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Author | : Susan Orlean |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476740194 |
Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who? Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a “delightful…reflection on the past, present, and future of libraries in America” (New York magazine) that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before. In the “exquisitely written, consistently entertaining” (The New York Times) The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries; brings each department of the library to vivid life; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago. “A book lover’s dream…an ambitiously researched, elegantly written book that serves as a portal into a place of history, drama, culture, and stories” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.
Author | : Estelle Ellis |
Publisher | : Clarkson Potter |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Books in interior decoration |
ISBN | : 9780517595008 |
At Home with Books is a visual delight, a helpful resource, and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library. Includes professional advice on editing and categorizing your library; caring for your books; preserving, restoring, and storing rare books; finding out-of-print books; and choosing furniture, lighting, and shelving. Full-color photographs.
Author | : K. S. Brooks |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2013-01-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781480213425 |
In Volume One of the Authors' Snarkopaedia, sentences have been painstakingly crafted together using nouns, verbs and other words, bringing you paragraphs of text. These paragraphs flow into pages of expert tips, advice and insight for authors at all levels of the publication food chain. Any book can claim to offer this type of information, but they can't give you what sets the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia above the rest: the "je ne sais squat" of the high decorated staff of the Snarkology Department at the Indies Unlimited Online Academy. Their groundbreaking and empirical research over the years sheds new and snarkified light on subjects ranging from book publishing and marketing to the nuts and bolts of writing and technology. If you like information to grab you by the throat and smack you in the face, the Indies Unlimited Authors' Snarkopaedia is the reference book for you.
Author | : April Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781737557012 |
Author | : Harry Lyman Koopman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Books and reading |
ISBN | : |
Annotated list of "Books on the subject of reading": pages 197-203.
Author | : Lucy Ella Fay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Books and reading |
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Author | : Lucy Ella Fay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Children's literature |
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Author | : Ella Virginia Aldrich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Charles Phillips Chipman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Books |
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Author | : Jean Key Gates |
Publisher | : New York : McGraw-Hill |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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