Books & Reading
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What Nails It
$20.00 Add to cartFrom a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art
“Essential for fans of Marcus and fruitful reading for anyone reflecting on the mysteries of art.”–Ki- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Marcus, Greil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272456
- Language: English
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The Book Lover’s Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature, and the Passages That Feature Them
$18.00 Add to cartPerfect for book lovers and foodies alike–a splendid cookbook featuring recipes inspired by classic works of literature and modern favorites
Wake up to a perfect breakfast with Mrs. Dalby’s Buttermi- Author: Wenger, Shaunda Kennedy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0345465466
- Language: English
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The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
$29.95 Add to cartThe Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts–first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets–by hiding them on their bod… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1512603309
- Language: English
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Chronicles of a Liquid Society
$18.99 Add to cartA posthumous collection of essays by internationally renowned essayist, literary critic, philosopher, and author of The Name of the Rose–“one of the most influential thinkers of our time” (Los Angele
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1328505855
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“An absolute joy to read!” –Steven Levitt, New York Times bestse
“Wide-ranging and thoroughly winning.” –Jordan Ellenberg, The New York Times Book Review- Author: Hart, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1250850908
- Language: English
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The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
$17.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR
An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. –Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a- Author: Minoui, Delphine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 125080017X
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
$19.00 Add to cartA Washington Post Notable Book
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hi
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race- Author: Ryback, Timothy W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0307455262
- Language: English
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Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End
$27.00 Add to cartWhat if the great love of your life is friendship?
In their twenties, Lissa Soep and her boyfriend forged deep friendships with two other couples–Mercy and Christine; and Emily and Jonnie–until, deca… [more below]
- Author: Soep, Lissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 195411835X
- Language: English
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The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History
$50.00 Read moreA “delightful” (Vanity Fair) collection from the longest-running, most influential book review in America, featuring its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years
- Author: New York Times
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 0593234618
- Language: English
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Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of Globalization
$34.95 Add to cartThe giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more
A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often,- Author: Jameson, Fredric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292400
- Language: English
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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800
$24.95 Add to cartThe emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and t… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History (Paperback)
- Author: Febvre, Lucien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 18 2012
- ISBN10: 1844676331
- Language: English
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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
