Books category: 11954 books
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff
Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun!
You may have read the book, but not have liked it.
You may have liked the book, but not be a fan.
You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are....
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun!
It is difficult to deal with a loved one who go through the changes of becoming old. It makes the process even more difficult without the support of medical doctors...
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. Maureen Corrigan takes us from her unpretentious girlhood in working-class Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a...
Crusoe
Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A remarkable literary hybrid—part biography, part detective story—about the enduring figure of Robinson Crusoe
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Where did Crusoe come from? Frank explores the intertwined lives of two real men, Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox, and the character and book that emerged from their...
Girl Sleuth
Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is “a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing” (The Seattle Times).
An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
The plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930—and...
Badass: The Birth of a Legend
Spine-Crushing Tales of the Most Merciless Gods, Monsters, Heroes, Villains, and Mythical Creatures Ever Envisioned
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Ben Thompson—author of Badass, creator of the epic website badassoftheweek.com, and the Internet’s foremost expert on badassitude—is back to enthrall lovers of skull-smashing, bone-crushing bad behavior with his latest compendium, Badass: The Birth of a Legend. Like its macho predecessor, Badass:...
by Maeve Friel
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Join Jessica, everyone’s favourite witch-in-training, for four sparkling stories in one magical book. On Jessica’s tenth birthday, she discovers that she is a witch! With Miss Strega as her teacher, and a broomstick to fly, Jessica is ready to begin her training. In ‘Flying Lessons’, she must...
Changing My Mind
Occasional Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
"[These essays] reflect a lively, unselfconscious, rigorous, erudite, and earnestly open mind that's busy refining its view of life, literature, and a great deal in between." —Los Angeles Times
Split into five sections--Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling, and Remembering--Changing My Mind finds...
Through the Window
Seventeen Essays and a Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending and one of Britain’s greatest writers: a brilliant collection of essays on the books and authors that have meant the most to him throughout his illustrious career.
In these seventeen essays (plus a short story and a special preface,...
by Ernest J. Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this collection of stories and essays, the beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming a writer. Told in the simple and powerful prose that is a hallmark of his craft, these writings by Ernest J. Gaines...
Reading Strange Matters
Collected Reviews, Vol I
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Reading Strange Matters celebrates of some of the best in fantasy from the twenty-first century. Two dozen essays discuss important books from the new millennium which mix wild imagination and literary sophistication.
First published at Blackgate.com, these pieces collectively...
by Margot Livesey
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
A masterclass for those who love reading literature and for those who aspire to write it.
“Read everything that is good for the good of your soul. Then learn to read as a writer, to search out that hidden machinery, which it is the business of art to conceal and the business of the apprentice...
American Pulp
How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
"There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."—a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951)
American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main...
by Will Durant
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2002
A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time -- listed in accessible and succinct form -- by one of the world's greatest scholars.
From the "Hundred Best Books" to the "Ten Greatest Thinkers" to the "Ten Greatest Poets,"...