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German Americans Fiction Immigrant families United States Fiction Manners and customs Mississippi Race relations Fiction Pregnant women Fiction Secrecy Fiction Short stories, American United States United States Social life and customs 20th century Fiction United States Social life and customs 20th century FictionHarrison, Jim
Summary: A collection of novellas explores the line between civilization and the "wild men."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION HARRISONCrandall, Susan
Summary: "From the bestselling and award-winning author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes an adventure tale about two daredevils and a farm boy who embark on the journey of a lifetime across America's heartland in the Roaring Twenties. Set in the rapidly changing world of 1920s America, this is a story of three people from very different backgrounds: Henry "Schuler" Jefferson, son of German...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Crandall 2015Pearlman, Edith
Contents: The jigsaw table -- Fidelity -- ToyFolk -- Allog -- Chance -- Accommodators -- Love among the greats -- Neighbors -- Big fish -- Fitting -- The thought of you -- Tess's team -- Sonya's place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eastern Washington University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: A collection of "commercial short stories F. Scott Fitzgerald published before he began to work on what would become his great American novel, The Great Gatsby."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2001
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Contents: Assimilation -- The toughest Indian in the world -- Class -- South by southwest -- The sin eaters -- Indian country -- Saint Junior -- Dear John Wayne -- One good man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEGeorge, Alex.
Summary: A Good American is a story of immigrant hope. Set in a fictional Midwestern town and spanning more than a century, the novel tells the story of three generations of the Meisenheimer family. Beginning with an improbable love affair ignited by the power of song, the story follows an unorthodox young couple as they flee to America in search of a new life together. From prohibition to the Kennedy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOGeorge, Alex.
Summary: The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amy Einhorn Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2012Hamann, H. T. (Hilary Thayer)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vernacular Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMRylant, Cynthia.
Summary: Reminiscences of the pleasures of life in the mountains as a child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1982
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC RYLMartinez, Juan
Summary: "Praise for Juan Martinez: "A little out of the ordinary.... He takes this very unnatural environment and changes it into a landscape."-Hannah Tinti "I loved it."- Etgar Keret These are the best Americans, the worst Americans. In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers, wildernesses. Voices sound slightly different than ex-pected. There's humor, but it's going to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small Beer Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARBerg, Elizabeth.
Summary: Relish the exquisite moments of ordinary life. These 14 complete stories offer reconciliations, moments of truth, and awakening appreciation for life's simple gifts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FULContents: Fitzgerald, F. S. The popular girl.--Fitzgerald, F. S. Love in the night.--Fitzgerald, F. S. and Fitzgerald, Z. Our own movie queen.--Fitzgerald, F. S. A penny spent.--Fitzgerald, F. S. The dance.--Fitzgerald, F. S. Jacob's ladder.--Fitzgerald, F. S. The swimmers.--Fitzgerald, Z. The original follies girl.--Fitzgerald, Z. The southern girl.--Fitzgerald, Z. The girl the prince...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITBoyle, T. Coraghessan.
Summary: The author's sixth collection of short stories displays his wide-ranging interests in everything from abortion doctors to air rage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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Contents: So far you can't imagine.--The lost art of sleep.--Lady Chatterley's root canal.--Ethiopia.--I married a space alien.--Lokey man.--Adult education.--Song-and-dance man.--What I remember now.--In France they turn to stone when they die.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DODGordon, Mary
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORMcInerney, Jay.
Contents: Model behavior -- The business -- Con doctor -- Smoke -- Getting in touch with Lonnie -- How it ended -- The queen and I -- Reunion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCIPaley, Grace.
Contents: Wants -- Debts -- Distance -- Faith in the afternoon -- Gloomy tune -- Living -- Come on, ye sons of art -- Faith in a tree -- Samuel -- The burdened man -- Enormous changes at the last minute -- Politics -- Northeast playground -- The little girl -- A conversation with my father -- The immigrant story -- A long-distance runner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Noonday Press 1974
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALThompson, Jean
Summary: Stories featuring unhappy protagonists, many of them lonely. In Heart of Gold, a lonely woman finds solace in the heroes of cowboy movies, while in The Widower, after selling a young couple his house, a lonely man tries to insert himself in their life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOUpdike, John.
Contents: Domestic life in America -- From the journal of a leper -- The fairy godfathers -- The egg race -- The parade -- The faint -- Guilt-gems -- Atlantises -- Morocco -- Trust me -- More stately mansions -- Still of some use -- The lovely troubled daughters of our old crowd -- Venezuela for visitors -- Pygmalion -- The city -- Learn a trade -- The ideal village -- Deaths of distant friends -- First...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Twenty-three stories early in the writer's career. They range from Thanasphere, on an astronaut who hears the voices of the dead, to Runaways, in which teenage lovers learn you cannot live on love alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONMcDermott, Alice.
Summary: A portrait of an American family during the middle decades of the twentieth century evokes the social, spiritual, and political turmoil of the era as seen through the experiences of a middle-class couple and their children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDSteinbeck, John
Contents: The moon is down -- Cannery Row -- The pearl -- East of Eden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEUpdike, John.
Summary: Twelve short stories revisit the locales of the author's previous works of fiction and focus on a theme of love, in an anthology that is complemented by a novella-length sequel, "Rabbit Remembered," to his Harry Angstrom series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2000