Vonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: ..."The final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success. Now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent. In Hocus Pocus (1990), a freewheeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONVeidlinger, Jeffrey
Summary: "From an award-winning historian, the first full depiction of the wave of anti-Jewish pogroms that followed the Russian Revolution and how they laid the groundwork for the Holocaust. Includes illustrations and maps"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.892 VEIGinsberg, Allen
Summary: From one of America's great poets--a cultural icon who changed the course of American poetry as well as several generations' view of the world--comes this singular volume of final poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFlamingo 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GINSummary: Moving roughly chronologically, An Anthology of Chinese Literature gathers texts according to genres, themes, forms, and other groupings to show the way essential texts build off one another and how the tradition echoes itself. Including a range of forms - songs, letters, anecdotes, stories, plays, political oratory, traditional literary theory, and more - the anthology's innovative structure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 895.108 ANTDinesen, Isak
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 839.8137 DINTwain, Mark
Summary: Collection of Mark Twain's works over the last nineteen years of his life including a chronology of his life and career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1992
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814.4 TWACall number: 818.4 TWA
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 GINHochschild, Adam.
Summary: Presents a history of World War I, focusing on the moral conflict between the proponents of the war and its critics in Great Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.341 HOCGibbs-Smith, C H
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Publisher / Publication Date: NMSI Trading Ltd. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.13 GIBNicolson, Juliet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.083 NICDos Passos, John
Summary: "John Dos Passos traveled widely in Europe, the Middle East, Mexico, and the United States, witnessing many of the tumultuous political, social, and cultural events of the early 20th century and recording his changing response to them. This volume collects the vibrant and insightful travel books and essays he wrote at the same time he was publishing his fictional masterpieces Three Soldiers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5208 DOSAnderson, Godfrey J.
Summary: Contains the graphic story of a young Michigan soldier's experiences during President Woodrow Wilson's ill-fated 1918 military expedition against the Bolsheviks in the frozen reaches of northern Russia. --from publisher description
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Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 ANDERSON, GODFREY J. ANDShprintzen, Adam D.
Summary: Vegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years of the movement have been woefully misunderstood and understudied. Through the Civil War, the vegetarian movement focused on social and political reform, but by the late nineteenth century, the movement became a path for personal strength and success in a newly individualistic,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.262 SHPHess, Barbara.
Contents: Willem de Kooning: An Erasure 6 -- From Rotterdam to New York 10 -- De Kooning's Women: Scandal and Success 30 -- De Kooning in East Hampton: Almost a Pastorale 50 -- Launching into the Third Dimension: Sculptures 62 -- Between Remembering and Forgetting: Late Paintings, the 1970s and 1980s 72.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.3 HESSchlögel, Karl
Summary: "The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least int he material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look. fell smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world's leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 947.084 SCHMichigan Genealogical Council
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Michigan Genealogical Council] 1997
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3774 WesternWilson, Richard Guy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brooklyn Museum in association with Abrams 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.2 WILBaker, Nicholson.
Summary: Joseph Pulitzer's New York World flourished at the turn of the twentieth century, and out of it grew what we think of as the modern daily paper. The World was famous for muckraking and sensationalism, but to a contemporary eye what is most striking about the paper (and in particular its Sunday edition) is that it was filled with colorful art--caricatures, full-page cartoons, disaster drawings,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bulfinch Press 2005
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 071.471 BAKBrendon, Piers.
Summary: After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared doomed. But over the next 150 years it grew to become the greatest and most diverse empire the world has ever seen--from Canada to Australia to China, India, and Egypt--seven times larger than the Roman Empire at its apogee. Yet it was also fundamentally weak, as Piers Brendon shows in this panoramic chronicle. Run from a tiny island...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.0971 BRERichardson, John
Summary: A comprehensive biography of Spanish painter and sculptor, Pablo Picasso, that chronicles his life and works from the time he left Paris in 1917 to 1932, the artist's fiftieth birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RICZelikow, Philip
Summary: "During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the end of 1916 would have saved millions of lives and changed the course of history utterly. Two yearsinto the most terrible conflict the world had ever known, the warring powers faced a crisis. There were no good military options. Money, men,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 ZELHerman, Arthur
Summary: "How did two men move the world away from wars for land and treasure to wars over ideas and ideologies--a change that would go on to kill millions? In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson--champion of American democracy but also of segregation, advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice--thrust the United States into the First World War in order to make the 'world safe for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: When we left Stalin at the end of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928, it was 1928, and he had finally climbed the mountaintop and achieved dictatorial power of the Soviet empire. The vastest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, or what Stalin believed it took, was the most relentless campaign of shock industrialization...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STALIN, JOSEPH KOTRichardson, John
Summary: This volume reveals the young artist Pablo Picasso in the somewhat rebellious role of "the painter of modern life", a role that stipulated the brothel as the noblest subject for a modern artist. Hence his great breakthrough painting, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, " with which this book opens. As well as portraying Picasso as a revolutionary, Richardson analyzes the more compassionate side of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007