Books & Reading
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Understanding Literature, from the Great Gatsby to the Hat
$19.99 Add to cartThoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest–a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of w
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 006330774X
- 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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Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: The Official Guide to All the Books
$22.00 Add to cartWelcome to the ultimate TBR list! With meticulously researched book descriptions and hundreds of guided prompts and reading tips, The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is an officially licensed, one-of-a… [more below]
- Author: Berlin, Erika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0762486643
- Language: English
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Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age
$24.99 Read moreThis book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and… [more below]
- Author: Griffis, Rachel B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 154096695X
- 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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Selected Amazon Reviews
$32.95 Add to cartA book-length selection from Kevin Killian’s legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.
An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaste
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Killian, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1635902185
- Language: English
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Poetry as Enchantment: And Other Essays
$21.95 Add to cart“Gioia joins W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, and D. H. Lawrence in embracing criticism that is insightfully intellectual and surprisingly personal . . . Always a canny discussant of contemporary poetics
- Author: Gioia, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1589881958
- Language: English
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Word Made Fresh: An Invitation to Poetry for the Church
$26.99 Add to cartHave you ever read a book that turned your world upside down? What about a poem?
Poetry has the power to enliven, challenge, change, and enrich our lives. But it can also feel intimidating, confusin- Author: Van Engen, Abram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0802883605
- 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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Educated Imagination
$15.95 Add to cart“What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?” Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous sty
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0887845983
- 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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The History of Hentai Manga: An Expressionist Examination of Eromanga
$19.99 Add to cartWhile manga is now a well known entity in the global publishing scene, the medium’s international success has its roots in the realm of eros. Japanese media critic Kimi Rito dives into the history of … [more below]
- Author: Rito, Kimi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1634422538
- Language: English
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Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets
$19.99 Read moreFrom Robert Frost’s road not taken on her debut album to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s albatross on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift’s lyrics are filled with literary connections.
Make sure you- Author: Feder, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1683694740
- 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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Of Solids and Surds: Notes for No? Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, MIA Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White
$18.00 Read moreIn the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction
“Delany’s prismatic output is among the most sign- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0300250401
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$26.00 Read moreFinalist for the Vermont Book Award
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a fin
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221362
- 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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On Reading
$12.95 Read more“To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire an… [more below]
- Series: On
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1843916169
- Language: English
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The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints
$24.99 Read moreChristianity Today 2023 Award of Merit (Culture & the Arts)
Midwest Book Review 2023 Silver Book Award (Nonfiction – Religion/Philosophy)How do we become better people? Initiatives such as New Year’s r… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Jessica Hooten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1587435241
- 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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