Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven't Touched Since High School

Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven't Touched Since High School

by Kevin Smokler Author

Have you ever wanted to go back to re-read everything you read, or at least were supposed to read, in your high school…

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How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between

by Thomas C. Foster Author

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor provides general advice for reading nonfiction as a whole and genre specific…

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Letters of Note: Cats

Letters of Note: Cats

by Shaun Usher Editor

This charming collection of thirty letters from notable people like Florence Nightingale, T.S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac,…

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Daily Reader: 366 Selections of Great Prose and Poetry to Inspire a Productive and Meaningful Writing Life

Daily Reader: 366 Selections of Great Prose and Poetry to Inspire a Productive and Meaningful Writing Life

by Fred White Author

Great writers read, and this book brings you daily selections of great writing to help feed your own writing. This…

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Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin

Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin

by Susan DeFreitas Editor

In this new collection of short stories, some of Portland's most vital voices have come together to pay tribute to the…

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Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries & Meanings of Language

Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries & Meanings of Language

by Daniel Tammet Author

Explore the ways communication shapes our perceptions and our realities with this tour of verbal and non-verbal…

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Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience

Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience

by Robert Tindall Author

A fascinating connection drawing parallels between Homer's Odyssey, J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth stories, and South…

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Reasons to Stay Alive

Reasons to Stay Alive

by Matt Haig Author

A moving, funny, and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better, and feel more alive. At the age of 24, Matt…

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Orwell's Roses

Orwell's Roses

by Rebecca Solnit Author

A reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly…

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Smoke City: A Novel

Smoke City: A Novel

by Keith Rosson Author

Marvin Deitz is plagued with issues. His mob-connected landlord is pushing him out of his storefront. His therapist is…

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Art of Winnie-The-Pooh: How E. H. Shepard Illustrated an Icon

Art of Winnie-The-Pooh: How E. H. Shepard Illustrated an Icon

by James Campbell Author and Minette Shepard Foreword

This book chronicles the remarkable relationship between an illustrator and an author who together brought to life some…

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Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

by Viet Thanh Nguyen Editor

 This book is a collection of personal essays by promintent refugee writers, edited by world-reknown author Viet Thanh…

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The Dharma Bums

The Dharma Bums

by Jack Kerouac Author

A semi-fictional story of a freewheeling road trip and spiritual quest. Ray Smith and Japhy Ryder, two friends loosely…

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The Charles Dickens Tarot

The Charles Dickens Tarot

by Chris Leech Author

This 78-card deck draws on literary themes, art, and symbolism from the Dickensian Victorian era, while remaining…

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Persuasion

Persuasion

by Jane Austen Author

Considered Austen's most heart-warming classic, where within young Anne is happily engaged to the handsome Fredrick.…

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

Go Tell It on the Mountain

by James Baldwin Author

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s discovery of the terms of his…

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Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens Author

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late…

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Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice

Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice

by Linda Trichter Metcalf, Ph.D Author

In 1976, Linda Trichter Metcalf began a self-guided writing practice that helped clarify her life as never before. which…

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Notes from a Public Typewriter

Notes from a Public Typewriter

by Michael Gustafson Editor and Oliver Uberti Contributor

There's a typewriter set up for anyone to use in Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Every day people sit down…

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Orwell: A Man of Our Time

Orwell: A Man of Our Time

by Richard Bradford Author

George Orwell’s work is as relevant today as it was in his own lifetime, in the age of Brexit, Trump, and populism,…

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Introducing Linguistics. A Graphic Guide

Introducing Linguistics. A Graphic Guide

by R.L. Trask Author and Bill Mayblin Contributor

This illustrated guide looks at the science and study of language, our most basic and universal skill. As long as humans…

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Introducing Shakespeare. A Graphic Guide

Introducing Shakespeare. A Graphic Guide

by Nick Groom Author and Piero Illustrator

Not just a biography or a guide to his writings, this book is a tour through Shakespeare's life and his world. Through…

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Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

by Katy Horan Author and Taisia Kitaiskaia Author

Reimagine your favorite women authors as badass witches! Part encyclopedia, part poetry, part illustrated manuscript,…

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How to Raise a Reader: Fostering a lifelong love of books, from birth to teens

How to Raise a Reader: Fostering a lifelong love of books, from birth to teens

by Pamela Paul Author and Maria Russo Author

Want to make sure your kid grows up with a love for books, and not just a smartphone addiction? This adorably…

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Sticker #213: Orwell was Right

Sticker #213Orwell was Right

by Steve Larder Author and George Orwell Author

George Orwell was the author of 1984 and he was weirdly prescient. Big Brother is in fact watching you. (Sturdy vinyl…

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Bring Me Your Love

Bring Me Your Love

by Charles Bukowski Author and R. Crumb Author

Bring Me Your Love is a dark short story about a cheating lover accompanied by the beautiful illustrations of R. Crumb.…

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Sticker #257: Support Your Local Infoshop

Sticker #257Support Your Local Infoshop

by Steven Stothard Author

Infoshops! They're overflowing with radical ideas, books, resources, flyers, zines, community, you name it! The only…

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Sticker #397: 1984 Is a Warning Not a How-to

Sticker #3971984 Is a Warning Not a How-to

by George Orwell Author and Tom Murray Author

In this day and age, its hard not to feel like the world is turning into a dystopian hellscape straight out of some…

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YOU DIED: An Anthology of the Afterlife

YOU DIED: An Anthology of the Afterlife

by Kel McDonald Editor and Andrea Purcell Editor

Death is the one aspect of life we all have in common. And it's waiting for everyone. Yet our practices, beliefs, myths,…

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No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters

by Ursula K. Le Guin Author and Karen Joy Fowler Foreword

A collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best blog posts through the years, this book contains musings on life and how to…

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