The Booklover's Guide to the Midwest

The Booklover's Guide to the Midwest

Author: Greg Holden

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 1459618319

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With its rich literary tradition, the Midwest provides a wealth of opportunities for bibliophiles to retrace the steps of their favorite writers and characters. The Booklover's Guide to the Midwest is a treasure map in book form, pointing the way to the heartland's most interesting literary sites. Walk down the actual Main Street that Sinclair Lewis described in his classic novel, or among the gravestones that inspired Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. See Laura Ingalls Wilder's ''little House in the Big Woods'' and get lost in the very same cave that Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn explored. Visit Petoskey, Michigan, the setting of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories. Other poets and writers put readers in touch with pond life, sand dune architecture, Native Americans, and the great expanse of the prairie. Descriptions of each states' sites are arranged so that travelers can drive or walk from place to place with ease.


The Used Book Lover's Guide to the Midwest

The Used Book Lover's Guide to the Midwest

Author: David S. Siegel

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13:

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Everything you need to know to find the used books you've been searching for. Over 1,000 used book dealers, conveniently grouped by location and category. Specialty index to help you locate dealers who specialize in your areas of interest. Easy to follow travel directions and local and regional maps.


Material Cultures in Canada

Material Cultures in Canada

Author: Thomas Allen

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1771120169

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Material Cultures in Canada presents the vibrant and diverse field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political contexts today. The first of its kind, this collection features sixteen essays by leading scholars in Canada, each of whom examines a different object of study, including the beaver, geraniums, comics, water, a musical playlist, and the human body. The book’s three sections focus, in turn, on objects that are persistently material, on things whose materiality blends into the immaterial, and on the materials of spaces. Contributors highlight some of the most exciting new developments in the field, such as the emergence of “new materialism,” affect theory, globalization studies, and environmental criticism. Although the book has a Canadian centre, the majority of its contributors consider objects that cross borders or otherwise resist national affiliation. This collection will be valuable to readers within and outside of Canada who are interested in material culture studies and, in addition, will appeal to anyone interested in the central debates taking place in Canadian political and cultural life today, such as climate change, citizenship, shifts in urban and small-town life, and the persistence of imperialism.


The Book Shopper

The Book Shopper

Author: Murray Browne

Publisher: Paul Dry Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1589880560

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In search of a good book? Browne provides rich leads and much wit. Go, shop, read!