Gresham’s massive new library will open with a rooftop terrace and 200-seat auditorium

That massive structure came at a cost of around $163 million, according to spokesperson Liz Sauer, paid for through a $387 million library bond voters passed in 2020. The building ...

An Irresistible New Memoir Chronicles the Wild Saga of a Jeweled Egg That Cost Its Maker Everything

She was just off a breakup and pushing 30, but the story she beguiled this stranger with in the early hours of the morning was about her father and how he’d made the world’s largest jeweled egg. The ...
GitHub

Typikon lets you use markdown to write your online books.

Typikon name derived from Typikon Book, the a static website rendering tool similar to mdbook and gitbook, but it focuses only on rendering markdown into an online book, and is easier to use than the ...
The Guardian

Firefighters in Sicily rescue 400 rare library books from precipice after landslide

Landslide in Niscemi in January tore away entire slope of town and carved 4km chasm Firefighters in Sicily have rescued about 400 rare books from a library in Niscemi that hangs on the edge of a ...
The New York Times

The Kremlin Banned These Books. You Can Find Them in a New York Library.

A professor at Hunter College has built one of the largest special collections of contraband Russian literature in the world. By Sarah Chatta Millions of banned books were smuggled into the Soviet ...