Stories of Books and Libraries

Stories of Books and LibrariesBy: Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series An enchanting book about books: a beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics anthology of stories that testify to the irresistible power of the written word The characters in the delightful stories collected here range all the way from the ink stained medieval monks in Umberto Ecos The Name of the Rose to the book besotted denizens of Ali Smiths Public Library and Other Stories. In these pages readers are

author Rachel Swaby explains that people aren’t born brilliant scientists

Could they be following him

What are the ideal clothes

Will Flavia and Julius get to the banquet in time to save the emperor's life

and onward to British Hong Kong and eventually Taiwan

Tom Zoellner     The remarkable autobiography of the globally-recognized human rights champion whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda

kids can race their friends to find the same hidden object or customize a Halloween card to share

If you step on a crack

the alpaca clones threaten to tidy the world into utter destruction—THE ALPACALYPSE* IS HERE

“Full of simple recipes for every busy night of the week

newly single

Swoop into a wonderful magical world with a wise little owl in My Magical Owl