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Amish letters 2 Friendship letters 2 Hollywood theater of the ear Library of America 380 Library of America ; 110 Library of America ; 125 Library of America ; 370 Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story 18 Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story 19Hammett, Dashiell
Summary: Collects all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring Continental Op, the hardworking private eye with an unyielding personal code.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMHammett, Dashiell
Summary: A collection of stories about Hammett's famous detective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1974
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1988
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Summary: Presents two previously unpublished novellas featuring Nick and Nora Charles that became the basis for the 1930s films "After the Thin Man" and "Another Thin Man."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMHammett, Dashiell
Summary: Sam Spade's partner is murdered while working on a case, and it is Spade's responsibility to find the killer. In his search, Spade runs mortal risks as he comes closer to the answer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAMHammett, Dashiell
Summary: In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American life. In this volume, The Library of America collects the finest of these stories: 24 in all, along with some revealing essays and an earlier version...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001
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Summary: Presents five novels by Dashiell Hamilton, all published between 1929 and 1934.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1999
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Summary: The thin man: Nick and Nora Charles, New York's coolest crime-solving couple, are caught in a complicated web of confused identities and cold-blooded murder when a pretty blonde asks for help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick's client.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AudioGO 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1999
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Summary: A murder involves Sam Spade in a dangerous search for a valuable statue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HAMSummary: In the 1960s a number of gifted writers--some at the peak of their careers, others newcomers--reimagined American crime fiction through formal experimentation and the exploration of audacious new subjects and themes. This is the first of two volumes gathering the best of their work, nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2023
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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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Summary: Doretta Schwartz used to be so happy and passed her positive attitude along to friends in several letters she wrote each month. But that all changed the day she learned of her fiancé's death and a heavy weight of depression fell upon her. Feeling empty, she puts away her letter writing and won't even respond to calls from friends. William's twin brother, Warren, is also grieving his loss, while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barbour Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUOates, Joyce Carol
Summary: An anthology of short fiction selected by the author herself features selections from "The Wheel of Love," "Marriages and Infidelities," and "Heat," as well as nine previously unpublished works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OATSummary: Selected war time short stories read aloud by an assortment of distinguished actors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Night the ghost got in / James Thurber ; read by Isaiah Sheffer (11:50) -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton ; read by Maria Tucci (23:12) -- Mak westing / Jack London ; read by Steven Gilborn (19:41) -- Rocking-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence ; read by John Shea (38:11) -- Lottery / Shirley Jackson ; read by Marian Seldes (21:21) -- Most dangerous game / Richard Connell ; read by Charles Keating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELFuller, Kathleen
Summary: "Bestselling Amish author Kathleen Fuller returns to beloved Birch Creek and explores the power of letters and the joy of true love"-- Roman is on the verge of leaving the Amish ways; he longs to do something more with his life. When his prospects outside of the community dwindle, he decides to reconcile with his brother in Birch Creek, the last wish of his beloved grandmother, from her final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FULContents: Disc 1. I am not a Jew (23:05) / John Biguenet ; read by David Strathairn -- Devotion (39:34) / Adam Haslett ; read by John Shea -- Disc 2. The worm in the apple (14:43) / John Cheever ; read by Anne Meara -- Mother's son (41:32) / Tessa Hadley ; read by Shohreh Aghdashloo -- Disc 3. Sarah's story (30:10) / Galina Vromen ; read by Jane Curtin -- Draft day (28:37) / Rattawut Lapcharoensap ; read...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELContents: Disc 1: Subsoil / Nicholson Baker ; read by Thomas Gibson -- Farrell's caddy / John Updike ; read by Charles Keating -- Disc 2: Jamaica / David Schickler ; read by Isaiah Sheffer -- Chivalry / Neil Gaiman ; read by Christina Pickles -- Disc 3. Nachman from Los Angeles / Leonard Michaels ; read by David Rakoff -- On the U.S.S. Fortitude / Ron Carlson ; read by Laura Esterman -- Fatso / Etgar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2004