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  A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

  by Nicholas A. Basbanes

  Obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. This book is an adventure among the afflicted, beginning 2,500 years ago in Alexandria, when a commitment was made to gather all the world's knowledge beneath one roof, and moving on to profiles of living collectors and exclusive examinations of many great contemporary stories. Illustrations.
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  Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture

  by Nicholas A. Basbanes

  In his national bestseller, A Gentle Madness , Nicholas Basbanes explored the sweet obsession people feel to possess books.Now, Basbanes continues his adventures among the "gently mad" on an irresistible journey to the great libraries of the past -- from Alexandria to Glastonbury -- and to contemporary collections at the Vatican, Wolfenbüttel, and erudite universities. Along the way, he drops in on eccentric book... (more)
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  The King's Gold

  by Yxta Maya Murray

  One look at the centuries-old document she receives from a mysterious stranger is all it takes to plunge Lola Sanchez—a brilliant bibliophile and owner of the Red Lion bookshop—into the adventure of an already adventurous lifetime. The ancient writings tell of a stolen fortune in Montezuma's gold—and of the thief's transformation from conquistatore to alchemist . . . to werewolf. Riches beyond imagining... (more)
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  Homicide in Hardcover: A Bibliophile Mystery

  by Kate Carlisle

  murder is always a bestseller... first in the new bibliophile mystery series! The streets of San Francisco would be lined with hardcovers if rare book expert Brooklyn Wainwright had her way. And her mentor wouldn’t be lying in a pool of his own blood on the eve of a celebration for his latest book restoration. With his final breath he leaves Brooklyn a cryptic message, and gives her a priceless—and... (more)
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  Don Quixote

  by Miguel de Cervantes

  Edith Grossman 's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. You haven't experienced Don Quixote in English until you've read this... (more)
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  A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

  by Nicholas A. Basbanes

  In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in 2001 with Patience & Fortitude, a companion work that prompted the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and biographer David McCullough to proclaim him... (more)
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  Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream

  by Francesco Colonna

  One of the most famous books in the world, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili , read by every Renaissance intellectual and referred to in studies of art and culture ever since, was first published in English by Thames & Hudson in 1999 in a large format that exactly matched the original in size, design, and typography. Now this classic study is made available to a wider public in a reduced-format volume that... (more)
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  The Thirteenth Tale

  by Diane Setterfield

  When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny. All children mythologize their birth ...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish... (more)
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  The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

  by Helene Hanff

  In a sequel to her book 84, Charing Cross Road, New Yorker Hanff travels to England to meet her pen pals firsthand. Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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  The Complete Polysyllabic Spree

  by Nick Hornby

  The Polysyllabic Spree collects a year's worth of Hornby’s riotous and informative "Stuff I’ve Been Reading" columns from the Believer, in which Hornby lists the books he’s read, along with what he bought and may one day read. He ably explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, and sports-related exposés. And if he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons... (more)
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  84, Charing Cross Road

  by Helene Hanff

  A dramatization of the American Helene Hanff's 20-year correspondence with a London antiquarian bookshop. Also on this cassette is a witty duologue between a elderly general and his wife, played by John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft.
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  Eat, Pray, Love

  One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

  by Elizabeth Gilbert

  This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures,... (more)
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  Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

  by Anne Fadiman

  Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill , whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong... (more)
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  Every Book Its Reader

  by Nicholas A. Basbanes

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  Shelf Monkey

  by Corey Redekop

  Thomas Friesen has three goals in life: get a job, make friends, and find a good book to curl up with. After landing a job at READ, the newest hypermegabookstore, he feels he may have accomplished all three. All is not peaceable within the stacks, however, as discontent steadily rises, aimed squarely at talk show host Munroe Purvis, whose wildly popular book club is progressively lowering the IQ of North America.... (more)