Abeel, Erica
Summary: "Three college friends from the 50's blaze their own path in love and work, braving the stifling conventions of the age, and anticipating the social thaw that would arrive ten years later. These 'wild girls' pay heavy penalties for living against the grain, but, over the years, rebound and re-set their course, drawing strength from their friendship. The novel follows them from an elite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Texas Review Press 2016
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Summary: A collection of novellas explores the line between civilization and the "wild men."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL FIC HARKheiriyeh, Rashin
Summary: Rashin is an Iranian immigrant girl living in New York, excited by her first trip to Coney Island, and fascinated by the differences in the beach customs between her native Iran and her new home--but she misses the saffron flavored ice cream that she usedto eat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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Summary: While working for an idealistic college professor, twenty-six-year old Lula, an Albanian trying to make a better life for herself in America, finds her life taking a complicated turn when her Albanian "brothers" return, in a novel set in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROBachelder, Chris.
Summary: The Throwback Special is the story of twenty-two ordinary guys who gather each fall to reenact what ESPN has called the most shocking play in NFL history: the November 1985 play in which Joe Theismann of the Washington Redskins had his leg horribly broken by Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants on Monday Night Football. (The play was known by the Redskins as the Throwback Special.) Over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bachelder 2016Summary: A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family, a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children, and sole biological child, and a Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HERSummary: A celebration of the short story as it was popularized in America in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Features works by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Kate Chopin, O' Henry, Jack London, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fall River Press, imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 GREKing, Owen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINAgee, James
Contents: Let us now praise famous men -- The morning watch -- A death in the family -- Stories: Death in the desert -- They that sow in sorrow shall reap -- A mother's tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 AGEHempel, Amy.
Contents: Beach town -- Jesus is waiting -- The uninvited -- Reference #388475848-5 -- What were the white things? -- The dog of the marriage -- The afterlife -- Memoir -- Offertory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMFaulkner, William
Summary: This collection of Faulkner's best hunting stories was first published in 1958. Each of the stories is introduced by a prelude, and the final story is followed by an epilogue. Included is Faulkner's most famous story, "The Bear", in its original version.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FaulknerHenry, O.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1987
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HenryTwain, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Twain 1997Rapp, Adam
Summary: A girl who thinks the rapid-fire, hyperkinetic culture of the country is counter-productive, is recruited into a resistance movement where the mode of survival is taking things ... slow. Herein lies a dark, breaktaking new vision of an all-too-possible future for America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 RAPTyler, Anne.
Summary: A lovable loser tries to get his life in order. He is Barnaby Gaitlin, 30, the black sheep of a rich Baltimore family, ex-juvenile delinquent who specialized in housebreaking for kicks. He works for Rent-a-Back, moving furniture for old people, and dreams of having a future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TYLBanks, Russell
Summary: A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man’s character. A couple grows concerned when an enigmatic family moves next door, and the children start sneaking over to beg for help. Two dangerous criminals kidnap an elderly couple and begin blackmailing their grandson, demanding that he pay back what he owes....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Summary: A collection of short stories judged to be the best in America and Canada for 2007 presents a selection of short fiction, along with essays by the three judges and commentary from the twenty prize winners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OCather, Willa
Summary: Presents a selection of writings by nineteenth-century American author Willa Cather, featuring the short story collection "The Troll Garden, " and four novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "One of Ours."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CATBurke, James Lee
Summary: These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces in the disguise of federal agents try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: An obituary writer searching for her missing lover at the turn of the twentieth century is linked to a woman considering leaving her loveless marriage in 1963.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2013
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Summary: On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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Summary: "A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as evil forces try to ruin their family. A girl is beaten up outside a bar as her father navigates new love and threats from a group of neo-Nazis. A pair of undercover union organizers are hired to break colts for a Hollywood actor, whose 'Western hero' facade hides darkness. An oil rig workers witnesses an attack on a local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2024