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A booklover's dream-come-true. This delightful travelogue and
memoir comes from a genuine bibliophile: The author moved his
young family from San Francisco to Hay-on-Wye, a small Welsh town
with more than 40 bookstores, widely considered the used-book
capital of the world. In Sixpence House, Collins's witty and
fascinating narrative blends amusing trivia, hilarious anecdotes,
and a chronicle of his many bookstore discoveries.
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Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World
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What started as a last resort on the quest for an inexpensive gift soon became an addiction. From visiting every rare book store between Boston and Manhattan--and spending ever-increasing amounts of...
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A Book Lover's Diary
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The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers
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An essential, authoritative reference for all who work with words: writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, and publishers. The book covers every imaginable issue regarding...
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Fondling Your Muse: Infallible Advice from a Published Author to a Writerly Aspirant/A Hands-On Guide to Writing Your Very Own New York Times Bestseller
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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Who cares about the difference between "its" and "it's" or "whose" and "who's"? To the shock of everyone--including the author--apparently a lot of people do: Lynne Truss's lively look at the perils...
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Book Sense Best Children's Books: 240 Favorites for All Ages Recommended by Independent Booksellers
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Experienced independent booksellers offer their recommendations on more than 200 children's books for every age group and category. This features a foreword by a favorite contemporary children's...
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
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The man who spearheaded what has been called "the greatest cultural rescue effort in Jewish history" recounts his poignant, intrepid, and often riotous quest to safeguard a vanishing civilization.
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Bookless in Baghdad: Reflections on Writing and Writers
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Supermely personal, yet always probing and analytical, Shashi Tharoor, the acclaimed author of six books, all published by Arcade, is once again at his provocative best in this book that is part...
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A Passion for Books: A Book Lover's Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring For, and Appreciating Books
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Some of the bibliomaniacs whose essays or stories are collected in this anthology are great writers whose books are themselves the subjects of some collectors' uncontrollable ardor--Norman Mailer,...
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So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
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Sara Nelson likes to read, and she decided to keep a log of what books she reads in the course of a year--one book every week. She reads new books, classics, fiction, nonfiction--a long and diverse...
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