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A Harvest bookStein, Gertrude
Summary: "Stein's most famous work; one of the richest and most irreverent biographies ever written, now illustrated by Maira Kalman"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TOKLAS, ALICE B. STELeland, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 LELWhite, Edmund
Summary: The book's title evokes the Parisian landscape in the eternal mists and the half-light, the serenity of the city compared to the New York White had known (and vividly recalled in City Boy).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, EDMUND WHISteig, William
Summary: A peak at the life of William Steig in 1916 when he was a young boy living in the Bronx.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Joanna Cotler Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC STEHeyman, Stephen
Summary: "How a literary idol of the Lost Generation launched America's organic and sustainable food movement. In interwar France, Louis Bromfield was equally famous as a writer and as a gardener. He pruned dahlias with Edith Wharton, weeded Gertrude Stein's vegetable patch, and fed the starving artists who flocked to his farmhouse outside Paris. His best-selling novels earned him a Pulitzer-and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROMFIELD, LOUIS HEYHemingway, Valerie
Summary: Irish reporter Valerie Hemingway chronicles the years she spent as a personal secretary and confidante to Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Mary, and her eventual marriage to Hemingway's estranged son, Gregory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 813.52 HEMBeston, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630 BESWolcott, James
Summary: ""How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell." That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and having no idea what was about to hit him. Landing at a time of accelerating municipal squalor and, paradoxically,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOLCOTT, JAMES WOLSanders, Scott R. (Scott Russell)
Summary: Writing from the Center is about one very fine writer's quest for a meaningful and moral life. The center he seeks and describes is geographical, emotional, artistic, and spiritual - and it is rooted in place. The geography is midwestern, the impulses are universal. Where and how do we find meaning? Where does a writer find inspiration? How can personal, artistic, family, and community needs be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 SANSindelar, Nancy W.
Contents: Early influences: people, places and lifelong pursuits -- Demonstrating awareness of the world beyond Oak Park -- "Afraid of nothing" -- Escape to war -- Settling down -- Departure to sun valley -- Places of the soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST SINWhite, Edmund
Summary: "City Boy" tells the story of White's years in 1970s New York, bouncing from intellectual encounters with Susan Sontag and Harold Brodkey to his erotic entanglements downtown to the city's burgeoning gay scene of artists and writers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITE, EDMUND WHIAbbey, Edward
Summary: Long considered an underground classic, The Journey Home stands beside Desert Solitude as one of Abbey's most important works. In a voice edged with chagrin, Abbey offers a portrait of the American West that readers will not soon forget, presenting the reflections and observations of a man who left the urban world behind in pursuit of the natural one and the myths buried therein.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 ABBWoodside, Christine
Summary: "Drawing on original manuscripts and letters, Woodside shows how Rose reshaped her mother's story into a series of heroic tales that rebutted the policies of the New Deal. Their secret collaboration would lead in time to their estrangement. This fascinating look at the relationship between two strong-willed women is also the deconstruction of an American myth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 WOOLisick, Beth
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReganBooks 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LISICK, BETH LISWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: Articles and fictional works by Laura Ingalls Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, some of which were published in magazines of an earlier era, create a chronological account of their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Library 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WILHouston, Pam
Summary: "'How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us,' Pam Houston writes. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, this beloved writer learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUSTON, PAM HOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HOUSTON HOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio HoustonWoodside, Christine
Summary: "Generations of children have fallen in love with the pioneer saga of the Ingalls family, of Pa and Ma, Laura and her sisters, and their loyal dog, Jack. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have taught millions of Americans about frontier life, giving inspiration to many and in the process becoming icons of our national identity. Yet few realize that this cherished bestselling series...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOOMcDowell, Marta
Summary: "This lushly illustrated book from bestselling author Marta McDowell examines Laura Ingalls Wilder's relationship to the landscape and illuminates how it inspired the beloved Little House Books" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOVFraser, Caroline
Summary: "This book, written by the editor of the Library of America edition of the Little House books, is a thoroughly researched biography of not only Laura Ingalls Wilder, but of her daughter, Rose. Using unpublished manuscripts, letters, financial records, and more, Fraser gives fresh insight into the life of a woman beloved to many. Intensively researched, this is definitely a fascinating read, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDER, LAURA INGALLS FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B WILDER FRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio WilderManchester, William
Summary: "In this intensely powerful memoir, biographer-historian William Manchester looks back at his own early life. The memoir offers a firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific: what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.5483 MANGould, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 GOUMayes, Frances.
Summary: From her years as a spirited, secretive child, through her university studies--a period of exquisite freedom that imbued her with a profound appreciation of friendship and a love of travel--to her escape to a new life in California, Frances Mayes exuberantly recreates the intense relationships of her past, recounting the bitter and sweet stories of her complicated family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MAYES, FRANCES MAYConroy, Pat
Summary: A powerful and intimate memoir by the beloved best-selling author of The Prince of Tides about his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, and a re-affirmation that love can conquer even the meanest of men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013