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Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 is a 2021 oral history written by former ACT UP activist Sarah Schulman. [1] Using 188 interviews conducted as part of the ACT UP Oral History Project, [2] Schulman shows how the activist group was successful, due to its decentralized, dramatic actions, and emphasizes the contributions of people of color and women to the ...
The Book That Wouldn't Burn is a 2023 high fantasy novel by American-British author Mark Lawrence. It is the first book in The Library Trilogy, with a second book, The Book That Broke the World, was released in April 2024. Lawrence is also the author of the Broken Empire trilogy.
The Library Policeman tells of Sam Peebles and his battle against an age-old fear. Peebles is asked to give a speech to his local Rotary Club. An office assistant named Naomi Higgins directs him to the public library to check out books that might help with his speechwriting. At the library, he receives a library card and assistance in finding ...
September 2006: The Complutense University of Madrid became the first Spanish-language library to join the Google Books Library Project. [82] October 2006: The University of Wisconsin–Madison announced that it would join the Book Search digitization project along with the Wisconsin Historical Society Library. Combined, the libraries have 7.2 ...
Tricks is a young adult verse novel by Ellen Hopkins, released in August 2009.It tells the converging narratives of five troubled teenage protagonists. It is noted for its gritty realism in addressing issues of sexual activity and drug use for a young adult readership.
The title's "uncommon reader" (Queen Elizabeth II) becomes obsessed with books after a chance encounter with a mobile library. The story follows the consequences of this obsession for the Queen, her household and advisers, and her constitutional position. The title is a play on the phrase "common reader". This can mean a person who reads for ...
The book recounts the life of Dewey Readmore Books, the cat in residence at the Spencer Public Library in Spencer, Iowa. Grand Central Publishing paid $1.2 million to Vicki Myron , head librarian, and co-author Bret Witter for the rights to the cat's life story. [ 2 ]
Fire-Captain Beatty, in my novel Fahrenheit 451, described how the books were burned first by minorities, each ripping a page or a paragraph from this book, then that, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the libraries closed forever. [...] Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole ...