A Word a Day: 365 Words to Enhance Your Vocabulary by Joseph Piercy
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Category: Literature/Quotations
It is estimated that on average an English-speaking adult has acquired a functioning vocabulary of 25,000 words by the time they reach middle age. That sounds like a lot--and more than enough for the daily purposes of communicating with each other in speech and writing. However, it is hard to feel quite ...Show more
Storytime: Growing up with Books by Jane Sullivan
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Category: Literature/Quotations | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What was it exactly? Wonder, rapture delight, surprised recognition, laughter - but also darker feelings that made my heart beat fast and my stomach turn over, and sometimes a frantic urge to close the book before whatever it was sucked me in and destroyed me. But always, I read on. In Storytime, aut ...Show more
1001 Quotations to Inspire You Before You Die by Robert Arp (General Editor)
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Category: Literature/Quotations | Reading Level: near fine
1001 Quotations To Inspire You Before You Die is full of smart remarks - not just sassy one-liners (although there are plenty of those), but also more considered, philosophical epigrams that make us pause and reflect on a range of profound topics. Each quotation is accompanied by an insightful account o ...Show more
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones
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Category: Literature/Quotations
Maps can transport us, they are filled with wonder, the possibility of real adventure and travels of the mind. This is an atlas of the journeys that writers make, encompassing not only the maps that actually appear in their books, but also the many maps that have inspired them and the sketches that the ...Show more
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die - A Life-Changing List by James Mustich
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Category: Literature/Quotations
"The ultimate literary bucket list." --THE WASHINGTON POST Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends.Covering fiction, poetr ...Show more
Bookshops - A Cultural History by Jorge Carrión; Peter Bush (Translator)
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Category: Literature/Quotations | Reading Level: very good
"Bookshops is the best kind of biblio-mystery, in which a cultivated and civilised detective guides us through the labyrinth of the world's stores, stopping to talk for a while, before plunging off on the next fascinating diversion. Jorge Carrion brings page-turning excitement to the extended essay form ...Show more
Speeches of Note: A celebration of the old, new and unspoken by Shaun Usher
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Category: Literature/Quotations | Reading Level: very good
______________________ A richly illustrated and wonderfully eclectic collection of THE WORLD'S GREATEST SPEECHES - THE OLD, THE NEW AND THE UNSPOKEN - from the author of the international bestseller, Letters of Note. Discover speeches that altered the course of history, like NELSON MANDELA's on the day ...Show more
Writers: Their Lives and Works by DK
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Category: Literature/Quotations
Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured novelist, playwright, or poet, biographical entries trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each individual and influenced their work, revealing insights into the larger-than-life characters, plots, and evocative settings that they c ...Show more
100 Books that Changed the World by Scott Christianson
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Category: Literature/Quotations
A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to have changed the way we see and think? In 100 Books that Changed the World, authors Scott Christianson and Colin Salter bri ...Show more
The Seven Basic Plots - Why we tell stories by Christopher Booker
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Category: Literature/Quotations | Reading Level: very good
Breathtaking in its scope and originality, "Seven Basic Plots" examines the basis of story telling in literature, film, and libretto. No one will ever see stories in the same way again. This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are ...Show more
New York in Quotations by Michael Getz
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Category: Literature/Quotations
'One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.' Tom Wolfe New York, New York The city where dreams are made, skyscrapers soar and the buzz never dies. Whether you wish to follow the glamorous footsteps of Holly Golightly on Fifth Avenue or be t ...Show more
A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles and Dilemmas by Roy Sorensen
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Category: Literature/Quotations
If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absence of order, win by losing and think contrapositively, look no further. Here you can unlock the secrets of Plato's void, Wittgenstein's investigations, Schopenhauer's intelligence test, Voltair ...Show more