Famous Librarians

A young slave in ancient Egypt must choose between joining the Christianity movement, which will give him freedom, and the woman he loves, who is his master and an atheist.

This special edition brings together both of Lewis Carroll's marvelous tales set in the whimsical world beyond the looking glass and down the rabbit hole. Caroll's first novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, finds Alice stuck in Wonderland, surrounded by curious creatures and with no idea of how to return home. With questionable aid from the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, Alice eventually finds her way back home. But the

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Benjamin Franklin was born the youngest of seventeen children. Born a native of Boston on January 6th 1706. Franklin grew up and found work as a printer in 1723 and eventually started his own printing house where he began printing "The Pennsylvania Gazette" among this he partially wrote and published "Poor Richard Almanac" and later founded the "American Philosophical Society". In 1777 in while living in Philadelphia Franklin was chosen as a member...

Presents lists of recommended book titles for children and teenagers divided into three age groups and then further subdivided into more than 118 categories, including animals, folktales, girl power, autobiographies, comic books, and many others.

Includes both nonfiction and fiction reading recommendations for armchair or "real" travelers. This librarian famous for reader's advisory covers places as diverse as Afghanistan, Appalachia, Arizona, Baltimore, Boston, Burma, Congo, Corfu, Detroit, England, Finland, the Galapagos, Guernica, Hawaii, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Jordan, Korea, Law Vegas, Los Angeles, Maine, Malaysia, Martha's Vineyard, Miami, Nebraska, New York City, New Orleans, Niagara...

"Miguel loves horses so he is surprised and excited when he gets permission to join his Uncle Mario on the trip from northern Mexico to Los Angeles to sell a herd of wild broncos. Along the way, crossing the border from Mexico to the United States, they must flee bandits and battle raging rivers and blinding sandstorms."-- P. [4] of cover.

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, this collection is a visual celebration of the rarely seen treasures in one of the world's most famous libraries and the brilliant catalog system that has kept...

The “imaginative . . . intriguing” far-future novel about the telepathic bond of friendship between human and animal—from the New York Times bestselling author (Booklist).
 
Exiled after his home planet was turned into a military outpost following an interstellar war, Troy Horan is relocated to the planet of Korwar. Under the watchful eye of the police state, he lives in the Dipple,...

The works of an Argentinian writer who took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics. They range from the 1935 'A Universal History of Iniquity', a series of biographies of reprehensible evildoers, to the surrealistic 'August 25, 1983' in which Borges meets himself as an old man.