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by Melinda Thompson, Melissa Ferrell, Cecilia Minden
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Reading is a neurologically complex skill. So, it isn’t surprising that many children find learning to read difficult. Make learning to read more fun with award-winning Budding Reader eBooks, arguably the easiest learn-to-read book series on the market. These research-based eBooks were developed...
Dear Fahrenheit 451
Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian's Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
A librarian's laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and breakup notes to the books in her life.
If you love to read, and presumably you do since you’ve picked up this book (!), you know that some books affect you so profoundly they forever change the way you think...
The Unpunished Vice
A Life of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader.
Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which...
by Leah Price
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who...
Reading the 21st Century
Books of the Decade, 2000-2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both the triumphs and tensions of reading and writing today. Evaluating works by established authors Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, J.M. Coetzee, and José Saramago, as well as emerging writers...
Book Lust to Go
Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. With stops from Texas to Timbuktu, Nancy Pearl's reading recommendations will send you on your way.
Forgotten Readers
Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, literary associations,...
by Archie L. Dick
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have...
B & Me
A True Story of Literary Arousal
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
“A love letter to the book as a physical object, a source of intellectual ardor, and a form of emotional salvation” (Salon)—and a nod to U and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic memoir about John Updike—from an award-winning author called “wonderfully bright” by The New York Times Book Review.
Nearly...
On Reading Well
Finding the Good Life through Great Books
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
★ Publishers Weekly starred review
Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates...
The Novel Cure
From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
"Delightful... elegant prose and discussions that span the history of 2,000 years of literature."—Publisher's Weekly
A novel is a story transmitted from the novelist to the reader. It offers distraction, entertainment, and an opportunity to unwind or focus. But it can also be something...
More Book Lust
Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
The response to Nancy Pearl’s surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl’s encyclopedic but discerning filter on books worth reading, and her Rule of 50 (give a book 50...
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2018
Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger (Trivia/Quiz for Fans)
Download your own copy now of Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns by Lauren Weisberger by Whiz Books and start reading your favorite book in trivia and quiz format as a challenge for yourself or with and family!...
Read This Next
500 of the Best Books You’ll Ever Read
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Are you tired of bland, overly earnest reading guides that discuss the same old books? Read This Next by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittlemark is the answer. A smart, irreverent, honest, and truly hilarious guide to your 500 new favorite books, Read This Next is aimed at those readers and book groups...