Books & Reading
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This Craft of Verse
$22.95 Add to cart“A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading.” –Steven Poole, The Guardian
Six incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries.- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0674302451
- Language: English
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The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future
$34.95 Add to cartBooks are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones– they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller s… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Joel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1493088939
- Language: English
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So Many Books, 2nd Edition: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
$15.95 Read moreA charming new edition of a much-loved book about books
“A playful celebrant of literary proliferation.”–New Yorker
In So Many Books, Gabriel Zaid offers his observations on the literary condition: a
- Author: Zaid, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882075
- Language: English
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Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See
$18.99 Add to cartA new, interactive approach to storytime, The Whole Book Approach was developed in conjunction with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and expert author Megan Dowd Lambert’s graduate work in ch
- Author: Lambert, Megan Dowd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1623545773
- Language: English
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California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State’s New Literature
$30.00 Add to cartDive into the revelatory worlds of California’s most exciting writers, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future.
“In Freeman’s hands, California is a l
- Author: Freeman, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146927
- Language: English
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The Threshold and the Ledger
$14.95 Add to cartA timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy.
Since her untimely death in 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann has come to be regarded as one of the twentieth- Author: McCarthy, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1912559676
- Language: English
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
$24.99 Add to cartThe literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller.
“An impressive work…deeply, rightly passionat
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0063452049
- Language: English
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The House of Being
$14.00 Add to cartAn exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey
“Trethewey doesn’t just explore the- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 030028179X
- Language: English
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
$23.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an essential guide for writers and readers alike: an exhilarating tour through one hundred novels that “inspires wicked delight.” —Los… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1400033187
- Language: English
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Oprah’s the Life You Want Book Lover’s Journal
$25.00 Add to cartJoin Oprah on a literary celebration in this guided reading journal featuring 100 writing prompts that will help you discover and remember the power of great books.
Also features inspirational quotes- Author: Oprah Daily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 195839517X
- Language: English
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Animal Stories
$17.95 Add to cartFrom a writer who has “invented a new form” (Annie Ernaux), an exploration of mortality, alienation, boredom, surveillance, and how we regard ourselves among the animals.
Animal Stories begins with Kat… [more below]
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Zambreno, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893380200
- Language: English
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Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books
$27.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the international bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, a heartfelt invitation to reflect on your relationship with reading and celebrate the joys of books.
Why do we read- Author: Bo-Reum, Hwang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639737790
- Language: English
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The Gifts of Reading for the Next Generation: Essays on Nurturing a Passion for Reading
$30.00 Add to cartInspired by Robert Macfarlane and curated by Jennie Orchard, an anthology of essays about the joys of giving books to children and young people, from some of the world’s most beloved writers.
Remember
- Author: Orchard, Jennie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1964992125
- Language: English
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Worlds of Wonder: Celebrating the Great Classics of Children’s Literature
$29.95 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated journey through the most beloved classics of children’s literature, spanning more than twenty countries and one hundred and fifty years
From Little Women to Harry Potter, chi- Author: Hahn, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0691274630
- Language: English
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The Book Lover’s Journal
$14.99 Add to cart“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” – Annie Dillard
If you’re
Document your reading journey with this illustrated journal, packed with helpful prompts and inspiring quotes.- Author: Forster, Felicity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 139885039X
- Language: English
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The Bibliophile Oracle Deck: A 52-Card Deck and Guidebook for Book Lovers
$22.00 Add to cartAn oracle deck for every book lover, this fun and playful 52-card deck with instructional booklet will help you set an intention for your day, find your way when you feel lost, or spark creativity as … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Lindsey
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- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0593797337
- Language: English
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Honey for a Woman’s Heart: Growing Your World Through Reading Great Books
$16.99 Add to cartVibrates with encouragement for women who want to explore and enjoy the world of books Gladys Hunt, long-time advocate of reading and author of the cherished Honey for a Child’s Heart, has written thi
- Author: Hunt, Gladys
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0310238463
- Language: English
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Why Poetry
$18.00 Add to cartAn impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder
In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Ma
- Author: Zapruder, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0062343084
- Language: English
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Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books
$22.00 Add to cartA compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library
“[A] fascinating new study.”–Michael O’Donnell, Wall Street Journal In this engaging life of the twentieth century’s- Author: Roberts, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281137
- Language: English
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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartA brilliant debut memoir about a young writer–struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction–and his life-changing decade working for Joan Didion
As an aspiring novelist in his early twenti
- Author: Leadbeater, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063371588
- Language: English
