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Author : John Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: written by John Moore and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Orlean
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476740194
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book The Library Book written by Susan Orlean and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Joseph West Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Picturesque Washington written by Joseph West Moore and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matt Doeden
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496654099
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (966 download)
Download or read book George Washington written by Matt Doeden and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography telling the life story of George Washington, the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, and the first president of the United States. Written in graphic-novel format.
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190456698
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book George Washington: A Life in Books written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly dismissed him as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation." Yet Adams, as well as the majority of the men who knew Washington in his life, were unaware of his singular devotion to self-improvement. Based on a comprehensive amount of research at the Library of Congress, the collections at Mount Vernon, and rare book archives scattered across the country, Kevin J. Hayes corrects this misconception and reconstructs in vivid detail the active intellectual life that has gone largely unnoticed in conventional narratives of Washington. Despite being a lifelong reader, Washington felt an acute sense of embarrassment about his relative lack of formal education and cultural sophistication, and in this sparkling literary biography, Hayes illustrates just how tirelessly Washington worked to improve. Beginning with the primers, forgotten periodicals, conduct books, and classic eighteenth-century novels such as Tom Jones that shaped Washington's early life, Hayes studies Washington's letters and journals, charting the many ways the books of his upbringing affected decisions before and during the Revolutionary War. The final section of the book covers the voluminous reading that occurred during Washington's presidency and his retirement at Mount Vernon. Throughout, Hayes examines Washington's writing as well as his reading, from The Journal of Major George Washington through his Farewell Address. The sheer breadth of titles under review here allow readers to glimpse Washington's views on foreign policy, economics, the law, art, slavery, marriage, and religion-and how those views shaped the young nation.. Ultimately, this sharply written biography offers a fresh perspective on America's Father, uncovering the ideas that shaped his intellectual journey and, subsequently, the development of America.
Author : Philip Levy
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250023149
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Where the Cherry Tree Grew written by Philip Levy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted historian pens biography of Ferry Farm—George Washington's boyhood home—and its three centuries of American history In 2002, Philip Levy arrived on the banks of Rappahannock River in Virginia to begin an archeological excavation of Ferry Farm, the eight hundred acre plot of land that George Washington called home from age six until early adulthood. Six years later, Levy and his team announced their remarkable findings to the world: They had found more than Washington family objects like wig curlers, wine bottles and a tea set. They found objects that told deeper stories about family life: a pipe with Masonic markings, a carefully placed set of oyster shells suggesting that someone in the household was practicing folk magic. More importantly, they had identified Washington's home itself—a modest structure in line with lower gentry taste that was neither as grand as some had believed nor as rustic as nineteenth century art depicted it. Levy now tells the farm's story in Where the Cherry Tree Grew. The land, a farmstead before Washington lived there, gave him an education in the fragility of life as death came to Ferry Farm repeatedly. Levy then chronicles the farm's role as a Civil War battleground, the heated later battles over its preservation and, finally, an unsuccessful attempt by Wal-Mart to transform the last vestiges Ferry Farm into a vast shopping plaza.
Author : Lisa Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781790576975
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (769 download)
Download or read book Georgia on My Mind written by Lisa Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you pick up a Georgia history book you expect to see certain stories such as how General James Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia naming it for the king of Great Britain, how Eli Whitney built his cotton gin at the Mulberry Grove plantation belonging to the widow of American Revolutionary hero, General Nathanael Greene, or how much of the state suffered during the Civil War at the hands of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman during his March to the Sea. You won't find any of those stories or other "expected" tales in this book. Lisa Land Cooper, an expert history researcher, author, and newspaper columnist has unearthed thirty true tales from the state's history that went viral in their day but are long forgotten or only told occasionally in the areas where they occurred. In this book you will find tales involving: a moonshiner who ruled his own kingdom with fear and intimidation two battles - one involving breakfast while another involved a jail how one Georgia county lost dozens of young men in a single day during World War I how a cannonball fired at Ft. Sumter in April 1861 wound up at one county's courthouse square how one Georgia man continually escaped from the state's jails and prisons from the time he was 18 until he was in his sixties how a Comanche Indian maiden took her last breath in a teepee at Atlanta's Piedmont Park Other stories include boll weevils, a popular medicine in its day known as a female regulator, a poltergeist, and a 'possum hunt for a U.S president.
Author : Matt Haig
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781432883614
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (836 download)
Download or read book The Midnight Library written by Matt Haig and published by Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Good morning America book club"--Jacket.
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 0793331471
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Washington Library Book written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 0793330300
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Washington Dc Library Book written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Washington Library Company, Washington, D.C.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (984 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Washington Library, July 20, 1822 written by Washington Library Company, Washington, D.C. and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 0793333032
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Washington Media Book written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 0793343747
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)
Download or read book How to Start a Washington Library written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denise Gigante
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248482
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Book Madness written by Denise Gigante and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library--a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends--caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America--booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen--Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country's major public, university, and society libraries. A human tale of loss, obsession, and spiritual survival, this book reveals the magical power books can have to bring people together and will be an absorbing read for anyone interested in what makes a book special.
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 0793329965
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Washington Bookstore Book written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1991-09 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
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