Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Reading As a Way of Life

Heather Cass White's Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, and encourages readers to trust in the value of the exhilaration and fascination such reading entails. Rather than arguing for the moral value of reading or the preeminence of literature as an aesthetic form, Books Promiscuously Readillustrates the irreplaceable experience of the self that reading provides for those inclined to do it. Through three sections--Play, Transgression, and Insight--which focus on three ways of thinking about reading, Books Promiscuously Read moves among and considers many poems, novels, stories, and works of nonfiction. The prose is shot through with quotations reflecting the way readers think through the words of others. Books Promiscuously Read is a tribute to the whole lives readers live in their books, and aims to recommit people to those lives. As White writes, "What matters is staying attuned to an ordinary, unflashy, mutely persistent miracle; that all the books to be read, and all the selves to be because we have read them, are still there, still waiting, still undiminished in their power. It is an astonishing joy."

Books Promiscuously Read

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Lynne Truss

Missouri

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

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Nathaniel Philbrick

Massachusetts

Shares expert guidelines on how to read and appreciate Herman Melville's classic work, offering insight into its history, characters, and themes while explaining its literary relevance in the modern world.

Why Read Moby-Dick?

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Connecticut

California

Arizona

Miss thistlebottoms hobgoblins

John Irving

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Delaware

Twenty years after he had been the examining physician of two victims of a transsexual serial killer, Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla leaves Toronto to return to his native Bombay and comes face to face with his own past and the murderer. 250,000 first printing. Tour.

A Son of the Circus

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New York

Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History's Greatest Wordsmiths

ox-y-mor-on-i-ca (OK-se-mor-ON-uh-ca) noun, plural: Any variety of tantalizing, self-contradictory statements or observations that on the surface appear false or illogical, but at a deeper level are true, often profoundly true. See also oxymoron, paradox.

examples:

"Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."

Victor Hugo

"To lead the people, walk behind them."

Lao-tzu

"You'd be surprised how much it coststo look this cheap."

Dolly Parton

You won't find the word "oxymoronica" in any dictionary (at least not yet) because Dr. Mardy Grothe introduces it to readers in this delightful collection of 1,400 of the most provocative quotations of all time. From ancient thinkers like Confucius, Aristotle, and Saint Augustine to great writers like Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and G. B. Shaw to modern social observers like Woody Allen and Lily Tomlin, Oxymoronica celebrates the power and beauty of paradoxical thinking. All areas of human activity are explored, including love, sex and romance, politics, the arts, the literary life, and, of course, marriage and family life. The wise and witty observations in this book are as highly entertaining as they are intellectually nourishing and are sure to grab the attention of language lovers everywhere.

Oxymoronica

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Harold Bloom

Florida

A research and study guide for novels written by Charlotte and Emily Bronte includes plot summaries, lists of characters, and critical views

The Brontes*

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Clarice Swisher

Contains fifteen essays that examine various aspects of the novel "The Red Pony," covering major themes, characters, narrative structure and style, and film adaptations; and includes biographical information about author John Steinbeck.

Readings on "The Red Pony"

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Ex-library copy with the usual markings. Modern Critical Views Series.

Gathers critical essays representing literary discussions about Alice Walker and her work, including essays on some of her specific works, Walker's relationship to other authors, and her treatment of gender and race themes.

Alice Walker

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Martha Brockenbrough

Insight, fun and very interesting, about grammar

Hardback/dustjacket, 2008, 243 pages, excellent and clean condition

Oregon

The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar Takes on Madison Avenue, Hollywood, the White House, and the World

This book is for people who experience heartbreak over love notes with subject-verb disagreements...for anyone who's ever considered hanging up the phone on people who pepper their speech with such gems as "irregardless," "expresso," or "disorientated"...and for the earnest souls who wonder if it's "Woe is Me," or "Woe is I," or even "Woe am I." Martha Brockenbrough's Things That Make Us (Sic) is a laugh-out-loud guide to grammar and language, a snarkier American answer to Lynn Truss's runaway success, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Brockenbrough is the founder of National Grammar Day and SPOGG -- the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar -- and as serious as she is about proper usage, her voice is funny, irreverent, and never condescending. Things That Make Us (Sic) addresses common language stumbling stones such as evil twins, clichés, jargon, and flab, and offers all the spelling tips, hints, and rules that are fit to print. It's also hugely entertaining, with letters to high-profile language abusers, including David Hasselhoff, George W. Bush, and Canada's Maple Leafs [sic], as well as a letter to --and a reply from -- Her Majesty, the Queen of England. Brockenbrough has written a unique compendium combining letters, pop culture references, handy cheat sheets, rants, and historical references that is as helpful as it is hilarious.

“Things That Make Us (Sic)”

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

2 issues of Los Angeles Review of Books

North Carolina

William F. Buckley

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Notes and Asides from the National Review

Who knew that William F. Buckley Jr., the quintessential conservative, invented the blog decades before the World Wide Web came into existence? National Review, like nearly all magazines, has always published letters from readers. In 1967 the magazine decided that certain letters merited different treatment, and Buckley, the editor, began a column called "Notes & Asides,” in which he personally answered the most notable and outrageous letters. The selections in this book, culled from four decades of these columns, include exchanges with such figures as Ronald Reagan, Eric Sevareid, Richard Nixon, A. M. Rosenthal, Auberon Waugh, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. There are also hilarious exchanges with ordinary readers, as well as letters from Buckley to various organizations and government agencies.

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Fred Brown

Jeanne McDonald

Alabama

How the South Shapes Its Writers

"The profiles of the thirteen southern writers in this book show how growing up in the South shaped their work and contributed to the estimable collection of literature we call 'southern writing.'"--Page 4 of cover.

Growing up Southern

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Anne Bogel

Virginia

The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them. I'd Rather Be Reading is the perfect literary companion for everyone who feels that way. In this collection of charming and relatable reflections on the reading life, beloved blogger and author Anne Bogel leads readers to remember the book that first hooked them, the place where they first fell in love with reading, and all of the moments afterward that helped make them the reader they are today. Known as a reading tastemaker through her popular podcast What Should I Read Next?, Bogel invites book lovers into a community of like-minded people to discover new ways to approach literature, learn fascinating new things about books and publishing, and reflect on the role reading plays in their lives. The perfect gift for the bibliophile in everyone's life, I'd Rather Be Reading will command an honored place on the overstuffed bookshelves of any book lover.

I'd Rather Be Reading

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Pennsylvania

M. Evelina Galang

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Critiques of Asian American Images

Art, fiction, poetry and essays critiquing Asian and Asian American images in media, government, and popular culture.

Screaming Monkeys

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Louisiana

The author relates in text and illustrations how he came to create a picture book about a dinosaur.

The Making of a Picture Book

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Edmund White

Book is in good condition despite the fact that it is a withdrawn library book. It has the usual stickers, tape and clear cover. Please see pictures. Sorry about the glare in the photos.

Ohio

A Life of Reading

A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader. Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality while he was at boarding school in Michigan; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White's novels. But it wasn't until heart surgery in 2014, when he temporarily lost his desire to read, that White realized the key role that reading played in his life: forming his tastes, shaping his memories, and amusing him through the best and worst life had to offer. Blending memoir and literary criticism, The Unpunished Vice is a compendium of all the ways reading has shaped White's life and work. His larger-than-life presence on the literary scene lends itself to fascinating, intimate insights into the lives of some of the world's best-loved cultural figures. With characteristic wit and candor, he recalls reading Henry James to Peggy Guggenheim in her private gondola in Venice and phone calls at eight o'clock in the morning to Vladimir Nabokov--who once said that White was his favorite American writer. Featuring writing that has appeared in the New York Review of Books and the Paris Review, among others, The Unpunished Vice is a wickedly smart and insightful account of a life in literature.

The Unpunished Vice

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Lynn Q. Troyka

Handbook for Writers

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Darrell L. Bock

Was Leonardo da Vinci the one person who stumbled onto a Vatican plot to conceal the truth about Jesus and then exposed it in his famous work of art. "The Last Supper"? Have sinister global religious organizations suppressed secrets that reveal "the real Jesus"? These are the questions people are asking after reading The Da Vinci Code: can the so-called "secret" Gnostic Gospels lead us to a Jesus we don't know?; did Jesus marry and have children?: was Mary Magdalene really one of the apostles?; were the New Testament Gospels assembled in the way "the code" implies?; and just how much of The Da Vinci Code should we believe?

Texas

Answers to the Questions Everyone's Asking

A critique of the bestselling novel "The da Vinci Code" examines various elements of the story to separate fictitious literary creations from historical facts of Christianity.

Breaking the Da Vinci Code with CD

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Books Promiscuously Read

Lynne Truss

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Nathaniel Philbrick

Why Read Moby-Dick?

Lynne Truss

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Lynne Truss

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

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Miss thistlebottoms hobgoblins

John Irving

A Son of the Circus

Mardy Grothe

Oxymoronica

Harold Bloom

The Brontes*

Clarice Swisher

Readings on "The Red Pony"

Harold Bloom

Alice Walker

John Irving

A Son of the Circus

Martha Brockenbrough

“Things That Make Us (Sic)”

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2 issues of Los Angeles Review of Books

Mardy Grothe

Oxymoronica

William F. Buckley

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Fred Brown; Jeanne McDonald

Growing up Southern

Anne Bogel

I'd Rather Be Reading

Mardy Grothe

Oxymoronica

M. Evelina Galang

Screaming Monkeys

Rodney Martin

The Making of a Picture Book

Edmund White

The Unpunished Vice

Lynn Q. Troyka

Handbook for Writers

Darrell L. Bock

Breaking the Da Vinci Code with CD