Sentence examples for book selected for from inspiring English sources

A new development of vast potential at this time was the book club, an association of members who undertook to purchase, usually each month, a book selected for them by a committee, the advantage being that the book in question was supplied at a lower price than that at which it could be bought in a bookshop.

Each unit is based on a children's book selected for its literary quality.

Each unit is based on a children's book selected for its literary quality and its relevance to the theme.

The book selected for One Book/One Glendale is "Los Angeles Noir," edited by Hamilton and published by Akashic Books in 2007.

The 10 books selected for this year's Book Club have already sold more than 2m copies between them.

World Book Night takes on a masculine air in 2014, with male authors – by a ratio of three to one – dominating the books selected for a mass give-away aimed at reluctant readers.

For one thing, it is one of the rare books selected for sale by Starbucks; somebody thinks it is riveting enough to capture the interest of a caffeinated clientele.

"Whilst the books selected for auction have significant scientific heritage, if they were to come on to the market today or be offered to the Royal Institution as a gift, the Royal Institution would choose not to acquire them".

You don't have to be a precog to sense a predictability surrounding the books selected for "Four Novels": "The Man in the High Castle" and "Palmer Eldritch" make the cut on literary merit, "Electric Sheep" provided the source material for the most memorable movie based on Dick's work, and "Ubik" sneaks in because — well, why not?

What links all of the books selected for this gallery of Australian illustrators is a love and feel for place and, no matter where it is, it becomes the illustrators' place through the telling of the story – coming from the heart and from memory.

All the books selected for the prize longlist, which was founded in 2013 and is open to authors writing in English from all over the world, are chosen by an academy of more than 250 writers and critics including Jeanette Winterson, JM Coetzee, Margaret Atwood and Zadie Smith.