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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs Publisher Comments 33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The PhotoReading Whole Mind System by Paul Scheele Publisher Comments You will Photoread the written page at rates exceeding a page per second, directing information into the expanded processing capabilities of your brain. There the information connects with your prior knowledge and becomes useful to accomplishing your... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster Publisher Comments What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface — a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Scouts in Bondage: And Other Violations of Literary Propriety by Michael Bell Publisher Comments Step inside Michael Bell's antiquarian bookshop, stocked with rare and fine collectibles of infinite variety, from Book of Blank Maps, With Instructions, to Autobiography of the Best Abused Man in the World. By perusing these curious works from bygone... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by John Sutherland Publisher Comments Lady Chatterley's Lover. The Blue Lagoon. Portnoy's Complaint. The Da Vinci Code. For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $4.50 New - Trade Paper
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.) by Francine Prose Staff Pick Reading Like a Writer is a treasure chest. You can crack it open at any chapter and come away enriched. Prose is one of the best teachers around, and for the price of a paperback, you are getting an Ivy League education in writing. For people who love... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Book Finds: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books by Ian C Ellis Publisher Comments For the experienced collector or someone embarking on a new hobby, this newly revised and updated edition of Book Finds reveals the secrets of locating rare and valuable books. Includes information on first editions and reader's copies, auctions and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Library At Night (08 Edition) by Alberto Manguel Publisher Comments Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch Publisher Comments Nina Sankovitch has always been a reader. As a child, she discovered that a trip to the local bookmobile with her sisters was more exhilarating than a ride at the carnival. Books were the glue that held her immigrant family together. When Nina's eldest... (read more) List Price $23.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control by Ted Striphas Publisher Comments Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from trade journals, news media, films, advertisements, and a... (read more) Your price: $18.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright by Jean Nathan Publisher Comments In 1957, a childrens book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester From Powells.com Erudite noir. "A tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary," as the book's subtitle explains, The Professor and the Madman tells the true story of Dr. W. C. Minor, a convicted murderer who from his book-lined cell at... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World by Lawrence Goldstone Publisher Comments When Nancy Goldstone bought a vintage copy of "War and Peace" to win a birthday bet with co-author Larry, the couple began their journey into the world of book collecting, meeting a hilarious cast of eccentrics along the way. Part travel story, part love... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren Publisher Comments 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 comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief Guide to the Modern Library (Brief Guide To...) by Carmen Callil Publisher Comments If readers have ever been too frightened to start Hannibal, couldnt wait for The Long Goodbye to end, or wondered what should be next on their summer reading list, this fascinating book is exactly what they need. Readers will find short and insightful... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight For -- From Free Speech to Buying Local to Building Communities by Andrew Laties Publisher Comments The revival of independent bookselling has already begun and is one of the amazing stories of our times. Bookseller Andy Laties wrote the first edition of Rebel Bookseller six years ago, hoping it would spark a movement. Now, with this second edition... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Biography: A Brief History by Nigel Hamilton Publisher Comments For thousands of years we have recorded real lives--the lives of others, and of ourselves. For what purpose and for whom has this universal and timeless pursuit endured? What obstacles have lain in the path of biographers in the past, and what continues... (read more) List Price $17.25 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Defining Moments in Books: The Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events That Shook the Literary World by Lucy Daniel Publisher Comments Written and selected by a range of international writers, academics, and critics, heres an instantly accessible and intelligent look at literary history and criticism over the past century. From key novels to memorable protagonists, admired authors to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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