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bibliography biography essay Essays. novel Novels. Poetry. Romans. Science fiction. Short stories.Paul, Roland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Institut für pfälzische Geschichte und Volkskunde 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.43 PAUBailey, Ronald H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1981
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Summary: A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.81 DU BThurber, James
Summary: Selection of writings and drawings by American humorist James Thurber, presenting a diverse mix of literary parodies, eccentric portraits, stories of domestic warfare, reminiscences, and protests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817.52 THUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: SC THURBMailer, Norman.
Summary: No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIRoth, Philip
Summary: "Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbath's Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986), and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by President Obama in 2011), among many other honors, Philip Roth has produced an extraordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ROTMelville, Herman
Summary: "Herman Melville ranks with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as one of the three great American poets of the nineteenth century. Whether meditating on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War, the mysteries of faith and doubt in the Holy Land, or the strange relationship between the Maldive Shark and the pilot fish that glide before "his Gorgonian head," Melville's verse combines precise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 MELChandler, Raymond
Summary: Later Novels and Other Writings begins with The Lady in the Lake (1943). Written during the war, the story takes Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CHANDLeonard, Elmore
Summary: One of the great storytellers of our time, Elmore Leonard perfected his craft writing Westerns, a genre he loved. These tales--some adapted into such outstanding films as Hombre, Valdez Is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma--are unexcelled for their wiry tautness, sharp characterizations, and jolts of unexpected humor. For sheer stripped-down narrative tension Leonard never did anything better, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEOO'Brien, Flann
Contents: At swim-two-birds -- The third policeman -- The poor mouth -- The hard life -- The Dalkey archive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2007
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Summary: The Moviegoer (1961), winner of the 1962 National Book Award for Fiction, is the story of John Bickerson "Binx" Bolling, a New Orleans stockbroker who finds in movies a resplendent reality that lifts him, for a time, out of the mire of everydayness. Binx is a modern-day pilgrim whose progress unfolds in what editor Paul Elie calls "the first work of what we call contemporary American fiction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PERSummary: "The defeat of the Confederacy and the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 brought about the final destruction of slavery in the United States. Americans were confronted for the first time with the possibility of creating a republic dedicated to the principle of racial equality. What followed over the next twelve years was one of the most complex, inspiring, and ultimately tragic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 RECDidion, Joan.
Summary: A compilation of essays and nonfiction writings spanning more than forty years includes the author's reflections on politics, lifestyle, place, and cultural figures, including such topics as Haight-Ashbury, the Manson family, the Black Panthers, California earthquakes, and Bill Clinton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.54 DIDBradbury, Ray
Summary: In one authoritative volume, here are two landmark story collections by one of America's most beloved authors, plus 27 stellar, speculative, and strange tales from other collections, including 7 restored to print The author of over 400 short stories, Ray Bradbury was a master not only in the science fiction genre, for which he is best known, but also in speculative, horror, and dark fantasy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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Summary: Examines the origins of jazz and argues that African-American musicians were influenced by a variety of traditions in American culture in creating this art form.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scarecrow Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 SANCarson, Rachel
Summary: This deluxe Library of America volume presents one of the landmark books of the twentieth century together with rare letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the personal courage and passionate commitment of its author, Rachel Carson. A huge bestseller when published in September 1962, Silent Spring led not only to many of the laws and government agencies that protect our air, land,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 CARMailer, Norman
Summary: "This volume contains thirty-six essays published by Norman Mailer from November 1960 to September 1969, along with the preface to his 1963 collection The Presidential Papers and two prefaces he wrote for paperback editions of that book" (Note; page 471).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MAIEmerson, Ralph Waldo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 EMECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: SC EMEAdney, Tappan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Institution 1964
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 AdnFranklin, Benjamin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 FRADu Bois, W. E. B.
Summary: The suppression of the African slave-trade -- The souls of Black folk -- Dusk of dawn -- Essays and articles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 DUBSimons, Gerald.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1982
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORKyi, Tanya Lloyd
Summary: Surveys the history of human interactions with fire, from prehistoric times when controlling it made the difference between being predator or prey, to the present, and discusses its use in industry, communications, war, and other fields.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J 541.361 LLOBotting, Douglas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1983