The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives Polybag

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives PolybagThe five hundred year history of printed books, told through the people who created themBooks tell all kinds of storiesromances, tragedies, comediesbut if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book Makers offers a new way into the story of Western cultures most important object, the book, through dynamic portraits of eighteen individuals who helped to define it. Books have transformed humankind

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson

the studious

and looking for meaning in her work

Mary Jane’s mother says

the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated

Houlihan’s sixth collection of lyric poems reflects upon the persistence of what is lost and the accidental ruptures of trauma that allow re-entry into our world

Filled with favorites and new discoveries written by a wide variety of poets

playing offenses over and over in your mind

will Benedict sacrifice his only chance for a fairy-tale love

In Heroes

All it takes is a persistent bulldog and a creative human friend to prove that

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