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Baldwin, James Bradbury, Ray Chase-Riboud, Barbara Hamilton, Alexander Stoneham, DonnaSummary: A collection of letters--to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 RADBaldwin, James
Summary: The story of the friendship between writer Baldwin and editor Stein describes the early days of their life-long companionship in their North Bronx high school and their shared literary endeavors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BALChase-Riboud, Barbara
Summary: "American artist, poet, and novelist Barbara Chase-Riboud (b. 1939), has had an unusually varied and highly successful career across genres and media. As a poet, her work was edited by Toni Morrison and she is a recipient of the Carl Sandburg Prize. As a fiction writer, she was edited by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and her first historical novel, Sally Hemings (1979) was a bestseller. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 921 CHASE-RIBOUD, BARBARA CHASummary: "The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration Edited with an Introduction by Frank Abe and Floyd Cheung TARGET CONSUMER: Readers of They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, No No Boy by John Okada, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown, When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka, and Only What We Could Carry by Lawson Fusao Inada The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2024
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Summary: "A healing balm for anyone recovering from loss, Catch Me When I Fall reveals how our grief journeys can be a powerful transformative force. Through the conversations between mother and daughter that take place in this moving collection of poems and letters, we are provided with the opportunity to explore a beautiful notion: as long as we keep our hearts open to the mystery and power of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "As these poetic, innocent, funny, and wise letters make clear, kids today are striving, in ways Dr. King might not have foreseen, to make their dream come true."--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.092 DEABradbury, Ray
Summary: Bradbury scholar and biographer Jonathan R. Eller offers the first sustained look at Ray Bradbury's life in letters from his late teens to his ninth decade. Bradbury's correspondence was far-reaching--he interacted with a rich cross section of 20th-century cultural figures, writers, film directors, editors, and others who simply wanted insights or encouragement from a writer who had enriched...
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Publisher / Publication Date: illustrations, portraits 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRADBURY, RAY BRAHamilton, Alexander
Summary: The smash-hit musical Hamilton presents its central character as a truth-telling immigrant boot-strapper who used his extraordinary intelligence to make good--but what was he really like? Let the man himself, a prolific and extremely effective writer, tell his story in his own words. Organized chronologically, this collection of Alexander Hamilton's personal letters, business and governmental...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2016