Novedades

Book. The word conjures a different mental image for each person that hears it. This book is a chronicle of my journey with books, from reading to collecting, from buying to selling to owning my own bookstore. We all have experiences with books, from the very earliest age; this book is about mine. Hopefully, in addition to entertaining and enlightening you, it will encourage you to go further on the journey yourself. Let’s get Bookish.

The Amputee’s Guide to Jules Verne is a listener's guide to every novel Jules Verne wrote; in that respect alone, there is no other book like it on the market. But it’s more than that. Nick DiMartino has included several essays evaluating Verne’s overall approach as a writer and the values embodied in his work. He has included as well a number of deeply personal essays about his struggles with the loneliness, pain, and lack of mobility that came with being an amputee.

At twenty-three, Michelle Ephraim was failing at everything. The only child of reclusive Holocaust-survivor parents who were dismayed by her literary studies, she found herself dumped by her boyfriend and bombing out of graduate school. Then, one night, she crashed a Shakespeare recitation party. Loopy from vodka and never having read a single line of Shakespeare, she was transfixed. Shakespeare, she decided, was the lifeline she needed.

The secrets of the 'Voynich Manuscript' are visible to those who will truly see. The revelations in this book about that text will push you completely out of your safe zone. Leonardo da Vinci had stated that there are three types of people:...'those who see, those who can be shown and those who will not see.' Find out which type you are by looking at the 'Voynich Manuscript' through the unique perspective of this book. Find out why the internet is buzzing about this book’s hot-button interpretation of the encrypted ‘Voynich Manuscript’! This highly controversial debut book that ...