This "celebration of the world of books" ( Kirkus ) is "a real page turner!" ( Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan ) that "feels like a love letter" ( USA Today ) to booksellers and librarians - as told to...
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Author:Patterson, JamesSummary: - Author:New York Times, The.Summary:
From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years. Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has...
- Author:Jeffers, OliverSummary:
Roll up, roll up! Meet the Incredible Book Eating Boy... See his fantastic feats leap off the page in this stunning pop-up edition. Henry loves books... but not like you and I. He loves to EAT books! This immensely popular picture book...
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Author:Maclear, KyoSummary:While banished to a dusty study one day "to think things over", a boy pulls a book off a shelf and with great reluctance begins to read. As the afternoon passes, the story nabs him and carries him away. Before long, this good little...
- Author:Hackwith, A. J.Summary:
To save the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, former librarian Claire and her allies may have to destroy it first. Claire, the rakish Hero, the angel Rami, and the muse turned librarian Brevity have accomplished the impossible by...
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Author:Moers, WalterSummary: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.
- Author:Natsukawa, SosukeSummary:
AN INDIE NEXT PICK! From the #1 bestselling author in Japan comes a celebration of books, cats, and the people who love them, infused with the heartwarming spirit of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles. Bookish high school...
- Author:Ozeki, RuthSummary:
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and learning to take charge of one's life, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being. Benny Oh is a fourteen year-old boy living in the Pacific Northwest...
- Author:Dean, SunyiSummary:
This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and narrator about the novel, family, and neurodivergency. Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is "a darkly sweet pastry of a book about family, betrayal, and the lengths we go to...
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Author:Fuller, ClaireSummary:In this spine-tingling tale Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but she never sends them. Instead she hides them within the thousands of books her husband has collected. After she writes...
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Author:Sledge, John S., Edgar, WalterSummary: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...
- Author:Brooks, GeraldineSummary:
A fictionalized account of the turbulent history of the Sarajevo Haggadah, an illuminated manuscript which has survived into the twentieth century thanks to people of various faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Hanna Heath, a...
- Author:Blatt, Ben.Summary:
A statistician and journalist applies data analysis to the literary canon to discover trends in the works of famous writers. Examines authors' favorite words, whether men and women write differently, use of clichés, opening sentences,...
- Author:Gravel, FrançoisSummary:
Empiler quelques livres poussiéreux dans des boîtes, ça ne semble pas très sorcier. Quand le vieux bibliothécaire de son collège lui propose cet emploi de fin de semaine, Mathieu n'hésite pas très longtemps avant d'accepter. Une fois...
- Author:Chartrand, LiliSummary:
À l'orée d'une fabuleuse forêt, un gros monstre découvre un jour un étrange objet. Après l'avoir reniflé et léché, il le rejette, furieux. Ça n'a aucun goût! Pourtant, cet object étonnant va changer sa vie...
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Author:Ruiz Zafón, CarlosSummary:Alicia Gris, with the help of the Sempere family, uncovers one of the most shocking conspiracies in all Spanish history: the mysterious disappearance of Spain's Minister of Culture, Mauricio Valls. Her search uncovers a tangled web...
- Author:Gravel, FrancoisSummary:
L'adolescence est une maladie qui s'attrape généralement vers treize ou quatorze ans. Ceux qui en sont atteints se mettent d'abord à manger des tonnes de hamburgers et de pizzas. Ils grandissent ensuite tellement vite qu'ils ne savent...
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Author:Adler, DickSummary:Serious mystery fans will welcome Dreams of Justice: Mysteries as Social Documents, a collection of thematically arranged reviews by Dick Adler, who writes the "Crime Watch" column for the Chicago Tribune.
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Author:Salas, Laura PurdieSummary:Presents a series of poems which pay tribute to the limitless worlds available through books, as characters plead for sequels, strut fancy jackets, and have a raucous party in the aisles after a bookstore closes for the night.
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Author:Thompson, BillSummary:Art and Craft presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson’s three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina’s Post and Courier. Beginning with a foreword by Charleston novelist...
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