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Fahrenheit 451: Bradbury's prophetic classic. No matter how many times you've read Ray Bradbury's moving novel of censorship and salvation through books, there's always something new to discover in his rich and poetic prose. Fahrenheit 451 tells the tale of Guy Montag, a book-burning fireman who undergoes a personal transformation when his marriage starts to dissolve and next-door-neighbor suddenly disappears. Riveting and still relevant sixty years after publication, this story is a superb reminder of why we love and need books!
"So Many Books" is not so much a book as a conversation: about books, about reading, about the mad business of how a book is born every 30 seconds. It is a book of proposals and arguments and debate...
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This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth...
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From one of the world's most passionately engaged literary citizens comes "Writing with Intent," the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005.
From an elegant, curved modern library with sunny picture windows to a simple apartment library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, this guide showcases 40 libraries and offers professional advice on...
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Following his highly regarded books about book collectors and book preservation, Basbanes explores those books that have shaped culture and changed the way the world is viewed.
While traveling, Manguel was struck by how the novel he was reading seemed to reflect the social chaos of the world he was living in. He decided to keep a diary of these moments, reading a book a...
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Richly anecdotal and fully documented, "A Gentle Madness" is a celebration of books and the people who have revered, gathered, and preserved them over the centuries. of photos.
The primary goal of this groundbreaking effort is to encourage book-lovers to organize day-trips and other kinds of literary outings to cities and towns with interesting, fun, and unique bookstores...
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This is a focused, respectful, entertaining guide to getting sentences into good shape. Bell describes grammar and usage problems in ways that make immediate sense and explains precisely what...
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