Dear Reader by Rentzenbrink, Cathy
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Category: Reference Literature
'I loved this book . . . I'm so desperate for you all to share in its wonder' Elizabeth Day 'Dear Reader is a love letter to stories and reading . . . a book to cherish' Nina Stibbe For as long as she can remember, Cathy Rentzenbrink has lost and found herself in stories. Growing up, she was rarely seen ...Show more
On Niccolò Machiavelli - The Bonds of Politics by Gabriele Pedullà
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Category: Reference Literature | Series: Core Knowledge Ser.
Five hundred years after his death, Niccolò Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican loyal to Florence's free institutions? The father of political realism? A revolutionary populist? A calculating rationalist? A Ren ...Show more
1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round by Jami Attenberg
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Category: Reference Literature
Inspired by Jami Attenberg's wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer's guide features encouraging essays on creativity, productivity, and writing from acclaimed authors including Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, Celeste Ng, Meg Wolitzer, and Carmen Maria Machado. In 2018, novelist ...Show more
How to Be a Travel Writer by Lonely Planet Publications Staff; Don George
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Category: Reference Literature | Series: Lonely Planet Ser.
Bursting with invaluable advice, this inspiring and practical guide, fully revised and updated in this new edition, is a must for anyone who yearns to write about travel - whether they aspire to make their living from it or simply enjoy jotting in a journal for posterity. You don't have to make money t ...Show more
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo
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Category: Reference Literature
Best Books of 2022 - Financial Times ... 'A literary phenomenon.' - Times Literary Supplement ... 'Imaginative, lively and contemporary...masterly.' - Economist ... 'Vallejo enlivens history with imagination and personal anecdote' - Observer ... 'A mindboggling history of the earliest books... the stor ...Show more
150 Bookstores You Need to Visit Before You Die by ELIZABETH STAMP
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Category: Reference Literature | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
- The most interesting bookstores in the world, collected in one beautifully bound volume- After 150 Bars, Restaurants, Hotels, Houses, Gardens, Golf Courses and Vineyards this is the eighth book in the internationally successful 150 series- Selected and written by American author Elizabeth Stamp, journ ...Show more
Jacob's Room is Full of Books - A Year of Reading by Susan Hill
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Category: Reference Literature
When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's Room Is Full of Books. Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels through to Alan Bennett's diaries, Virginia Woolf and t ...Show more
Literature in 30 Seconds or Less!: 100 Classics Cut Down for the Pace of the Modern World by Tim Rayborn
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Category: Reference Literature
Build your brain and blitz through the canon with Literature in 30 Seconds of Less!, a collection of illuminating synopses of the great works. Bursting with illuminating synopses of humanity's great works, you no longer have to lower your gaze when the conversation turns to the classics. Instead, you&am ...Show more
The Enchanted Hour - The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction by Meghan Cox Gurdon
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Category: Reference Literature
'As soon as I began to read, I was filled with that kind of engrossed blossoming that happens somewhere inside of you when you start a really nourishing book.' - Pandora Sykes A conversation-changing look at the social, familial, neurological, and psychological benefits of reading aloud, especially for ...Show more
Books That Saved My Life by MICHAEL MCGIRR
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Category: Reference Literature
Great literature is thrilling. It will feed your hungry mind and take your heart on a journey. It will help you on the wonderful path to one of life's most elusive and hard-won freedoms, freedom from the ego.Here is a book about the sheer joy of living, exploring forty texts that can enrich us in all ma ...Show more
Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland by ANGELA YOUNGMAN
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Category: Reference Literature
Although the children's story Alice in Wonderland has been in print for over 150 years, the mysteries and rumours surrounding the story and its creator Lewis Carroll have continued to grow. The Dark Side of Alice in Wonderland is the first time anyone has investigated the vast range of darker, more thre ...Show more
A Date with Language by David Crystal
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Category: Reference Literature
A collection of 366 facts about language to enliven each day of the year. In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events, and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection of insights from literary and linguistic writers, poets, and global institutions, together with the ...Show more