Charyn, Jerome
Summary: ""Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer--so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible."-- Tom Bissell Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon- to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Charyn 2019Summary: Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the status quo. This program profiles the careers and the potential of literary artists at the forefront of the region's emerging narrative trends. Addressing the influence of the Crack Movement and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the status quo. This program profiles the careers and the potential of literary artists at the forefront of the region's emerging narrative trends. Addressing the influence of the Crack Movement and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown.
Summary: Examines the history, evolution, and culture of the American Indians, discussing both oral and written literature.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 RUOSummary: Collects original comic strips from American authors and illustrators published in 2009 in graphic novels, newspapers, magazines, and on the Internet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BESContents: A cartoon odyssey / J. Arthur Wood, Jr. -- A brief history of American cartooning / Harry Katz -- Cartoon connoisseurship: what makes a great cartoon great? / Alan Fern -- Honore Daumier and censorship / Judith Wechsler -- An explosion of color: the age of the chromolithographic weekly / Richard West -- Posada, printmaker to the Mexican people / Ron Tyler -- The yellow kid / Jerry Robinson --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CARSummary: Best American Comics 2016 showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, minicomics, and the Web to make a collection that is full of varied, provocative feats of cartooning.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BESSummary: The Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors and highlights both fiction and nonfiction from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, in galleries, minicomics, and the web.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BESSummary: The writings of Carlos Fuentes-a Mexican novelist and playwright who combines a deep awareness of history and national identity with experimental narrative techniques to develop his themes-have had a powerful effect on contemporary Latin American literature. In this program, Fuentes, the son of a diplomat, discusses subjects such as the influence of politics on his life, his deep feelings for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The writings of Carlos Fuentes-a Mexican novelist and playwright who combines a deep awareness of history and national identity with experimental narrative techniques to develop his themes-have had a powerful effect on contemporary Latin American literature. In this program, Fuentes, the son of a diplomat, discusses subjects such as the influence of politics on his life, his deep feelings for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In the first decades of the 20th century, Brazilian avant-garde literature came into its own. This program examines the awakening of Modernismo and subsequent movements in Brazilian letters, from Sao Paulo's Week of Modern Art in 1922 to the politically focused milieu of the 1970s. Outlining historical events that helped shape the country's multifaceted culture, the program explores the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Levy, Janey
Summary: "It's something many Americans are certain is a solid fact: Columbus discovered America. But it's not true. First, Columbus never landed on the North American mainland. And second, how can someone "discover" a place that's already home to millions of people? In this lively and engaging book, readers will uncover the truth behind many myths about explorers in the Americas. Accessible text...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.01 LEVSummary: In the first decades of the 20th century, Brazilian avant-garde literature came into its own. This program examines the awakening of Modernismo and subsequent movements in Brazilian letters, from Sao Paulo's Week of Modern Art in 1922 to the politically focused milieu of the 1970s. Outlining historical events that helped shape the country's multifaceted culture, the program explores the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Unified by the Portuguese language, the literature of Brazil represents the cultural synthesis of three distinct influences: indigenous peoples, European emigres, and Africans brought to the New World as slaves. This program reflects on those influences as it examines the first five centuries of recorded Brazilian writing. With an overview of ancient folklore and verse, the program highlights...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Unified by the Portuguese language, the literature of Brazil represents the cultural synthesis of three distinct influences: indigenous peoples, European emigres, and Africans brought to the New World as slaves. This program reflects on those influences as it examines the first five centuries of recorded Brazilian writing. With an overview of ancient folklore and verse, the program highlights...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Holley, Santi Elijah
Summary: "A history of the rise and lasting impact of Black liberation groups in America, as seen through the Shakurs, one of the movement's most prominent and fiercely creative families, home to Tupac and Assata, and a powerful incubator for today's activism, scholarship, and artistry"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 HOLWachtell, Cynthia
Summary: Until now, scholars have portrayed America's antiwar literature as an outgrowth of World War I, manifested in the works of writers such as Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. But in War No More, Cynthia Wachtell corrects the record by tracing the steady and inexorable rise of antiwar writing in American literature from the Civil War to the eve of World War I.-publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.9358 WACLindop, Edmund.
Summary: Discusses the political, economic, social, cultural, and technology landscape of the United States in the fifth decade of the 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2010
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Summary: "Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to 'ride Jim Crow' on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 THAAmara, Philip.
Summary: Presents a step-by-step guide to creating, publishing and marketing comic books, including developing compelling characters, approaching publishers, and adapting storylines for video games and movies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 743.4 AMASummary: By the 1960s, Latin America's avant-garde movements had matured into a range of literary styles that were firmly entrenched in the cultural landscape. At the same time, there emerged a new and distinctive accent to Latin American literature that was no less authentic than its forebears. This program surveys the artistic phenomenon, manifested most notably in magical realism, that came to be...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Contents: One more day -- Gonna cry -- Thinking about you -- Whirlpool -- I can't make him look at me --tI made my choice -- Love has laid his hands on me -- Stupid cupid -- Another heart -- I heard somebody say -- (I'm watching) every little move you make -- One more time, encore une fois -- Alley oop -- U.S.A. -- Baby it's you -- You please me so -- Run for the sun -- It's not a game --tHe understands...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VARSummary: Isabel Allende, the most recent Latin American novelist to bestride the world literary stage-and the first Latin American woman-describes the emotions that inform her fiction and the events that set them in motion. Niece of the deposed (and presumably assassinated) Chilean Marxist president Salvador Allende, she fled Chile in terror and blossomed in exile to write of the love, hate, and revenge...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005