|
What If?
Randall Munroe · Mariner Books
Pages: 303
Format: Print book |
|
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language,... |
|
| |
|
|
 |
|
Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books
Wendy Lesser · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 223
Format: Hardcover |
|
"An exhilarating volume that will ratchet up the joy for all reading groups "Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Odyssey:
Homer · Atria Books; Tra edition
Format: Hardcover |
|
Sing to me Muse It has been said that a myth is a story about the way things never were but always are The Odyssey is the original heros journey an epic voyage into the unknown and has inspired other creative work for millenniafrom ancient poetry to contemporary fiction and films With... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Making of Middle-earth: A New Look Inside the World of J. R. R. Tolkien
Christopher Snyder · Sterling |
|
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings consistently tops polls as the best-loved literary work of all time. Now medieval scholar and Tolkien expert Christopher Snyder presents the most in-depth exploration yet of Tolkien's source materials for Middle-earth—from the languages,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Grumpy Guide to Life: Observations from Grumpy Cat
Grumpy Cat · Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover |
|
In a world filled with inspirational know-it-alls and quotable blowhards, only one figure is indifferent enough to tell the cranky truth Grumpy Cat. Following the success of her New York Times bestselling debut, everyones favorite disgruntled feline is back with this demotivational guide... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Ten Years in the Tub
Nick Hornby · McSweeney's, Believer Books
Format: Hardcover |
|
At the end of 2003, as the first issue of The Believer was rising from the primordial ooze, Nick Hornby turned in the inaugural installment of a monthly column that immediately became a reader favorite. For the next ten years, Hornby’s incandescently funny “Stuff I’ve Been... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters
Mallory Ortberg · Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
|
Hilariously imagined text conversations - the passive aggressive, the clever, and the strange - from classic and modern literary figures, from Scarlett O'Hara to Jessica WakefieldMallory Ortberg, the co-creator of the cult-favorite website The Toast, presents this whimsical collection... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Edge of the Precipice: Why Read Literature in the Digital Age?
Paul Socken · Mcgill-Queens University Press
Format: Hardcover |
|
Can a case be made for reading literature in the digital age? Does literature still matter in this era of instant information? Is it even possible to advocate for serious, sustained reading with all manner of social media distracting us, fragmenting our concentration, and demanding short,... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
