Bette Oliver's book From Royal to National offers a comprehensive and innovative look into the effects of the French Revolution on the nation's culture and identity.

Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories. He loved books. But every story has its upsets. Everything in Morris Lessmore's life, including his own story, is scattered to the winds. But the power of story will save the day.

Presents international librarianship and library science through insightful chapters contributed by experts and scholars from six regions of the world.

Describes how a group of Timbuktu librarians enacted a daring plan to smuggle the city's great collection of rare Islamic manuscripts away from the threat of destruction at the hands of Al Qaeda militants to the safety of southern Mali.

Yet, almost as old as the idea of the library is the urge to destroy it. The reasons cited for this are many: educated people are much harder to govern, and some proclaim that only the illiterate can save the world.

A lion starts visiting the local library but runs into trouble as he tries to both obey the rules and help his librarian friend

And April Mendez takes a ride in a bookmobile unlike any other. In stories that range from humorous to heartbreaking, Newbery award-winner Jerry Spinelli reveals the amazing possibilities lurking behind library doors.

Founded in 1632, the library of the Kiev Mohyla Academy went up in flames in 1780.

Thirteen-year-old Alcatraz Smedry and his companions seek Al's father and grandfather in the Great Library of Alexandria, where they face undead, soul-stealing wraiths called the Curators of Alexandria, and one of the Scrivener's Bones, a ...

Deep within the Library of Doom, thieves capture one of the Silent Ones and order him to guide them to the Lost Archives, but he refuses to betray the Librarian and his secrets.