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  • The Writer's Library

    The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

    by Nancy Pearl, Jeff Schwager ...
    NEW & NOTEWORTHY ~ THE NEW YORK TIMESWith a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in this intimate, moving, and insightful collection from "American's Librarian" and recipient of the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Book Lust

    Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

    by Nancy Pearl ...
    What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality. These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices

    A Novel in 36 Voices

    by Garth Stein, Jennie Shortridge, Erik Larson, Julia Quinn, Jamie Ford, Kevin O'Brien, Susan Wiggs, Erica Bauermeister, Carol Cassella, Mary Guterson, Elizabeth George, Deb Caletti, Kathleen Alcalá, William Dietrich, Karen Finneyfrock, Stephanie Kallos, Frances McCue, Suzanne Selfors, Craig Welch, Matthew Amster-Burton, Sean Beaudoin, Robert Dugoni, Jarret Middleton, Greg Stump, David Lasky, Kit Bakke, Dave Boling, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kevin Emerson, Clyde W. Ford, Teri Hein, Stacey Levine, Peter Mountford, Nancy Rawles, Ed Skoog, Indu Sundaresan ...
    Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page.Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • George and Lizzie

    A Novel

    by Nancy Pearl ...
    From “America’s librarian” and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotional, “Anne-Tyler-esque” (Library Journal) debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads.George and Lizzie are a couple, meeting as college students and marrying soon after graduation, but no one would ever describe them of being soulmates. George grew up in a warm and loving family—his father an orthodontist, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Poet's Pub

    by Eric Linklater ...
    A literary Cheers—filled with British charm and witComprised of an entertaining series of vignettes that occur at the Pelican Pub in Downish, England, Poet's Pub is a humor-filled collection of stories by award winner Eric Linklater—one of the original titles commissioned by Penguin Classics founder Allen Lane—and again available to American readers. When an Oxford poet named Saturday Keith ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Book Lust to Go

    Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers

    by Nancy Pearl ...
    Adventure is just a book away as bestselling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations — both worldly and imagined — around the globe.From Las Vegas to the Land of Oz, Naples to Nigeria, Philadelphia to Provence, Nancy Pearl guides readers to the very best fiction and nonfiction to read about each destination. Even within one country, she traverses decades ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • More Book Lust

    Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

    by Nancy Pearl ...
    Whether you’re searching for the perfect read for yourself or for a friend, More Book Lust offer eclectic recommendations unlike those in any other reading guide available.In this followup to the bestselling Book Lust, popular librarian, Nancy Pearl, offers a fresh collection of 1,000 reading recommendations in more than 120 thematic, intelligent and wholly entertaining reading lists.For the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Book Crush

    For Kids and Teens--Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Interest

    by Nancy Pearl ...
    Do you remember your first book crush? You know, the first time a book completely captured your imagination, transported you to a magical place, or introduced you to a lifelong friend you will never forget?In Book Crush, popular librarian and reading enthusiast Nancy Pearl reminds us why we fell for reading in the first place—how completely consuming and life-changing a good book can be.Pearl ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 9000 Miles in a Knight

    The 1930 Travel Journal of Pearl Maybelle Hugunin Machenry Transcribed and Compiled by Nancy Pearl Cullen Trask Lang

    by Pearl Hugunin Machenry, Nancy Pearl Lang, Magdalena Bassett ...
    9000 Miles In A Knight relates the experience of Pearl MacHenry on her family's road trip across America in 1930. Pearl, her husband Rev. Ward MacHenry, and their four youngest children, ages 14 to 20, set off from Seattle, Washington, on May 18th in their Willys-Knight touring car. No heat, no radio, bad tires, 4000 miles of unpaved roads. Pearl recorded the routes and distance they traveled, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    George and Lizzie

    A Novel

    by Nancy Pearl ...
    Narrated by Nancy Pearl ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 46 min

    From “America’s librarian” and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotional, “Anne-Tyler-esque” (Library Journal) debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads.George and Lizzie are a couple, meeting as college students and marrying soon after graduation, but no one would ever describe them of being soulmates. George grew up in a warm and loving family—his father an orthodontist, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Plum & Jaggers

    by Susan Richards Shreve ...
    Narrated by Christopher Lane, Nancy Pearl ...
    Series series Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Rediscoveries

    Unabridged

    7 hours 42 min

    For the McWilliams children, life is forever altered the day a terrorist bomb blast rips through the train carrying them across Italy, instantly killing their parents. Dazed and frightened, Charlotte, Oliver, and baby Julia cling to oldest brother Sam, who—only seven at the time—is haunted by every detail.After he and his siblings are taken in by their kindly but peculiar grandparents, Sam becomes ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    One Sweet Quarrel

    by Deirdre McNamer ...
    Narrated by Joyce Bean, Nancy Pearl ...
    Series series Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust Rediscoveries

    Unabridged

    10 hours 38 min

    Brother and sister Jerry and Daisy Lou Malone leave behind their provincial Midwestern upbringing to test their mettle in the big, beckoning world of 1920s America. For Jerry, the future lies west, with like-minded pioneer souls keen to play the “land game” as homesteaders on the Great Plains. Daisy, in turn, heads for the lights and luxe life of New York City, hoping to sing her way to stardom ... Read more

    $14.99 USD