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by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: The Secret History: A Novel by Donna Tartt
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Be careful what you wish for. When Richard goes to college, he wants nothing more than to fit in and become part of a group. The group he chooses, however,...
Nothing Remains the Same
Rereading and Remembering
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2003
A New York Times Notable Book and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year: A look at the pleasures and surprises of rereading.
Compared with reading, the act of rereading is far more personal—it involves a complex interaction of our past selves, our present selves, and literature. With candor...
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book
Life Lessons from Notable People from All Walks of Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
"What children's book changed the way you see the world?"
Anita Silvey asked this question to more than one hundred of our most respected and admired leaders in society, and she learned about the books that shaped financiers, actors, singers, athletes, activists, artists, comic book...
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Starting out as a children’s bedtime story, The Hobbit has become an integral part of literature all over the world. The escapades of Bilbo Baggins, recruited as...
Used and Rare
Travels in the Book World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones-rediscover the joy of reading, laugh, and fall in love with books all over again.
The idea that books had stories associated with them that had nothing to do with the stories inside them was new to us. We had always valued the history,...
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: Eleanor & Park: A Novel by Rainbow Rowell
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You may have read the book, but not have liked it.
You may have liked the book, but not be a fan.
You may call yourself a fan, but...
The Late American Novel
Writers on the Future of Books
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
The way we absorb information has changed dramatically. Edison’s phonograph has been reincarnated as the iPod. Celluloid went digital. But books, for the most part, have remained the same-until now. And while music and movies have undergone an almost Darwinian evolution, the literary world now faces...
by Ursula K. Le Guin, David Naimon
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?both her process and her philosophy?with all the wisdom, profundity, and rigor we expect from one of the great writers of the last century.
When the New York Times referred to Ursula K. Le Guin as America’s greatest writer of...
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: Wild by Cheryl Strayed
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You may have read the book, but not have liked it.
You may have liked the book, but not be a fan.
You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you...
by Whiz Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Trivia-on-Book: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
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Two women and fight for equality and justice as they find their voices during times of slavery, gender inequality and repression. Handful was a slave bought...
by Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).
*An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.
*This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
Contents
Adventures among books -- Recollections of...
Meditations on Middle-Earth
New Writing on the Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien by Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Raymond E. Feist, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, George R. R. Martin, and more
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2002
NOMINATED FOR THE 2002 HUGO AND LOCUS AWARD
When J.R.R. Tolkien created the extraordinary world of Middle-earth and populated it with fantastic, archetypal denizens, reinventing the heroic quest, the world hardly noticed. Sales of The Lord of the Rings languished for the better part of two...
Waiting for the Barbarians
Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
AND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARD
Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest...
A Monograph on Privately Illustrated Books (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
A Plea for Bibliomania
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Subtitled, “A Plea for Bibliomania,” Tredwell’s monograph was prepared upon the invitation of the Rembrandt Club in Brooklyn, New York, to tell of his experiences in the “seductive” art of privately illustrating books. The paper was read on December 8, 1880, but was so popular the club printed it in book form.