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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...
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How to Read a Book
by Mortimer J Adler 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...
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Reading Like a Writer : a Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want To Write Them (06 Edition)
by Francine Prose 
Powells.com 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...
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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...
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Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
by Nancy Pearl
Publisher Comments What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same...
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Read Aloud Handbook 6TH Edition 2006-2007
by Jim Trelease Synopsis For more than two decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Treleases beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Now this new edition of The...
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The the Joy of Reading: A Passionate Guide to 189 of the World's Best Authors and Their Works
by Charles Van Doren Publisher Comments Charles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible. -Mortimer J. Adler This engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world: from Aristotle and Herodotus in ancient Greece to...
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1001 Books for Every Mood: A Bibliophile's Guide to Unwinding, Misbehaving, Forgiving, Celebrating, Commiserating
by Hallie Ephron Synopsis Acclaimed novelist and critic Ephron serves up a literary feast, sure to satisfy a reader's emotional appetite. "1001 Books for Every Mood" includes quizzes to test readers' novel sensibilities and features interesting book facts every bibliophile will...
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Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America
by Kathleen Rooney Publisher Comments Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, Oprah's Book Club has been at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since it began in 1996. Reading with Oprah explores the club's revolutionary fusion of books, television, and...
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
by Francine Prose
Publisher Comments Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose. In Reading Like a Writer, Prose invites you to sit by her side...
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More Book Lust (05 Edition)
by Pearl Publisher Comments The response to Nancy Pearl's surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian and winner of the 2004 Women's National Book Award even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl's...
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50 Essays : Portable Anthology (2ND 07 Edition)
by Samuel Cohen Publisher Comments 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology directly addresses students' and instructors' concerns that composition readers are too expensive and too large. With a net price of $19.50, less than half the size and price of comparable readers, 50 Essays meets the...
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You've Got to Read This Book!: 55 People Tell the Story of the Book That Changed Their Life
by Jack Canfield Publisher Comments There's nothing better than a book you can't put down—or better yet, a book you'll never forget. This book puts the power of transformational reading into your hands. Jack Canfield, cocreator of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul® series,...
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Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books (Vintage)
by Maureen Corrigan Publisher Comments “It’s not that I don’t like people,” writes Maureen Corrigan in her introduction to Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading. “It’s just that there always comes a moment when I’m in the company of others—even my...
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How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom
Powells.com Staff Pick If Michael Jordan offered a seminar on jumping, you can bet anyone with a pair of Nikes would want to attend. Just so, when Harold Bloom published a book called How to Read and Why it went straight onto the New York Times Bestseller list. As a...
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At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays
by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay — a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the...
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Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love
by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Is a book the same book-or a reader the same reader-the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never. The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling...
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Book Smart: The Ultimate Reading Plan for a More Literary You
by Jane Mallison Publisher Comments Unleash your literary side--one great book at a time! Like taking a private class with an engaging literature professor, Book Smart is your ticket for literary enlightenment all year long and for the rest of your life. Whether you're a passionate turner...
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7 Keys To Comprehension
by Susan Zimmermann Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index....
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Reading for Understanding : a Guide To Improving Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms (99 Edition)
by Ruth Schoenbach Synopsis Published in Partnership with WestEd "A breath of fresh air! After reminding us that any teacher who puts a book in front of a student is a reading teacher, the authors give us a teacher-tested reading course for middle and high school students. They...
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