Soneva Kiri resort children's library, Thailand.
Despite its boutique size, the property, on the north end of Grand Cayman, offers the amenities of a larger resort, including a gym, library, swimming pool, loaner bicycles and a massage hut shaded by sea grape trees.
Here, for $3,200 a year, about 150 French and foreign students study and live in a damp, dilapidated former corporate summer resort with a tiny library, few computers, no television and no cellphone reception.
Since 2005, it has operated several "beach libraries" in resort towns across the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark.
They've had steady work through the years at wineries, resorts, casinos and the Reagan Library, but now their great lost album "Smile," officially released last year — 44 years off schedule — may yet be understood as one of the greatest pop records ever made, a puzzle of mini-episodes.
Its easy integration and its short extraction time make it suitable for game engines and graphics libraries which often resort to discrete models when it comes to selecting a multiresolution technique.
Feeling besieged, leaders of the remaining English-speaking residents resort to such measures as counting library books that Montreal is buying this year.
On the village green and within walking distance of everything in the town, the inn has a classic resort-hotel feel, with a roaring fireplace, a cozy library filled with games and books, and elegant dining.
Resettled during the 1840s, it was promoted in 1850 as a summer resort, and Melvil Dewey (creator of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for libraries) founded the exclusive Lake Placid Club there in 1895.
The center of the resort is the lodge, which has two dining rooms, a living room, a library, a fitness center and spa, and a wine-tasting area.
