1986年美国洛杉矶中央图书馆火灾事件，是美国公共图书馆史上最惨痛的灾难之一。大火燃烧了7个多小时才被扑灭，高温和高压水龙对图书馆造成了双重破坏。火灾后，一场前所未有的全城救书行动随即展开，每一位爱书人为书奔走。
7年之后，图书馆以全新的面貌重新向公众开放，成为洛杉矶市中心的文化地标。
火灾发生的30年后，一度宣布封笔的《纽约客》专职作家苏珊·奥尔琳偶然得知这场火灾，对图书馆的回忆和情感涌上心头，遂重新执笔，花费七年调查创作出《亲爱的图书馆》，而这也是一封献给图书馆的情书！
The library book
《亲爱的图书馆》
Susan Orlean
[美] 苏珊·奥尔琳著
中文版索书号：I712.55/436
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Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book. —The Washington Post
每一个爱书之人都该看看《亲爱的图书馆》。——华盛顿邮报
简介：
1986年4月29号上午，洛杉矶公共图书馆发生了一场火灾。七个多小时后，火才被完全扑灭，四十万本书被烧毁，七十万本书被损坏。这是美国历史上最大的图书馆火灾事件，却迟迟没找到真凶。三十年后，《纽约客》专职作家苏珊·奥尔琳偶然得知此事，她决定重启调查，追踪涉嫌谋杀百万册图书的神秘凶手。在一次次交谈和质问中，在一趟趟图书馆漫步后，一场调查逐渐变为一场长达七年的图书馆之旅......
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. The fire was disastrous, it 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. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?
The Midnight Library
《午夜图书馆》
Matt Haig
[英] 马特·海格著
中文版索书号：I561.45/11613
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The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon
纽约时报畅销榜TOP1，缝补破碎人生的现象级治愈小说
简介：
在宇宙边缘的某个地方，有一座图书馆，里面藏有无穷无尽的书籍，每一本都讲述着另一个现实世界的故事。其中一本记载着你当下真实的人生，而另一本则描绘了你做出不同选择后可能经历的另一种人生。我们都会好奇自己的人生本可以如何不同——但假如你真有机会走进这座图书馆，亲眼看看那些“另一种人生”，会怎样呢？那些别样的人生，真的会更好吗？
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
《欢迎光临，休南洞书店》
Hwang Bo-reum
[韩] 黄宝凛著
中文版索书号：I312.645/309
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书店 x书籍 x 爱书的人，韩式治愈天花板
This is a heart-warming story about finding comfort and acceptance in your life.
简介：
全力奔跑三十多年后的英珠被突如其来的倦怠感击中，她心中只剩下了一个念头，那就是开一家书店。不一味追求畅销书的选品、丰富的读书活动和作家访谈……这家开在巷子里，名为“休南洞”的书店，成为无数像英珠一样奔跑到喘不过气的人们休憩心灵的空间。英珠和书店的客人们一起，从书和交谈中汲取力量。
英国作家毛姆曾说：“养成阅读的习惯，就是为自己构建一座避难所，几乎可以避开生命中所有的苦难。”那么本书中的休南洞书店又何尝不是主人公英珠的人生“避难所”呢！
The British writer W. Somerset Maugham once said, “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” For Yeongju, Hyunam-dong Bookshop is just such a refuge where she could comfort her burn-out life with reading. Surrounded by books, Yeongju and her customers take refuge. They all have disappointments in their past. The Hyunam-dong Bookshop becomes the place where they all learn how to truly live.
The last bookshop in London
《伦敦最后一家书店》
Madeline Martin
[美] 玛德琳·马丁著
中文版索书号：I712.45/14016
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一经出版便速登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，数百万读者为之落泪的美丽故事
A city torn apart by war, and brought together by books.
简介：
1939年，希特勒势力横扫欧洲，“二战”一触即发。年轻女孩格蕾丝和好友薇芙一起来到梦寐以求的伦敦,阴差阳错之下，格蕾丝在伦敦市中心的一家老旧书店——樱草山书店里做了店员。
闪电战期间，毁灭性的袭击几乎将伦敦夷为废墟。枪林弹雨中，书给了格蕾丝内心从未有过的力量和慰藉。她开始为人们朗读，文字将人们聚合在一起，团结一心。他们相互扶持度过了战火纷飞的伦敦最黑暗的年代。“二战”结束后，格蕾丝的书店奇迹般地在风暴中幸存下来，继续温暖和鼓舞着千千万万的读者，人们给它重新命名为“伦敦最后一家书店”。
August 1939: London prepares for war as Hitler’s forces sweep across Europe. Grace Bennett has always dreamed of moving to the city, but the bunkers and drawn curtains that she finds on her arrival are not what she expected. And she certainly never imagined she’d wind up working at Primrose Hill, a dusty old bookshop nestled in the heart of London.
Through blackouts and air raids as the Blitz intensifies, Grace discovers the power of storytelling to unite her community in ways she never dreamed—a force that triumphs over even the darkest nights of the war. And her bookshop is renamed The Last Bookshop in London.
