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Yale University Press
Language
English
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“[A] collection of Clive James’s essays on a variety of literary topics . . . This is sanity, humor and acuity in the face of death” (The Wall Street Journal).
In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that “if you don’t know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do,” James moved his library to his...
In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that “if you don’t know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do,” James moved his library to his...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Language
English
Description
Megs Devonshire, on a scholarship at Oxford, is brilliant with numbers and equations. She prefers the dependability of facts—except for one: the brother she loves with all her heart doesn’t have long to live. When George becomes captivated by a brand-new book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and begs her to find out where Narnia came from, there’s no way she can refuse. Despite her timidity about approaching the famous author, who...
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English
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
Publisher
Grupo Anaya
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
"Hay un montón de razones por las que merece la pena leer: porque es útil, divertido, nos acerca a los demás, nos hace estar mejor con nosotros mismos...Y así, hasta 101"--P. [4] of cover.
There are many, many reasons for taking the time to read, and reading this book will give you 101 of them.
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library"--
Author
Publisher
BakerBooks, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Reading isn't just a way to pass the time -- it's a lifestyle. Books shape, define, and enchant us. They are part of who we are and we can't imagine life without them. In this collection of charming and relatable reflections, beloved blogger and author Anne Bogel leads you to remember the book that first hooked you, the place where you first fell in love with reading, and all the books and moments afterward that helped make you the reader you are...
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English
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This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. They were unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to open up and to speak more freely, not only about...
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Language
English
Description
"Berlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a culture exchange program in Germany. For a girl from a small town in Maine, 1933 Berlin seems to be sparklingly cosmopolitan, blossoming in the midst of a great change with the charismatic new chancellor at the helm. Then Althea meets a beautiful woman who promises to show her the real Berlin,...
12) Princess wannabe
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After magically entering her bedtime fairy tale book, Fern discovers what it is like to be a princess.
13) A literary tea party: blends and treats for Alice, Bilbo, Dorothy, Jo, and book lovers everywhere
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Tea and books: the perfect pairing. There's nothing quite like sitting down to a good book on a lovely afternoon with a steaming cup of tea beside you, as you fall down the rabbit hole into the imaginative worlds of Alice in Wonderland, The Hobbit, and Sherlock Holmes . . . Fire up your literary fancies and nibble your way through delicate sweets and savories with A Literary Afternoon Tea, which brings food from classic books to life with a teatime...
14) The reader
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
While her parents sleep and other children play outside, a young girl begins to read, reveling in how books can take her anywhere and allow her to do anything.
15) Don't blink!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"A page turns every time you blink, bringing you closer to the end of the book--and bedtime"--
An interactive bedtime story that gives young readers a chance to avoid bedtime, provided they don't blink, but for every blink, a page turns, bringing the end of the story and sleep closer.
16) One girl
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Inspired by the idea of empowering girls around the world to demand their right to education, one girl lights a small spark which catches fire, and eventually lights up the whole world.
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