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The Library Book

Author : Susan Orlean
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476740195

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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.

Telegraph Avenue

Author : Michael Chabon
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443420655

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New York Times Bestseller “A genuinely moving story about race and class, parenting and marriage. . . Chabon is inarguably one of the greatest prose stylists of all time." — Benjamin Percy, Esquire New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City during the Golden Age of comic books (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay); to an imaginary Jewish homeland in Sitka, Alaska (The Yiddish Policemen’s Union); to discover The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Now he takes us to Telegraph Avenue in a big-hearted and exhilarating novel that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. In Telegraph Avenue, Chabon lovingly creates a world grounded in pop culture—Kung Fu, ’70s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music—and delivers a bravura epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there—longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart—half tavern, half temple—stands Brokeland. When ex–NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complications to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.

The Old Librarian's Almanack

Author : Edmund Lester Pearson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Gift books
ISBN : IND:32000002786095

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Reminiscences of an Old Librarian

Author : James Lyman Whitney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:38513972

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The Old Librariangçös Almanac

Author : Edmund Lester Pearson
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104318377

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The Old Librariangçös Almanac by Edmund Lester Pearson Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Acquisition of Books by Chetham's Library, 1655-1700

Author : Matthew Yeo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004206656

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The Acquisition of Books by Chetham's Library, 1655-1700 by Matthew Yeo Pdf

Drawing on recent debates about the methods of book history, this book explores in detail the foundation and development of Chetham's Library, in Manchester, from its foundation in 1655 until the end of the seventeenth century.

A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of York

Author : James Raine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108057370

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A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of York by James Raine Pdf

This 1896 catalogue of York Minster Library was compiled by James Raine (1830-96) and includes many important early works.

Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the "Index of Names and Subjects".]

Author : Public Free Libraries (Manchester)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V001488174

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Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the "Index of Names and Subjects".] by Public Free Libraries (Manchester) Pdf

Some Old-time Old-world Librarians

Author : Theodore Wesley Koch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Librarians
ISBN : UOM:39015028122839

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