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by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Starting out as a children’s bedtime story, The Hobbit has become an integral part of literature all over the world. The escapades of Bilbo Baggins, recruited as...
How Not to Read
Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The Last Stupid Book You’ll Ever Need to Read
Don’t want to slog through lengthy old books like A Tale of Two Cities or The Giving Tree? Sick of being judged by your avid-reader “friends” who talk about books you’ve never heard of? Want to sound smarter without the strain of actually...
Check These Out
One Librarian's Catalog of the 200 Coolest, Best, and Most Important Books You'll Ever Read
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Discover a librarian's secret stash of great reads!
We've all been there: in the library, head tilted sideways, doing our best to navigate a blur of spines and titles to find one worth reading. Luckily, the hunt is over. Librarian, author, and book devourer Gina Sheridan has sorted through...
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: Bared to You by Sylvia Day
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Romantic, insightful, and well written, Bared to You is a part of New York Times best-selling author, Sylvia Day's, Crossfire series. The novel, first published in 2012, was one...
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: Eleanor & Park: A Novel by Rainbow Rowell
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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...
by John Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The novel is alive and well, thank you very much
For the last fifteen years, whenever a novel was published, John Freeman was there to greet it. As a critic for more than two hundred newspapers worldwide, the onetime president of the National Book Critics Circle, and the former editor of Granta,...
Fabricating Lives
Explorations in American Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
How does the autobiographer want us to perceive him? How do we penetrate the memoirist’s strategies and subterfuges—sometimes conscious, usually—brilliant—and discover the real person screened behind them?
In this fresh and provocative approach to the reading of autobiography, Herbert Leibowitz...
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
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You may have read the book, but not have liked it.
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You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you...
Bookends
Collected Intros and Outros
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon—“one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).
In Bookends,...
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
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Two women and fight for equality and justice as they find their voices during times of slavery, gender inequality and repression. Handful was a slave bought...
Gun in Cheek
An Affectionate Guide to the "Worst" in Mystery Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
"This is fabulously funny stuff." — John D. MacDonald
"Bill Pronzini surveys the worst crime fiction — not just the average inferior product, but the junk classics, works that achieve a heroic degree of badness. No brief summary can do justice to Mr. Pronzini's researches."...
Writing Active Setting Book 2: Emotion, Conflict and Back Story
Writing Active Setting, #2
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Readers usually remeber the plot and characters of a story, but Setting is every bit as important in creating a memorable world. Discover the difference between Ordinary Setting that bogs down your story, and Active Setting that empowers your story -- creating a compelling story world, regardless...
by Ashley Carter
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This collection of Latin unseen passages forms a companion volume to Latin Momentum Tests for GCSE, and is intended to be used similarly by students preparing for examinations at AS, A2 and AEA levels. The largest section is set at AS level and comprises prose passages forming a coherent story based...
The Road to the Dark Tower
Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2004
AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE DARK TOWER SERIES—INCLUDING BOOK-BY-BOOK ANALYSIS AND INSIGHT INTO STEPHEN KING'S CREATIVE PROCESS.
In 1970, Stephen King embarked on what would become the crowning achievement in his literary career-the Dark Tower. The seven-volume series, written and published...