Author: Dan RabinowitzPublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1512603090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
"The story of the first Jewish public library in Europe"--
The Lost Library
Author: Dan RabinowitzPublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1512603090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
"The story of the first Jewish public library in Europe"--
The Lost Library
Author: Rebecca SteadPublisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250838827
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Now a New York Times bestseller, a #1 Indie Bestseller, and the Amazon #1 Best Kids' Book of 2023, readers won't want to miss this story of a little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps. When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The two boys start asking questions whose answers will transform not only their own futures, but the town itself. Told in turn by a ghost librarian named Al, an aging (but beautiful) cat named Mortimer, and Evan himself, The Lost Library is a timeless story from award-winning authors Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass. It’s about owning your truth, choosing the life you want, and the power of a good book (and, of course, the librarian who gave it to you).
The Lost Library of Cormanthyr
Author: Mel OdomPublisher: Wizards of the Coast
ISBN: 0786964065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Indiana Jones meets Dungeons & Dragons in this action-packed series opener about the secrets of the lost, ancient Forgotten Realms world Is the Library of Cormanthyr just a myth? Or does it still stand . . . somewhere in the most ancient corners of Faerûn? An intrepid human explorer sets out to find the truth and what starts as an archaeological expedition soon becomes a race against time as an undying avenger is determined to protect the secrets of the ancient, xenophobic elven empire of Cormanthyr.
The Lost Library Book
Author: Amanda BellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781912111695
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The remarkable true story of a forgotten library book that was returned to Marsh's Library after one hundred years, written by Amanda Bell and Illustrated in colour by Alice Durand-Wietzel.
The Lost Libraries of Tunis
Author: Laura HinrichsenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111343634
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Only little is known about the book culture of Tunis, although the city had been a centre for teaching and learning throughout Ḥafṣid rule in Ifrīqiya (c. 1230 to 1574). The libraries of Tunis are considered lost since the sack of the city by the armies of the emperor Charles V in the summer of 1535. This study reconstructs for the first time the original holdings of Tunis' medieval libraries and shows what can still be learned from these recovered fragments. An in-depth analysis of a wide range of texts and artefacts shows that the Ḥafṣid libraries were looted and their collections redistributed, mostly among European collectors. The Lost Libraries of Tunis brings Early Modern scholarship on Arabic texts and language into context by utilising the manuscripts from Ifrīqiya as a source to map the interest in, and scholarship on, Arabic manuscripts in Early Modern Europe. With an art-historical and sociohistorical interpretation of the reconstructed manuscript corpus, The Lost Libraries of Tunis challenges views accepted among Islamic art historians and describes a dynamic and vivid regional book culture of the Maghreb embedded in the wider Arabic manuscript tradition, precisely showing strong interaction and exchange.
Lost Libraries
Author: J. RavenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230524257
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.
The Lost Library : the Autobiography of a Culture
Author: Walter MehringFrom the Lost Library
Author: Melissa ZinkThe Lost Library. The Autobiography of a Culture ... Translated by Richard and Clara Winston
Author: Walter MehringScrope
Author: Frederic Beecher PerkinsPublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342218400
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
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