Spence, 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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 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
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 808.3 SPEStilton, Geronimo.
Summary: "The hunt for the golden book: Geronimo's laptop is stolen just as he's finishing up writing a special book! Can he and his friends hunt it down in time for his tenth-anniversary party?"--Dust jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC STI GSSummary: Lists the top ten favorite books of 125 authors; includes short essays by the authors on selected favorites; and provides a summary of every book chosen, 544 in all.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.9 TOPSummary: As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object, whether pristine collectible or battered relic, is growing as well. This book spotlights the personal libraries of thirteen favorite novelists who share their collections with readers. Photographs provide full views of the libraries and close-ups of individual volumes: first...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.9 UNPSummary: In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, Alan Hollinghurst, Doris Lessing,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 PLESummary: "Sixty-five of the world's leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to them. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela Paul, the editor of the The New York Times Book Review, featuring personalities as varied as David Sedaris, Hilary Mantel, Michael Chabon, Khaled Hosseini, Anne Lamott, and James Patterson. These questions and answers admit us...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 800 BYProse, Francine
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word ProseLethem, Jonathan
Summary: "A collection of bestselling, NBCC prize-winning author Jonathan Lethem's finest writing on the subject of writers and writing. A readerly wake-up call from one of America's finest and most acclaimed working writers. Picking up where his NBCC Award finalist collection The Ecstasy of Influence left off, More Alive and Less Lonely collects more than a decade of Lethem's finest writing on writing,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LETSpurgin, Timothy.
Summary: Examines the wonderful feeling of engaging with a novel or short story on all levels and learning how artful readers think about and approach the works they read.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 ARTCall number: DVD 808 ART
Claridge, Laura P.
Summary: "Left off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm. A conduit to the literature of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Blanche...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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Summary: "The president of a reclusive writer's fan club is found dead after a book signing. Charlotte Reed, the owner of Chapters B&B and her neighbors Ellen and Ellen's trusty Yorkshire terrier, must page through the clues to catch a killer before the author meets the same fate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GILSummary: "Moving, joyful, and insightful collection of conversations with today's living literary legends about the books that changed their lives, made them think, and brought them joy, from 'American's Librarian' Nancy Pearl and noted playwright Jeff Schwager"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028 WRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028 WRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word PearlPullman, Philip
Summary: The author of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy shares insights into the art of writing while exploring how education, religion, and science, as well as his favorite classics, helped shaped his literary life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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Summary: Twelve-year-old storybook character Gracie Freeman lives in the real world but longs to discover what happened in the story she came from.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in JT Fantasy, Call number: JT Fantasy Gilboy 2018Klise, Kate.
Summary: In this story told mostly through letters, busybody Dick Tater tries to ban Halloween and ghost stories, as well as to break up the popular writing team of I. B. Grumply, ghost Olive C. Spence, and eleven-year-old illustrator Seymour Hope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KLIHenry, April
Summary: Bridget is R.M. Haldon's biggest fan. She and her mom sought refuge in Haldon's epic fantasy series Swords and Shadows while her mom was losing her battle with cancer. When Bridget met Haldon at one of his rare book signings, she impressed the author with her encyclopedic knowledge of the fantasy world he'd created. Bridget has been working for him ever since as he attempts to write the final...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021