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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Peter Boxall - Universe
Format: Hardcover
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For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a trove of reviews covering a century of memorable writing. Each work of literature featured here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the written... |
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1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die: The Ultimate Guide to Comic Books, Graphic Novels and Manga
Paul Gravett - Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books
Format: Hardcover
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Visually amazing, this critical history of comic books, manga, and graphic novels is a must-have for any comic buff or collector. Over the centuries, comic books and their offshoots, such as graphic novels, manga, and bandes dessines, have evolved into a phenomenally popular, influential,... |
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Nancy Pearl - Sasquatch Books
Format: Paperback
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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 reading... |
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Book Lust To Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers
Nancy Pearl - Sasquatch Books
Format: Paperback(Original)
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Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling.... |
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More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
Nancy Pearl - Sasquatch Books
Format: Paperback
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The response to Nancy Pearl’s surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl’s encyclopedic but discerning filter on books worth reading, and her Rule of 50 (give... |
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Between the Covers: The Book Babes' Guide to a Woman's Reading Pleasures
Margo Hammond - Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback
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With wit and wisdom, the bibliophile's Ebert & Roeper recommend more than 600 books based on what women care about most. Between the Covers is organized around their wide-ranging curiosity—about themselves, friends and family, the larger world—and their concerns,... |
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Books: A Memoir
Larry McMurtry - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In an intimate and intriguing memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove recounts his lifelong love affair with books, from his largely "bookless" boyhood and discovery of literature as a young man, to the evolution of his writing career and his passion as a book... |
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Books for Living
Will Schwalbe - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new?... |
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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
Robert Darnton - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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A renowned historian and pioneering scholar in the history of the book - a lead voice in the debate about the digital future of books and knowledge - distills his experience and insight in The Case for Books |
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Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks
Annie Spence - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Gen-X librarian's laugh-out-loud funny, deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to the books in her life.Librarians spend their lives weeding. Not weeds, but books! Books that have reached the end of their shelf life, both literally and figuratively. They remove the ones... |
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The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
ANNE GISLESON - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Recommended Summer Reading -- Louise Erdrich, New York TimesA memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of griefAnne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane... |
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How Reading Changed My Life
Anna Quindlen - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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THE LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT is a groundbreaking series where America's finest writers and most brilliant minds tackle today's most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues. Striking and daring, creative and important, these original voices on matters political, social, economic,... |
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I'd Rather Be Reading: A Library of Art for Book Lovers
Guinevere De la Mare - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover
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For anyone who'd rather be reading than doing just about anything else, this book is the ultimate must-have. In this visual ode to all things bookish, readers will get lost in page after page of beautiful contemporary art, photography, and illustrations depicting the pleasures of books.... |
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The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life
Steve Leveen - Levenger Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Perfect for all of us who can never get enough time with good books. It not only urges us to indulge deeply and often, it shows us how."-Myra Hart, professor, Harvard Business School "Readers and want-to-be readers will be encouraged by the advice to read more, more widely... |
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi - Random House
Format: Paperback
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists... |
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Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America
Kathleen Rooney - University of Arkansas Press
Format: Hardcover
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Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, the Oprah Book Club has been at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since its inception in 1996. Virtually everyone seems to have an opinion about this monumental institution with its revolutionary and controversial... |
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Remarkable reads : 34 writers and their adventures in reading
J Peder Zane - W. W. Norton
Format: Paperback
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Can books be dangerous, elegant, or sad? Can books be tempting, or smokin', or double-d-daring? Can they compel you to hitchhike to the middle of Mexico, fall in love with snakes, or question your sanity? Of course they can. Writers including Jonathan Lethem, Haven Kimmel, Charles Frazier,... |
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
Molly Guptill Manning - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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When America entered World War II in 1941, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books and caused fearful citizens to hide or destroy many more. Outraged librarians launched a campaign to send free books to American troops and gathered 20 million hardcover donations.... |
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Why Read?
Mark Edmundson - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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In this important book reconceiving the value and promise of reading, acclaimed author Edmundson dramatizes what the recent identity crisis of the humanities has effectively obscured: that reading can change your life for the better.Mark Edmundson's Harper's Magazine article "On the Uses... |
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The American Public Library Handbook
Guy A Marco - Libraries Unlimited
Format: Hardcover
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A detailed reference work that documents every aspect of the American public library experience through topical entries, statistics, biographies, and profiles.* Profiles of individual libraries and biographies of important public librarians |
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BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
John Palfrey - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues... |
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At Home with Books: How Book Lovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
Estelle Ellis - Carol Southern Books
Format: Hardcover(1st Edition)
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At Home with Books is a visual delight, a helpful resource, and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library. Includes professional advice on editing and categorizing your library; caring for your books; preserving, restoring, and storing rare books; finding out-of-print... |
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Carnegie Libraries Across America: A Public Legacy
Theodore Jones - Wiley
Format: Hardcover
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". . . if you remember toiling - awestruck - up marble staircases in search of facts for a junior-high geography report; if you've driven past perfect, preserved-in-amber temples in towns too small for a stoplight and a Wal-Mart; if you've ever sat through Story Hour in the Children's... |
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The Carnegie Library in Illinois
Raymond Bial - University of Illinois Press
Format: Hardcover
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This book offers a nostalgic, yet informative, visit to the eighty-three Carnegie libraries in Illinois that still serve as libraries and, in most cases, as community cultural centers. |
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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Nicholson Baker - Vintage
Format: Hardcover
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The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our countrys libraries-including the Library of Congress-have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult... |
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For the people: Fighting for public libraries
Whitney North Seymour - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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First edition. A citizen's action manual--a rallying cry in support of libraries and people--with information on what you can do to help protect our public library system and increase government support. A key resource that shows why the survival of the public library is essential to American... |
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The Library: An Illustrated History
Stuart A. P. Murray - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Book
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The Library tells the story of libraries and of the changing form and function of the book from era to era, whether clay tablets, parchment sheets, papyrus scrolls, glossy paper, recording tape or silicone chips. At the heart of the story of libraries and books is the story of the reader,... |
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Library of Congress: The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building
John Young Cole - Norton
Format: Hardcover
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A handsomely illustrated tribute to the Library of Congress building, published to coincide with its one hundredth anniversary. Arguably the most beautifully decorated building in the United States, the Library of Congress building (recently renamed the Jefferson Building) is celebrating... |
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The Little Free Library Book
Margret Aldrich - Coffee House Press
Format: Hardcover
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"The Little Free Library is a terrific example of placing books - poetry included - within reach of people in the course of their everyday lives. Free is always a good thing, and the project has a nice give-and-take feel to it. Here's hoping we bump into literature when we turn the next... |
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Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
Wayne A Wiegand - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover(New Edition)
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Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only increased. Two of three Americans frequent a public library at least once a year, and nearly that many are registered borrowers. Although library... |
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Reading with the Stars: A Celebration of Books and Libraries
Leonard Kniffel - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Hardcover
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American Libraries editor in chief Leonard Kniffel offers a compelling collection of interviews with prominent figures--all of whom have special connections to libraries. From President Barack Obama to actress Julie Andrews; from basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to former First... |
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Casanova Was a Librarian: A Light-Hearted Look at the Profession
Kathleen Low - McFarland & Company
Format: Paperback
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What do Casanova, Pope Pius XI, Benjamin Franklin and first lady Laura Bush have in common? At one time, all were members of the librarian profession. While librarians are often stereotyped as quiet, shy ladies who wear their gray hair in a dignified bun, that doesn't reflect the variety... |
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Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian
Ethelene Whitmire - University of Illinois Press
Format: Hardcover
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The first African American to head a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL) , Regina Andrews led an extraordinary life. Allied with W. E. B. Du Bois, she fought for promotion and equal pay against entrenched sexism and racism. Andrews also played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance,... |
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Running with a Police Escort: Tales from the Back of the Pack
Jill Grunenwald - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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In the fall of 2012, quirky and cat-loving Cleveland librarian Jill Grunenwald got an alarming email from her younger sister: her sister was very concerned with Jill's weight and her overall mental and physical health. Having always struggled with her weight, Jill was currently hitting... |
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Sacred Stacks: The Higher Purpose of Libraries and Librarianship
Nancy Kalikow Maxwell - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Paperback
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Librarianship as a calling is a powerful perspective. While it s been a long time since libraries were exclusively the provenance of monks, some of those sacred roots remain, according to librarian and theologian Maxwell. Many librarians sense the deeper meaning and higher purpose in their... |
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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
Marilyn Johnson - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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In This Book is Overdue!, acclaimed author Marilyn Johnson celebrates libraries and librarians, and, as she did in her popular first book, The Dead Beat, discovers offbeat and eloquent characters in the quietest corners. In defiance of doomsayers, Johnson finds librarians more vital and necessary... |
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Great Forgers and Famous Fakes
Charles Hamilton - Random House Value Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Charles Hamilton recognizes a faked signature and believes it to be easily identified, and so will the reader of this book-once he knows what to look for. This is information of immense value to the collector and historian. Well-executed forgeries and fakes have fooled dealers and collectors... |
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Miles Harvey - New York
Format: Paperback
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"Every once in a blue moon you read a book that leaves you absolutely breathless, reminding you of the bright, hidden worlds within our world. This is that book, a glimmering, supersonic journey into terra incognita, where Miles Harvey, acting as writer and sleuth, pursues America's... |
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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up
Julia Eccleshare - Universe
Format: Hardcover
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This is the best and most authoritative guide to classic and contemporary children's literature today. It is the latest in the best-selling 1001 series, and its informative reviews are the key to differentiating the "must-read" books from all the rest in the realm of children's... |
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The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
Donalyn Miller - Jossey-Bass
Format: Paperback
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Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets... |
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Raising a reader : a mother's tale of desperation and delight
Jennie Nash - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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Jennie Nash explains how parents can encourage their children to love books and reading, sharing stories and misadventures from the years when her daughters were learning what it mean to have a relationship with words. |
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The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
Alice Ozma - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book
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A series of vignettes describes how the author's father challenged himself to read aloud to her for one hundred consecutive nights when she was in fourth grade and how they decided to continue "the streak" until the day she left for college.
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Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
Maria Tatar - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read. Ever wondered why little children love listening to stories, why older ones get lost in certain books? In this enthralling work, Maria Tatar... |
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Melanie Rehak - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Aplucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved... |
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How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I've Learned from Reading too Much
Samantha Ellis - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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While debating literature's greatest heroines with her best friend, thirtysomething playwright Samantha Ellis has a revelation - her whole life, she's been trying to be Cathy Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights when she should have been trying to be Jane Eyre. With this discovery, she embarks... |
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
BRUCE HANDY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An irresistible, nostalgic, insightful - and totally original - ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy. "Consistently intelligent and funny ... The book succeeds wonderfully." - The New York Times... |
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