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Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves
The Centennial Review
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Cant and Canonicity
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Sexualities
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#loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them
Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture
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Poetics
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Public Libraries
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Esser, Linda
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Velasquez, Diane L.
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“The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice
Educational Media and Technology Yearbook
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Making materiality matter: a sociological analysis of prices on the Dutch fiction book market, 1980–2009
Socio-Economic Review
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Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
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Temple, Kurt
Williams, Kathleen
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#loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them
Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture
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PhD,
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Young, Beth Rapp
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Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance
Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres
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