Sentence examples for selecting a book from inspiring English sources

The prize has been selecting a book of the year since 1985, choosing from the categories of novel, first novel, biography, children's book and poetry.

Literary folks might favor the Lakers; as Macy pointed out earlier this year, the Los Angeles coach Phil Jackson has a tradition of selecting a book for each of his players to read.

The reasons the designers give for selecting a book are often illuminating: you may have heard "The Great Gatsby" recommended a thousand times, but it takes Michael Bierut to praise it for being the only book in which "a billboard gets to be a main character".

But when it came to "common sense" intelligence – the kind we rely on when selecting a book from a bookshelf, distinguishing a cat from a dog or a rock, or holding a glass of water without dropping or crushing it – this symbolic, Turing-style AI couldn't cope.

The latest research suggests that he may in fact have used bibliomancy for this randomly selecting a book of history or prophecy and taking his cue from whatever page it happened to fall open at.

Each day, campers select a book from the church library or bring one from home.

They sat on soft chairs while I selected a book for them to read.

Ms Winfrey selects a book a month from those that she has "read and loved".

Interested communities select a book from among 27 titles, and apply for N.E.A. grants ranging from $2,500 to $20,000.

One option -- egalitarian but not very stimulating -- is to select a book that no one will actually read.

One player, the "picker" for this turn, selects a book from the pile and shows its cover around.