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Butler, Octavia E. Dos Passos, John James, Henry Leonard, Elmore O'Hara, John Updike, John.Summary: From crime stories in the classic hard-boiled style to the vividly experimental, from the determination of those risking everything to the desperation of those with nothing left to lose, Detroit Noir delivers unforgettable tales that capture the city's dark vitality -- From publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DETSummary: "Christmas took on its modern cast in America, and over the last 150 years the most magical time of the year has inspired scores of astonishingly diverse and ingenious stories. Library of America joins with acclaimed author Connie Willis to present a unparalleled collection of American stories about Christmas, literary gems that showcase how the holiday became one of the signature aspects of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMEUpdike, John.
Contents: Ace in the hole -- Friends from Philadelphia -- A game of Botticelli -- Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth -- Dentistry and doubt -- The kid's whistling -- Toward evening -- Snowing in Greenwich Village -- Who made yellow roses yellow? -- His finest hour -- Sunday teasing -- The lucid eye in silver town -- A trillion feet of gas -- Incest -- A gift from the city -- Intercession -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UPDJames, Henry
Contents: A tragedy of error. -- The story of a year. -- A landscape painter. -- A day of days. -- My friend Bingham. -- Poor Richard. -- The story of a masterpiece. -- The romance of certain old clothes. -- A most extraordinary case. -- A problem. -- De Grey: a romance. -- Osborne's revenge. -- A light man. -- Gabrielle de Bergerac. -- Travelling companions. -- A passionate pilgrim. -- At Isella. --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMLeonard, 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 LEOButler, Octavia E.
Summary: This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF BUTO'Hara, John
Summary: Writing with equal insight about New York City, Hollywood, and the small-town Pennsylvania world where he grew up, John O'Hara cultivated an unsentimental and often unsparing realism, aiming, he said, "to record the way people talked and thought and felt . . . with complete honesty." Praised by contemporaries including Ernest Hemingway and Dorothy Parker, he wrote about sex, drinking, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OHADos 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 DOSSummary: A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by National Book Award finalist Min Jin Lee and series editor Heidi Pitlor. Min Jin Lee, author of the highly acclaimed National Book Award Finalist Pachinko, selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BESSummary: Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: The smile on Happy Chang's face.--Until Gwen.--A taste of dust.--Old friends.--Eight pieces for the left hand.--Stone animals.--First four measures.--The scheme of things.--Silence.--Death defier.--The girls--Anda's game.--Simple exercises for the beginning student.--Old boys, old girls.--The secret goldfish.--The cousins.--Natasha.--Hart and boot.--Justice Shiva Ram Murthy.--Bohemians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2002