Books & Reading
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The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, a Book Sense selection, Lewis Buzbee celebrates the unique experience of the bookstore-the smell and touch of books, the joy of getting lost in the deep canyons of shel… [more below]
- Author: Buzbee, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1555975100
- Language: English
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Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home
$15.95 Add to cartEarly one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. T… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 1846682665
- Language: English
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The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
$16.00 Add to cartFrom Charles Johnson–a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America’s preeminent scholars on literature and race–comes an instructive, inspiring gui… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1501147226
- Language: English
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The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
$20.00 Add to cartPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs’s hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica … [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0743250621
- Language: English
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Book Collecting Now: The Value of Print in a Digital Age
$17.00 Add to cartAt a time when we take e-readers to the beach and read novels on our smartphones, is the book-collecting hobby
still relevant? Yes, more than ever. This illustrated guide gives you everything you need- Author: Budman, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1633980642
- Language: English
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Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy
$15.99 Add to cartThe beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne.
“The journey began
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062230573
- Language: English
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Mothering by the Book: The Power of Reading Aloud to Overcome Fear and Recapture Joy
$18.99 Add to cartAs a mom, you want to nurture a strong family, but fear steals your joy every day. There are times you wonder if you’re failing your children or if you’re cut out for this.
Well-known homeschool mom Je… [more below]
- Author: Pepito, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0764239538
- Language: English
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The Toni Morrison Book Club
$17.95 Add to cartIn this startling group memoir, four friends-black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born-use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about t… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, Juda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 029932494X
- Language: English
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Elements of Fiction
$17.95 Add to cartFollowing his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, award-winning author Walter Mosley delivers an eloquent treatise on the craft of fiction writing–part writing guide, part study
- Author: Mosley, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 802157351
- Language: English
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Franz Kafka: The Drawings
$50.00 Add to cartThe first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings
“The figures he drew stand alone as stories in themselves.”–Lauren Christense- Author: Kilcher, Andreas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 0300260660
- Language: English
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Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
$23.99 Add to cartWhen the Roman historian Tacitus wrote the Germania, a none-too-flattering little book about the ancient Germans, he could not have foreseen that centuries later the Nazis would extol it as a bible an… [more below]
- Author: Krebs, Christopher B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342921
- Language: English
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You’ve Got to Read This Book!: 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life
$20.99 Add to cartThere’s nothing better than a book you can’t put down—or better yet, a book you’ll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield, cocreator of
- Author: Canfield, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0060891750
- Language: English
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The Owl Moon Lab: A Paranormal Experiment
$17.99 Add to cartA one of a kind – audio and video-enhanced book that not only takes you into the world of a clan of Sasquatch residing beside a haunted homestead, but a true account that plunges you down the rabbit h
- Author: Johnson, Tobe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: January 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1955471509
- Language: English
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My Manga Collection: That Time I Read So Much Manga That I Needed This Tracker to Record Everything, from the God-Tier Volumes to Trash Fav
$15.99 Add to cartRate and record your favorite manga as well as track your progress and make notes with this must-have journal perfect for manga readers everywhere.
Calling all manga readers: this book is just for you- Author: Vergara, Vernieda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1507220901
- Language: English
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Reading Log Journal For Adults
$14.99 Add to cartThis logbook is a great organisational tool for readers. It helps with future purchases, especially online, and helps to avoid you buying a book only to discover pages in that you’ve read it before. S
- Author: Read Me Press, Pick Me
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1956259376
- Language: English
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My Ideal Bookshelf
$24.99 Add to cartThe books that we choose to keep — let alone read — can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In My Ideal Bookshelf, dozens of leading cultural figures share the books that matter to … [more below]
- Author: Mount, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0316200905
- Language: English
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The End of Your Life Book Club: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartA profoundly moving memoir of caregiving, mourning, and love between a mother and her son–and about the joy of reading, and the ways that joy is multiplied when we share it with others.
“A graceful,- Author: Schwalbe, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0307739783
- Language: English
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Words I Wish I Wrote
$18.99 Add to cartIn Words I Wish I Wrote, Robert Fulghum reveals the works of writers who have inspired him. During the past four decades he’s reviewed and revised the basic principles of his philosophy many times, s… [more below]
- Author: Fulghum, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060932228
- Language: English
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The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book: An Interactive Guide to Life-Changing Books
$20.00 Read moreFor fans of My Ideal Bookshelf and Bibliophile, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere: a quirky and entertaining interactive guide to reading, featuring voicema… [more below]
- Author: Smalley, Logan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1982140585
- Language: English
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The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon
$35.00 Read moreOur foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O’Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth.
No critic has better unders- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1598536400
- Language: English
