Books & Reading
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The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
$18.99 Add to cartIn this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. Drawing on neuroscience and evolutionary biology, The Storytelling Animal explores what stori… [more below]
- Author: Gottschall, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 23, 2013
- ISBN10: 0544002342
- Language: English
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Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
$29.15 Add to cartWinner, PROSE Awards 2019
Short-listed, ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism 2018
Winner, NAISA Award Best Subsequent Book 2018Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cu
- Series: Indigenous Studies
- Author: Justice, Daniel Heath
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1771121769
- Language: English
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In Praise of Good Bookstores
$26.95 Add to cartFrom a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores
Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good- Author: Deutsch, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0691207763
- Language: English
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Year of the Monkey
$17.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Riveting, elegant, humorous–this “picaresque voyage through Patti Smith’s dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones” (The New York Times… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Patti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1984898922
- Language: English
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
$21.99 Add to cart“Incredible . . . Inspiring . . . Important.” —Library Journal, starred review
“A marvelous yarn, loaded with near-calamitous adventures and characters as memorable as Singer creations.” —The New- Author: Lansky, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 02 2005
- ISBN10: 1565125134
- Language: English
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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
$19.00 Add to cartA Wolfson History Prize Finalist
“Timely and authoritative…I enjoyed it immensely.”
A New Statesman Book of the Year
A Sunday Times Book of the Year
–Philip Pullman “If you care about books, and if yo- Author: Ovenden, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271106
- Language: English
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The Art of Memoir
$18.99 Add to cart“Karr is a national treasure–that rare genius who’s also a brilliant teacher. This joyful celebration of memoir packs transcendent insights with trademark hilarity. Anyone yearning to write will be i
- Author: Karr, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0062223070
- Language: English
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Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany
$29.95 Add to cartSearching for perfect book lovers gifts? Rejoice! Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany, is a love letter to all things bookish. Author Jane Mount brings literary people, places, and things to life t… [more below]
- Series: Bibliophile
- Author: Mount, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1452167230
- Language: English
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Dumbledore: The Life and Lies of Hogwarts’s Renowned Headmaster: An Unofficial Exploration
$16.99 Add to cartA brilliant investigation into the motivations and methods behind the actions of Hogwarts’s renowned Headmaster!
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, is one of the most rec- Series: Unofficial Harry Potter Character
- Author: Khaytman, Irvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 12, 2021
- ISBN10: 1948174782
- Language: English
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Like Love: Essays and Conversations
$32.00 Read moreA career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists
Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson’s brilliant work. These- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452812
- Language: English
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El Libro de la Literatura (the Literature Book)
$27.99 Read moreGrandes ideas, explicaciones sencillas
Con un lenguaje claro, sencillos esquemas e ingeniosas ilustraciones, El libro de la literatura es el manual perfecto para introducirse en la historia de la lite- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1465478728
- Language: Spanish
