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1	How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines more books like this by Thomas C Foster A fun and practical introduction to literature and literary basics--symbols, themes, and contexts--shows how to make everyday reading experiences more rewarding and enjoyable. see all copies from £7.44! new only from £8.80! \| first editions
2	How to Read a Book more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler, Patrick Cullen (Read by) "How to Read a Book," originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a "living" classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, ... see all copies from £8.12! new only from £9.89! \| first editions
3	How Fiction Works more books like this by James Wood What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions Wood answers in "How Fiction Works," a book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. see all copies from £13.54! new only from £14.13! \| signed copies
4	The Outlandish Companion: In Which Much Is Revealed Regarding Claire and Jamie Fraser.... more books like this by Diana Gabaldon Featuring full synopses of "Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, " and "Drums of Autumn, " this indispensable guide provides the full story behind the saga set forth in Gabaldon's beloved time-travel series. see all copies from £15.88! new only from £15.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World more books like this by A J Jacobs Alarmed and more than a little chagrined at the massive gaps in his personal knowledge base, Jacobs sets for himself a suitably daunting, and some might say insane, task: to fill in the holes in his Ivy-league education by reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £7.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Honey for a child's heart; the imaginative use of books in family life more books like this by Gladys M. Hunt Honey for a Child's Heart, now in its third edition, is one of the best guides to children's books available. It is for parents who know the value of reaching their children with good books. This edition includes an indexed and updated 85-page list of the best children's classics ever. see all copies from £3.46! new only from £7.38! \| first editions
7	Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them more books like this by Francine Prose This book presents an inside look at how the professionals read and write. Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says the author. In "Reading Like a Writer", Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of ... see all copies from £6.90! new only from £7.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Library at Night more books like this by Alberto Manguel Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. 'Libraries', he says, 'have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine ... see all copies from £15.89! new only from £15.89! \| first editions
9	History of Reading more books like this by A Manguel 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 of a mass reading public and today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands and expectations of the reader, acting alongside the ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Children's Literature in the Elementary School more books like this by Charlotte S Huck This text shows readers how children's literature can capture the attention of K-8 students and foster a lifelong love of reading. The text covers learning about children's literature, understanding children's responses to literature, the history of children's literature, all the genres (beginning books, picture storybooks, traditional literature, ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £19.77! \| first editions
11 view cover	La Casa de Los Espiritus more books like this by Isabel Allende Isabel Allende's compelling magical-realist saga about the Trueba family in Chile is a political and social history of the country, as well as a powerful novel of family relationships. The novel revolves around the lives of the larger-than-life patriarch Esteban, his elusive wife Clara, their rebellious daughter Blanca, and Blanca's out-of-wedlock ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Through the Eyes of a Child: An Introduction to Children's Literature more books like this by Donna E Norton For courses in Children's Literature. This is a fresh, new edition of one of the most widely-respected sources for introducing future teachers to the wealth of literature available to children. The sixth edition is replete with expanded coverage of key topics, numerous new features, and an enhanced focus on multicultural literature. Its unique ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £6.71! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary more books like this by Simon Winchester A kleptomaniac, the nephew of a French Emperor, the creator of an imaginary land inhabited by small hairy creatures, a homicidal lunatic, an Esperanto enthusiast, the man who introduced the camel to the Wild West, the captain of an all-ladies sculling team, a hermit, and the son of a Scottish draper. Just who were these people and what connected ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	How to read and why more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom "Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?" is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom commences this impassioned book on the pleasures and benefits of reading well. For more than forty years, Bloom has transformed college students into lifelong readers with his unrivaled love for ... see all copies from £2.95! new only from £2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader more books like this by Anne Fadiman Anne Fadiman is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. "Ex Libris" wittily recounts a lifelong obsession with books. Writing with humour and erudition she ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason more books like this by Nancy Pearl What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book, " has devised 170 thematic reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £11.15! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books more books like this by Nicholas A Basbanes The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A Gentle Madness, finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award, is an adventure among the afflicted. Richly anecdotal and fully documented, it combines the perspective ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Sackett Companion more books like this by Louis L'Amour For the first time in paperback, a guide to the backgrounds and sources of the Sackett Family series by the beloved bestselling author who created it. L'Amour shares such personal memoirs as his early adventures--wandering in wild places, working in the mines--and the street fight he had in New Mexico that ultimately led to the birth of the ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £11.02! \| first editions
19 view cover	More Book Lust: 1,000 New Reading Recommendations for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason more books like this by Nancy Pearl This sprightly follow-up to "Book Lust" includes a quirky array of recommended titles in nearly 150 eclectic categories including: highly unusual storylines, humans falling in love with animals, memoirs about complex lives, and true tales from the frontlines of parenting. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies
20 view cover	Como Agua Para Chocolate more books like this by Laura Esquivel Peppered with recipes, remedies and folky digressions, this novel is a treat. The heroine of this fantastical love story, Tita, the youngest of three Mexican daughters, is expected to devote her life to her widowed mother. When her lover, Pedro, asks her to marry him, her mother denies her permission and offers Rosaura, her sister, instead. Pedro ... see all copies from £5.85! new only from £9.79!
21 view cover	Great Books more books like this by David Denby At the age of forty-eight, film critic David Denby, dissatisfied with his life within the media bubble, went back to Columbia University and took again the two famous courses in Western classics (Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization) required of all students--courses he first took in 1961. In recent years, collections of literary ... see all copies from £2.19! new only from £6.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life: How to Get More Books in Your Life and More Life from Your Books more books like this by Steve Leveen For those coming "late to the bookshelf" comes practical advice on how to get"more books in your life and more life from your books." see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.64! \| signed copies
23 view cover	Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper more books like this by Nicholson Baker Since the 1950s, some of the world's greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The originals, often irreplaceable, are cut up to be sold as birthday gifts or are pulped. In this book the real motives behind the dismantling of ... see all copies from £1.80! new only from £6.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	How Reading Changed My Life more books like this by Anna Quindlen In this extended essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Anna Quindlen writes charmingly about her lifelong obsession with books. From a childhood spent with Nancy Drew and Heidi--when reading could often be more pleasurable than anything else--to her adult musings about which 10 books she would save from a fire, Quindlen eloquently defends the ... see all copies from £3.13! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	You've Got to Read This Book!: 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life more books like this by Jack Canfield, Gay Hendricks, Hon., Ph.D., Carol Kline There's nothing better than a book you can't put down - or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the bestselling "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series, and self-actualisation pioneer Gay Hendricks have invited notable people to share personal stories ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions

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