<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Orlean, Susan]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Orlean, Susan]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/cmlibrary/rss/search?query=Orlean%2C%20Susan&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:25:14 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Joyride]]></title><description><![CDATA["'The story of my life is the story of my stories,' writes Susan Orlean in this extraordinary, era-defining memoir from one of the greatest practitioners of narrative nonfiction of our time. Joyride is a magic carpet ride through Orlean's life and career, where every moment holds the potential for wonder. She takes us through her process of dreaming up ideas, managing deadlines, connecting with sources, chasing every possible lead, confronting writer's block, and crafting the perfect lede. Infused with Orlean's signature warmth and wit, Joyride is a must-read for anyone who hungers to start, build, and sustain a creative life"-- Back cover.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C554352</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C554352</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/554352235</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420528169/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joyride]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the beloved New Yorker writer Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book and hailed as ""a national treasure"" by The Washington Post , Joyride is a masterful memoir of finding her creative calling and purpose that invites us to approach life with wonder, curiosity, and an irrepressible sense of...]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C554843</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C554843</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/554843235</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982135188/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joyride]]></title><description><![CDATA["Joyride is a magic carpet ride through Orlean's life and career, where every day is an opportunity for discovery and every moment holds the potential for wonder. Throughout her storied career, her curiosity draws her to explore the most ordinary and extraordinary of places, from going deep inside the head of a regular ten-year-old boy for a legendary profile ("The American Man Age Ten") to reporting on a woman who owns twenty-seven tigers, from capturing the routine magic of Saturday night to climbing Mt. Fuji. Not only does Orlean's account of a writing life offer a trove of indispensable gleanings for writers, it's also an essential and practical guide to embracing any creative path. She takes us through her process of dreaming up ideas, managing deadlines, connecting with sources, chasing every possible lead, confronting writer's block and self-doubt, and crafting the perfect lede--a Susan specialty. While Orlean has always written her way into other people's lives in order to understand the human experience, Joyride is her most personal book ever--a searching journey through finding her feet as a journalist, recovering from the excruciating collapse of her first marriage, falling head-over-heels in love again, becoming a mother while mourning the decline of her own mother, sojourning to Hollywood for films based on her work including Adaptation and Blue Crush, and confronting mortality. Joyride is also a time machine to a bygone era of journalism, from Orlean's bright start in the golden age of alt-weeklies to her career-making days working alongside icons such as Robert Gottlieb, Tina Brown, David Remnick, Anna Wintour, Sonny Mehta, and Jonathan Karp--forces who shaped the media industry as we know it today"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C546503</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C546503</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/546503235</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982135164/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Library Book]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chronicles the Los Angeles Public Library fire and its aftermath and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the actor long suspected of setting the fire, showcases the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives, and delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C211366</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C211366</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/211366235</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781432856465/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Library Book]]></title><description><![CDATA["Susan Orlean reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution--our libraries"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C208614</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C208614</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/208614235</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781476740188/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Library Book]]></title><description><![CDATA[Susan Orlean, hailed as a "national treasure" by The Washington Post and the acclaimed bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution?our libraries. On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later, "Once that first stack got going, it was Goodbye, Charlie." The fire was disastrous: It reached 2,000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed 400,000 books and damaged 700,000 more. Investigators descended on the scene, but over thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library?and if so, who? Weaving her life-long love of books and reading with the fascinating history of libraries and the sometimes-eccentric characters who run them, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean presents a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling story as only she can. With her signature wit, insight, compassion, and talent for deep research, she investigates the legendary Los Angeles Public Library fire to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives. To truly understand what happens behind the stacks, Orlean visits the different departments of the LAPL, encountering an engaging cast of employees and patrons and experiencing alongside them the victories and struggles they face in today's climate. She also delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from a metropolitan charitable initiative to a cornerstone of national identity. She reflects on her childhood experiences in libraries; studies arson and the long history of library fires; attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and she re-examines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the library over thirty years ago. Along the way, she reveals how these buildings provide much more than just books?and that they are needed now more than ever. Filled with heart, passion, and unforgettable characters, The Library Book is classic Susan Orlean, and an homage to a beloved institution that remains a vital part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country and culture.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C421414</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C421414</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/421414235</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781476740201/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Library Book]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later, "Once that first stack got going, it was 'Goodbye, Charlie.'" The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and 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?]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C219318</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C219318</guid><category><![CDATA[PLAYAWAY_AUDIOBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/219318235</comments><format>PLAYAWAY_AUDIOBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781987145564/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Library Book]]></title><description><![CDATA[Susan Orlean, hailed as a "national treasure" by The Washington Post and the acclaimed bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief, re-opens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution--our libraries. On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later, "Once that first stack got going, it was Goodbye, Charlie." The fire was disastrous: It reached 2,000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed 400,000 books and damaged 700,000 more. Investigators descended on the scene, but over thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library? and if so, who? Weaving her life-long love of books and reading with the fascinating history of libraries and the sometimes-eccentric characters who run them, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean presents a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling story as only she can. With her signature wit, insight, compassion, and talent for deep research, she investigates the legendary Los Angeles Public Library fire to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives. To truly understand what happens behind the stacks, Orlean visits the different departments of the LAPL, encountering an engaging cast of employees and patrons and experiencing alongside them the victories and struggles they face in today's climate. She also delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from a metropolitan charitable initiative to a cornerstone of national identity. She reflects on her childhood experiences in libraries; studies fire and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; and she re-examines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the library over thirty years ago. Along the way, she reveals how these buildings provide much more than just books--and that they are needed now more than ever. Filled with heart, passion, and unforgettable characters, The Library Book is classic Susan Orlean, and an homage to a beloved institution that remains a vital part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country and culture.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C421914</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C421914</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/421914235</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781508266488/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rin Tin Tin]]></title><description><![CDATA[He believed the dog was immortal. So begins this powerfully moving story of Rin Tin Tin's journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon. From the moment in 1918 when Corporal Lee Duncan discovers Rin Tin Tin on a World War I battlefield, he recognizes something in the pup that he needs to share with the world. Rin Tin Tin is the ultimate must-read for anyone who loves great dogs or great yarns.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C100083</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C100083</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/100083235</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>The Life and the Legend</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781410443441/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lazy Little Loafers]]></title><description><![CDATA[While walking to school, lugging a heavy backpack through New York City one morning, a disgruntled child questions why babies are so lazy, spending their days on useless activities such as napping and babbling rather than getting jobs.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C73480</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C73480</guid><category><![CDATA[PICTURE_BOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/73480235</comments><format>PICTURE_BOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780810970274/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE LIBRARY BOOK]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chronicles the Los Angeles Public Library fire and its aftermath and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the actor long suspected of setting the fire, showcases the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives, and delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C320095</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C320095</guid><category><![CDATA[UK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/320095235</comments><format>UK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Library Book]]></title><description><![CDATA[Susan Orlean re-opens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, and delivers a dazzling love letter to the beloved institution of libraries.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C210325</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C210325</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/210325235</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781508266471/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Animals]]></title><description><![CDATA['How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon, she's been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals, she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career. These stories consider a range of creatures, the household pets we dote on, the animals we raise to end up as meat on our plates, the creatures who could eat us for dinner, the various tamed and untamed animals we share our planet with who are central to human life. In her own backyard, Orlean discovers the delights of keeping chickens. In a different backyard, in New Jersey, she meets a woman who has twenty-three pet tigers--something none of her neighbors knew about until one of the tigers escapes. In Iceland, the world₂s most famous whale resists the efforts to set him free; in Morocco, the world's hardest-working donkeys find respite at a special clinic. We meet a show dog and a lost dog and a pigeon who knows exactly how to get home.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C283894</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C283894</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/283894235</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982181536/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Animals]]></title><description><![CDATA['How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,' writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon, she's been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals, she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career. These stories consider a range of creatures, the household pets we dote on, the animals we raise to end up as meat on our plates, the creatures who could eat us for dinner, the various tamed and untamed animals we share our planet with who are central to human life. In her own backyard, Orlean discovers the delights of keeping chickens. In a different backyard, in New Jersey, she meets a woman who has twenty-three pet tigers--something none of her neighbors knew about until one of the tigers escapes. In Iceland, the world₂s most famous whale resists the efforts to set him free; in Morocco, the world's hardest-working donkeys find respite at a special clinic. We meet a show dog and a lost dog and a pigeon who knows exactly how to get home.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C439805</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C439805</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/439805235</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982181550/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Orchid Thief]]></title><description><![CDATA[From Florida's swamps to its courtrooms, the New Yorker writer follows one deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man's possibly criminal pursuit of an endangered flower. Determined to clone the rare ghost orchid, Polyrrhiza lindenii, John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America's strange flower-selling subculture, along with the Seminole Indians who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean -- and the reader -- will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C426983</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C426983</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/426983235</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307795298/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joyride]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the beloved New Yorker writer Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book and hailed as "a national treasure" by The Washington Post, Joyride is a masterful memoir of finding her creative calling and purpose that invites us to approach life with wonder, curiosity, and an irrepressible sense of delight."The story of my life is the story of my stories," writes Susan Orlean in this extraordinary, era-defining memoir from one of the greatest practitioners of narrative nonfiction of our time. Joyride is a magic carpet ride through Orlean's life and career, where every day is an opportunity for discovery and every moment holds the potential for wonder. Throughout her storied career, her curiosity draws her to explore the most ordinary and extraordinary of places, from going deep inside the head of a regular ten-year-old boy for a legendary profile ("The American Man Age Ten") to reporting on a woman who owns twenty-seven tigers, from capturing the routine magic of Saturday night to climbing Mt. Fuji. Not only does Orlean's account of a writing life offer a trove of indispensable gleanings for writers, it's also an essential and practical guide to embracing any creative path. She takes us through her process of dreaming up ideas, managing deadlines, connecting with sources, chasing every possible lead, confronting writer's block and self-doubt, and crafting the perfect lede--a Susan specialty. While Orlean has always written her way into other people's lives in order to understand the human experience, Joyride is her most personal book ever--a searching journey through finding her feet as a journalist, recovering from the excruciating collapse of her first marriage, falling head-over-heels in love again, becoming a mother while mourning the decline of her own mother, sojourning to Hollywood for films based on her work including Adaptation and Blue Crush, and confronting mortality. Joyride is also a time machine to a bygone era of journalism, from Orlean's bright start in the golden age of alt-weeklies to her career-making days working alongside icons such as Robert Gottlieb, Tina Brown, David Remnick, Anna Wintour, Sonny Mehta, and Jonathan Karp--forces who shaped the media industry as we know it today. Infused with Orlean's signature warmth and wit, Joyride is a must-read for anyone who hungers to start, build, and sustain a creative life. Orlean inspires us to seek out daily inspiration and rediscover the marvels that surround us.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C556006</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C556006</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/556006235</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668100905/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Animals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since the age of six, Susan Orlean has been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. 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Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon, she's been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals, she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career. These stories consider a range of creatures, the household pets we dote on, the animals we raise to end up as meat on our plates, the creatures who could eat us for dinner, the various tamed and untamed animals we share our planet with who are central to human life. In her own backyard, Orlean discovers the delights of keeping chickens. In a different backyard, in New Jersey, she meets a woman who has twenty-three pet tigers--something none of her neighbors knew about until one of the tigers escapes. In Iceland, the world's most famous whale resists the efforts to set him free; in Morocco, the world's hardest-working donkeys find respite at a special clinic. We meet a show dog and a lost dog and a pigeon who knows exactly how to get home.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C290909</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C290909</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/290909235</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781432891947/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rin Tin Tin]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nearly ten years in the making and perfect for the holidays, Susan Orlean's first original book since the celebrated bestseller The Orchid Thief is the publishing event of the season: a sweeping, surprising, and powerfully moving work of narrative nonfiction about the dog actor and international icon, Rin Tin Tin. German shepherd Rin Tin Tin's journey is the story of the twentieth century. From the discovery of Rin Tin Tin on a WWI battlefield in 1918, to the movies, radio programs, and the 1950s television show that would cement his legacy around the world, Rin Tin Tin traces the extraordinary history of the dog and his descendants over more than ninety years. Rin Tin Tin was a star (he received 10,000 fan letters a week); a worldwide sensation; a social figure (as the U.S. Army's WWII mascot, he inspired thousands of Americans to donate their dogs for use in the war); and a baby-boom touchstone. He was also a real dog, and the book tells the epic love story between Rin Tin Tin and the remarkable people who devoted their lives to him and his legacy. Rin Tin Tin is also Orlean's meditation on the nature of heroism, loyalty, and memory, and how Rin Tin Tin has lasted for so many generations. "Rin Tin Tin could leap twelve feet," she writes, "and he could leap through time."Like no one else, Orlean crafts brilliantly engaging, witty, and passionate narratives about her real-life characters. As The Washington Post Book World has said, her "snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose ... is fast becoming one of our national treasures." A tour de force of history, emotion, and masterful storytelling, here is the ultimate tale for anyone who loves great dogs or great journalism]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C469622</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C469622</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Orlean, Susan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/469622235</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>The Life and the Legend</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781442344976/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2025]]></title><description><![CDATA["The best science and nature writing--which these stories represent--reminds us of the wide world and our connection to it, and the multitude of ways we make our place in it," writes Susan Orlean in her introduction. This year's collection masterfully guides us through exotic locations and groundbreaking research, leading us to consider complex and utterly fascinating questions about the world. How does it feel to camp in one of the hottest places on Earth? Is the ability to recognize and remember faces a sign of intelligence? What does it mean for a species to be wild or invasive--are city pigeons and rats less deserving than the coyotes that recently wandered down from Westchester? Encompassing the strangeness and, at times, severity of our world, these stories are urgent, vital, and ultimately inspiring. As Orlean eloquently observes, "Science keeps unlocking mysteries, revealing secrets, helping us heal. And as imperiled as nature seems, it remains amply, gloriously gorgeous: The world is still full of beauty."]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C551876</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C551876</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/551876235</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063414211/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Booksellers]]></title><description><![CDATA[A behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world and the fascinating people who inhabit it.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C249713</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C249713</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/249713235</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=738329246860</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2021]]></title><description><![CDATA["New York times best-selling author and renowned science journalist Ed Yong compiles the best science and nature writing published in 2020"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C285804</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C285804</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/285804235</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780358400066/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blue Crush]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ann-Marie, a big-wave surfer on the North Shore of Oahu, drives to make a comeback after nearly drowning in a surfing competition. Her life becomes more complicated by her romance with a handsome football player. Ann-Marie and her surfer buddies work as maids at a posh resort and share a beach shack with Anne-Marie's wayward young sister. Ann-Marie struggles between her need to prove herself and her desire to take the easy way out.]]></description><link>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C117295</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S235C117295</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://cmlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/117295235</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780783270210/MC.GIF&amp;client=chmep&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=025192213229</image_url></item></channel></rss>