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Adams, John 1735-1826 Correspondence Adams, John 1735-1826 Diaries Authors, American 20th century Biography Conservationists United States Biography Short stories, American United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Sources United States Politics and government 1775-1783 United States Politics and government 1775-1783 Sources United States Politics and government 1783-1809 SourcesKeller, Helen
Summary: "A deluxe hardcover edition of Keller's classic memoir The Story of My Life--presented in complete and unredacted form--along with the brilliant, still-underappreciated personal essays of The World I Live In, in which Keller reflects on the senses, language, philosophy, dreams, and belief. Includes a selection of more than a dozen essays, speeches, and letters--most of them out-of-print,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2024
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Summary: ..."The final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success. Now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent. In Hocus Pocus (1990), a freewheeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONWelty, 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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Adams, Abigail
Summary: Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 ADARoth, Philip
Summary: "Throughout a unparalleled literary career that includes two National Book Awards (Goodbye, Columbus, 1959 and Sabbath's Theater, 1995), the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (American Pastoral, 1997), the National Book Critics Circle Award (The Counterlife, 1986), and the National Humanities Medal (awarded by President Obama in 2011), among many other honors, Philip Roth has produced an extraordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 ROTAdams, John
Summary: A powerful polemicist, insightful political theorist, and tireless diplomat, John Adams (1735–1826) was a vital and controversial figure during the early years of the American republic. Once overshadowed by Washington and Jefferson, Adams has become the subject of renewed interest, with a best-selling biography and acclaimed television series reintroducing him to millions. Now, this final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 ADADouglass, Frederick
Summary: Edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism. (A companion Library of America volume, Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies, gathers his three memoirs.) With startling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 DOUKingston, Maxine Hong
Summary: "The largest and most comprehensive edition of our foremost Asian American writer: three classic books and additional writings, many rare, that together offer a vivid and searching portrait of immigrant experience and American dreams"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 KINMaxwell, William
Contents: Bright center of heaven -- They came like swallows -- Stories 1938-1945: Homecoming ; Actual thing ; Young Francis Whitehead ; Haller's second home ; Patterns of love -- Folded leaf -- Time will darken it -- Stories 1952-1956: Trojan women ; Pilgrimage ; What every boy should know ; French scarecrow -- Writer as illusionist -- Appendix: Introduction to They came like swallows ; Preface to Time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXCatton, Bruce
Summary: An analysis of the Civil War focuses on Generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant, and discusses the final defeat of General Robert E. Lee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CATThomson, Virgil
Summary: "In this second volume in the Library of America's definitive Virgil Thomson edition, Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page collects for the first time the great composer's four witty, incisive, and compulsively readable full-length works. Written with authority and élan, these classic books offer an engrossing tour of the tumultuous twentieth-century musical scene and Thomson's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 THOAudubon, John James
Contents: Mississippi River journal -- From 1826 journal -- From Ornithological biography -- Delineations of American scenery and manners -- Missouri River journals -- Other writings -- Letters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.092 AUDMcCullers, Carson.
Summary: Celebrated worldwide for her masterly novels, Carson McCullerswas equally accomplished, and equally moving, when writingin shorter forms. This Library of America volume brings together for the first time her twenty extraordinary stories, along with plays, essays, memoirs, and poems. Here are the indelible tales Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland and A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud. as well as her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 MCCMuir, John
Summary: "In a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir made himself America's most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and a visionary prophet of environmental awareness, he was also a master of natural description who evoked with unique power and intimacy the untrammeled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 MUICopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC MuirSherman, William T 1820-1891
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 SHEWashington, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.41 WASWest, Nathanael
Summary: A collection of six works by Nathanael West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESSummary: This volume contains writings drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public documents, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda from more than 70 participants--American and British, Patriot and Loyalist, military and civilian. The writings describe the most dramatic events of the War of Independence: the early battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, the failed invasion...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 AMESummary: "Included are narratives by James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1772) and Olaudah Equiano (1789), who were taken from Africa as children and brought across the Atlantic to British North America. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) provides unique insight into the man who led the deadliest slave uprising in American history. The widely read narratives by the fugitive slaves Frederick Douglass...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SLABowles, Jane
Summary: Though Jane Bowles published only one novel, one play, and a handful ofstories, her genius for spare prose and vivid dialogue had an outsized influence onher contemporaries. Tennessee Williams called her "the most important writer ofprose fiction in modern American letters"; for John Ashbery she was "one of thefinest modern writers of fiction in any language." Now, on the occasion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 BOWLeopold, Aldo
Summary: A Sand County almanac is often hailed as a foundational work of the modern environmental movement. Here, it is paired with over fifty other pieces by Leopold: uncollected articles, essays, speeches, and other writings that chart the evolution of his ideas over the course of three decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.73 LEOMadison, James
Summary: "... contains 197 essays, addresses, speeches, private memoranda, and letters written between 1772 and 1836. Includes are all 29 of Madison's contributions to the Federalist ..."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.51 MADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: SC MadisonAdams, John
Summary: "Traces John Adams's career from his leading role in the debate over independence, [...] to his tireless efforts to establish the fledgling government of the United States and supply its army in the filed, to his crucial diplomatic service in Europe [...]. It includes his hightly influential 1776 pamphlet Thoughts on Government, dozens of his characteristically frank and revealing personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ADAHamilton, Alexander
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001