Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

Running the Books

The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

By
Avi Steinberg
Avi Steinberg
2010 • 399 pages

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47 books

Memoir Biography

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Between the World and Me
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
Craigslist Confessional
In Order to Live

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12 books

Random Library Finds

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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
What She Ate
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The one-in-a-million boy
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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13 books

Books About Books

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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
The Last Bookseller: A Life in the Rare Book Trade

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106 books

Biographies Autobiographies

ThatCasualDragon
Nat
Not My Father's Son
Join Me
Spinster
J. R. R. Tolkien : a biography
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
H is for Hawk

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44 books

Books About Books

ThatCasualDragon
Nat
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
The Clothing of Books
Dark Archives
The Bookshop
Just my type
The Sherlockian
The Lord of the Rings

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589 books

Adventure

DebNance
Deb Nance
Shadow of a bull
Call It Courage
Blue highways
Holes
The greatest skating race
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
The Door in the Wall

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194 books

Problems Ideas

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Deb Nance
Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
It's Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Stupid White Men : And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
Heaven on Earth
Little Bee
Disrupting Class

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249 books

Books About Books

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Deb Nance
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
The Wednesday Wars
Better Than Life
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Biblioholism
Beowulf on the Beach
Bad Things Happen

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149 books

Moving And Starting Over

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Deb Nance
Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse
Honeymoon in Purdah
Between Panic and Desire
Await Your Reply
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
The East-West House: Noguchi's Childhood in Japan

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92 books

Memoir

Ronit
Ronit Wagman
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Lit
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
Loose Girl
Hurry Down Sunshine
Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

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132 books

Nonfiction

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Ronit Wagman
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Turning the Mind Into an Ally
Imperial life in the emerald city
Ayn Rand and the World She Made
Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II
Master of Shadows
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

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41 books

On Hold

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Candice
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
At the Mountains of Madness
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
The Neverending Story
A passage to Shambhala
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Nevertheless: A Memoir

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1 book

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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian