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Female friendship Fiction Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896-1940 Gardeners Fiction Popular culture United States History 20th century United States Social life and customs 20th century Fiction United States Social life and customs 20th century United States Social life and customs 20th century Fiction United States Social life and customs 20th century Pictorial works Vietnam War, 1961-1975 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.
Format: text
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
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 SEDCopies Available at Kingsley
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."
Format: text
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 PrzybyszewskiPearlman, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eastern Washington University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEASandler, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.9793 SANStasz, Clarice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1991
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 STAHendricks, Nancy
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 HENFox, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXFitzgerald, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITBrokaw, Tom.
Summary: In his memoir, Brokaw writes of his quintessential American experience, from his parents' life in the thirties to his early journalism career in the tumultuous sixties to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROKAW, TOM BROMark, Mary Ellen
Summary: Collects black-and-white photographs taken between 1963 and 1999, touching on issues of poverty, discrimination, and life in America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aperture 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.2 MARZeitz, 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 ZEISummary: 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 SATContents: Corporal Lewis.--Out of the woods.--Extension.--The blind neighbor.--Afternoon of the Sassanoa.--Debriefing.--Desire lines.--Rodeo patrol.--The photographer.--Caller I.D.--Stolen horses.--'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.--The holy boys.--Cashmere Christmas.--20 burgers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIBradbury, Ray
Summary: Twenty-one stories with general themes by a leading science fiction writer. In one story, a dead man thinks he is still alive, another story features a killer garbage disposal unit, and a third is on the downside of immortality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRACanin, Ethan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANCheever, John.
Summary: Short stories, originally published 1946-1975.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1978
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEDobyns, Stephen
Contents: A happy vacancy -- Eating naked -- Part of the story -- The Chaucer professor -- The cedar bungalow -- The pity of it -- Kansas -- Some changes coming -- Out on the water -- With Franz and Jane -- Devil's Island -- Black ashes -- Dead men don't need safe sex -- So I guess you know what I told him -- Flaws in the latex -- Cynthia, my sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOBFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Contents: The offshore pirate -- The ice palace -- Head and shoulders -- The cut-glass bowl -- Bernice bobs her hair -- Benediction -- Dalrymple goes wrong -- The four fists.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITHoffman, Alice.
Summary: A Jewish girl's adolescent years on Long Island are described in a collection of stories. In one, her father remarries, in a second her brother drops out of university, in a third her mother dies of cancer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFJohnson, Dana
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHKane, Jessica Francis
Summary: A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year. At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure in language, her work as a gardener, and keeping her neighbors at arm's length while keenly observing them....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019