of Everything,...

3. The story of ain't: America, its language, and the most controversial dictionary ever published

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Skinner, David, 1973-
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English
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"It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper….David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection." -Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman The Story of Ain't by David Skinner is the captivating true chronicle of the creation of Merriam Webster's Third New International...

4. Defining the world: the extraordinary story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary

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Author:
Hitchings, Henry, 1974-
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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English
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By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary. Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But the complexity...

5. Maurice and his dictionary: a true story

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Author:
Fagan, Cary
Publisher:
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date:
[2020]
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English
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"On May 10, 1940, the Nazi Army invaded Belgium, setting into motion the refugee story of Cary Fagan's father, Maurice. Maurice was only 12 at the time, and he and his family had no idea they would never again return to Brussels, the city of his birth. Instead, they would travel through France, Spain, and Portugal, running from war. Every time they thought they might be safe, Maurice would try to restart his studies--he was determined to become a...

6. Dictionary stories: short fictions and other findings

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Burrows, Jez
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English
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One day while looking up a word in the New Oxford American Dictionary, Burrows was stopped in his tracks by an example sentence that seemed like a tiny piece of fiction which had wandered out of another book and settled down in the dictionary. Now he has created a collection of very short stories-- some barely one page long-- composed entirely of example sentences from various dictionaries. Genre-bending and wildly inventive, they create a giddy celebration...

7. Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary

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Author:
Richards, Kel
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict. These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates baffled and police confused. So comprehensible to us today, the flash language of criminals and convicts had marine officer Watkin Tench complaining...

8. The posy book: garden-inspired bouquets that tell a story with a modern floral dictionary

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Author:
Sabankaya, Teresa H.
Publisher:
Countryman Press, A division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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9. A dictionary of pseudonyms and their origins, with stories of name changes

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Author:
Room, Adrian
Publisher:
McFarland
Pub. Date:
1989
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English
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10. Music lovers' encyclopedia: containing a pronouncing and defining dictionary of terms, instruments, etc., including a key to the pronunciation of sixteen languages, many charts ; an explanation of the...

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Garden City Bks
Pub. Date:
1954
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English
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11. Music lovers' encyclopedia: containing a pronouncing and defining dictionary of terms, instruments, etc., including a key to the pronunciation of sixteen languages, many charts: an explanation of the...

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Author:
Hughes, Rupert, 1872-1956
Publisher:
Garden City
Pub. Date:
[1939]
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English
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12. Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass

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Author:
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
Series:
Puffin chalk
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Alice in Wonderland
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Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...

13. The dictionary of lost words: a novel

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Author:
Williams, Pip, 1969-
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English
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"The Dictionary of Lost Words is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford, written in its place. It was Da's job to open the post and...

14. The devil's dictionary

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Author:
Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?
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English
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The Devil's Dictionary (1906) is a work of satire by Ambrose Bierce. Although he is commonly remembered for his chilling short stories on the experiences of Civil War soldiers, Bierce was recognized in his day as a leading journalist and humorist who spent decades ruffling feathers and drawing laughter with his witty opinion columns, poems, and definitions. Toward the end of his career, he decided to compile these satirical definitions into a book,...

15. The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

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Author:
Winchester, Simon
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1330L
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English
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Looks at the making of the Oxford English dictionary.

16. Aesop's fables

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Author:
Aesop
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Barnes and Noble classics
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Dover children's thrift classics
Lexile measure:
1030L
Language:
English
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"Written down two thousand years ago in ancient Latin and Greek, the fables and morals of Aesop were first published in English in 1484 and have been passed down through generations. This edition collects 284 fables, including such classics as "The boy who cried wolf", "The tortoise and the hare", "Town mouse and Country mouse", and many more enjoyable yet teachable tales. With eighty illustrations by Milo Winter, this beautiful, vibrant clothbound...

17. The inner circle

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Author:
Meltzer, Brad
Series:
Culper Ring
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English
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A young archivist working in the National Archives and his childhood crush accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact--a 200-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington--hidden inside a desk chair. Eager to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, the two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the most well kept secret of the U.S. Presidency.

18. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories

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Author:
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
Series:
Sterling classics
Unexpurgated Start Publishing LLC
Penguin classics
Lexile measure:
1460L
Language:
English
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Collection of four stories of strange and unexplainable circumstances. A headless horseman haunts Sleep Hollow. At least that's the legend in the tiny village of Tarrytown. But scary stories won't stop the town's new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, from crossing through the Hollow, especially when the beautiful Katrina lives on the other side. Will Ichabod win over his beloved or discover that the legend of Sleepy Hollow is actually true? Also, Rip Van...

19. Heart of darkness & other stories

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Author:
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
Series:
Dover thrift editions
Penguin great books of the 20th century
Naxos AudioBooks complete classics
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Lexile measure:
970L
Language:
English
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Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This elegant edition features an afterword by Dr. Keith Carabine, specialist in American literature and former chair of the Joseph Conrad society. One night on the Thames, Charles Marlowe tells his fellow sailors the vivid and brutal tale of his time...

20. Summer hours at the Robbers Library: a novel

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Halpern, Sue
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English
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"From journalist and author Sue Halpern comes a wry, observant look at contemporary life and its refugees. Halpern’s novel is an unforgettable tale of family...the kind you come from and the kind you create. People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace....
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