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Summary: A sanitorium in the Swiss Alps reflects the societal ills of pre-twentieth-century Europe, and a young marine engineer rises from his life of anonymity to become a pivotal character in a story about how a human's environment affects self identity. In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusively to sickness, as a microcosm for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MANMann, Thomas
Summary: A story about a writer of world renown and his slow spiral to a degrading sensuality and eventual death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace] 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC MANMann, Thomas E.
Summary: Outlines recommendations for ending obstructionist tactics and barriers to compromise, suggesting specific institutional restructuring measures while calling on the public and media to work with government to correct problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 MANMann, Thomas C. (Thomas Clifford)
Summary: From the Blurb: When you get right down to it: where's the best place to tell your story or state what you stood for? Average old-time New Englanders and a number of modern ones believed that the logical place to say their say was on their gravestones. Their often stunning frankness has produced three centuries of highly personal comments on religion, politics, death, wars, love, marriage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: S. Greene Press 1962
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.5 MANVarious authors
Contents: The beaast in the jungle / Henry James. -- Saint Joan / Bernard Shaw. -- Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad. -- Uncle Vania / Anton Chekhov. -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello. -- Swann in love (from Remembrance of things past) / Marcel Proust. -- A lost lady / Willa Cather. -- Death in Venice / Thomas Mann. -- A portrait of the artist as a young man / James Joyce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC LitAndrews, Jesse.
Summary: Up until senior year, Greg has maintained total social invisibility. He only has one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time--when not playing video games and avoiding Earl's terrifying brothers--making movies, their own versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Greg would be the first one to tell you his movies are f*@$ing terrible, but he and Earl don't make them for other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists explain why the Trump presidency poses a threat to the nation and discusses how the citizen activism it has inspired can lead to democratic renewal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 DIOGryta, Thomas
Summary: "How could General Electric-perhaps America's most iconic corporation-suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace?"-- Since its founding in 1892, General Electric has been more than just a corporation: it was job security, a solidly safe investment, and an elite business education for top managers. GE electrified America, from lightbulbs to turbines, and became fully integrated into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020