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The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures
Library of Congress. - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book
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The Library of Congress brings booklovers an enriching tribute to the power of the written word and to the history of our most beloved books. Featuring more than 200 full-color images of original catalog cards, first edition book covers, and photographs from the library's magnificent archives,... |
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Forged by Reading: The Power of a Literate Life
Kylene Beers - Scholastic Professional
Format: Paperback
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Bestselling authors Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst explore why independent reading is vital to the intellectual and developmental growth of students as citizens of our world and as architects of the future. Forged by Reading explores historic and timely topics through the context of literacy... |
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Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South
Mike Selby - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South.As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the rest of the world images of horrific racial violence. And while some of the bravest people of the 20th... |
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I Work At A Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
Gina Sheridan - Adams Media Corporation
Format: Paperback
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Straight from the library--the strange and bizarre, ready to be checked out!From a patron's missing wetsuit to the scent of crab cakes wafting through the stacks, I Work at a Public Library showcases the oddities that have come across Gina Sheridan's circulation desk. Throughout... |
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The Library: A Fragile History
Andrew Pettegree - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes, or filled with bean bags and children's drawings - the history of the library is rich, varied, and stuffed full of incident.... |
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The Library Book
Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 "A constant pleasure to read ... Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book."... |
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Murder in the Stacks: Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away
David Dekok - Globe Pequot Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university's main campus in State College. For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though detectives with the Pennsylvania... |
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