Mark Twain said, "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." Sadly, he was right. Which means that any of us who aspire to write well spend a great deal of our time trying to find the lightning. The books highlighted here reflect more hours, days, and weeks than I care to count hunched over computer screens and printouts, searching for the words to convey my thoughts to a reader as I intended them to be. What Twa...