Books & Reading
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On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy
$15.95 Add to cartThe freedom to read is under attack.
From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise from the impulse toward social c
- Series: Field Notes #9
- Author: Wells, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966637
- Language: English
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The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You
$24.00 Add to cart“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 distra- Author: Berthoud, Ella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125931
- Language: English
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The Re-Center Method Natural Diet Salad Book: Celebrate the Joy of Salad International Recipes from 7 Continents to boost your metabolism in Just 21 D
$31.99 Add to cartBetter Living Influencer, Lifestyle Impactor, and Creator of Being Elevated Lifestyle shares 156 exotics and tasty Salad recipes that will help you explore new exotic food experiences and save you tim
- Author: Argyle King, Hareldau
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1950838250
- Language: English
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I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
$16.00 Add to cart- Author: Bogel, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1540904628
- Language: English
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By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the New York Times Book Review
$20.00 Add to cartSixty-five of the world’s leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them
Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see whic
- Author: Paul, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 125007469X
- Language: English
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So We Read on: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
$19.99 Add to cartThe “Fresh Air” book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby — “The Great American Novel we all think we’ve read, but really haven’t.”
Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who- Author: Corrigan, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 0316230065
- Language: English
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NB by J. C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement
$24.95 Add to cart“Overall, NB might be loosely described as a gossip column for the erudite, but during the first 20 years of the present century, James Campbell made it into something more–a uniquely personal miscel… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881753
- Language: English
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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between
$17.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become bette
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0062895818
- Language: English
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The Book by Design: The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention
$45.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated look at some of the British Library’s most beautiful books from around the world.
For centuries across the world, books have been created as objects of beauty, with bookmakers la- Author: Marks, P. J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0226824098
- Language: English
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River of Books
$13.95 Add to cartA memoir of reading and working with books by the renowned Booklist editor.
With the infectious curiosity of an inveterate bibliophile and the prose of a fine stylist, Donna Seaman charts the course- Author: Seaman, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1734643560
- Language: English
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Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality
$27.00 Add to cartIn a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power.
Fict- Author: Gold, Lyta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1593767706
- Language: English
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Classic Literature Made Simple: Fifty Great Books in a Nutshell
$17.95 Read moreIt has been said, quite correctly, that we write as well as we read. It can also be said that we think as well as we read. Since reading well is so important, it is good to get into the habit of read
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 227
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1621647226
- Language: English
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The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$27.99 Read moreLearn about the greatest works of literature, and the lives of those who wrote them in The Literature Book.
Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a si- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1465429883
- Language: English
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ABC of Reading
$15.95 Read moreThis important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly s… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #1186
- Author: Pound, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218937
- Language: English
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
$16.95 Read moreWhat to read next is every book lover’s greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterate… [more below]
- Author: Pearl, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 12 2003
- ISBN10: 1570613818
- Language: English
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One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art
$26.95 Read moreA selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader’s breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by auth
- Author: Cirino, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927130
- Language: English
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Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
$20.00 Read moreTerry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature
Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated fro- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270445
- Language: English
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Annotation
$15.95 Read moreAn introduction to annotation as a genre–a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication–and its significance in scholarship and everyday life.
Annotation–the addition of a note to a t- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kalir, Remi H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0262539926
- Language: English
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
$28.99 Add to cartThe classic guide, now available in a hardcover edition–a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes and contexts, that shows you how to make yo
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0062696858
- Language: English
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On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age
$40.00 Read moreA sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia
“Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book histor- Author: Holsinger, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260210
- Language: English
