From the Preface to the 2nd Edition: We wrote this book to help legal professionals write better, using knowledge based on our specialized expertise in rhetoric. Rhetoric is a discipline founded over 2500 years ago to help people plead their cases in court. The first teachers of rhetoric were Ancient Greeks and Romans who developed theories of how to use language, argument, and style to make effective arguments about any topic. Today, you can use the same rhetorical principles to make the best possible arguments for your clients. Unlike other legal writing books, which focus primarily on revision and editing, we start at the beginning of the writing process—”invention”—to help you tackle any challenge. Our goal is to help lawyers develop a thorough system for writing and speaking, one that addresses a full spectrum of writing concerns, from beating writer’s block with brainstorming strategies, to developing eloquent writing style, to arguing ethically for any given case. As professors and speakers on law, rhetoric, and professional writing, we understand that good writing does not require a system of hard and fast rules, but rather an ability to adapt your writing to the occasion at hand. We use a unique combination of ancient techniques and cutting edge research on rhetoric, writing, and composition to give you the tools to write effectively.

The Legal Writing Workshop: Using Rhetoric to Make Your Strongest Case

Pryal, Katie Rose Guest

Jack, Jordynn

Legal Education

Research Triangle Press

If you love Liane Moriarty and Colleen Hoover, you'll love ENTANGLEMENT and the Hollywood Lights Series. "Equal parts heartbreaking and heartening, Entanglement shines a light on the interior lives of two flawed and fascinating women." --Camille Pagán, bestselling author of Woman Last Seen in her Thirties Best friends with troubled pasts escape to Los Angeles, finding danger along the path to redemption. Someone just tried to kill Greta Donovan, and she's not saying who. The worst part is, she didn't see it coming. She may be fiercely intelligent, but she can't relate to people. And she hasn't a clue where men are concerned. After college, Greta moves to Los Angeles with her best friend Daphne Saito. Charismatic Daphne teaches Greta how to wear stilettos, apply lip gloss, and navigate Hollywood nightlife. Greta comes into her own: she falls in love with her new boss and befriends an aging movie star. But trouble looms. Daphne is determined to succeed, and drags an unwilling Greta into the limelight with her. One night Daphne takes her Hollywood ambitions a step too far, and her actions push Greta into the path of danger. Will their friendship survive? Will Greta? "Pryal deftly portrays relationships that are under the magnifying glass, obsessive and dysfunctional, while still capturing the complexity and love of those intense early twenties friendships." --Kate Moretti, New York Times bestselling author of The Blackbird Season

Entanglement

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Velvet Morning Press

A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education (Rethinking Careers, Rethinking Academia)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

University Press of Kansas

Read the #1 Amazon bestseller by "one of the foremost writers of disability and higher education we have today."
Academia isn’t an easy place to be if your brain isn’t quite right.
Colleagues carelessly call each other “schizo” and “bipolar.” Another colleague is fired—easy enough to do these days, when most college teachers no longer have tenure—for “instability.” In these ways and many more, psychiatrically disabled people working in higher education are reminded every day that their privilege, their very livelihoods, can be stripped away by the groundless suspicions of others. Their lives can be, in an instant, interrupted.
The essays in this book cover topics such as disclosure of disabilities, accommodations and accessibility, how to be a good abled friend to a disabled person, the trigger warnings debate, and more. Written for a popular audience, for those with disabilities and for those who want to learn more about living a disabled life, Life of the Mind Interrupted aims to make higher education, and the rest of our society, more humane.
Part of the Blue Crow Books Critical Higher Education Series.
"Pryal is one of the foremost writers of disability and higher education we have today." -Catherine J. Prendergast, author of Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World
“Pryal’s wit and humor shine through even as she tackles harrowing subjects, like living with depression and suicide. She shows us how important it is to make academia, and our world, more accessible for everyone. … This is not a book to miss.” -Kelly J. Baker, award-winning author of Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Higher Education

Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Blue Crow Books

Entanglement: A Hollywood Lights Novel

Love and Entropy: A Hollywood Lights Novella (Hollywood Lights Series)

From the #1 Amazon bestselling author of Entanglement.
Underneath the glitter of Hollywood, nothing is truly as it seems.
Daphne Saito is a talented screenwriter with a seemingly perfect life—a life so fragile it might crumble at any moment.
For Daphne, love always brings disaster. She’s worked hard to bury her troubled past, but now that her best friend is getting married, her world is upended as her past mistakes catch up with her—and threaten the people she loves most.
While planning her friend’s wedding, she meets Marlon—he’s surly on the the outside, and maybe just as damaged as Daphne. But he makes her feel something she hasn’t felt in years—hope. She dares to get close to him, but a tragic turn leaves her with an impossible choice.
The night of the wedding brings a perfect storm of chaos: A dangerous ex-boyfriend is bent on revenge. A woman from Daphne’s past blows into town with a vendetta of her own. Someone Daphne loves gets caught in the middle, a friend she’ll do anything to protect—even if it means committing a horrible act that she can never take back.
“As glamorous and mercurial as Hollywood itself, Chasing Chaos is a novel that glitters.” -New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge
“Pryal deftly portrays relationships that are under the magnifying glass, obsessive and dysfunctional, while still capturing the complexity and love.” -New York Times bestselling author Kate Moretti

Chasing Chaos: A Hollywood Lights Novel

Contemporary

From the Amazon bestselling author of Entanglement.If you like Kerry Lonsdale and Catherine McKenzie, you'll love Fallout Girl by Katie Rose Guest Pryal."Fallout Girl is a love story wrapped inside a heart-rending struggle for personal freedom." -Sonja Yoerg, author of All the Best People
Fractured family, deadly secrets, and a woman on the run in L.A.
The day she buries her mother, Miranda George jumps on a plane from North Carolina, telling no one where she's heading. She wants to disappear and start over. She arrives on the Los Angeles doorstep of college friend Daphne Saito, and even though Miranda hasn't seen Daphne in years, Daphne welcomes Miranda into her home and her makeshift L.A. family.
The problem is, Miranda is on the run from family. All family. Family, in Miranda's experience, can get you killed.
Miranda takes off again, but this time her plan is much more sinister. She certainly doesn't expect her friends to track her down. When they bring her back from the edge, the question remains: will Miranda be able to save herself and her newfound friendships? Or will she remain strangled by the past?
"A dangerous, sexy, motorcycle ride of a story, which pulls off the feat of being both humorous and heartbreaking at the same time." -Sandra Block, author of the Zoe Goldman series

Fallout Girl: A Hollywood Lights Novel

“A collection blazing with seduction, trickery, conflict, and grief, Wicked South: Secrets and Lies is a saga of bitter deceits and breathtaking victories.” -Heather Ezell, author of Nothing Left to Burn
For good or ill—on the page or in life—few things are more alluring than the siren song of a secret.
At the heart of each story in this genre-crossing collection lies a secret. A boy who is not a boy at all, a neighbor with a mysterious identity, a tortured student with a list that isn’t what it seems, a girl who abandoned the person she used to be at the bottom of a river.
Conflict and possibility are embedded in a secret’s very nature…betrayal and conspiracy are encoded in its DNA. Secrets can transform. They can alienate, anger, or inspire.
One thing is for sure: They make a great story.
Wicked South: Secrets and Lies is an anthology featuring young adult stories by authors from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Contributors are New York Times Bestselling author Emily Colin, Elizabeth DeVido, award-winning author Lauren Faulkenberry, Amy Hyatt Fonseca, Lauren Fulcher, award-winning author Robin Kirk, John Klekamp, Karissa Laurel, and Katie Rose Guest Pryal.
A portion of the proceeds from Wicked South will benefit literacy programs at El Centro Hispano (elcentronc.org) in Durham, North Carolina.
“Menacing fairy folk and locker room monsters. Forbidden love and time-traveling adventures. The nine twisty tales in Wicked South: Secrets and Lies take readers to atmospheric corners of the American South (and beyond) filled with heartfelt characters and alluring mysteries.” -John Claude Bemis, award-winning author of The Wooden Prince and The Clockwork Dark Trilogy

Wicked South: Secrets and Lies: Stories for Young Adults

Teen & Young Adult

Colin, Emily

Goldenjay Books

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