Portis, Charles

Summary: "Charles Portis is now recognized as a singular American genius, a writer whose deadpan style, picaresque plots, and unforgettable characters have drawn a passionate following among readers and writers. 'His fiction,' Roy Blount Jr. has said, 'is the funniest I know.' Library of America now presents the definitive Portis collection, featuring all five of his novels -- Norwood (1966), The Dog...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POR

Chomsky, Noam.

Summary: In this collection of essays and lectures from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go unheeded. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CHO

Updike, John.

Summary: Eighteen essays of art criticism cover early American portraiture and landscape painting, late-nineteenth-century masters Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, and the work of such artists as James McNeill Whistler and Alfred Stieglitz.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 Updike

Summary: In this collection of 24 lectures (30 min. each), 12 masters lecture on the basics of operating a camera, the elements of a photograph and composition and lighting, as well as analyzing real-life photo opportunities and selecting and preparing photographs for photographic essays.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 770 MAS

Barnes, Julian

Summary: "An extraordinary collection--hawk-eyed and understanding--from the Booker Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life. As Julian Barnes explains: "Flaubert believed that...great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting....But it is a rare picture that stuns,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knope 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 BAR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 709.03 BAR

Masters, Nathan

Summary: "The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down. Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era's greatest political fiasco--one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 MAS

Masters, Tess

Summary: "The debut cookbook from the powerhouse blogger behind theblendergirl.com, featuring 100 gluten-free, vegan recipes for smoothies, meals, and more made quickly and easily in a blender. What's your perfect blend? On her wildly popular recipe blog, Tess Masters--aka, The Blender Girl--shares easy plant-based recipes that anyone can whip up fast in a blender. Tess's lively, down-to-earth approach...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5893 MAS