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- noun The
jacket of abook .
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Examples
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I lurk over at Sounis (my LJ name is lizzb) and you're right: I was too quick to diss the Giver search for searching skills, but I still think the best and fastest way to do homework is read the book (or at least the bookjacket.)
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Lauderdale nearly 20 years ago, and which I wear in my bookjacket photos for my first two novels...
John D. MacDonald Ed Gorman 2009
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Surreal is the best way to describe it: Monday is the figure you see on the bookjacket; the book begins with a description of his week, interactions with his friends, and as the seasons change so does Monday.
Monday 2007
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His motivating rhetoric relied almost exclusively on tired sports cliches and phrases from the bookjacket of a guru-scribed marketing manual everyone refers to but few actually read.
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Last time, UNM Press published reviews from no national pubs on my BELEN bookjacket.
Blurb me, Baby 2006
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Consider the author-identification on the bookjacket of Peter Manso's 1985 Norman Mailer biography.
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Okay -- so we listened to the book on CD coming back from New Orleans and now the kid is reading it, and she took the bookjacket off, as she always does we have an old hardcopy bought out of some used bookstore somewhere and she was reading the blurbs on the back.
Book Review -- Sort Of delagar 2007
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Okay -- so we listened to the book on CD coming back from New Orleans and now the kid is reading it, and she took the bookjacket off, as she always does we have an old hardcopy bought out of some used bookstore somewhere and she was reading the blurbs on the back.
Archive 2007-01-01 delagar 2007
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The new book -- on Andy bookjacket -- It's not the usual thing.
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Whilst a research student I won a Sunday Times bookjacket design competition - the first important (national) prize I was to get for a very long time.
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