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Craft lovers and mystery readers alike will flock to this great new craft-based cozy— FIRST IN THE CROCHET MYSTERY SERIES Delicious Recipe and Crochet P...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Includes exclusive bonus material Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone has received an anonymous note carrying an u...

A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first i...

In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, paci...

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train." -- Oscar Wilde A Book Lover's Diary is a journal f...

A Winner Of The Alex Award, A Finalist For The Los Angeles Times Book Prize For First Fiction, Named A Best Book Of The Year By Npr, Los Angeles Times, And ...

A New York Times Notable Book Winner Of The 2019 National Book Critics Circle Awards, Criticism Category Finalist For The 2019 Pen / Diamonstein-spielvogel ...

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 compr...

Eighteen years old and completely alone, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little other than her love of books and an eagerness to explore t...

With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely r...

One kiss and they're in over their heads... Deep Waters Charity Truitt and Elias Winter, two of the Pacific Northwest's most powerful corporate figures, ar...

A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-he...

Finding himself thrown into the world of storybook adventure, timid Richard Tyler tries to find the courage to help himself and his new friends, Adventure, ...

Unlock the more straightforward side of Brave New World with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of...

Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible...

These essays (and a ballad) have their origins in Terry Eagleton’s continuing engagement with the possibilities of a literary criticism that is both mater...

Flannery O?connor May Now Be Acknowledged As The ?great American Catholic Author,? But This Was Not Always The Case. With Creating Flannery O?connor, Daniel...

This Collection Of Essays Probes The Ways In Which Classic Children's Literature Tends To Undermine, Rather Than Support, Respectable Adult Values. Subversi...

The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilisation. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining the natu...

In The Eighteenth Century, A Daring And Dramatically New Intellectual And Cultural Movement Arose In Western Europe. Of Its Many Characteristics - Audacity,...

This comprehensive study, cosponsored by the Christian College Coalition, addresses questions faced by students in introductory literature courses. It exam...

Who was the real Nicholas Flamel? How did the Sorcerer’s Stone get its power? Did J. K. Rowling dream up the terrifying basilisk, the seductive veela, or...

A Collection Of Essays, Most Of Them By Fantasy Writers, On J.r.r. Tolkien And The Influence Of His Work On The Contributors' Own Literary Endeavors. Our Gr...

A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time — listed in accessible and succinct form — by one ...

Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the ...

This Important New Work Brings A Fresh And Carefully Elaborated Theory Of The Literary Work Of Art To The Current Rediscovery Of The Reader?that Of The Conc...

In this marvelous book, acclaimed around the world, Alberto Manguel takes us on a fascinating exploration of what it means to be a reader of books. A Histor...