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Discover LudwigThe word "paperback" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to books that have covers made of paper as opposed to hardcover books. For instance, you might say, "I prefer to buy paperbacks because they are more affordable than hardcover books."
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paperback
noun
A book with flexible binding.
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As if another push from the Globe wasn't enough, NPR pushes again as the book tour moves into the paperback phase, in a new interview published Monday: "But you don't want to run, still?" I do not.
For this series, I have based my reading on the paperback Norton Critical edition (edited by Donald Pizer), which seems now to be accepted as the most reliable text – not least because it addresses in fascinating detail the furore surrounding the first printing of Sister Carrie, as well as illustrating the variations between Dreiser's first draft and the 1900 edition.
Robert Wilton's Traitor's Field, set at the end of the British civil wars, is out now in paperback.
His pop biography of Robbie Williams, Somebody Someday, was a no.1 in both hardback and paperback and sold over a million copies.
The Chimp and the River -- How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest by David Quammen [176 pages, W. W. Norton & Company; 2015; Amazon UK paperback; Amazon US paperback/Kindle] Publisher's synopsis: The real story of AIDS how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people is very different from what most of us think we know.
Despite being packed with interesting (and chilling!) scientific information, this paperback also tells an interesting travel-adventure story.
The first YA bestsellers were paperback mysteries that began to appear at the end of the 19th century.
Nancy L Cohen's Delirium: The Politics of Sex in America is now out in paperback.
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The American government still identifies seven states as sponsors of terrorism but it acknowledges that several of them, including Cuba and North Korea, have become less active of late.So far Aum whose weird beliefs, huge wealth and murky Russian connections are almost a paperback-writer's caricature provides the only example of weapons of mass destruction being used by a subversive group.
This book will be released next week.. Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus by David Quammen [128 pages, W. W. Norton & Company; 2014; Amazon UK paperback/audio CD/Kindle UK; Amazon US paperback/audio download/audio CD/Kindle] Publisher's synopsis: In 1976 a deadly virus emerged from the Congo forest.
The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures by William deBuys [368 pages, Little, Brown US; 2015; Guardian Bookshop; Amazon UK hardcover/paperback/Kindle UK; Amazon US hardcover/paperback/audio download/Kindle] Publisher's synopsis: An award-winning author's stirring quest to find and understand an elusive and exceptionally rare species in the heart of Southeast Asia's jungles.
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