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Standing Strong by Teresa Giudice | Conversation Starters In “Standing Strong”, readers are given an intimate look into the author’s personal experiences and life after prison. The novel draws on the author’s personal experiences as a single mother, along with the triumphs and tragedies...

A More Perfect Union: by Dr. Ben Carson | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: From best-selling author, Dr. Ben Carson, comes A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties. In the book, Carson talks about the United States Constitution and its...

An academic book is much more than paper and ink, pixels and electrons. A dynamic social network of authors, editors, typesetters, proofreaders, indexers, printers, and marketers must work together to turn a manuscript into a book. Editors, Scholars, and the Social Text explores the theories...

To be a writer, Amitava Kumar says, is to be an observer. The twenty-six essays in Lunch with a Bigot are Kumar's observations of the world put into words. A mix of memoir, reportage, and criticism, the essays include encounters with writers Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, discussions on the craft...

A radical manifesto about doing what you love Andy Merrifield offers a passionate tribute to the revolutionary spirit of the amateur—a figure who thinks outside the box, takes risks, dreams the impossible dream, seeks independence, and carves out a new world. Merrifield celebrates such square...

Attempts to define what comics are and explain how they work have not always been successful because they are premised upon the idea that comic strips, comic books and graphic novels are inherently and almost exclusively visual. This book challenges that premise, and asserts that comics is not just...

The Clockmaker's Daughter: A Novel by Kate Morton | Conversation Starters Elodie Winslow, an archivist who works in London, discovers a leather satchel with an old photograph of a woman in Victorian clothes and a drawing of a large old house situated along a river. Elodie feels something is...

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Forster tells us that Dickens, in his later novels, from Bleak...

Published in 1902, this collection of essays, revised for this volume, stemmed from the observation that the quantity of books published was rising in inverse proportion to their quality.  "Writing done at this rate of speed," the author opines, "is not literature and cannot be."

The Girls of Atomic City: by Denise Kiernan | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: Many people are familiar with the famous image of Rosie the Riveter that circulated throughout the World War II era. In fact, today, Rosie the Riveter has become a bit of an icon for women. However, many...

To Die but Once: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear | Conversation Starters To Die but Once, Jacqueline Winspear’s latest novel in the Maisie Dobbs’ universe is here to set readers on the edge of their seats once more. Shortly after Britain declared war on Germany, Maise Dobbs...

From Laurie Anderson to Vampire Weekend, Roy Blount, Jr., to Renée Fleming, Stephen Colbert to Bill T. Jones—more than 100 luminaries reflect on the treasures of America’s favorite public library. Marking the centennial of The New York Public Library’s Beaux-Arts landmark at Fifth Avenue...

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng | Conversation Starters Little Fires Everywhere is the latest novel from bestelling author, Celeste Ng. Set in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Little Fires Everywhere tells the story of Elena Richardson, a woman who thrives on structure and rules, and her family....

Wheat Belly by William Davis | Conversation Starters Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health by William Davis, MD, was published back in 2011. At the time, it was considered another fad diet book by readers and critics alike. Since then, however, the...