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Steve Leveen

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Steve Leveen devoted his first career to celebrating literacy, cofounding the first company in America to create products for readers (Levenger) and serving on the board of the National Book Foundation. He is now devoting his encore career to biliteracy, championing bilingualism in America as a path to a stronger and healthier nation. A monolingual until midlife, Steve has chosen Spanish as his adopted language and is an avid learner.
Steve divides his time between South Florida, where he successfully practices his Spanish, and Maine, where he is somewhat less successful in sounding like a local. America’s Bilingual Century is his third book. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, an ...more

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“I ordered a piece of furniture and I got a box of sticks.”

That was the first sentence I heard over the phone. It came from a woman speaking clearly and deliberately, a woman who seemed sure of herself, and of how words should be used.

This was early on at Levenger when this co-founder was still answering calls from customers. This caller set me back on my heels. “

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	The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life: How to Get More Books in Your Life and More Life from Your Books 3.69 avg rating — 961 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On a Life Well Spent: Cicero's De Senectute with preface by Benjamin Franklin by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Steve Leveen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mim Harrison (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 754 ratings — published -44 — 644 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	America's Bilingual Century: How Americans are giving the gift of bilingualism to themselves, their loved ones, and their country by Steve Leveen (Goodreads Author), Mim Harrison (Editor) 4.59 avg rating — 27 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Holding Dear by Steve Leveen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Little Guide to Your Well-read Life: How to get more books in your life and more life from your Books 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Station Eleven

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The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780

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Eisenhower in War and Peace

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The Dog Stars Peter Heller, 2012 Recommended by Eric Weinstein of The Mules. In turn, I’ve recommended it to Chris, Wayne, Bob Schmier and my lads. What I liked I have an affection for post-apocalyptic novels in general, like The Earth Abides and The Ro ...more
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Review of Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir 4 de agosto 02025 Recommended by Kate Jerome She said it was the only book her entire book group liked. Her book group is made up of the 2015 Stanford DCI class. I enjoyed the pace and structure of the plot. Funn ...more
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First watched the Netflix Series in Spanish audio and subtitles Now listening to the book in English Horizontality: Sexual mores at the 1970s in Istanbul Normally no sex before marriage, Shameful to enter a beauty contest The sexual beast, he calls it whe ...more
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“Plan to the extent that feels right to you at a particular time in your life, but always be open to serendipity.”
― Steve Leveen, The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life: How to Get More Books in Your Life and More Life from Your Books

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“The point of reading is not reading but living. Reading helps you live with greater appreciation, keener insight and heightened emotional awareness.”
― Steve Leveen, The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life: How to Get More Books in Your Life and More Life from Your Books

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“Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly delightful. You become your best optimistic self. Like romantic love, book love fills you with a certain warmth and completeness. The world holds promise.”
― Steve Leveen, The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life: How to Get More Books in Your Life and More Life from Your Books

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