Ex Libris: Confessions Of A Common Reader

by Anne Fadiman

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Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. This witty collection of essays recou
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Book On The Bookshelf

by Henry Petroski

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From the author of the highly praisedThe PencilandThe Evolution of Useful Thingscomes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage. Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn't.  As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution
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Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

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It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . . Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she
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Sombra Del Viento

by Ruiz Zaf

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Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí encuentraLa Sombra del Viento, un libro maldito que cambiará el rumbo de su vida y le arrastrará a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. Ambientada en la enigmática Ba
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Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

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Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do.... From the Paperback edition.
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Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, And The Eternal Passion For Books

by Basbanes

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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 of historical research with the immediacy of invest
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading For Every Mood, Moment, And Reason

by Nancy Pearl

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Presents 170 themed reading lists designed for any type of reading, from "hick lit" to books on bicycling, covering a wide variety of tastes andopics.
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84 Charing Cross Road

by Helene Hanff

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Inkheart

by Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke, the enormously talented author of the international best-seller THE THIEF LORD, brings readers another spellbinding tale of adventure and magic. Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a book-binder. But her father has a deep secret-- he posseses an extraordinary magical power. One day a mysterious stranger arrives who seems linked to her father's past. Who is this siniste
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Reading Lolita In Tehran: A Memoir In Books

by Azar Nafisi

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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to
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Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

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Sometimes, when you open the door to thepast, what you confront is your destiny.Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchantingstories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate livesfor herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about herextraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret forso long. Callin
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At Home With Books: How Booklovers Live With And Care For Their Libraries

by Ellis , Caroline Seebohm, Seebohm and others

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Full of information on shelving and lighting, and with advice on organizing and caring for books, this title takes us into the houses of 40 booklovers to view their very personal libraries and reading spaces.
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Passion For Books: A Book Lover's Treasury Of Stories, Essays, Humor, Lore, And Lists On Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending

by Kaplan and Rabinowitz

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"When I have a little money, I buy books. And if any is left, I buy food and clothing." --Desiderius Erasmus Those who share Erasmus's love of those curious bundles of paper bound together between hard or soft covers know exactly how he felt. These are the people who can spend hours browsing through a bookstore, completely oblivious not only to the passage of time but to everything else around th
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Books: You Must Read Before You Die

by Peter Boxall

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Peter Boxall offers reviews, author biographies, plot and character assessments and historical information on those books he considers the most important, compelling, or simply the best fiction ever written.
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Polysyllabic Spree

by Nick Hornby

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"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else," writes Nick Hornby in his "Stuff I've Been Reading" column in The Believer. "If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. Go on, try it. The Magic Flute v. Middlemarch? Middlemarch in six. The Last Suppe
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Library: An Unquiet History

by Matthew Battles

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Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a spirited tour of libraries--from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library, from socialist reading rooms and rural home libraries to the Information Age.
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More Book Lust: Recommended Reading For Every Mood, Moment, And Reason

by Nancy Pearl

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The Seattle librarian who created the popular program "If All of Seattle Readhe Same Book" organizes readers' interests into 150 categories, recommendingreat books in each.
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Eyre Affair

by Jasper Fforde

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There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic, a great interest in all things literary - and a woman called Thursday Next. I
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How To Read A Book

by Adler and Van Doren

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How to Read a Book,originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, alivingclassic. 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, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to spee
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Lost In A Good Book

by Jasper Fforde

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Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in which Thursday trapped him, and
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