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Where else can you find an entertaining book filled with the miscellany of the publishing world? Readers can discover everything from the meager to the important in Bill Ott's "The Back Page", part readers' advisory and part commentary on the world of books and literature, good and not so good. Filled with humor and occasional defiance to the conventional, "The Back Page" delights readers with anecdotes, stories, quizzes (which are almost impossible to answer without cheating) and a host of insights into what makes books what they are - those wonderful and magical sources of great thoughts. A compendium of the literal back pages of "Booklist", a column that has been published in the magazine since 1991, readers will enjoy essays about books and authors, genre fiction, life at "Booklist" and so much more.

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This revised edition provides a way of understanding the vast universe of genre fiction in an easy-to-use format. Expert readers? advisor Joyce Saricks offers groundbreaking reconsideration of the connections among genres, providing ?Key authors and themes within 15 genres ?An explanation as to how the different genres overlap ?The elements of fiction most likely to entice readers Provocative and spirited, The Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction, 2nd Edition offers hands-on strategies for librarians who want to become experts at figuring out what their readers are seeking and how to match books with those interests.