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(Fictitious character) Doctor Authors, American 20th century Biography Essays Mexican Americans Mexican Americans Literary collections Mississippi Social life and customs Science fiction Southern States Social life and customs Fiction Welty, Eudora 1909-2001 Authorship Welty, Eudora 1909-2001 Childhood and youthSummary: "In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 TALLiu, Cixin
Summary: A View from the Stars is a collection of short fiction and nonfiction pieces from Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem. Included are essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writier, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR Publishing Group 2024
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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 STATubb, Kristin O'Donnell
Summary: Twelve-year-old Viviani Fedeler, proud resident of the New York Public Library, has her sights set on becoming a star reporter. She's thrilled when Miss Hutch announces a story contest where the winner gets their essay printed in the New York Times! But then Viviani gets her first-ever case of writer's block. As she struggles to find inspiration, the library is hit with a strange mystery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TUBSummary: "The Pushcart Prize is the only annual anthology to exclusively showcase the very best writing from America's alternative literary presses. Each year contributing editors, whose ranks include the most important writers of today, along with hundreds of small presses, nominate thousands of stories, poems, essays and memoirs for inclusion in Pushcart's collection. This unique submissions process...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pushcart Prize Fellowships 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUSTwain, Mark
Contents: The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County -- The story of the old ram -- What stumped the Bluejays -- Tom Quartz -- Cannibalism in the cars -- The facts in the great beef contract -- Journalism in Tennessee -- Punch, brothers, punch -- The McWilliamses with Membranous Croup -- The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sound Room Publishers, Inc. 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TWAKeegan, Marina
Summary: "An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.609 KEEMiles, Lawrence.
Summary: Written by Lawrence Miles ("Faction Paradox") and long-time sci-fi commentator Tat Wood, "About Time" focuses on the continuity of "Doctor Who" (its characters, alien races and the like), but also examines the show as a work of social commentary. In particular, Miles and Wood dissect the politics and social issues that shaped the show during its unprecedented 26-year run (from 1963 to 1989),...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Norwegian Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 DOCChandler, Raymond
Summary: Later Novels and Other Writings begins with The Lady in the Lake (1943). Written during the war, the story takes Marlowe out of the seamy L.A. streets to the deceptive tranquility of the surrounding mountains, as the search for a businessman's missing wife expands into an elegy of loneliness and loss. The darker tone typical of Chandler's later fiction is evident in The Little Sister (1949), in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1995
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC CHANDPortis, 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 PORCornwell, Bernard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORWelty, Eudora
Summary: "Stories, Essays, and Memoir" contains all of Welty's collected short stories, her first book, "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories" (1941), stories based on her travels, and the ever-popular memoir, "One Writer's Beginnings" (1984).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 WEL1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEL
Summary: "An anthology of short stories, essays, poetry, and comics about the Mexican American experience"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books, an imprint of Random House LLC 2021