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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
153 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm
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"Reading the Stars is where your favorite books, authors, and characters meet astrology, answering key questions: What should you read based on the cosmos? Do you and your favorite fictional characters share the same sign? What about authors? And what does that mean for you? Open up a whole new world of astrology with this literary exploration!"--Back cover.
23) The library card
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Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The lives of four young people in different circumstances are changed by their encounters with books.
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Named for two literary characters ("Alice" from Lewis Carroll and "Ozma" from L. Frank Baum), the author is the daughter of a Philadelphia-area elementary school librarian. Father and daughter embarked on a streak of reading-out-loud sessions every night before bed as Ozma was growing up--a "streak" that would continue for eight years straight.
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Hailed as "the best-read person in America" (The Paris Review) and "the best book critic in America" (The New York Observer), Michael Dirda's latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves. As fans of his earlier books will expect, there are annotated lists galore -- and a revealing peek at the titles on Michael's nightstand. Funny and erudite, occasionally poignant...
31) My reading life
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Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life.
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Series
Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library"--
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Mukesh lives a quiet life in the London Borough of Wembley after losing his beloved wife. He worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright teenager working at the local library for the summer. She discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird; it is a list of novels that she has never heard of, and she impulsively decides...
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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 Vineyard, Miami, Nebraska, New York City, New Orleans, Niagara...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xviii, 286 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Includes entries by Jacquelyn Mitchard, Kenny Loggins, Catherine Oxenberg, Jim MacLaren, Malachy McCourt, Lou Holtz, Mark Victor Hansen, Christiane Northrup, Bernie Siegel, Dave Barry, Earl Hamner, Nancy Pearl, Jack Canfield, Debbie Macomber, Stephen Covey, Mo Siegel, Granny D, among others.
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Forbidden library volume 1
Description
When her father is lost at sea shortly after meeting a very unusual visitor, Alice must leave her home to live with an "uncle" whose rural Pennsylvania estate includes a massive and mysterious library that holds much more than books.
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