Brian Busby's 'The Dusty Bookcase' explores the fascinating world of Canada's lesser-known literary history: works that suffered censorship, critical neglect, or brilliant yet fleeting notoriety. These rare and quirky totems of...
Books and reading
- Auteur:Busby, BrianSommaire:
- Auteur:Stowell, LouieSommaire:
Kit Spencer can't stand reading. She'd rather be outside playing and getting muddy than stuck inside with a book. But when her best friends, Josh and Alita, drag her to the local library, Kit makes an incredible discovery: she...
- Auteur:Moers, WalterSommaire:
In this third tale of Zamonia, Optimus Yarnspinner sets off to track down a mysterious author in Bookholm. Once there he faces cold-blooded book hunters, cyclopean Fearsome Booklings, sharp-toothed Animatomes, and the Shadow King.
- Auteur:Natsukawa, SōsukeSommaire:
High school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the bookstore he inherited when a talking cat named Tiger recruits him to save books. Together, they journey into mazes to set books free.
- Auteur:Colgan, JennySommaire:
Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. But can she write her own happy-ever-after? In this valentine to readers, librarians, and book-lovers the world over, the New York Times-bestselling...
- Auteur:Novak, B. J.Sommaire:
This innovative and wildly funny audiobook by award-winning humorist/actor B.J. Novak will turn any listener into a comedian. You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here’s how books work....
- Auteur:Zusak, MarkusSommaire:
A young adult novel about how a young girl's love of books helps a community survive World War II and the Holocaust. It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans,...
- Auteur:Roux, MadeleineSommaire:
Best friends Adelle and Connie are transported into the world of their favorite gothic romance novel called Moira. There, the world is turned upside down, and they will need to write their own arcs to escape.
- Auteur:Handy, BruceSommaire:
In this fantastical picture book perfect for fans of Aaron Becker's Journey, a human child and a child from another planet discover that no matter where you live or what your books are like, reading - and sharing - are universal. A...
- Auteur:Poblocki, Dan.Sommaire:
Ignoring a handwritten warning from her grandmother, Amelia reads an old book she finds in the attic, and as elements from the stories begin to come to life around her, she realizes that she may be in a spooky story of her own.
- Auteur:Shteyngart, GarySommaire:
In a novel set in the near future, when a beautiful, yet cruel, woman that Lenny Abramov met in Italy says she his coming to stay with him in New York, even the tanks and soldiers stationed in the city and the ongoing war with Venezuela...
- Auteur:Abrams, StaceySommaire:
Stacey’s favorite day of the week is Thursday, when the whole class goes to the library and she gets to lose herself in her beloved books. On one of these special days, Stacey discovers that a new student named Julie has trouble reading...
- Auteur:Sledge, John S., Edgar, WalterSommaire:
Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. Sledge. The collection includes more than 100 of the best pieces culled...
- Auteur:Arden, KatherineSommaire:
New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic. After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only...
- Auteur:Tran, PhucSommaire:
For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. In 1975, during...
- Auteur:Redekop, CoreySommaire:
Thomas Friesen has three goals in life. Get a job. Make friends. Find a good book to curl up with. After landing a job at READ, the newest hypermegabookstore, he feels he may have accomplished all three.
All is not peaceable...
- Auteur:Wharton, ThomasSommaire:
- Auteur:Parr, ToddSommaire:
Describes the characteristics and various advantages of reading.
- Auteur:Fore, S. J.Sommaire:
A little boy who wants to read his book keeps being distracted by a tiger who is busy chomping on gum, growling, and practicing karate kicks.
- Auteur:Kuipers, AliceSommaire:
One aspiring writer plus one magic book. It all adds up to a whole lot of trouble. Polly Diamond is back in the third book about the magical mix-ups of Polly and her notebook, Spell! In this delightfully funny and magical chapter book...