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Summary: 101 Books to Read Before You Grow Up provides a comprehensive list of kid-friendly books for children to read before they grow up. This must-read review list acts as an interactive journal where kids can document the books they read, why they like them, and how they rate them. Divided into sections by subject, from fairy tales and fantasy to sports and nonfiction, 101 Books to Read Before You...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Published by Walter Foster Jr., a division of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 028.5 SCHMustich, James
Summary: Encompassing fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children's books, history, and more, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die moves across cultures and through time to present an eclectic collection of titles, each described with the special enthusiasm readers summon when recommending a book to a friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.9 MUSCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.9 MUSSmokler, Kevin.
Summary: What do the great books of your youth have to say about your life now? Smokler's essays on the classics are divided into ten sections, each covering an archetypical stage of life from youth and first love to family, loss, and the future. The author not only reminds you about the essential features of each great book but gives you a practical, real-world reason why revisiting it in adulthood is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.73 SMOSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.9 TOPPearl, Nancy.
Summary: Presents lists of recommended book titles in more than 175 categories, including aging, bicycling, Elvis, humor, mothers and daughters, presidential biographies, sports and games, Western fiction, and many others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.73 PEASummary: Provides an authoritative listing of classic and contemporary children's literature that is categorized by age group and pairs each entry with expert evaluations and reproductions of artwork from the featured titles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universe Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.62 ONEPearl, Nancy.
Summary: Presents lists of recommended book titles in more than 120 categories, including adoption, building blocks, civil rights, friends, fairy tales, marriage, poetry, siblings, opera, and many others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.73 PEAFears, J. Rufus.
Summary: Professor J. Rufus Fears presents his choices of some of the most essential writings in history. These are works that shaped the minds of great individuals and that offer an extraodrdinary gift of wisdom to those willing to receive it. Focus is on intellectual history and ethics, taking the underlying ideas of each great work and revealing how these ideas can be put to use in a moral and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 016.8 BooksKakutani, Michiko
Summary: "From "the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world" (Vanity Fair) comes 100 personal, thought-provoking essays of the life-changing books she wouldn't want you to miss--beautifully illustrated throughout"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028 KAKDirda, Michael.
Summary: Surveying the whole world of books, literary essayist Dirda opens with an impassioned critique of modern reading habits, then presents many of the great, and idiosyncratic, writers he loves the most. He starts with ancient classics and ends with groundbreaking science fiction; in between, he writes about everything from Renaissance intellectual history and Russian literary theory to spaghetti...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 081 DIRSummary: "What does a library say about the mind of its owner? How do books map the intellectual interests, curiosities, tastes, and personalities of their readers? What does the collecting of books have in common with the practice of architecture? Unpacking My Library provides an intimate look at the personal libraries of twelve of the world's leading architects, alongside conversations about the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.9 UNPBloom, Harold
Summary: "In his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction, America's most original and controversial literary critic and legendary Yale professor writes trenchantly about fifty-two masterworks spanning the Western tradition"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.3 BLOFadiman, Clifton
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.7 FADSilvey, Anita
Summary: By selecting only 100 "best books" Anita Silvey distinguishes her guide from all the others and makes it possible to give young readers their literary heritage in the childhood years. The books we hear or read when we are children stay with us all our lives. If we miss them when we are young, we"ll miss them forever: no Hungry Caterpillar, no Winn-Dixie, no Roll of Thunder. As adults we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 016.2 GLASummary: Taking its inspiration from Walter Benjamin’s seminal 1931 essay, the Unpacking My Library series charts a spirited exploration of the reading and book collecting practices of today’s leading thinkers. Artists and Their Books showcases the personal libraries of ten important contemporary artists based in the United States (Mark Dion, Theaster Gates, Wangechi Mutu, Ed Ruscha, and Carrie Mae...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028.9 UNPAllen, Jessica
Summary: What are America's best-loved novels? PBS will launch The Great American Read series with a 2-hour special in May 2018 revealing America's 100 best-loved novels, determined by a rigorous national survey. Subsequent episodes will air in September and October. Celebrities and everyday Americans will champion their favorite novel and in the finale in late October, America's #1 best-loved novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 016 BOOSummary: Now in a fully updated and significantly expanded sixteenth edition, "Fiction Core Collection" continues to be an indispensable reference and resource for academic and community library systems seeking to upgrade or expand their fiction collections. Under the capable editorship of John Greenfieldt, the "Fiction Core Collection" offers a total of 11,300 titles, some 2,700 of which are new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.W. Wilson Co. 2010
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4 available in Reference Desk, Call number: R 016.8 FICCall number: RDK 016.8 FIC SUP 2011
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Berthoud, Ella.
Summary: A novel is a story transmitted from the novelist to the reader. It offers distraction, entertainment, and an opportunity to unwind or focus. But it can also be something more powerful--a way to learn about how to live. Read at the right moment in your life, a novel can--quite literally--change it. The Novel Cure is a reminder of that power. To create this apothecary, the authors have trawled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.3 BERPearl, Nancy.
Summary: Includes both nonfiction and fiction reading recommendations for armchair or "real" travelers. This librarian famous for reader's advisory covers places as diverse as Afghanistan, Appalachia, Arizona, Baltimore, Boston, Burma, Congo, Corfu, Detroit, England, Finland, the Galapagos, Guernica, Hawaii, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Jordan, Korea, Law Vegas, Los Angeles, Maine, Malaysia, Martha's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 011.73 PEANissley, Tom
Summary: Presents a literary companion and guide that describes the mistakes, epiphanies, and successes of a variety of writers, from Proust and Conrad to Stephen King and J.K. Rowling, each day of the year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.9339 NISProse, Francine
Summary: Celebrates the pleasures of reading and pays homage to the works and writers the author admires above all others, from Jane Austen to Charles Dickens to Jennifer Egan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word ProsePosner-Sanchez, Andrea
Summary: Introduces readers to best friends Bert and Ernie and describes what they like to do together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021