Where Is Our Library?
Title | Where Is Our Library? PDF eBook |
Author | Josh Funk |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | 2020-10-27 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1250810981 |
Where Is Our Library? is a companion to Lost in the Library and our second picture book in partnership with the New York Public Library. Curious Patience and steadfast Fortitude wait every morning to greet visitors of the New York Public Library—and slip away every night to read in the Children's Center. But one day, Patience and Fortitude find the Children's Center empty! The two lions set out into the city to locate their missing books and encounter some literary landmarks along the way. Josh Funk's clever rhymes and Stevie Lewis's vibrant art take young readers into the heart of New York City in this latest adventure.
The Library Book
Title | The Library Book PDF eBook |
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.
“Our library”; or, What to read, and how. A lecture delivered to the Young Men's Christian Association, Dublin, etc
Title | “Our library”; or, What to read, and how. A lecture delivered to the Young Men's Christian Association, Dublin, etc PDF eBook |
Author | William Pakenham WALSH (Bishop of Ossory, Ferns, and Leighlin.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 1859 |
Genre | |
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The Library
Title | The Library PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 506 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Bibliography |
ISBN |
The Library World
Title | The Library World PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 520 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Libraries |
ISBN |
Annual Report of the Library Trustees and Librarian of the Town of Watertown for the Year Ending ...
Title | Annual Report of the Library Trustees and Librarian of the Town of Watertown for the Year Ending ... PDF eBook |
Author | Watertown Free Public Library |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 512 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | Libraries |
ISBN |
Monthly Notes of the Library Association of the United Kingdom
Title | Monthly Notes of the Library Association of the United Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Library Association |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 1880 |
Genre | Libraries |
ISBN |