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Am I alone here? : notes on living to read and reading to live


Orner, Peter, author.
New York : Catapult, [2016] 2016

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The amateur : the pleasures of doing what you love


Merrifield, Andy, author.
London ; New York : Verso, 2017. 2017

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Anti-book : on the art and politics of radical publishing


Thoburn, Nicholas, 1970- author.
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016] 2016

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Art and Craft: Thirty Years on the Literary Beat.


Thompson, Bill, 1948- author.
[Place of publication not identified] : University of South Carolina Press, 2015. 2015

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The art of memoir


Karr, Mary, author, narrator.
[New York, New York] : Harper Audio, [2015] 2015

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The Art of Mindful Reading : Embracing the Wisdom of Words


Berthoud, Ella, author.
Leaping Hare Press, 2019. 2019

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At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York


Gopnik, Adam, author.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. 2017

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Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse


Di Robilant, Andrea, 1957- author.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. 2018

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Bestseller : a century of America's favorite books


McParland, Robert, author.
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019] 2019

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The bestseller code : anatomy of the blockbuster novel


Archer, Jodie, author.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016. 2016

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Bibliophile : an illustrated miscellany


Mount, Jane, author.
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2018] 2018

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The book at war : how reading shaped conflict and conflict shaped reading


Pettegree, Andrew, author.
New York, NY : Basic Books, 2023. 2023

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Book-ends : collected intros and outros


Chabon, Michael, author, narrator.
[New York] : HarperCollins, [2019] 2019

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak : The Complete Package for Readers and L


Herbert, Marilyn, 1947-
[Place of publication not identified] : Bookclub-in-a-Box, 2012. 2012

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Bookishness loving books in a digital age


Pressman, Jessica, author.
New York Columbia University Press [2020] 2020

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Books and reading in the lives of notable Americans : a biographical sourcebook


McCrossan, John Anthony, 1930-
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000. 2000

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Books and their readers in eighteenth-century England : new essays



London ; New York : Continuum, 2001. 2001

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Books for living


Schwalbe, Will, author.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. 2017

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Books that teach kids to write


Saccardi, Marianne.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Libraries Unlimited, [2011] 2011

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Bring on the books for everybody : how literary culture became popular culture


Collins, Jim, 1953- author.
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010. 2010

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But have you read the book? : 52 literary gems that inspired our favorite films


Lopez, Kristen, author.
Philadelphia : Running Press, 2023. 2023

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By the book : writers on literature and the literary life from The New York Times Book Review



New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014. 2014

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Camp Austen : my life as an accidental Jane Austen superfan


Scheinman, Ted, 1985- author.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. 2018

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Check these out : one librarian's catalog of the 200 coolest, best, and most important books you'll


Sheridan, Gina, author.
Avon, Massachusetts : Adams Media, [2015] 2015

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Chronicles of a liquid society


Eco, Umberto, author.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017] 2017

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The committed reader : reading for utility, pleasure, and fulfillment in the twenty-first century


Stebbins, Robert A., 1938-
Lanham : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013. 2013

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Critics, monsters, fanatics, and other literary essays


Ozick, Cynthia, author.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. 2016

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Curiosity


Manguel, Alberto, author.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015. 2015

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Curiosity


Manguel, Alberto.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015. 2015

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The daemon knows : literary greatness and the American sublime


Bloom, Harold, author.
New York : Spiegel & Grau, [2015] 2015

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Dark archives : a librarian's investigation into the science and history of books bound in human ski


Rosenbloom, Megan, 1981- author.
[Prince Frederick, Maryland] : Recorded Books, Inc., [2020] 2020

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Data information literacy : librarians, data, and the education of a new generation of researchers



West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2015] 2015

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Dear Fahrenheit 451 : love and heartbreak in the stacks : a librarian's love letters and breakup not


Spence, Annie, author.
New York : Flatiron Books, [2017]. 2017

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Dirt for art's sake : books on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita


Ladenson, Elisabeth.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007. 2007

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Discontent and its civilizations : dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London


Hamid, Mohsin, 1971- author.
New York : Riverhead Hardcover, 2015. 2015

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Elements of fiction


Mosley, Walter, author.
New York : Grove Press, [2019] 2019

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Ethics and Children''s Literature.


Mills, Claudia.
Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014. 2014

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For the love of books : stories of literary lives, banned books, author feuds, extraordinary charact


Tarrant, Graham, author.
New York : Skyhorse Publishing, 2019. 2019

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From Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon


Boström, Mattias, 1971- author.
New York : The Mysterious Press, 2017. 2017

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From little houses to little women : revisiting a literary childhood


McCabe, Nancy, 1962- author.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2014] 2014

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The Futilitarians : our year of thinking, drinking, grieving, and reading


Gisleson, Anne, author.
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. 2017

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Guiding students into information literacy : strategies for teachers and teacher-librarians


Carlson, Chris, 1948-
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, [2009] 2009

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Gutenberg's fingerprint : paper, pixels and the lasting impression of books


Simonds, Merilyn, 1949- author.
Toronto, Ontario : ECW Press, [2017] 2017

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A house of my own : stories from my life


Cisneros, Sandra.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 2015

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How to read literature like a professor : a lively and entertaining guide to reading between the lin


Foster, Thomas C., author.
New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2014. 2014

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How we speak to one another : an Essay Daily reader



Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2017. 2017

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I think you're totally wrong : a quarrel


Shields, David, 1956-
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 2015

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I'd rather be reading : the delights and dilemmas of the reading life


Bogel, Anne, 1978- author.
Grand Rapids, Michigan : BakerBooks, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2018] 2018

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