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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Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy

by Deserina Boskovich Author and Jeff VanderMeer Foreword

This fascinating, illustrated history walks you through little-known, lost, and uncompleted works of fantasy and sci fi…

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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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The Truth About Writing

The Truth About Writing

by Abrams Noterie Author and William Least Heat-Moon Foreword

This book of quotes is filled with famous authors' thoughts, passions, and unique wisdom. With a foil-stamped cover and…

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Murder Your Darlings and Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser

Murder Your Darlings and Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser

by Roy Peter Clark Author

Sort of a guide to writing guides, this collection of writing advice from luminaries across history, like Aristotle,…

$16.99

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Catalog (Spring 2022)

Catalog (Spring 2022)

This catalog is designed for the book industry, and anyone else who wants to see what we are publishing (and have…

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Sticker #486: I Read Queer Smut

Sticker #486I Read Queer Smut

Find liberation in the pursuit of your desires and letting your imagination run wild and free! Queer erotica is a…

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Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile

Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile

by Sharlee Glenn Author

This is the story of the first bookmobile and how one revolutionary librarian decided if you can't bring people to the…

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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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What Poets Are Like: Up and Down with the Writing Life

What Poets Are Like: Up and Down with the Writing Life

by Gary Soto Author

Sixty short vignettes about the poet's life, in which acclaimed chicano poet Gary Soto humorously and poignantly offers…

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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 #159: Chainring Heart

Sticker #159Chainring Heart

by Joe Biel Author, Aaron Renier Author and alex wrekk Author

Microcosm's iconic chainring heart, now in sticker form! Show your bike love to the world! (Sturdy vinyl sticker with…

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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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Making Comics

Making Comics

by Lynda Barry Author

Take the leap and try communicating only through your imagery, your art, your work. Learn to actively not think and just…

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Patch #236: Library Gearz

Patch #236Library Gearz

by Joe Biel Author

Ever notice how social change happens?  1) People get educated... say, at the library or through the little phones we…

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Brief Guide to Self-Help Classics: From How To Win Friends and Influence People to The Chimp Paradox

Brief Guide to Self-Help Classics: From How To Win Friends and Influence People to The Chimp Paradox

by James M. Russell Author

An accessible and concise guide to 70 of the most influential self-help books ever published. Beginning with Dale…

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Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in Three Panels

Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in Three Panels

by Lisa Brown Author

100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries, from curriculum classics like Don Quixote, Lord of the Flies,…

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Cometbus #56: A Bestiary of Booksellers

Cometbus #56: A Bestiary of Booksellers

by Aaron Cometbus Author

The 56th issue of Cometbus is a loving ethnography of New York City's wild, weird, and bearded used book trade. Aaron…

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Honing Your Craft: Developing Your Writing Skills on a Budget

Honing Your Craft: Developing Your Writing Skills on a Budget

by Lydia Rogue Author

Do you dream of being a writer, but despair of finding the resources to make it happen? Writing for your passion, or…

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Catalog (Fall 2021)

Catalog (Fall 2021)

This catalog is designed for the book industry, and anyone else who wants to see what we are publishing (and have…

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My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop

My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop

by Ronald Rice Author

In My Bookstore our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite bookstores…

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This Book of Mine

This Book of Mine

by Sarah Stewart Author and David Small Illustrator

From a girl reading her favorite book out on a fire escape to a butterfly watcher with a guidebook in the park, a little…

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Look! I Wrote a Book! (And You Can Too!)

Look! I Wrote a Book! (And You Can Too!)

by Sally Lloyd-Jones Author and Neal Layton Illustrator

If you're going to write about dinosaurs, don't call a brontosaurus by the wrong name! In this funny step-by-step…

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The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction

The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction

by Justine Larbalestier Author

A dense, engaging study of the history of women and feminism in the growth of mid-20th-century science fiction in the…

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Reading Is Magic: A Book Log for Families

Reading Is Magic: A Book Log for Families

by Emma Straub Foreword

Foster a love of literature with this guided journal for parents and children to record the magic of reading…

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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History

Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History

by Rebecca Romney Author and J.P. Romney Author

The road paved by our civilization’s best books is a long and noble one, but it is also lined with unexpected potholes…

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Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century

Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century

by John B. Thompson Author

For nearly five centuries, the world of book publishing remained largely static. But at the dawn of the twenty-first…

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The Art of Mindful Reading: Embracing the Wisdom of Words

The Art of Mindful Reading: Embracing the Wisdom of Words

by Ella Berthoud Author

The healing power of reading has been renowned since Aristotle; focus, flow and enlightenment can all be discovered…

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Sticker #451: I Support My Local Independent Bookstore

Sticker #451I Support My Local Independent Bookstore

by Microcosm Pub et al Author

Independent bookstores are amazing! A refuge and glue for any community, they provide a safe space, brain food, and…

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Emeralds of Oz: Life Lessons from Over the Rainbow

Emeralds of Oz: Life Lessons from Over the Rainbow

by Peter Guzzadi Author

In Emeralds of Oz: Life Lessons From Over the Rainbow we discover what the most-watched film in history has to teach…

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