31.   The authors take readers to homes, city coffee houses with billiard tables, and a two-family farmhouse.

32.   The editors take readers to Bangkok for Thai noodles, London for Rococo Chocolates, Quebec for duck wings, Chicago for the definitive caramel corn and more.

33.   The Thomsetts take readers step by step through choosing a property, becoming a landlord or passive investor, and knowing when to sell.

34.   There are also books that take readers back in time to ancient China or the American Revolution, as the new field of garden history continues to blossom.

35.   Then the authors, who are business consultants in Orange County, Calif., take readers through a thorough checklist of business basics to get readers up and running.

36.   These are the fascinating adventures on which she takes her readers.

37.   These intimate images of interracial love in a hostile environment take the reader beyond the usual heroic, yet one-dimensional presentation of the lives of civil rights activists.

38.   They take the reader through all the intricacies of hieroglyphs with magisterial clarity.

39.   Thompson takes the reader inside his head, where Harvey reduces the world to its simplest components.

40.   This book takes readers back to the time when a stick and a bug meant hours of summertime entertainment.