Stafford, Jean
Summary: This volume collects for the first time the complete stories of a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the form, a writer acclaimed for her acute psychological insight, exacting eye for detail, and mordant sensibility. Set in New England, Colorado, New York, and Europe, Jean Stafford’s stories intimately examine the lives of women and men beset by restlessness, dislocation, and isolation. “The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 STAStafford, Jean
Summary: Boston Adventure follows Sonia Marburg, the daughter of immigrant parents, as she seeks to escape her impoverished childhood by becoming the secretary-companion of the socially prominent Lucy Pride. The novel won praise for its perceptive satire of upper-class Boston society, while Stafford's portrayal of the inner life of her protagonist drew comparisons to Henry James and Marcel Proust. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAPortis, 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 PORSartre, Jean-Paul
Summary: "Here in one volume is a unique, essential overview of the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 194 SARFischer, Jean
Summary: This collection of 100 extraordinary stories of women of faith--from the Bible, history, and today--will empower them to know and understand how women have made a difference in the world and how much smaller our faith (and the biblical record) would be without them. Featuring full-page, colorful illustrations alongside the true stories of amazing women like Lydia, Naomi, Rahab, Rebekah, Jane...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shiloh Kidz, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc. 2018
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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 BUTBecker, Jean
Summary: "As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency, including being at his side when he died and subsequently facing the challenge-and great honor-of being in charge of his state funeral. Full of heart and wisdom, THE MAN I KNEW is a vibrant behind-the-scenes look into the ups and downs of heading up the office of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2021
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Summary: Twelve short stories feature an array of female narrators who experience the transition from youthful innocence to experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2007
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Summary: This collection contains more than 30 enthralling new retellings of favorite myths as well as some you might not have heard before! Including Theseus and the Minotaur, The Twelve Labours of Herakles, and the escapades of Jason and the Argonauts, each myth is told in engaging modern language, which is easy for children to understand yet still retains the humor and intrigue of the original tales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Summary: As a teenager, Katharine leaves her beloved Spain, land of olive groves and soaring cathedrals, for the drab, rainy island of England. There she is married to the king's eldest son, Arthur, a sickly boy who dies six months after the wedding. Katharine is left a widow who was never truly a wife, lonely in a strange land, with a very bleak future. Her only hope of escape is to marry the king's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PLAKellis, Jan Stafford
Summary: In her mid-forties, Jan found herself at a crossroads when her orderly life drifted off course. A devastating divorce and a sudden death in the family made her realize it was time to make her dreams of road-tripping around the USA come true. Part memoir, part travel guide, and part inspirational push, this is the true story of how one woman reclaimed happiness on her own terms. Ride shotgun...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Myrno Moss Perspectives 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KELLIS, JAN STAFFORD KELShepherd, Jean.
Contents: The grandstand passion play of Delbert and the Bumpus hounds -- County fair! -- Scut Farkas and the murderous Mariah -- Ollie Hopnoodle's haven of bliss -- The star-crossed romance of Josephine Cosnowski -- Daphne Bigelow and the spine-chilling saga of the snail-encrusted tinfoil noose -- The return of the smiling Wimpy doll -- Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEEisenberg, Deborah.
Summary: Presents a collection of short stories that portray contemporary American life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EISShepherd, Jean.
Contents: The grandstand passion play of Delbert and the Bumpus hounds.--County fair!--Scut Farkas and the murderous Mariah.--Ollie Hopnoodle's haven of bliss.--The star-crossed romance of Josephine Cosnowski.--Daphne Bigelow and the spine-chilling saga of the snail-encrusted tinfoil noose.--The return of the smiling Wimpy doll.--Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1971
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHETwenge, Jean M.
Summary: A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another--from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.2 TWEShepherd, Jean.
Contents: A fistful of fig newtons, or The shootout in room 303 -- The light at the end of the tunnel -- The mole people battle the forces of darkness -- Marcel Proust meets the New Jersey tailgater, and survives -- The marathon run of Lonesome Ernie, the Arkansas Traveler -- Sociology 101 (Hip Division) -- Lemons on the grass, alas -- The lost civilization of Deli -- The whole fun catalog of 1929 --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEThompson, Jean
Summary: "Do Not Deny Me is a fictional primer of how Americans live day to day: Thompson's characters -- a middle manager in the midst of a midlife crisis, an urban single visiting her best friend turned suburban mother, a grieving woman looking for guidance -- are instantly recognizable in their predicaments, foibles, and sensibilities."--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOClark, Karla (Karla Jean)
Summary: In this collection of rhyming stories, children conquer their fears and find inner strength during a nighttime thunderstorm, the first day of school, and a doctor's visit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rise x Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CLABernard, Jean
Contents: In prison -- Arrival at Dachau -- The first two weeks -- In the main camp -- First mass in the camp -- Recollections from the first few months -- The "good times" come to an end -- Winter approaches -- Christmas 1941 -- Ten days' leave and my return to Dachau -- "Transport commando Praezifix" -- Easter week 1942 -- Hunger -- Visitors in the camp -- At the end of our strength -- The infirmary --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zaccheus Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BERBarthelme, Donald
Summary: "This comprehensive gathering highlights Barthelme's unique approach to fiction: his upside-down worlds that are nonetheless grounded in fundamental human truths; his scrambled visions of history that yield unexpected insights; and his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, "the central principle of all art in the twentieth century"..."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARLamarre, Jean
Contents: Quebec in the nineteenth century -- The development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914 -- French Canadian migration to the Saginaw Valley, 1840-1900 -- French Canadian migration to the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.499 LAMFaulkner, William
Summary: "William Faulkner called the short story "the most demanding form after poetry." The fifty-four stories gathered here show him not only mastering the form but revolutionizing its possibilities, distilling an epic breadth of vision into narratives that conjure an intimate sense of place and the abiding presence of history and legend. Library of America caps its Faulkner edition with this volume...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC FAUJean, Wyclef.
Contents: Disc 1. CD: Intro ; Industry ; Party to Damascus (feat. Missy Elliott) ; Celebrate (feat. Patti LaBelle & Cassidy) ; Baby Daddy (feat. Redman) ; Three nights in Rio (feat. Carlos Santana) ; Class reunion (feat. Monica) ; Baby ; I am your doctor (feat. Wayne Wonder & Elephant Man) ; Linda (feat. Carl Restivo) ; Take me as I am (feat. Sharissa) ; Grateful ; Next generation (feat. Scarface & Rah...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J Records 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2000