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Federal Reporter
FEDERAL REPORTER® A legal reference source primarily covering published decisions of federal appellate courts. The decisions are published in paperback Federal Reporter pamphlets (advance sheets) shortly after they are.... Read more |
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National Book Awards
National Book Awards, founded (1950) by the American Book Publishers Council, American Booksellers Association, and Book Manufacturers Institute, and after 1976 sponsored by the National Book Committee for the year's most distinguished works in the areas of Arts and Letters, Children's Literature,... Read more |
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Pulp Magazines
PULP MAGAZINES A Popular Medium Inexpensive magazines publishing fiction that appealed to a popular audience dated back to the end of the nineteenth century. The pulp magazines—so named for the thick, inexpensive pulpwood paper on which they were printed—got their start early... Read more |
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John Lehmann
John Lehmann , 1907-89, English poet, editor, and publisher. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he began working at Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press in 1931 and managed it from 1938 to 1946. In that year he founded a publishing house, John Lehmann, Ltd., which he directed until 1952.... Read more |
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Tom Robbins
Robbins, Tom (1936–), North Carolina‐born author of bizarre fiction very popular in paperback. Another Roadside Attraction (1971) is set at the hot dog stand north of Seattle (the author's home area) owned by John and Amanda Ziller, whose friend Plucky Purcell chances on the... Read more |
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Barbara OConnor
O'Connor, Barbara 1950–PersonalBorn November 9, 1950, in Greenville, SC; daughter of William (a food broker) and Harriet (a homemaker) Lawrence; married William O'Connor (a risk manager), 1984; children: Grady. Education: University of South Carolina, B.A., 1972.AddressesHome—Duxbury, MA.... Read more |
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Hilari Bell
Bell, Hilari 1958-PersonalBorn 1958, in Denver, CO. Education: Graduated from college. Hobbies and other interests: Camping, reading, board and fantasy gaming.AddressesHome—Denver, CO.CareerWriter. Part-time reference librarian, until 2005.Awards, HonorsBest Books for Young Adults selection,... Read more |
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book clubs
book clubs As a phenomenon in American cultural life, book clubs have made an impact in two periods of history. During the 18th and 19th cent. book clubs were formed for the purposes of discussion and debate. Foremost among these was the Junto, a literary society formed by Benjamin Franklin in... Read more |
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Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende The author of several novels and a short fiction collection, as well as plays and stories for children, Isabel Allende (born 1942) has received international acclaim for her writing. Allende earned the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voice Award nomination for her debut novel, La... Read more |
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Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan 1951– Author, educator Influence of Early Years Promoted First Novel “Looking for Mr. Right” Sued by Former Lover Determination Got Anthology Published Third Novel Raised Contemporary Issues Selected writings Sources “Terry McMillan has the power to be an... Read more |
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Printing and Publishing
...spawned a host of special‐interest book clubs. The paperback revolution, launched by Pocket Books (1939) and...1946), burgeoned after World War II. By the 1980s, paperbacks comprised one‐third of U.S. book sales.Like... |
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Almanac
...Many religious sects and reform organizations issued almanacs, which have also been used by advertisers of medicines and other products. Several modern almanacs and books of facts are issued annually in large paperback editions. |
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Ariel
...with poetic imagination: T. S. Eliot called five Christmas poems (1927–54) ‘Ariel poems’; the first Penguin paperback was Maurois' life of Shelley called Ariel (1935); and there have been several literary journals with ‘Ariel’ as title... |
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Discovery
Discovery, literary magazine in paperback book format, whose six issues appeared between 1953 and 1955. Its editor was Vance Bourjaily, who wrote an article, No More... |
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For the Union Dead
...published in 1964.The last of the 35 poems of the book is the title poem, first published with a different title in the paperback edition (1960) of Life Studies. In 17 unrhymed, meterless quatrains it treats with bitter irony an example of degradation... |
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Little Blue Books
Little Blue Books, paperback series of small nickel and dime booklets issued by Emanuel Haldeman‐Julius from Girard, Kansas, mainly in the 1920s and... |
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Little Magazine
...Paris Review or Botteghe Oscure (1949–60); some were issued as journals, like Evergreen Review, and some published as paperbacks, like discovery and New World Writing.The publication of little magazines increased greatly beginning in the 1950s. In 1978... |
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Mercier Press
Mercier Press (1944– ), Cork publisher, founded by John M. Feehan. Initially it specialized in Catholic literature, but in the mid‐1960s moved into paperback editions of Irish interest. Vincent Kinane |
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Millennialism and Apocalypticism
...Great Planet Earth (1970), the Left Behind novels of Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins in the 1990s, and countless other paperbacks, television programs, video tapes, and films spread the dispensationalist doctrine. The strong support for Israel among... |
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New Writing
...Writing and Daylight in 1942 and this lasted until 1946. Meanwhile Penguin New Writing appeared in 1940, first as a monthly paperback and then in 1942 as a quarterly. The title was revived in 1992 for an annual anthology of new work, initiated by the British... |
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paperback
pa·per·back / ˈpāpərˌbak/ • adj. (of a book) bound in stiff paper or flexible cardboard. • n. a book bound in stiff paper or flexible cardboard. PHRASES: in paperback in an edition bound in stiff paper or flexible cardboard: now available in paperback. |
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blowback
...comeback •humpback • hunchback • cutback •fireback • pickaback • huckaback •Blumenbach • diamondback •cornerback • paperback • quarterback •razorback |
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camelback
...comeback •humpback • hunchback • cutback •fireback • pickaback • huckaback •Blumenbach • diamondback •cornerback • paperback • quarterback •razorback |
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cutback
...comeback •humpback • hunchback • cutback •fireback • pickaback • huckaback •Blumenbach • diamondback •cornerback • paperback • quarterback •razorback |
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fallback
...comeback •humpback • hunchback • cutback •fireback • pickaback • huckaback •Blumenbach • diamondback •cornerback • paperback • quarterback •razorback |
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feedback
...comeback •humpback • hunchback • cutback •fireback • pickaback • huckaback •Blumenbach • diamondback •cornerback • paperback • quarterback •razorback |
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flashback
...comeback •humpback • hunchback • cutback •fireback • pickaback • huckaback •Blumenbach • diamondback •cornerback • paperback • quarterback •razorback |
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halfback
...comeback •humpback • hunchback • cutback •fireback • pickaback • huckaback •Blumenbach • diamondback •cornerback • paperback • quarterback •razorback |
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hardcover
hard·cov·er / ˈhärdˌkəvər/ • adj. (of a book) bound between rigid boards covered in cloth, paper, leather, or film: hardcover and paperback editions. • n. a hardcover book. PHRASES: in hardcover in a hardcover edition. |
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huckaback
...comeback •humpback • hunchback • cutback •fireback • pickaback • huckaback •Blumenbach • diamondback •cornerback • paperback • quarterback •razorback |
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allowance
...quantity, allocation, allotment, quota, share, ration, grant, limit, portion, slice. 2. she spent her allowance on paperbacks synonyms: payment, pocket money, sum of money, contribution, grant, subsidy, stipend, maintenance, remittance, financial... |
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book
...recommended some good books synonyms: volume, tome, publication, title; novel, storybook, anthology, treatise, manual; paperback, hardback, pocket book, e-book. 2. he scribbled in his book synonyms: notebook, notepad, pad, memo pad, exercise... |
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novel
novel1 • noun curl up with a good novel synonyms: book, paperback, hardcover; story, tale, narrative, romance, roman à clef; piece of fiction; best seller, blockbuster; potboiler, pulp (fiction). |
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volume
volume • noun 1. a volume from the library synonyms: book, publication, tome, hardback, paperback, title; manual, almanac, compendium. 2. a glass syringe of known volume synonyms: capacity, cubic measure, size, magnitude... |
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appear
...synonyms: seem to be, look to be, give the impression of being, come across as being, strike someone as being. 5. the paperback edition didn't appear for two years synonyms: become available, come on the market, go on sale, come out, be published... |
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Paperback Sales Slip as Prices Rise
...from what a trade paperback costs,'' said...Mass-market paperbacks, many of them...to come out in paperback. Some experts...mass-market paperbacks can't seem to...John) Grisham paperback is in.' You just...Mass-market ... |
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Waiting a year for paperback? Maybe not.(Daily Break)
...year later, the paperback. But in an industry...publishers are pushing paperbacks into publication...of releasing paperbacks early. "We...is this trade paperback book buyer that...the timing of a paperback. Paperbacks and ... |
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MODERN BOOKS IN PAPERBACK.(Living Today)
...early years, the paperback democratized reading in America." Paperbacks had been published...the way European paperbacks had been. Across...Penguin Books, a paperback publisher founded...up, and trade paperbacks often cost more...Davis ... |
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The literary novelist as paperback writerPublishers starting to skip hardcover
...publisher of trade paperbacks at Random House...13.95 on a paperback is much easier...earns nothing.For paperbacks, authors generally...The advantage of paperback is that if a book...sell two or more paperbacks for every hardcover...further ... |
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E-book influence cuts wait for paperback
...convention by pushing paperbacks into publication...included the trade paperback release of "Swamplandia...publisher of trade paperbacks at Random House, said of releasing paperbacks early. "We feel...is this trade paperback book buyer ... |
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Summer Reading Starts Now-- Where's My Paperback?(Arts&Entertainment)
...title sold, but on trade paperbacks (the slightly larger type...fashioned airport-shop paperback rack), they take in only...percentage on hardcover than paperbacks, too. It is, in other words...is clear. "Why release a paperback that will compete with your... |
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Paperback pubs plot twist; Resize mass-market books to bolster volume; will...
...sales of mass-market paperbacks dropped 10% last year...have sold 2 million paperback copies a few years...higher-end trade paperbacks and hardcover books...now prefer trade paperbacks and hardcovers, which...the classic $7.99 paperback. ... |
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More titles going straight to paperback; Publishers target young,...
...straight-to-paperback route. Though...economics of paperbacks hurt agents...14 trade paperbacks, a hardcover...double what a paperback earns. For...strength of paperbacks. The Places...a trade paperback original about... |
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No longer worth the paper; E-books on track to pass trade paperbacks as No. 1.
...marketing trade paperbacks. Store displays...smart-looking paperbacks have long helped...bringing out a trade paperback a year after the...title's trade paperback sales. Publishers insist that trade paperbacks won't go away... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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The hard road to HARDBACK He's done paperbacks, but now Michael Palmer wants...
...but a big deal for a paperback guy. "I've handled...specializes in mass-market paperbacks. "Only a handful...Lauriat's Books. Paperback sells in Star Market...drivers determine which paperback titles get the best...with the drivers. His ... |
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