2001+ Essential English Verbs by Louise Stracke (New York: Living Language, a Random House Company, ©2006)
includes verb conjugation charts, idiomatic expressions, examples of usage with practice exercises and answer keys; 409 pages.

The American Heritage Dictionary, 2nd College Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., ©1982)

English Grammar for Students of French, 2nd edition (Ann Arbor, MI: The Olivia and Hill Press, ©1989)
"study guide for those learning French" by Jacqueline Morton; designed to be an accompaniment to any textbook, this guide offers simple explanations of English grammar structures (i.e. parts of speech, word functions, grammatical concepts) by answering basic questions (ex: What is gender? What are relative pronouns? etc.); uses examples, charts, step-by-step instructions and short practice exercises (with answer key) to identify similarities and differences between English and French; 224 pages.

English Grammar for Students of German, 3rd edition (Ann Arbor, MI: The Olivia and Hill Press, ©1994)
"study guide for those learning German" by Cecile Zorach and Charlotte Melin; designed to be an accompaniment to any textbook, this guide offers simple explanations of English grammar structures (i.e. parts of speech, word functions, grammatical concepts) by answering basic questions (ex: What is gender? What are relative pronouns? etc.); uses examples, charts, step-by-step instructions and short practice exercises (with answer key) to identify similarities and differences between English and German; 176 pages.

English Grammar for Students of Italian, 2nd edition (Ann Arbor, MI: The Olivia and Hill Press, ©1995)
"study guide for those learning Italian" by Sergio Adorni and Karen Primorac; designed to be an accompaniment to any textbook, this guide offers simple explanations of English grammar structures (i.e. parts of speech, word functions, grammatical concepts) by answering basic questions (ex: What is gender? What are relative pronouns? etc.); uses examples, charts, step-by-step instructions and short practice exercises (with answer key) to identify similarities and differences between English and Italian; 199 pages.

English Grammar for Students of Spanish, 3rd edition (Ann Arbor, MI: The Olivia and Hill Press, ©1994)
"study guide for those learning Spanish" by Emily Spinelli; designed to be an accompaniment to any textbook, this guide offers simple explanations of English grammar structures (i.e. parts of speech, word functions, grammatical concepts) by answering basic questions (ex: What is gender? What are relative pronouns? etc.); uses examples, charts, step-by-step instructions and short practice exercises (with answer key) to identify similarities and differences between English and Spanish; 193 pages.

English Simplified, 9th edition by Blanche Ellsworth and John A. Higgins (Boston: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, Inc., ©2001)
handbook of English grammar usage with sections on parts of speech and their use, punctuation, spelling, word choice, research papers and documentation styles; 64 pages.

How to Write Better Business Letters, 4th edition by Andrea B. Geffner
(Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., ©2007, 2000, 1995, 1982)
instruction guide for the composing of a variety of business correspondence including: email, request letters, replies, credit and collection letters, complaints, sales and public relations letters, social business letters, employment-related documents, interoffice memos, news releases, business reports, proposals, and others; includes practice exercises and 75 model letters; 173 pages.

Just Commas: 9 Basic Rules to Master Comma Usage by Diane Lutovich and Janis Fisher Chan (San Anselmo. CA: Advanced Communication Designs, Inc., © 2000)
reference book/review of the most frequent uses of the comma in the English language; includes "Common Comma Blunders" related to each of the 9 rules illustrated; 3 "test-your-comma-usage-skill" practice exercises (with answer key) provided; 91 pages.

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 4th edition (NY: The Modern Language Association of America, ©1995)
advance, uncorrected proofs copy of 1995 edition (by Joseph Gibaldi) of guide designed to provide a comprehensive view of how research papers are created; the new, fourth edition features expanded section on punctuation, explanations of: how to use electronic catalogs, central information systems, CD-ROM and online databases in research; how to use computers to compile bibliographies, take notes, outline and write research papers; how to cite electronic publications, including CD-ROMs, diskettes, magnetic tapes and online databases; 276 pages.

Oxford Picture Dictionary, 2nd edition — English/Arabic by Jayme Adelson-Goldstein and Norma Shapiro (New York: Oxford University Press, ©2009)

Oxford Picture Dictionary, 2nd edition — English/Spanish by Jayme Adelson-Goldstein and Norma Shapiro (New York: Oxford University Press, ©2009)

A Picture is Worth... 1000 Words..., Books 1 and 2 by Anthony Mollica (Welland, Ontario: éditions Soleil publishing, inc., ©1992)
subtitled Creative activities for the language classroom, the two volumes of 60 photographs each are intended to provide visual stimuli for discussion and conversation activity in the language classroom; also available = Teacher's Guide (by Anthony Mollica, Julie Ashcroft, and Anne-Marie Finger) containing questions for each photograph.

Reader's Choice, 4th edition by Sandra Silberstein, Barbara K. Dobson, and Mark A. Clarke (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, c. 1977, 1988, 1994, 2002)
textbook for the teaching of reading to advanced-level ESL/EFL students; includes 29 reading selections accompanied by exercises designed to provide practice in a variety of reading contexts: non-prose readings (ex. menus, advertisements, poetry, bus schedule, print/graphics combinations), dictionary use, newspapers, technical prose, science reporting, textbook, business text, narratives, short story; includes answer keys to exercises; 410 pages.

Roget's International Thesaurus, 5th edition (NY: HarperCollins Publishers, ©1992)

A Student's Grammar of the English Language (Essex, England: Longman Group UK Limited, ©1990)
advanced-level reference text by Sidney Greenbaum and Randolph Quirk; a shorter and revised version of A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language also written by Greenbaum and Quirk in collaboration with Geoffrey Leech and Jan Svartvik; authors point out features of grammar which distinguish spoken from written, formal from informal, and British from American English; 490 pages.

A Translation Textbook (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, ©1985)
non-literary texts compiled by Madeleine Sergent and Kay Wilkins; text divided into six sections: journalism, politics, administration, social sciences, economics, sciences and technology; each section offers five texts in French, five texts in English to be translated — the French to English, the English to French; includes discussion of theory and technique of translation, translation samples and end vocabulary; 127 pages.

Word by Word English/Chinese Picture Dictionary by Steven J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss and Jung Pao (White Plains, NJ: Pearson Education, ©1996)

Word by Word English/Haitian Kreyol Picture Dictionary by Steven J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss and Roger E. Savin, Edwige Crevecoeur-Bryant, Maud Paultre Fontus (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Regents, ©1995)

Word by Word English/Korean Picture Dictionary by Steven J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss and Lee Chang-soo, Yang Eun-sook (White Plains, NJ: Prentice Hall Regents, ©1995)

Word by Word English/Portuguese Picture Dictionary by Steven J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss and Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Regents, ©1996)

Word by Word English/Russian Picture Dictionary by Steven J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss and Gennadi G. Gorbatov (White Plains, NY: Prentice Hall Regents, ©1996)

Word by Word English/Spanish Picture Dictionary by Steven J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss and Herlinda Charpentier Saitz (Upper Saddle River, NJ; Prentice Hall Regents, ©1995)