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1) Book
Author
Publisher
Familius
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In a world dazzled by the latest gadgets and mesmerized by Internet videos, the humble book seems like the most ordinary thing that could be. And perhaps it is--until you learn to look closer ... and closer ... and closer ... and you're suddenly in a world that only you can imagine."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this mischievous book, a #3 bestseller in France that's racking up press coverage and rights sales around the world, literature professor Bayard contends that in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book, but the one who understands the book's place in our culture
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.
4) Americus
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oklahoma teen Neal Barton stands up for his favorite fantasy series, The Chronicles of Apathea Ravenchilde, when conservative Christians try to bully the town of Americus into banning it from the public library.
Publisher
Alyson Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"In a wide-ranging group of essays by some of today's novelists, writers, and critics, Fifty Gay and Lesbian Books Everybody Must Read insists on the importance of these fifty titles to all readers but also challenges our own bookshelves to make room for new arrivals. Some familiar names - Melville, Plato, Sappho, Rimbaud - are seen afresh, while others will be unfamiliar and waiting to be discovered."--BOOK JACKET.
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