Ex Libris

Author : Michiko Kakutani
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780525574989

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Ex Libris by Michiko Kakutani Pdf

Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in today—with beautiful illustrations throughout. “A book tailormade for bibliophiles.”—Oprah Winfrey “An ebullient celebration of books and reading.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) In the introduction to her new collection of essays, Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread, Michiko Kakutani writes: “In a world riven by political and social divisions, literature can connect people across time zones and zip codes, across cultures and religions, national boundaries and historical eras. It can give us an understanding of lives very different from our own, and a sense of the shared joys and losses of human experience.” Readers will discover novels and memoirs by some of the most gifted writers working today; favorite classics worth reading or rereading; and nonfiction works, both old and new, that illuminate our social and political landscape and some of today’s most pressing issues, from climate change to medicine to the consequences of digital innovation. There are essential works in American history (The Federalist Papers, The Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.); books that address timely cultural dynamics (Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction, Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Image, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale); classics of children’s literature (the Harry Potter novels, Where the Wild Things Are); and novels by acclaimed contemporary writers like Don DeLillo, William Gibson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Ian McEwan. With richly detailed illustrations by lettering artist Dana Tanamachi that evoke vintage bookplates, Ex Libris is an impassioned reminder of why reading matters more than ever.

Author : Patricia Cornwell
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385489003

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Ruth, A Portrait by Patricia Cornwell Pdf

Ruth Bell Graham is known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. It was Ruth who influenced Billy, as his most trusted life-partner. In Ruth, a Portrait, we meet this fascinating and remarkable woman. Brimming with anecdotes, this is a breathtaking journey, with stops at many of this century's epoch-making events. The childhood years of the future Mrs. Billy Graham were spent light-years away--in the China of the 1920s and 1930s. The daughter of medical missionaries, she and her family were caught in a crucible of unspeakable hardship; in addition to pestilence and plague, there was the unstable political and military turmoil surrounding the Nationalist government, the Communists, and the Japanese invaders. These hazardous realities shaped Ruth Bell and her family, a family inured to difficulties, but buoyed up by their deep belief in God's abiding will. Virtually raised by the Grahams, the author is a repository of Ruth Bell Graham's stories and has seen firsthand the spirit of this courageous woman. Patricia Cornwell not only gives readers a full, rounded, and intimate portrait of Ruth Bell Graham, but also insight into the life of the Graham family and particularly Billy Graham.

Author : Ross King
Publisher : Random House
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448189601

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Ex Libris by Ross King Pdf

Responding to a cryptic summons to a remote country house, London bookseller Isaac Inchbold finds himself responsible for restoring a magnificent library pillaged during the English Civil War, and in the process slipping from the surface of 1660s London into an underworld of spies and smugglers, ciphers and forgeries. As he assembles the fragments of a complex historical mystery, Inchbold learns how Sir Ambrose Plessington, founder of the library, escaped from Bohemia on the eve of the Thirty Years War with plunder from the Imperial Library. Inchbold's hunt for one of these stolen volumes - a lost Hermetic text - soon casts him into an elaborate intrigue; his fortunes hang on the discovery of the missing manuscript but his search reveals that the elusive volume is not what it seems and that he has been made an unwitting player in a treacherous game.

Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0374527229

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Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman Pdf

A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life.

Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781429929424

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Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman Pdf

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 love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's 22-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who only really considered herself married when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttony--Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.

Author : Matt Madden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1941250440

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Ex Libris by Matt Madden Pdf

You are looking at (or: you are holding) the book Ex Libris by Matt Madden. Maybe you came looking for it, maybe you just came across it in a bookstore or at someone's house. Maybe you are reading this in a catalogue on a screen. What kind of adventure do you think takes place in these pages? To judge by the cover design and the title, it would seem that books themselves are a subject of this book. Does this book have a comic book as its hero? If you put the book down now, you'll never find out, but on the other hand imaginary, hypothetical versions of the story will branch off endlessly in some corner of your mind. If you do want to find out what happens, all you need to do is open the book and read the first page. But be careful: you might just get sucked in

Author : Simon Groth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648374629

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Ex Libris by Simon Groth Pdf

Author : Ralph Gibson
Publisher : powerHouse Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114349454

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Ex Libris by Ralph Gibson Pdf

An artist-printed signed and numbered silver-gelatin photographic print, eight by ten inches, inside a specially produced clothbound slipcase with a book signed and numbered by the artist.

Author : Paula Guran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN : 1607014890

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Ex Libris: Stories of Librarians, Libraries, and Lore by Paula Guran Pdf

Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also created universes of a multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenment as well as serving as the captains, mages, and gatekeepers who open the doors to delight, speculation, wonder, and terror. Both inspire writers of speculative fiction to pen wonderful tales woven around them. This captivating compilation of science fiction and fantasy short fiction showcases stories of librarians-mysterious curators, heroic bibliognosts, arcane archivists, catalogers of very special collections-and libraries-repositories of arcane wisdom, storehouses of signals from other galaxies, bastions of culture, the last outposts of civilization in a post-apocalyptic world . . . grand adventures and small sagas of the magical places we call libraries and the wizards who staff them!

Author : Jim C. Hines
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780756408176

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Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines Pdf

Includes excerpt from Codex born (pages 351-359).

Author : Audrey Spencer Arellanes
Publisher : Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Book-plates, Periodicals, Indexes
ISBN : UOM:39015028550328

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Bookplates by Audrey Spencer Arellanes Pdf

Author : Raven Belasco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 196094200X

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Blood Ex Libris by Raven Belasco Pdf

Blood and books and swords and flamethrowers. And one librarian, in over her head. How did I get here: covered in blood and holding a sword I can't use? It all started when the dark and mysterious stranger (he wasn't that tall) showed up at my children's reading hour. Of course I noticed him. I'd been single (and bored) for longer than I care to admit. Me, I'm Anushka (Noosh) Rosetti, head librarian. He turned out to be a vampire. And not just any vampire: Vlad Dracula. Although he goes by another name, these days, and he says he's changed his violent ways. He definitely seemed more of a lover than a fighter. At first. In a whirlwind of passion, I made a crucial but impulsive decision: share blood with him a third time, and give up normal human society forever, making my life among the "am'r"-that's what the vampires call themselves. The whirlwind just keeps spinning faster. Before I know it, I'm at an am'r summit meeting-and then, abducted by Vlad's oldest enemy, who's hoping to use me to undo all of my lover and my new family's plans to save am'r society from tearing itself apart. I thought I was just going to archive some ancient books, but now somehow I have to keep myself from being used as a pawn by the craziest bad guy ever, escape back to the good guys (and I'm not sure how "good" they really are) across a desert (I don't even know what country I'm in!) and not be killed in the process. I don't know how I will survive the next five minutes, never mind save my beloved's life, too...

Author : T.G. Roettiger
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780359786442

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Ex Libris Merlini: Wrath of the Scarlet Maidens by T.G. Roettiger Pdf

In the fall of 1924, occultist and New Hampshire native, Benjamin Franklin Wentworth comes into possession of an ancient text which appears to show that the tomb of the man who inspired the legend of Merlin the Magician is located somewhere in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He assembles an eclectic crew, including the mysterious Professor Hecate N� Fidelma, a reputed witch, and sets off in search of the tomb. However, their plans go awry. Unsure whom she can trust, Hecate sets out on her own and goes into hiding. Pregnant and alone, she is in desperate need of help. But someone suspects her secret and has found where she is. And they are interested in more than just an old book...

Author : John Vinycomb
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547094531

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On the Processes for the Production of Ex Libris (Book-Plates) by John Vinycomb Pdf

"On the Processes for the Production of Ex Libris (Book-Plates)" by John Vinycomb is a fascinating text for craftsmen and artisans as well as literature lovers and intellectuals. Though the topic of book-plates may seem like it can easily be dry and uninteresting, Vinycomb manages to make it an intriguing and even entertaining topic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education, Humanistic
ISBN : UCBK:C054549276

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Humanities by Anonim Pdf