Contents: Marianne Moore -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Rebecca West -- Dorothy Parker -- P.L. Travers -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Euroda Welty -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Mary McCarthy -- Nadine Gordimer -- Maya Angelou -- Anne Sexton -- Toni Morrison -- Susan Sontag -- Joan Didion -- Joyce Carol Oates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.8928 WOMTarrant, Graham
Summary: "A light-hearted book about books and the people who write them for all lovers of literature. Do you know: Which famous author died of caffeine poisoning? Why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in China? Who was the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? What superstitions Truman Capote kept whenever he wrote? Who the other Winston Churchill was? A treasure trove of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 TARSummary: Toni Morrison exists in two worlds: the visible world, bustling around her, and the world of her novels, whose characters tell about an interior reality hidden from the eyes of strangers. In her work, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison has transported millions of readers into the experience of being black in America and confronting the realities of race. In this program with Bill Moyers, Morrison...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Contents: Dilbert, Oct. 8, 2001 / Scott Adams -- Jimmy Hoffa's Odyssey / Ai -- From: Before we were free / Julia Alvarez -- Confessions of a lonely atheist / Natalie Angier -- From: Timbuktu / Paul Auster -- Filthy with things / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- From: Sweet Summer / Bebe Moore Campbell -- What to do / Hayden Carruth -- From: Caramelo / Sandra Cisneros -- Mrs. Dutta writes a letter / Chitra...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 THIEvans, Diana
Summary: Hailed as "one of the most thrilling writers at work today" (Huffington Post), Diana Evans reaches new heights with her searing depiction of two couples struggling through a year of marital crisis. In a crooked house in South London, Melissa feels increasingly that she's defined solely by motherhood, while Michael mourns the former thrill of their romance. In the suburbs, Stephanie's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVAMasters At Work.
Contents: Thank you [maw mix] [mix] -- Boss [maw remix] -- Lean on me [maw mix] [mix] -- Backfired -- Voices in my mind [maw mix] [mix] -- Release [masters at work main mix] [mix] -- Nights over egypt [masters at work main mix] [mix] -- Runaway [original flava 12"] [version] -- Helpless (I don't know what to do without you] [the kenlou remix] -- Vip [masters at work vocal mix] [mix] -- I can't get no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imports 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MASGarner, Helen
Summary: "I pedal over to Kensington just after dark. As I roll along the lane towards the railway underpass, a young Asian woman on her way home from the station walks out of the tunnel towards me. After she passes there's a stillness, a moment of silent freshness that feels like spring." Helen Garner is one of Australia's greatest writers. Her short non-fiction has enormous range. Spanning fifteen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Text Publishing Company 2016
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Summary: Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside town, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-wife Julia. It's a picturesque village filled with vacationers and well-off locals, but there's something darker behind the scenes: a quietly, wildly successful business in human trafficking. Jackson's current job, gathering...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATKMorris, Mary McGarry.
Summary: Mary McGarry Morris has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most skillful writers at work in America today." In The Last Secret , she tells the riveting story of Nora Hammond, a woman blessed with the perfect life: a charming husband, two bright teenage children, a successful career in the family's newspaper business, and an esteemed role in the charity work of her New England...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2009
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McIlvain, Ryan
Summary: "An intimate, suspenseful, and provocative portrait of friendship and love at its limits, and a timely exploration of class tensions and corporate excess in America. When Eli first meets Sam Westergard, he is dazzled by his new friend's charisma, energy, and determined passion. Both graduate students in New York City, the two young men bond over their idealism, their love of poetry, and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCIBarry, Kevin
Summary: From the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone, a striking and gorgeous new novel of two aging criminals at the butt ends of their damage-filled careers. A superbly melancholic melody of a novel full of beautiful phrases and terrible men. In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2019