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Adams, John 1735-1826 Correspondence American poetry Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 American poetry Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 Broadway (New York, N.Y.) History Musicals Texts Musicals United States Musicals United States History and criticism Stories without words Ward, Lynd 1905-1985 Wood-engraving, AmericanOlmsted, Frederick Law
Summary: The biggest and best single-volume collection ever published of the fascinating and wide-ranging writings of a vitally important nineteenth century cultural figure whose work continues to shape our world today. Seaman, farmer, abolitionist, journalist, administrator, reformer, conservationist, and without question America’s foremost landscape architect and urban planner, Frederick Law Olmsted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712 OLMBellow, Saul
Summary: For his centennial (June 10, 2015), The Library of America and editor James Wood present the final volume in the definitive edition of Saul Bellow’s complete novels. In the last stage of his unparalleled career—which included winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976—Saul Bellow remained an uproarious comic storyteller, a provocative thinker deeply engaged with the intellectual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELSteinbeck, John
Summary: A final installment of a four-part collection of the classic American writer's works features his later novels, including "The Wayward Bus," "Burning Bright," "Sweet Thursday," and "The Winter of Our Discontent," in a volume that is complemented by his final published account, "Travels with Charley."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEMcCarthy, Mary
Summary: Seventy-five years ago Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps (1942), announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New York intellectual scene, its penetrating gaze and creative fusion of life and literature-"mutual plagiarism," she called it--became the hallmark of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCVonnegut, Kurt.
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 VONWard, Lynd
Summary: From the eve of the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, Lynd Ward, America's first great graphic novelist, bore witness to the roiling, dizzying national scene as both a master printmaker and a socially committed storyteller. His medium of expression, the wordless "novel in woodcuts," was his alone in the United States, and he quickly brought it from bold iconic infancy to a still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 761.2 WARWharton, Edith
Summary: Features four lesser-known works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Jazz Age author of The Age of Innocence, including a social-class-mobility romance that is believed to have been the literary inspiration for The Great Gatsby. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHAAdams, 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 ADASummary: " ... [Draws from] letters, diary entries, speeches, articles, messages and poems to provide an incomparable literary portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory and slavery and secession to their ultimate destruction ..."--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 CIVAdams, 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 ADARoth, Philip.
Contents: American pastoral -- I married a communist -- The human stain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROTTwain, Mark
Summary: A tramp abroad (1880) is based on Twain's travels in Europe from April 1878 to August 1879, blending autobiography and fiction. Presented with the author's original sketches, Twain provides a humorous travelogue with commentary on Old World customs, Wagnerian opera, and the German language interlaced with American reminiscences. Following the equator (1897) chronicles Twain's 1895...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.4 TwainLeonard, Elmore
Summary: Four hardboiled novels from America's modern master of crime fiction, edited by Leonard's long-term employee, researcher and friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2016
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Summary: "The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling, daring flights of narrative invention, and their keenly observed picture of the manners and morals of a particular time and place (Southern California in the early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the 1960s a number of gifted writers--some at the peak of their careers, others newcomers--reimagined American crime fiction through formal experimentation and the exploration of audacious new subjects and themes. This is the first of two volumes gathering the best of their work, nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CRIThomson, 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 THOEmerson, Ralph Waldo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.3 EMECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: SC EMEMcCullers, 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 MCCMurray, Albert
Summary: In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray(1916-2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the pathology of race in American life. Against narratives of marginalization and victimhood, Murray argued that black art and culture, particularly jazz and blues, stand at the very headwaters of the American mainstream, and that much of what is best in American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MURNiebuhr, Reinhold
Summary: This volume includes four books written by the author: Leaves from the notebook of a tamed cynic, Moral man and immoral society, The children of light and the children of darkness, and The irony of American history. There is also a selection of lectures, sermons, essays, and prayers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 230 NIEPowell, Dawn.
Contents: My home is far away -- The locusts have no king -- The wicked pavilion -- The golden spur.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWWard, Lynd
Contents: Reading pictures / Art Spiegelman -- Prelude to a million years -- Song without words -- Vertigo -- On "Prelude to a Million Years" -- The equinox idea -- On "Song Without Words" -- On "Vertigo" -- The Book and the woodblock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 761.2 WARSummary: The Broadway musical is one of America’s great indigenous popular forms, a glorious hybrid that emerged “out of our speech, our tempo, our moral attitudes, our way of moving” (as Leonard Bernstein put it). Now, in this first volume of a landmark two-volume collection, The Library of America presents eight enduring masterpieces charting the Broadway musical’s narrative tradition from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014