IMPROBABLE LIBRARIES

Books and book culture are triumphantly alive across the globe, in out-of-the-way places and in unexpected forms: here is the perfec t book for everyone who sells, buys or borrows them.From the rise of the egalitarian Little Free Library movement (motto: Take a bo ok, return a book) to the growth in luxury hotel libraries, Alex Johnson whose parents were both librarians maps out the histor y and future of the 21st-century library revolution, each chapter consisting of a brief essay followed by illustrated project profil es.Whether b...[Read more]