Saunders, George
Summary: "In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2005
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Summary: Traces a night of solitary mourning and reflection as experienced by the sixteenth president after the death of his eleven-year-old son at the dawn of the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2017
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Summary: A collection of stories includes "Home," a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; "Victory Lap," a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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Summary: "The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Summary: One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet. In the taut opener, "Victory Lap," a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2013
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Saunders, George
Summary: George Saunders has been celebrated for his imaginative, observant, hilarious fiction. But in this first collection of essays, Saunders trains his lens on the real world, and shows that it too is brimming with strangeness - in the surreal opulence of Dubai, in the alleged self-denial of the Buddha Boy of Nepal (who has been meditating without food or water for months on end), and in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2007
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Summary: Drawing on his well-received convocation address at Syracuse University, one of today's most influential and original writers shows how to lead a kinder, more fulfilling life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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Summary: Idealistic Fox 8's ability to communicate in "Yuman" cannot save his pack when their den and food supply are destroyed to build a mall, so he writes a letter asking for an explanation of human's cruelty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018
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Summary: February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. “My...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2000
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Summary: One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet. In the taut opener, "Victory Lap," a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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Fischer, George 1952-
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2007
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Summary: Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful post-grad career. Our destinies have been reduced to a caricature: learn to write computer code or end up behind a counter, pouring coffee. Quietly, though, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 ANDSummary: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012
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Summary: A fully updated new edition of the bible of model rocketry and the official handbook of the National Association of Rocketry G. Harry Stine was one of the founders of model rocketry and one of its most accomplished and respected figures. His Handbook of Model Rocketry has long been recognized as the most authoritative and reliable resource in the field. Now fully updated and expanded by Harry's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.46 STISummary: The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffin and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANDSummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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Ponting, Herbert George.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger Publishers 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 PONTchaikovsky, Peter Ilich
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Publisher / Publication Date: BMG 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL TCHGeorge, Jean Craighead 1919-
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GEOKlarsfeld, Beate
Summary: "The memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, political activists best known for hunting Nazis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KLAPuddefoot, William George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pilgrim Press 1903
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUDSummary: "It is for Melinda and Jim when death turns their lives upside down, but also gives them a second chance at love. Journey with Melinda ... and see how her relationships with Jim, Delia, Eli and Ned are put to the ultimate test."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2009