Book Description
Mrs. Davis, the Robinson Elementary School librarian, always looked forward to seeing her books after the summer break. But who sent the stack of letters she found on her desk? Perhaps all is not as it seems at the library...
Author : Anne Brown
Publisher : Year of the Book
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 2018-02-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781945670688
Mrs. Davis, the Robinson Elementary School librarian, always looked forward to seeing her books after the summer break. But who sent the stack of letters she found on her desk? Perhaps all is not as it seems at the library...
Author : Wafa' Tarnowska
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1646863496
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.
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Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1847658407
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment, Hardeep Singh Kohli makes a confession and Julie Myerson remembers how her career began beside the shelves. Using memoir, history, polemic and some short stories too, The Library Book celebrates 'that place where they lend you books for free' and the people who work there. All royalties go to The Reading Agency, to help their work supporting libraries.
Author : Karen Casale
Publisher : Upstart Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : 9781602130616
The Library Secret Service (hint: not a real organization) explains the rules for the care of library books.
Author : Katie Cleminson
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781423145622
Otto lives in a book and is happiest when his story is being read. But Otto has a secret: when no one is looking and the mood strikes, Otto walks right off of his book's pages! Full color.
Author : Michele Ninde Denney
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1098082524
The children love Mary the librarian, but do they really know her? When they find out she has a secret life, everything changes!
Author : Susan Orlean
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 25,92 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : 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 : Oliver Tearle
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1782435581
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.
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Books and reading
ISBN :
Learn about the life of a library book.
Author : Marlene Luckadoo
Publisher : Mascot Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Books
ISBN : 9781936319640
A library book, sitting on a shelf day after day, recalls a time when he was popular, visiting different homes and having great adventures, but when he is finally checked out again, he finds the experience not quite as exciting as he remembered.