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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.

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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,...