The Underground Library

Author : Mike Thomson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541767614

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Syria's Secret Library by Mike Thomson Pdf

The remarkable story of a small, makeshift library in the town of Daraya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during a four-year siege. Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged by government forces early in the Syrian Civil War, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by heavy artillery, and under the constant fire of snipers. But deep beneath this scene of frightening devastation lay a hidden library. While the streets above echoed with shelling and rifle fire, the secret world below was a haven of books. Long rows of well-thumbed volumes lined almost every wall: bloated editions with grand leather covers, pocket-sized guides to Syrian poetry, and no-nonsense reference books, all arranged in well-ordered lines. But this precious horde was not bought from publishers or loaned by other libraries--they were the books salvaged and scavenged at great personal risk from the doomed city above. The story of this extraordinary place and the people who found purpose and refuge in it is one of hope, human resilience, and above all, the timeless, universal love of literature and the compassion and wisdom it fosters.

Author : Wafa' Tarnowska
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1646862929

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Nour's Secret Library by Wafa' Tarnowska Pdf

Forced to take shelter when their Syrian city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library. Based on the author's own life experience and inspired by a true story, Nour's Secret Library is about the power of books to heal, transport and create safe spaces during difficult times. Illustrations by Romanian artist Vali Mintzi superimpose the colorful world the children construct over black-and-white charcoal depictions of the battered city.

Author : Jennifer Ryan
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593500392

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The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan Pdf

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to save the community’s beloved library in this novel based on true events from the author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir. When the new deputy librarian, Juliet Lansdown, finds that Bethnal Green Library isn’t the bustling hub she is expecting, she becomes determined to breathe life back into it. But can she show the men in charge that a woman is up to the task of running the library, especially when a confrontation with her past threatens to derail her? Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library, although she is only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But after the death of her beau on the front line and amid tumultuous family strife, she finds herself harboring a life-changing secret with no one to turn to for help. Sofie Baumann, a young Jewish refugee, came to London on a domestic service visa only to find herself working as a maid for a man who treats her abominably. She escapes to the library every chance she can, finding friendship in the literary community and aid in finding her sister, who is still trying to flee occupied Europe. When a slew of bombs destroys the library, Juliet relocates the stacks to the local Underground station where the city’s residents shelter nightly, determined to lend out stories that will keep spirits up. But tragedy after tragedy threatens to unmoor the women and sever the ties of their community. Will Juliet, Kate, and Sofie be able to overcome their own troubles to save the library? Or will the beating heart of their neighborhood be lost forever?

Author : Delphine Minoui
Publisher : Picador
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1529012333

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The Book Collectors of Daraya by Delphine Minoui Pdf

Author : Joe Karaganis
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780262535014

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Shadow Libraries by Joe Karaganis Pdf

How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks. From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the institutions that shape the provision of educational materials, from the formal sector of universities and publishers to the broadly informal ones organized by faculty, copy shops, student unions, and students themselves. It looks at the history of policy battles over access to education in the post–World War II era and at the narrower versions that have played out in relation to research and textbooks, from library policies to book subsidies to, more recently, the several “open” publication models that have emerged in the higher education sector. From the bottom up, Shadow Libraries explores how, simply, students get the materials they need. It maps the ubiquitous practice of photocopying and what are—in many cases—the more marginal ones of buying books, visiting libraries, and downloading from unauthorized sources. It looks at the informal networks that emerge in many contexts to share materials, from face-to-face student networks to Facebook groups, and at the processes that lead to the consolidation of some of those efforts into more organized archives that circulate offline and sometimes online— the shadow libraries of the title. If Alexandra Elbakyan's Sci-Hub is the largest of these efforts to date, the more characteristic part of her story is the prologue: the personal struggle to participate in global scientific and educational communities, and the recourse to a wide array of ad hoc strategies and networks when formal, authorized means are lacking. If Elbakyan's story has struck a chord, it is in part because it brings this contradiction in the academic project into sharp relief—universalist in principle and unequal in practice. Shadow Libraries is a study of that tension in the digital era. Contributors Balázs Bodó, Laura Czerniewicz, Miroslaw Filiciak, Mariana Fossatti, Jorge Gemetto, Eve Gray, Evelin Heidel, Joe Karaganis, Lawrence Liang, Pedro Mizukami, Jhessica Reia, Alek Tarkowski

Author : Eber M. Pettit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010375418

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Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad by Eber M. Pettit Pdf

This volume contains a multitude of wonderful stories that weave together a picture of life in the South in the 1800s and the fear and courage of those that participated in helping thousands of people escape slavery. The work also includes chapters on the politics of the time, and the oft-times contradictory laws that were passed.

Author : Henry Cole
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545550697

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Unspoken by Henry Cole Pdf

A Civil War–era girl’s courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story. When a farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding in the barn, she is at once startled and frightened. But the stranger’s fearful eyes weigh upon her conscience, and she must make a difficult choice. Will she have the courage to help him? Unspoken gifts of humanity unite the girl and the runaway as they each face a journey: one following the North Star, the other following her heart. Henry Cole’s unusual and original rendering of the Underground Railroad speaks directly to our deepest sense of compassion. Praise for Unspoken A New York Times Best Illustrated Book “Designed to present youngsters with a moral choice . . . the author, a former teacher, clearly intended Unspoken to be a challenging book, its somber sepia tone drawings establish a mood of foreboding.” —The New York Times Book Review “Moving and emotionally charged.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Gorgeously rendered in soft dark pencils, this wordless book is reminiscent of the naturalistic pencil artistry of Maurice Sendak and Brian Selznick.” —School Library Journal, starred review “Cole’s . . . beautifully detailed pencil drawings on cream-colored paper deftly visualize a family’s ruggedly simple lifestyle on a Civil War–era homestead, while facing stark, ethical choices . . . Cole conjures significant tension and emotional heft . . . in this powerful tale of quiet camaraderie and courage.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Author : Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781324000754

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Harmless Like You: A Novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Pdf

“Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s debut is a beautifully textured novel, befitting the story of an artist.” —Washington Post Written in startlingly beautiful prose, Harmless Like You is set across New York, Connecticut, and Berlin. At its heart is Yuki Oyama, a Japanese girl fighting to make it as an artist, and her struggle with her decision to leave her two-year-old son, Jay. As an adult, Jay sets out to find his mother and confront her abandonment.

Author : Peter McDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Academic librarians
ISBN : 1634001079

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Underground from Deadbeat to Dean by Peter McDonald Pdf

"Memoir of Peter McDonald, covering his childhood in Latin America, friendship with Basquiat, life in the rock'n'roll industry, shamanic training in the Northwest, years alone in the Alaskan wilderness, his work as a poet, and finally his long career as an academic librarian"--

Author : Barbara Smucker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143187899

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Underground To Canada by Barbara Smucker Pdf

There's a place the slaves been whisperin' around called Canada. The law don't allow no slavery there. They say you follow the North Star, and when you step onto this land you are free ...... Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slaver trader's wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend Liza may reach someday. So when workers from the Underground Railroad offer to help the two girls escape, they are ready. But the slave catchers and their dogs will soon be after them .....

Author : Jennifer L. Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Bethnal Green (London, England)
ISBN : 1399169297

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The Underground Library by Jennifer L. Ryan Pdf

1940. On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But, in the face of German attacks, she's intent on making it a place where everyone feels safe and welcome. Her colleague Katie Upwood is working there until she heads off to university. After the death of her sweetheart on the front line and some unexpected family strife, she's in need of support. For Sofie Baumann, a Jewish refugee, the library is her escape. With her life in Britain tied to a domestic work visa issued by an unscrupulous employer, her position is vulnerable. When bombs damage the library, Juliet relocates the stacks to an underground station, where the city's residents shelter nightly. The three women must work together to overcome their own troubles and keep the library open.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Hallucinogenic drugs
ISBN : 0914171666

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Psychedelic Underground Library by Anonim Pdf

Author : Oliver Tearle
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781782435587

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The Secret Library by Oliver Tearle Pdf

As well as taking in the well-known titles that have helped shape the world in which we live, The Secret Library brings to light more neglected items among the bookshelves of the world.

Author : Evil Mtn
Publisher : 2fast2house
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0999125508

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The Underground Library Of Found Poetry by Evil Mtn Pdf

EVIL MTN's debut collection of poetry.

Author : Kate Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1529348714

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The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson Pdf