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The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story Douglas Preston | Conversation Starters In “The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story”, readers embark on a breathtaking journey about a 1940 discovery that remained a secret for decades, until the author and a team of scientists ventured...

For fans of all ages! Here is an entertaining and easily referenced presentation of insider information to the world that J.K. Rowling has created in her spellbinding series of novels. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the World of Harry Potter explores all aspects of the wizarding world and...

"My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." --Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice The taboo affair of Jane and Mr. Rochester. The (literally) timeless love between Edward and Bella. The improbable pairing of Grace and Josh. Climb...

Benedict Anderson, professor at Cornell and specialist in Southeast Asian studies, is best known for his book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1991). It is no understatement to say that this is one of the most influential books of the last twenty years. Widely...

Boys and Girls in No Man's Land examines how the First World War entered the lives and imaginations of Canadian children. Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school papers, this study explores the role of children in the nation's war effort. Susan...

Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo | Conversation Starters In “Stay with Me”, readers are taken on a familiar journey with an original cast of characters and unique literary voice. The novel follows Yejide and Akin, a Nigerian couple who have been married since they met at university. Yejide’s...

Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump by Dan Bongino | Conversation Starters Trump's political detractors have attempted to sabotage him during the 2016 presidential campaign. Former secret service agent Dan Bongino says that each of the players had their own motivations that led...

The Whole30 by Melissa Hartwig | Conversation Starters The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom is the second book published by co-authors Melissa Hartwig and Dallas Hartwig. It has been praised as THE BEST step-by-step guide to living a guilt-free, healthy, full of delicious...

The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison | Conversation Starters The Origin of Others by Nobel prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison is based on the author’s lecture entitled “The Literature of Belonging.” The book deals with the author’s insight into the effects that...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Lancé en 1932 par le jeune éditeur Denoël, Voyage au bout de la nuit eut aussitôt sur la vie littéraire française l'impact d'une météorite et laissa la critique abasourdie. Une fiche de lecture spécialement...

A master practitioner’s view of his craft, this classic survey of the fiction of the American West is part literary history, part criticism, and entertaining throughout. The first edition of The Wister Trace was published in 1987, when Larry McMurtry had just reinvented himself as a writer of Westerns...

The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age by David E. Sanger | Conversation Starters World conflict has now evolved from nuclear weapons and terrorism into cyberwarfare, one that the US suddenly finds itself disadvantaged. The US is the most advanced nation in cyber technology...

En Director's Cut se muestran nueve escenas eliminadas o en las que se han producido cambios que afectan a la historia de Holocausto Manhattan. «Escribir una novela no es fácil. En este caso he destinado casi tres años para ver completada esta obra: dos años para escribirla y corregirla,...

The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface. What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around 150 CE. It was preceded...