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What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised 170 thematic reading... (learn more about this book)
For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a trove of reviews covering a century of memorable writing. Each work of literature featured here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the written... (learn more about this book)
Being afraid of the dark doesn't just happen to you. It happens, sometimes to little bears, too. This is the Berenstain Bears series. In The Dark.
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The response to Nancy Pearl's surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian and winner of the 2004 Women's National Book Award even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl's encyclopedic but discerning filter on... (learn more about this book)
Parents, teachers, and librarians are often puzzled by the seemingly endless choices for reading material for young people. What’s good, what’s trash, what’s going to hold their interest? Nancy Pearl, America’s favorite librarian, has read widely in all the genres and happily points the way in... (learn more about this book)
Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great... (learn more about this book)
When Mama turns her quilt-making hobby into a business, the Bear family worries that she won't have time for them. When everyone pitches in to help her, they realize that things aren't so different after all--and they're prouder of Mama than ever.
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In Words I Wish I Wrote, Robert Fulghum reveals the works of writers who have inspired him.During the past four decades he's reviewed and revised the basic principles of his philosophy many times, sometimes as an exercise in personal growth, but more often in response to individual crisis. ... (learn more about this book)
In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost... (learn more about this book)
Remember that book you read at that time in your life when everything seemed to be going crazy-the one book that brought the world into focus and helped soothe your raging teenage angst?
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