Susan Orlean
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through on-the-ground reporting; studies arson attempts to burn a...
2) On animals
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Susan Orlean gathers a lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals. 256pp., 150K
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"He believed the dog was immortal. So begins Susan Orlean's sweeping, powerfully moving story of Rin Tin Tin's journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon. From the moment in 1918 when Corporal Lee Duncan discovers Rin Tin Tin on a World War I battlefield, he recognizes something in the pup that he needs to share with the world. Rin Tin Tin's improbable introduction to Hollywood leads to the dog's first blockbuster film and over...
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xv, 411 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Extraordinary stories of crime, passion, and adventure from The Atavist magazine, the trailblazing leader in longform narrative writing. Since its founding in 2011, The Atavist has garnered an unprecedented eight National Magazine Award nominations and was the first all-digital publication to win in feature writing. This collection presents the finest examples of a new kind of nonfiction storytelling as practiced by a young generation of longform...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
398 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
Español
Description
"La historia de cualquier incendio es la historia de un olvido. por eso casi nadie recuerda lo que ocurrió el 29 de abril de 1986. Aquel día la Biblioteca Pública de Los Ángeles amaneció consumida por el fuego, cuatrocientos mil libros se convirtieron en cenizas y otros setecientos mil quedaron irremediablemente dañados. Siete horas ardieron las estanterías y las mesas y los ficheros, pero ningún periódico cubrió la noticia porque al otro...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
29 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
While walking to school, lugging a heavy backpack through New York City one morning, a disgruntled child questions why babies are so lazy, spending their days on useless activities such as napping and babbling rather than getting jobs.
9) Adaptation
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche, "New Yorker" journalist Susan Orlean, Hollywood screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his twin brother Donald. As Charlie struggles to adapt a best-selling book, he writes himself into the movie plot.
10) The Booksellers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. THE BOOKSELLERS takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers. Official Selection at the **The New York Film Festival**.
11) Blue crush
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with roommates Eden and Lena, they surf at dawn, work hard as a three-maid team at a local luxury resort, and surf again at dusk. The brutal schedule is necessary-since their mother bailed out, Anne Marie is raising her rebellious younger sister Penny alone. Emotionally, Anne Marie finds all she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene, plotting to conquer the waves and counting...
12) Blue crush
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ann-Marie and her friends share a passion for big-wave surfing on the North Shore of Oahu. As Anne-Marie strives to make a comeback after nearly drowning in a surfing competition, her life becomes more complicated when she meets a handsome football player.