Reading category: 4864 books
by Book Habits
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware | Conversation Starters
A Brief Look Inside:
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with...
by Book Habits
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven | Conversation Starters
In “Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World”, readers are introduced to some of the author’s strategies for achieving more in life. Each of McRaven’s anecdotes are told from either his perspective...
by Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics by Salena Zito | Conversation Starters
The swing voters who were key to Donald Trump’s unexpected win in the 2016 elections
have been hiding in plain sight. Their votes caused the greatest upset in the recent history...
Mind of an Outlaw
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous publication from this outsize literary icon, collects Mailer’s...
Straight from the Fridge, Dad
A Dictionary of Hipster Slang
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Righteous jive for all you weedheads, moochers, b-girls, gassers, bandrats, triggermen, grifters, snowbirds, and long-gone daddies.
Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the 1960s actually dates back to before World War II, hijacked in the main from jazz and blues...
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
The Nobel Lecture
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017, in an elegant, clothbound edition.
In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy...
by Ceil Cleveland
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Improve your vocabulary in your spare time-and enhance your opportunities for a lifetime
Whether you're studying for school, preparing a business presentation, or mingling at a cocktail party, your mastery of words is essential to your overall success. 1,500 Words in 15 Minutes a Day is the...
by Book Habits
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2018
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson | Conversation Starters
A Brief Look Inside:
EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation Starters is peppered with questions...
by Sally Bayley
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Diaries keep secrets, harbouring our fantasies and fictional histories. They are substitute boyfriends, girlfriends, spouses and friends. But in this age of social media, the role of the diary as a private confidante has been replaced by a culture of public self-disclosure.
The Private Life...
Dirt for Art's Sake
Books on Trial from "Madame Bovary" to "Lolita"
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated...
The Delighted States
A Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by Maps, Portraits, Squiggles, Illustrations, & a Variety of Helpful Indexes
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Having slept with a prostitute in Egypt, a young French novelist named Gustave Flaubert at last abandons sentimentality and begins to write. He influences the obscure French writer Édouard Dujardin, who is read by James Joyce on the train to Trieste, where he will teach English to the Italian novelist...
by Book Habits
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury | Conversation Starters
A Brief Look Inside:
The Martian Chronicles is one of Ray Bradbury's classic novels. In a series of vignettes, Bradbury imagines what life would be like on Mars. The Earth Men are drawn to Mars following a threat of nuclear...
So You Think You Can Spell?
Killer Quizzes for the Incurably Competitive and Overly Confident
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
A cornucopia of spelling challenges—from the deceptively simple to the truly vexing—for good, better, and exceptional spellers (or those who want to be).
So You Think You Can Spell? is a handy way to go one on one, pencil to paper, against hard, harder, and heartless words. The challenges...
by Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
The Female Persuasion: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer | Conversation Starters
College freshman Greer Kadetsky is sexually assaulted when she attends a party inside campus. Along with other women victims, she attempts to have her assailant punished by school authorities but the school takes the offense...