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Big ideas simply explainedSpence, Annie
Summary: This librarian's snarky, laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to books in her life is a perfect listen for book lovers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 808.3 SPEParks, Tim.
Summary: "Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Why should a group of aging Swedish men determine what "world" literature is best? Do books change anything? Did they use to? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I'm Reading From, the internationally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 PARSpence, Annie
Summary: The author presents a collection of love letters and break-up notes addressed to the books she's encountered throughout her career as a librarian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 SPECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 SPESummary: Examines "the greatest works of world literature, from the Iliad to Don Quixote to The Great Gatsby. Around 100 ... articles explore landmark novels, short stories, plays, and poetry that reinvented the art of writing in their time, whether Ancient Greece, post-classical Europe, or modern-day Korea"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016
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Summary: "An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)-- a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our lives for books. Nearing his fortieth birthday, author and critic Andy Miller realized he's not nearly as well read as he'd like to be. A devout book lover who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2014
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Summary: A "magisterial" (Sunday Times) illumination of how books were used in war across the twentieth century--both as weapons and as agents for peace. We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath--one ranks among humanity's greatest inventions, the other among its most terrible. But as esteemed literary historian Andrew Pettegree demonstrates, the two are deeply intertwined. The Book at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Eco, Umberto
Summary: Collects short essays from the author that reflect on the changing modern world, touching on such topics as popular culture, politics, being seen, conspiracies, the old and the young, new technologies, mass media, racism, and good manners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 854 ECOLaRue, James
Summary: "In America, censorship surges in periods of demographic and political change. Its primary purpose is to silence challenges to an established elite or norm. Today, censorship is part of a larger assault on such American institutions as schools, public libraries, and universities, the better to establish more control over the people--while also pilfering their wallets. In this concise look at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 025.2 LARSpence, Annie
Summary: This librarian's snarky, laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to books in her life is a perfect listen for book lovers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 808.3 SPESpence, Annie
Summary: This librarian's snarky, laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply moving collection of love letters and break-up notes to books in her life is a perfect listen for book lovers.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017