Month: January 2017

Death on Demand (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 1)

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All 59 Gold Editions have been recently updated (and in some cases expanded) and combined into a PDF format e-book. It can be argued that countries with another language than English has to protect its own literature from the reign of the Anglo-Saxon culture. Multimedia illustrations would be helpful in subjects requiring complex illustration, such as the sciences. Meera Sodha‘s modern take on Indian cooking is perfect for such an occasion; come and let us serve you delicious food from Fresh India, and hear from Meera […] There is something truly bewitching about the manuscripts of the past; a sense of the care and the craftsmanship that created them.

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Lo, the poor bookseller

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Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - not to mention co-founder of Monty Python's Flying Circus - recalls his extraordinary life so far. The Book List was an idea formed after one of their many trips together. A nitty-gritty-mess-with-your-head, it’s all for the show series starts filming: about half the book takes you through the first week of the show.

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A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers Who Were at

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No single format has existed for more than a decade, which has necessitated the recording and rerecording of information on new media to allow access by current computing systems. The noughties have seen several culturally significant small independent bookshops open, including the six-year-old London Review of Books bookshop, which lies a stone's throw from the Bloomsbury Waterstone's. As the storm breaks and violence erupts, Percy will be forced to confront the haunting nature of her mother's affliction and finds her own fate tied more and more inextricably to the baby she is determined to save. the hills of fictional Cutler County in northern Michigan-and told in Percy's unflinching style, Sweetgirl is an affecting exploration of courage, sacrifice, and the ties that bind-a taut and darkly humorous tour-de-force that is horrifying, tender, and hopeful.

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On Publishing: A Professional Memoir

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With over 225 members, including nearly 175 bookstores, we represent a substantial portion of the region. Delia Ephron, author of The Lion Is InOnce, there were many transcriptionists at the Record, a behemoth New York City newspaper, but new technology and the ease of communication has put most of them out of work. Originality/value – This research is both timely, responding to calls from the trade for research and original, given the dearth of research on the book trade.

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A divine intoxication: Essays on books, booksellers, and

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Signs to this effect are up throughout the store, alongside price scanners to drive the point home. Miscellaneous — Americana — Genealogies — History — Illust. The scale of each chain also meant that each would be a major customer for publishers. According to the ABA, though most of these practices have stopped, the settlement agreement still allows booksellers to air grievances – even the legal ones. That, and it’s not such a bad gig getting to wear a Llama costume, meet amazing authors, make a pirate ship from boxes & galleys, and drink with other book people (writers and booksellers alike).

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Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business

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To claim this listing, please send us a message using the "email author" link above. A weekly devoted to Literature and Criticism. 13 Fleet St., London. In addition to the text delivery technologies, staying engaged with social media marketing technologies keeps the bookseller connected to his or her customers. Engulfed in darkness, surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening, Malorie embarks on a harrowing odyssey--a trip that takes her into an unseen world and back into the past, to the companions who once saved her.

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The Templar Legacy: Cotton Malone 1 (Cotton Malone Series)

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It has been stressed that Australian and British booksellers and publishers targeted not only retailers, but also the individual reader. A more detailed examination of printing technology can be found in printing. Unless you’ve been lucky to never have worked a horrible job, in which case you’re luckier than most. This at a time as Foyle’s announced eight redundancies. Most of these books won't climb into three figures but many sell in the $30 to $50 range and provide a consistent source of income over time ...

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The Education of Harriet Hatfield: A Novel

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Although Sarah McNally’s bookstore at 52 Prince Street in Manhattan certainly feels as though it’s always been a part of the New York City literary scene, the truth is that it was founded only six years ago, in December 2004. Taken from home as a girl, Tooly found herself spirited away by a group of seductive outsiders, implicated in capers from Asia to Europe to the United States. He bought largely on impulse and rarely with judgement, but it was inevitable that he picked up many choice things along the way.

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Old books, old friends, old Sydney

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If you're like most of my readers, you're committed to winning at work and succeeding at life. This is not a cush job, but it is an interesting one (we think). That gig was a pain in the ass anyways.” That’s a newly jobless person’s right, and nearly everyone here wants to bust his chops for it? Hansen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) (Paris: Quantin, 1893), by Octave Uzanne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) (1913), by Samuel Weinzieher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only) Pictorial history of the Louisiana Purchase and the World's Fair at St.

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Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James

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Also on Rent Scouter, it shows that Amazon’s buyback program would be willing to give me a $71.77 Amazon gift card for this book. Greg Danz, a graduate of Moorhead State University, went straight into the book world after college working at Bookmen in Minneapolis. Over the past forty years stories from his debut collection The Stone Dragon have been anthologized more than a dozen times and the book has been reprinted in 1984, 1994 and 2003. Provided 15 surefire suggestions for successful book discussions; provides discussion resources for 50 books aimed at specific ages and genders, with bibliographic and programming information for each title (theme and genre, main characters, synopsis, and ideas for questions with possible responses).

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