Books & Reading
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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
$28.00 Read moreA history of one of humankind’s most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium–the book. Revelatory and entertaining in equal measure, Portable Magic will charm and challenge li… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1524749095
- Language: English
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Puss in Books: Our Best-Loved Writers on Their Best-Loved Cats
$15.99 Read moreA charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs (author of The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy).
‘I love them, t
- Author: Magrs, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0008605378
- Language: English
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When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Heartwarming.” — New York Times
“Whether or not you’re a book lover, you’ll be moved.” — Entertainment Weekly
“A readable, accessible addition to World War II literatur
- Author: Manning, Molly Guptill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 27, 2015
- ISBN10: 0544570405
- Language: English
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My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing
$15.00 Read moreAn invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make the writing life a more complex and cooperative venture
- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274149
- Language: English
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Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
$19.00 Add to cartOn bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if y
- Author: Rosenbloom, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800161
- Language: English
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Shakespeare and Company, New Edition
$24.95 Add to cartSylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighte
- Author: Beach, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0803260970
- Language: English
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The Novel, Who Needs It?
$25.99 Read moreIn this brief but highly engaging book Joseph Epstein argues for the primacy of fiction, and specifically of the novel, among all intellectual endeavors that seek to describe the behavior of human bei… [more below]
- Author: Epstein, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1641773057
- Language: English
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Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories
$21.00 Add to cartThis “fascinating” (Malcolm Gladwell, New York Times bestselling author of Outliers) examination of literary inventions through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, shows how writers … [more below]
- Author: Fletcher, Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 8, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982135980
- Language: English
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The Heroine’s Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture
$19.99 Add to cartWhat is the heroine’s journey? How is it different from the hero’s journey? What makes Harry Potter different from Star Wars? Twilight from Wonder Woman?
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author
- Author: Carriger, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1944751343
- Language: English
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My Book Journal: A Reading Diary for Bibliophiles
$16.99 Add to cartThis gifty book journal offers the perfect place to indulge your passion for reading and to record your literary explorations.
This beautifully refreshed edition of our popular My Book Journal provid… [more below]- Author: Union Square & Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1454949783
- Language: English
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Bibliophile: Diverse Spines
$18.95 Add to cartIt’s time to diversify your reading list.
This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen kn- Series: Bibliophile
- Author: Harper, Jamise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1797211919
- Language: English
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How to Read Now: Essays
$28.00 Add to cart“How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our burie
- Author: Castillo, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593489632
- Language: English
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Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story
$19.00 Add to cartIn the exciting and wholly original Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story, John Yorke not only shows that there is truly a unifying shape to narrative–one that echoes the great fairytale jour… [more below]
- Author: Yorke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1468310941
- Language: English
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The Bookseller at the End of the World
$18.99 Read moreA rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand.
“An extraor- Author: Shaw, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 198854775X
- Language: English
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The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-First Century
$18.95 Add to cartONE OF LIT HUB‘S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 – ESQUIRE‘s August 2023 Book Club Pick
“If books are important to you because you’re a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to
- Author: Cook, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 177196541X
- Language: English
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Stories We Shared: A Family Book Journal
$35.00 Add to cartStories We Shared is a hardback reading journal designed with parents and children in mind. It’s a thoughtful way to record the shared literary journey that a family embarks on together.
Stories We Sh
- Author: McKelvey, Douglas Kaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 15, 2016
- ISBN10: 0998311200
- Language: English
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Greatest Works of Jane Austen (Set of 5 Books)
$29.99 Read moreJane Austen, a renowned English novelist of the nineteenth century, crafted timeless tales that continue to captivate readers to this day. Her greatest works are a testament to her wit, social commen
- Series: Greatest Works
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1904
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 9388810511
- Language: English
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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the 20th century’s great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. – “Scintillating … One finds here amazing glimpses into the life of a world that has vanished foreve… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: August 28 1989
- ISBN10: 0679723390
- Language: English
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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
$26.95 Read more“One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.”–Washington Post
Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides link- Series: Nonpareil Books #10
- Author: Davenport, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1567927777
- Language: English
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Novelist as a Vocation
$28.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller–and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and best-selling author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, and W… [more below]
- Author: Murakami, Haruki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0451494644
- Language: English
