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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896-1940 Lange, Dorothea Manners and customs Popular culture United States History 20th century Sex role United States History 20th century United States United States Social life and customs 20th century United States Social life and customs 20th century Anecdotes United States Social life and customs 20th century Fiction Women United States BiographyBehnke, Alison.
Summary: Looks at the different modes of dress in America in the mid twentieth century, from every day clothes to high fashion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 391.00973 BEHSedaris, David.
Summary: From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about the absurdity and delight of a curious traveler's experiences. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English countryside or marveling over a disembodied human arm in a taxidermist's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 SEDCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 SEDHarrison, 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 HARRISONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC HARPrzybyszewski, Linda.
Summary: "As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and flatteringly. As historian and expert dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.9 PRZCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Life PrzybyszewskiSandler, Martin W.
Summary: Over one thousand photographs celebrate the people and places in America capturing 150 years of American history, culture, lifestyles, and diverse character of a nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.9793 SANPearlman, 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 PEAStasz, Clarice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1991
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 STASummary: Features hours of hilarious sketches, memorable skits from the original Season 4 cast, and all the original musical performances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SATGeorge, 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GEOSedaris, David.
Contents: A plague of tics -- Get yer ya-ya's out -- Next of kin -- Cyclops -- True detective -- The drama bug -- I like guys -- Ashes, parts 1 and 2 -- Naked.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner Audiobooks 2001
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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERMackrell, Judith.
Summary: The forefront British dance critic and award-nominated author of Bloomsbury Ballerina presents a revisionist assessment of the movement that shattered the boundaries of conventional femininity through the lives of six figures that exemplified it, including Lady Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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Summary: After the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country...But can they escape the secrets they left behind? Two sisters on the run--one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don't realize is that there's a man hot on their trails. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORShepherd, Jean.
Contents: The grandstand passion play of Delbert and the Bumpus hounds.--County fair!--Scut Farkas and the murderous Mariah.--Ollie Hopnoodle's haven of bliss.--The star-crossed romance of Josephine Cosnowski.--Daphne Bigelow and the spine-chilling saga of the snail-encrusted tinfoil noose.--The return of the smiling Wimpy doll.--Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1971
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHETyler, Anne.
Contents: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant -- Morgan's passing -- The tin can tree -- If morning ever comes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avenel Books 1990
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Summary: "From Beatniks to Sputnik and Princess Grace to Peyton Place, this book illuminates the female half of America's population as they entered a "brave new world" that revolutionized women's lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwood 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 HENZeitz, Joshua.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 ZEIFox, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXGordon, Linda.
Summary: Dorothea Lange's photographs define how the American Depression is remembered; this evocative biography defines her creative struggles and enduring legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANGE, DOROTHEA GORFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: "It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel--for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022