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Summer Reads 2012 - Book Love
Books about Books
FICTION
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Jane and the Man of the Cloth : Being the Second Jane Austen Mystery
Murder at the Library of Congress
Watermark: A Novel of the Middle Ages
NONFICTION
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Book by book : notes on reading and life by Michael Dirda
Books : a living history by Martyn Lyons
Books : a memoir by Larry McMurtry
This Book is overdue! : how librarians and cybrarians can save us all by Marilyn Johnson
Booknotes : America's finest authors on reading, writing, and the power of ideas
Bound to please : an extraordinary one-volume literary education : essays on great writers and their books by Michael Dirda
Casanova was a book lover by John Hamilton
The Case for books : past, present, and future by Robert Darnton
Caught in the act : the decisive reading of some notable men and women and its influence on their actions and attitudes by Edwin Castagna
Content nation : surviving and thriving as social media changes our work, our lives, and our future by John Blossom
A Dangerous profession : a book about the writing life by Frederick Busch
Every book its reader : the power of the printed word to stir the world by Nicholas A. Basbanes
The Gutenberg elegies : the fate of reading in an electronic age by Sven Birkerts
How reading changed my life by Anna Quindlen
How to read a book by Mortimer J. Adler
How to read literature like a professor by Thomas C. Foster
The Late age of print : everyday book culture from consumerism to control by Ted Striphas
Leave me alone, I'm reading : finding and losing myself in books by Maureen Corrigan
The Library at night by Alberto Manguel
The Lost art of reading : why books matter in a distracted time by David L. Ulin
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Bartlett
Minders of make-believe : idealists, entrepreneurs, and the shaping of American children's literature by Leonard S. Marcus
My Reading life by Pat Conroy
Promised land : thirteen books that changed America by Jay Parini
Raising bookworms : getting kids reading for pleasure and empowerment by Emma Walton Hamilton
A Reading diary by Alberto Manguel
Reading is my window : books and the art of reading in women's prisons by Megan Sweeney
Reading matters : what the research reveals about reading, libraries, and community by Catherine Sheldrick Ross
The Reading promise : my father and the books we shared by Alice Ozma
Reading with the stars : why they love libraries by Leonard Kniffel
Reading women : how the great books of feminism changed my life by Stephanie Staal
Running the books : the adventures of an accidental prison librarian by Avi Steinberg
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins
Steering the craft : exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Tolstoy and the purple chair : my year of magical reading by Nina Sankovitch
What to read when : the books and stories to read with your child and all the best times to read them by Pam Allyn
The Yellow-lighted bookshop : a memoir, a history by Lewis Buzbee
You've got to read this book! : 55 people tell the story of the book that changed their life ed Jack Canfield