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This is a book to read slowly, to savour its vitality and variety, one to return to and find new pleasures with each reading." [5] Sameer Rahim in The Telegraph does have some misgivings, though: "Reading this collection is like spending an afternoon in a well-stocked library in the company of an erudite and playful companion. Smith delights in ...
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
Rosa created "Guardians of the Lost Library" at the request of Scandinavia-based, European Disney publisher Egmont in reference to the fact that Norway had officially declared 1993 to be "The Year of The Book" in order to promote reading [1] (as the story was published in Norway and Denmark in 1993, one year prior to its first edition in the original English). [2]
Bookleggers has been an active participant in local events throughout South Florida, bringing free books to communities from the Everglades National Park and Key West to Biscayne Bay. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Bookleggers has rescued books from across South Florida, including a significant haul from the Miami Herald's former office building. [ 1 ]
Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1946 by Reynal & Hitchcock. [1] This early collection is a stylistic departure from Dahl's better known stories. For the most part they do not use suspense or twist endings and are instead more slow-paced and reflective.
Roald Dahl: Collected Stories is a hardcover edition of short-stories by Roald Dahl for adults. It was published in the US in October 2006 by Random House as part of the Everyman Library . It includes all Roald Dahl's stories in chronological order as established by Dahl's biographer, Jeremy Treglown, in consultation with the Dahl estate.
The Soldiers' Free Library grew to hold approximately six thousand books and other monographs. Popular donations were Bibles, Shakespeare, and Uncle Tom's Cabin, but the collection also included stories for young readers, scientific texts, Charles Dickens' novels, poetry collections, hymnals, and histories. [10]