The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading, Paperback

Reducere. In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his fath...

Costa-award winning author of Golden Hill returns with a memoir that investigates the consequences of what we read as children, with Spufford revis...

Reducere. An entirely new kind of biography, Built of Books explores the mind and personality of Oscar Wilde through his taste in books This intimate account...

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Reducere. A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sha...

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Reducere. The Roaring Twenties: America is dancing to jazz, gangsters are selling bootleg liquor, and the New York Yankees are building a baseball dynasty. I...

Reducere. What happened in the house that Jack built? It all started with the cheese that lay in the house that Jack built. And then came the rat that ate th...

Reducere. DescriptionAfrican-American stories were overlooked by mainstream media until John H. Johnson showed the world the value of black life. In his maga...

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Reducere. This is the story of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by open...

Reducere. Bursting with adventurous and humorous spirit, Julia Child captures post-war Paris with wonderful vividness and charm.

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Reducere. In America today, 43 percent of our children fall below grade level in reading. In her meticulously researched and groundbreaking work, Diane McGui...

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Reducere. The bestselling story of Julia's years in France--and the basis for Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams--in her own words. Although ...

DescriptionThe much-anticipated follow-up to the E. B. White Award-winning picture book If I Built a Car In If I Built a Car, imaginative Jack drea...

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Children live deeply in the experience of the seasons. Their unity with nature is initially unconscious and uncritical, and this ``Garden of Eden``...

Reducere. 100 Marvel comics that built a universe. Which comic books have helped define Marvel Comics and make them the pop-culture phenomenon they are today...

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Literary icon Edmund White looks back at his life in relation to literature, from the consolation found in Proust during a closeted time at boardin...

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An unparalleled account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision and matchless determination: the building of the railroad that united Ameri...

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Reducere. This engaging book is narrated by a Middle-School African American girl.She is being teased and bullied by her schoolmates. They lack empathy for t...

A new portrait of The Who through the prism of pop art.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Peter StanfieldIllustration(s): 40 illustrationsNumber o...

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How do you create an active reader? Why is reading good for creativity? Why is it vital for teaching the next generation resilience and positive me...

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The incredible, rollicking, rags-to-riches story of Rocky Aoki, the prodigiously successful businessman and expert sportsman who founded the multim...

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Through memories, photographs, maps and archives, Coley Talking tells the story of 19th and 20th-century life in one of Reading's poorest communiti...

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The challenging results of two decades of painstaking international research into the earliest stages of life

Reducere. Is it possible to find meaning in life after the death of a child? This is the question that steered Linda Kolsky to a quest for answers after she ...