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African American authors Correspondence American fiction American fiction 20th century Authors, American 20th century Correspondence Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896-1940 Impressionism (Art) Kissinger, Henry 1923- Novelists, American 20th century Correspondence Poets, American 20th century Correspondence United StatesHemingway, Ernest
Summary: "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway documents the life and creative development of a gifted artist and outsized personality whose work would both reflect and transform his times. Volume 2 (1923-1925) illuminates Hemingway's literary apprenticeship in the legendary milieu of expatriate Paris in the 1920s. We witness the development of his friendships with the likes of Sylvia Beach, F. Scott...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge Univ Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST HEMHemingway, Ernest
Summary: The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 3: 1926-1929, featuring many previously unpublished letters, follows a rising star as he emerges from the literary Left Bank of Paris and moves into the American mainstream. Maxwell Perkins, legendary editor at Scribner's, nurtured the young Hemingway's talent, accepting his satirical novel Torrents of Spring (1926) in order to publish what would become a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST HEMHughes, Langston
Summary: "This unprecedented collection of Langston Hughes's letters is arranged by decades, with helpful interstitial material and notes throughout to guide us through Hughes's journey in all its aspects: literary, personal, political, practical. His correspondents include such luminaries as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Ezra Pound, Countee Cullen, Paul Robeson, and Richard Wright. The letters tell...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, LANGSTON HUGMrozek, David J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcadia Pub. 2008
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI History MrozekKerouac, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEROUAC, JACK KERHemingway, Ernest
Summary: "This volume brings together work from the extraordinary period of 1918 to 1926, in which Hemingway's famous prose style became fully formed. It includes his work for the Toronto Star and Hearst's International News Service, the indelible stories of In Our Time (1925), The Torrents of Spring (1925), and his masterpiece, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Edited by Hemingway scholar Robert W. Trogdon,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMMiller, Arthur
Summary: A collection of some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's most definitive works includes "All My Sons," "Death of a Salesman," "The Crucible," "A View from the Bridge," and five additional plays.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.52 MILPercy, Walker
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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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 CRAFrost, Robert
Contents: Volume 1. 1886-1920
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 FROFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: "It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel--for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITHughes, Langston
Summary: Presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between poet Langston Hughes and his mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5209 HUGKagan, Robert
Summary: "A comprehensive, sweeping history of America's rise to global superpower--a follow up to the author's acclaimed first volume, from our nation's earliest days to the dawn of the twentieth century"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 KAGWard, Ed
Summary: "Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this ... narrative--from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the first independent record labels post-World War II, and concluding in December 1963, just as an immense change in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 WARFerguson, Niall
Summary: A definitive portrait of the American statesman, based on unprecedented access to his private papers, challenges common misconceptions to trace Kissinger's beliefs to philosophical idealism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KISSINGER, HENRY FERContents: Introduction -- Season in New York -- Season in Chicago -- Deburau / by Sacha Guitry -- First year / by Frank Craven -- Enter Madame / by Gilda Varesi and Dolly Byrne -- Green goddess / by William Archer -- Liliom / by Frank Molnar -- Mary Rose / by J.M. Barrie -- Nice people / by Rachel Crothers -- Bad man / by Porter Emerson Browne -- Emperor Jones / by Eugene G. O'Neill -- Skin game / by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small, Maynard, & Co. 1921
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESColbert, Brandy
Summary: "In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 976.6 COLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 976.6 COLGriffith, Elisabeth
Summary: "The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 GRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.42 GRIRoosevelt, Theodore
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cooper Square Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOReynolds, Nicholas E
Summary: A former CIA officer and curator of the CIA Museum reveals the untold story of Ernest Hemingway's secret life as a spy for both the Americans and Soviets before and during World War II, and explores how his espionage activities influenced his literary work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST REYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HEMINGWAY REYMailer, 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 MAIContents: pt. 1. Impressionism in France / by Peter H. Feist -- pt. 2. Impressionism in Europe and North America / by Beatrice von Bismarck ... [et al.].
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 2000
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Summary: Highlights some of the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution who made an impact during the suffrage era. Book published to accompany an exhibit by the same name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 2019