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Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It

by Kelly Gallagher

Published: 2009-02-28

Paperback: 160 pages

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Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools.   Reading is dying in our schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factors that have contributed to the decline?poverty, second-language issues, ...

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Reading American Photographs: Images As History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans

by Alan Trachtenberg

Published: 1990-11-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge PrizeIn this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content. Reading American Photographs is lavishly ...

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Reading Group

by Elizabeth Noble

Published: 2004-01-19

Paperback: 480 pages

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A group of friends, a few bottles of wine and a good book. What could be better? The women who form the Reading Group are as varied as the books they choose to read: Designer-clad Nicole has the perfect domestic set-up - apart from a serially unfaithful husband. Her best friend Harriet's husband is...

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Reading Group Choices 2008: Selections for Lively Book Discussions

by Reading Group Choices

Published: 2007-10

Paperback: 160 pages

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The Reading Group

by Noble Elizabeth

Published: 2002

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The Reading Group: A Novel (P.S.)

by Elizabeth Noble

Published: 2005-01-04

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The Reading Group follows the trials and tribulations of a group of women who meet regularly to read and discuss books.Over the course of a year, each of these women become intertwined, both in the books they read and within each other's lives.Inspired by a shared desire for conversation, ...

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Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books

by William Kuhn

Published: 2010-12-07

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie'...

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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

by Francine Prose

Published: 2006-09-01

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Distinguished novelist and critic Francine Prose inspires readers and writers alike with this inside look at how the professionals read...and write. Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predeces...

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Reading Lolita in Tehran

by Azar Nafisi

Published: 2004-02-02

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For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Azar Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were all former students whom she had taught at university. Some came from conservative and religious families, others...

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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

by Azar Nafisi

Published: 2003-12-30

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"Reading Lolita in Tehran" is the astonishing true story of young women who met in secret each week to read and talk about forbidden Western classics--and their lives and loves--in the Islamic Republic of Iran.