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An amnesiac girl explores an enchanting underground world filled with sinister secrets in this YA fantasy from the award-winning author of The Lie Tree. In the underground city of Caverna, the world’s most skilled craftspeople toil in the darkness to create delicacies beyond compare—wines that remove memories, cheeses that make you hallucinate, and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as he slits your throat. On the surface, the people of Caverna seem ordinary, except for one thing: their faces are as blank as untouched snow. Expressions must be learned, and only the famous Facesmiths can teach a person to express (or fake) joy, despair, or fear—at a steep price. Into t...
Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. “Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book” (The Washington Post). On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous: it reached two thousand degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Invest...
"A collection of historic Buffalo photos from 1890 through 1939" -- from page [1] book dust jacket.
Beautifully told by Tracey Fern and warmly illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner Lauren Castillo, this is the story of one woman's quest to save the buffalo that once roamed the West. Based on the work of Mary Ann Goodnight, a pioneer credited with forming one of the first captive buffalo herds in the late 1800s and saving them from extinction.
Take an insightful armchair tour of Buffalo as it looked in the 19th century. Victorian Buffalo showcases our region's glorious past by presenting a collection of steel engravings, woodcuts, lithography and other forms of nonphotographic art. Author Cynthia Van Ness has selected a medley of scenes that will give readers glimpses of everyday life as well as views of historic structures created by luminaries like Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and E.B. Green. The book also highlights some obscure but fascinating local sites like the German American Brewing Company, White's Riding Academy, the Home for the Friendless and many other intriguing spots.
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