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Autobiographies. bibliography Biographies. biography essay Essays Essays. Literary collections. Novels.Shapland, Jenn
Summary: "From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining capitalism's toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking. When she receives a dermatological diagnosis of extreme sensitivity--thin skin-Jenn Shapland considers just how thin the barrier is between herself and the world, and how deeply vulnerable we all are to our surroundings. As she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SHADidion, Joan
Summary: This second volume in Library of America's definitive Didion edition includes two novels and three remarkable essay collections with which she extended the compass of the extraordinary journalistic eye first developed in the celebrated books Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album. Gather here are Salvador, a searing look at terror and Cold War politics in the Central American civil war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 DIDDidion, Joan
Summary: "From the universally acclaimed, best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 DIDSoriano, Jen
Summary: The power of quiet can haunt us over generations, crystallizing in pain that Jen Soriano views as a form of embodied history. In this searing memoir in essays, Soriano, the daughter of a neurosurgeon, journeys to understand the origins of her chronic pain and mental health struggles. By the end, she finds both the source and the delta of what bodies impacted by trauma might need to thrive. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SORIANO, JEN SORDidion, Joan
Summary: "Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. Now Library of America launches its multi-volume edition of Didion's collected writings, prepared in consultation with the author, that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 DIDJames, Evan
Summary: "From the award-winning essayist and author of the novel Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe comes a moving and unforgettable essay collection about his travels around the globe as he reflects on the power and complexity of human relationships. From the award-winning essay "Lover's Theme," in which Evan James explores the life of a drag queen in San Francisco, to his poignant story of coming out in "One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 JAMMorris, Jan
Summary: "Jan Morris (1926-2020), the world-renowned writer, delivers her final volume, brimming with vibrant reminiscenses, meditations on daily life, and mini-essays on everything from maturity to whistling to Princess Diana. Not so long ago, feeling intimations of mortality, Jan Morris embarked on a wholly novel literary enterprise. What began as a series of high-minded letters to her late...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORRIS, JAN MORVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "From its origins, the liberal doctrine has represented the most advanced forms of democratic culture, and it is what has most defended us from the inextinguishable "call of the tribe." This book hopes to make a modest contribution to that indispensable task. In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.51 VARSummary: Presents a collection of the year's best essays as selected by author and critic Vivian Gornick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023