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Readers Digest Funny Family Jokes: Something for Everyone from Age 9 to 99
Reader's Digest · Univ Of Hawai'I Press
Pages: 215
Format: Paperback |
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"Knock! Knock! Who's there? Justin. Justin who? Justin the neighborhood and thought I'd come over." Reader's Digest has a long tradition of providing our readers with laughter through our many humor features. In the Reader's Digest Funny Family Jokes we have compiled some of the funniest... |
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The Edge of the Precipice: Why Read Literature in the Digital Age?
Paul Socken · Mcgill-Queens University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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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,... |
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Ten Years in the Tub
Nick Hornby · McSweeney's, Believer Books
Format: Hardcover |
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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... |
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The Odyssey:
Homer · Atria Books; Tra edition
Format: Hardcover |
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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... |
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Takedown Twenty: A Stephanie Plum Novel
Janet Evanovich · Random House Audio
Format: Audio CD |
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPowerhouse author Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels are "as entertaining as ever" (Entertainment Weekly) , "brilliantly evocative" (The Denver Post) , and "making trouble and winning hearts" (USA Today) . Stephanie... |
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Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books
Wendy Lesser · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 223
Format: Hardcover |
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"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... |
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The Making of Middle-earth: A New Look Inside the World of J. R. R. Tolkien
Christopher Snyder · Sterling |
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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,... |
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