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As featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live Selected as one of the Independent’s 10 best pregnancy books for expectant parents Birth is a feminist issue. It’s the feminist issue nobody’s talking about. For too long women have been told, ‘a healthy baby is all that matters’. This...

Behind every acclaimed work of literature is a trove of heartfelt decisions. The best authors put painstaking - sometimes obsessive - effort into each element of their stories, from plot and character development to dialogue and point of view. Veteran editor and teacher Richard Cohen draws on his vast reservoir of a lifetime's reading and his insight into what makes good prose soar.

Bloomsbury presents… How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them by Dai George, read by Ben Onwukwe An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets – from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara – and how they can teach us...

Brought to you by Penguin. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's...

The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become better readers, thinkers, and consumers of media. We live in an information age, but it is...

Welcome to My Wife Likes Books, a podcast about all things books for anyone who enjoys reading or loves the sounds of our voices!We will be reading and reviewing a chapter every fortnight, and invite you to read along with us. Our first book is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.Your hosts are Sarah Berry, Sallie Chedburn and Sophie Bishop.Want to support the show?Buy us a coffee | Follow us on instagram | Join our Fable book clubSarah is on Fable, Pagebound and StorygraphSophie is on Fable and StorygraphSallie is on FableShow music adapted from “What A Wonderful Day” by Shane Ivers (...

Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and...

The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging guide. Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades...

Cakes and more cakes! All of these ten recipes promote the use of Homogenized Spry Shortening. From Chocolate Rapture Cake to Hawaiian Lei Cake, and chapters on frosting, you'll find some luscious offerings for the whole family. - Summary by Larry Wilson

My wife likes books and I like my wife! So listen along as I describe my wife's favorite books to my two friends!!

A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully. 

The Newbery-winning novel about 14-year-old Dave Mitchell, coming of age in New York City in the 1960s. A first-person narrative of everyday life, youth, love, family squabbles, and growing up. Oh and of course, a tomcat named Cat. - Summary by Amanda Rumbaugh

Irrepressible teenager Willie Baker spreads her wings as she comes of age in the early days of Oklahoma statehood. NOTE: A particularly derogatory anti-Black term is used in the telling of "Sump'n Like Wings". It is LibriVox's policy to record texts as written. - Summary by Brian Fullen List of Characters: Narrator: Larry Wilson Osment: Alan Mapstone Clovis: Jon Hunter Mrs. Clovis: Penny Carrington Mrs. Baker: Jessie Percival Willie Baker: ShrimpPhish Uncle Jim: Greg Giordano Sheriff Beach: ToddHW “Boy” Huntington: Brian Fullen Elvie Rapp:Winterberry Graden: ToddHW Hattie: dc Opalena:Jenn ...

"Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams" is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The text features nine dreams experienced by a first-person female narrator. In the first seven dreams, she visits the planet Mars, finding a society where traditional sex roles and stereotypes are reversed. The narrator witnesses the oppression of the men on Mars and their struggle for equality. In the last two dreams, the narrator visits a future United States ruled by a woman president. (Summary by Jeff Burke)

This novel won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1964. This delightful story revolves around a 14 year old boy, Dave and his adopted cat, called just "Cat", who turns his ordinary everyday life into an exciting roller-coaster ride. (Summary by Neeru Iyer)

1964 Newbery Medal winner, It's Like This, Cat is the story of a young man, Dave Mitchell, and how he grew to maturity, helped along indirectly by a stray cat that he brought home from Crazy Kate, the neighborhood Cat Lady. Dave lives in New York City with his lawyer father and his mother, who has bouts of asthma brought on by family strife. The cat, named "Cat" lives a wild life that brings Dave in contact with a future friend and girl friend. Dave's adventures take him throughout areas of New York City, and the reader is treated to descriptions of famous city landmarks. With Dave's new ...

In this podcast we will be taking a look at the books in the Nero Wolfe series.

Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution, today's single woman is still mired in judgment or, worse, pity. But for one brief exclamatory period in the 1930s, she was all the rage. Marjorie Hillis was working at Vogue when she published the radical self-help book Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker-esque wit, she urged spinsters, divorcees, and old maids to shed derogatory labels, and her philosophy became a phenomenon.

In un’ammaliante Vigevano di fine anni settanta, ancora motore trainante dell'industria calzaturiera italiana, ha inizio la storia dell'assassino chiamato l'Aforista. Sulle armoniose note di una delicata canzone degli Homo Sapiens, Giovanna affida il suo bambino a un vicino di casa che lo porterà nelle fauci di Lucifero.Il bambino, a causa di un umiliante sopruso, scoprirà di avere l'innato piacere di uccidere.Le fasi dell'alter ego del piccolo e poi adulto killer, sono narrate in capitoli intermedi chiamati dall'autore Cuccagne. Cuccagne che segnano la sua origine e il suo ritorno nella ...

Think Like a Librarian: Systems for Curious Minds aims to guide curious, ambitious people design humane systems for thinking, working, and creating — using librarian-grade frameworks.