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Reading My Father: A Memoir

by Alexandra Styron

Published: 2011-04-19

Hardcover: 304 pages

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PART MEMOIR AND PART ELEGY, READING MY FATHER IS THE STORY OF A DAUGHTER COMING TO KNOW HER FATHER AT LAST? A GIANT AMONG TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELISTS AND A MAN WHOSE DEVASTATING DEPRESSION DARKENED THE FAMILY LANDSCAPE. In Reading My Father, William Styron's youngest child explore...

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The Reading Promise

by Alice Ozma

Published: 2011-06-09

Paperback: 304 pages

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When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go of what had become their reading ritual. They decided...

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The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared

by Alice Ozma

Published: 2012-03-05

Paperback: 320 pages

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When Alice Ozma was in 4th grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for 100 consecutive nights. On the hundreth night, they shared pancakes to celebrate, but it soon became evident that neither wanted to let go of their storytelling ritual. So they decided to ...

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Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

by Ammon Shea

Published: 2008-07-02

Hardcover: 240 pages

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An obsessive word lover's account of reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover. ?I?m reading the OED so you don?t have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on...? So reports Ammon Shea, the tireless, word-obsesse...

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Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein

by Jan Balakian

Published: 2010-01-01

Paperback: 244 pages

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Playwright Wendy Wasserstein is, above all, a social historian. Balancing drama and comedy to write about social class in Manhattan and about Jewish-American identity, she drew inspiration from Chekhov and the comedies of S. Behrman, Moss Hart, and Noel Coward. The ideas of Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer,...

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Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

Published: 2011-08-16

Kindle Edition: 386 pages

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The bestselling cult classic—soon to be a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part v...

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Ready Player One: A Novel

by Ernest Cline

Published: 2012-06-05

Paperback: 400 pages

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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThe worldwide bestseller—now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into th...

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The Reagan Diaries

by Ronald Reagan

Published: 2009-05-12

Paperback: 784 pages

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During his two terms as the fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Brought together in one...

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The Real Alice in Wonderland: A Role Model for the Ages

by C.M. Rubin, Gabriela Rubin

Published: 2010-03-02

Hardcover: 144 pages

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Alice Pleasance Liddell inspired what is considered today to be the greatest children's story of all time - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland brought Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll together forever. The story behind this story is a dramatic saga of a very...

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The Real Deal

by Lucy Monroe

Published: 2004

Paperback: 352 pages

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When two brilliant, vibrant business minds come to blows in the boardroom, they soon move the power struggle to the bedroom where business definitely mixes with pleasure, and more than just their companies will merge. “If you enjoy Linda Howard, Diana Palmer, & Elizabeth Lowell, then I ...